It will come back to haunt you, and it will most likely happen while you’re wearing a shirt adorned with your own face.

Key's Charles is a sensitive, kind man who uses awkward colloquialisms ("wowsers in your trousers!") to compensate for his lack of social graces. At heart, he's just a fan. "The Ballad of Wallis ...

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I knew I’d have to include James Griffiths’ “The Ballad of Wallis Island,” a twee-sounding British ... Blunt as his Charles is, he proves to be the most guarded of the trio; there are unsung stanzas ...

My mistake — encouraged by the offbeat bona fides of the British performers Tom Basden and Tim Key — was expecting “The Ballad of Wallis Island” to provide one. Bereft of chuckles or even ...

today i rode / past five police cars / & i can tell you about it.” In that poem’s first stanza, Smith introduces an unsettling image: “on the bad nights, i wake to my mother / shoveling dirt ...

Nevertheless, the growth of their awkward friendship massages the sweet pulse of this delightful film. The director James Griffith’s “The Ballad of Wallis Island” is a sublime, adorable comedy whose ...

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