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Colleen Hoover adaptation Verity draws mixed cinema reactions

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The film adaptation of Colleen Hoover's bestselling thriller Verity has reached cinemas, and early viewer reactions are divided. One critic dismissed the Amazon-backed production as a slick but soulless made-for-television-style movie, likening it to the airport bookshop fiction it mocks with the line "I don't read books you can buy at an airport". Others are debating whether the adaptation lives up to the hugely popular novel.

Why now: The film adaptation of a bestselling novel has just been released and viewers are openly arguing about its quality.

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• I saw the # film , Verity, at the cinema today. There's a line in it, "I don't read books you can buy at an airport", which I completely agree with. This slick, soulless Amazon production is very similar to airport bookshop trash. It's a made-for-television movie bloviated onto… · riggbeck

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