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‘The Penguin Lessons’ Review: Steve Coogan Finds His Happy Feet In a Gentle True-Life Tale

By Guy Lodge Sep 11, 2024 | 2:58 AM

Argentina’s 1976 military coup d’état, along with the sustained period of violence and forced disappearances that it ushered in, isn’t an obvious historical backdrop for a heartwarming tale of human-animal bonding. But that’s how the timing worked out for Tom Michell, an English teacher stationed at an elite Buenos Aires private school, at the time […]