'Quartet' like a warm, gentle hug of a comedy

If you want a waspish one-liner delivered with impeccable timing and venom, gift it to Dame Maggie Smith.

'Quartet' like a warm, gentle hug of a comedy

If you want a waspish one-liner delivered with impeccable timing and venom, gift it to Dame Maggie Smith.

Almost 60 years after her first TV appearance, the award-winning star continues to reduce grown men half her age to quivering wrecks with delicious barbs and withering glances.

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