A few weeks ago, Columbia news, views & reviews wrote this: “Looking for a good movie or a “luxurious retreat ‘for the elderly and beautiful’?” This delightful movie, Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, is showing again this weekend at the Point of View theater in Millersville today at 4:30 and 7 and tomorrow at 4:30. If you are older or younger; have been, wish you were or are in love or are looking for meaning in life, we recommend this little movie heartily. Read the review in The New York Times.

In today’s Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era, Jane Holeran’s column lists two “nice movies.” The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is one of them.

This is what she says about the Marigold Hotel (still playing at the Point of View – today at 4:30 pm and tomorrow at 2:00 pm):

“”The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel” is a better one.

“Seven British pensioners (including Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Tom Wilkinson, Bill Nighy and Penelope Wilton) decide to chuck expensive Britain and retire to a hotel in India, where living expenses are pretty cheap.

“They have all responded to an advertisement and meet up in the airport, realizing they are all headed to the same place.

“Needless to say, the hotel they end up at is not what they expected.

“And, needless to say, they all come into their own in one way or another once they are there.

“The cast is awesome, especially Dench and Wilkinson.

“But once again, I sat there thinking that the characters needed to be more developed, that situations were a bit cliched, that the depth I was looking for was just beyond reach.

“And the way the movie invents and then diverts a crisis was fairly unbelievable and undramatic.

“Maybe the film has too many characters and too many different stories going on.

“Or maybe it’s really really hard to write about real people finding themselves immersed in a human story.

“Still, I was watching real people. People over the age of 40! People who were facing financial issues and not living in ridiculously huge, expensive homes. And nobody wore a superhero cape.

“The movie felt like a comfortable old sweater.

“That’s nice.”