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A Carolina drama, a shell with shoes and a Jane Austen adaptation are among the week's new movies.

Leave your cynicism at the door and embrace Anthony Fabian's confection about dreams, pluck and Christian Dior

The Oscar nominee is on reliably excellent form in a sweet-natured Cinderella tale about a cleaner on a mission to buy a Dior dress

In “Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris,” a middle-aged woman of very limited means in post-World War II London dreams of owning a Christian Dior gown

We could all use a little escapism right now, especially when the escapism in question is as exceedingly pleasant as Anthony Fabian’s “Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris,” starring the luminous Lesley Manville as a cleaning lady from London who takes a trip to Paris to see about a frock. It’s…

Neither hambone nor underplayer, Lesley Manville gives tremendous value for the money. Her classical chops, coupled with a shrewd improviser’s wiles honed in the films of Mike Leigh, have elevated so many projects, among them Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Phantom Thread,” in which Manville played the impeccably coifed gatekeeper to Daniel…

Lesley Manville charms as the good-natured London heroine, smiling her way through the saturated colors of postwar Paris.

As the acclaimed series reaches the halfway point Andy scarpers, Scott leaves an unpleasant message … and spycop speculation is rife

A stellar cast shines in James Graham’s gripping miners’ strike mystery; Paapa Essiedu goes time-travelling to save the world

Some spoilers for Sherwood episode one ahead

The second episode is due to air on Tuesday evening