The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society (12A)

Like its gratingly twee title, this is yet another gratingly twee nostalgia lament for the good old days of post-blitz Blighty. Like the similarly insufferable Their Finest, it revolves around a plucky London-based writer in an unsatisfying relationship who finds her true calling by putting her skills to use helping others. This is Juliet, played by Lily James, a novelist and essayist who travels to Guernsey to write about the experiences of the islanders who lived under Nazi occupation after a member of the eponymous book group (handsome pig farmer Dawsey, played by Michiel Huisman) reaches out to her. British acting mainstays Tom Courtenay and Penelope Wilton add some grace notes here and there, but this is mostly Sunday evening TV fodder, competently enough directed by

Four Weddings and a Funeral’s Mike Newell, but also aggressively pleasant in a way that doesn’t so much pass the time as remind you that time is passing.