Denial’s relevance has ballooned since its release, a fact that might hobble its hopeful ending but that only makes the rest all the more powerful.

| Oct 7, 2023

Turgid courtroom drama...

| Dec 21, 2022

File under "one you must-see".

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | May 6, 2022

Though Weisz serves as the films heart, Spall's scowling performance provides the lynchpin to the entire experience.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 9, 2022

Denial tells an important story about the fight for truth and the importance of history.

| Apr 13, 2021

The historical issues, along with Hare's intelligent script, no doubt helped inspire the remarkable performances of Wilkinson, Weisz and Spall.

| Feb 22, 2021

Denial has a stellar performance from Rachel Weisz and hopefully reminds audiences that the truth matters.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 3, 2021

But even with the missed opportunities for big drama, Denial mostly works, telling a real life tale that many people (myself included) lived through without ever knowing about it.

| Mar 31, 2020

Denial goes above and beyond to provide a fluid narrative and a traditional climax (a challenge in films based on real events) and not always succeeds. Nevertheless, movies of this substance shouldn't be dismissed.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 28, 2020

In the end, a worthy true story with a weak screenplay.

| Original Score: C- | Apr 3, 2019

Denial could not be more timely in re-asserting the truth, as we enter an era of increased anti-Semitism sanctioned by pervading populism.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 19, 2018

It is watchable enough; but given the choice, just read the book.

| Aug 28, 2018

A sturdy yet affecting courtroom drama, Denial is about a lot of things, including a man's desire to be bigoted and racist without being called out for bigotry and racism.

| Aug 27, 2018

David Hare's screenplay is creaky in parts, but when the action turns to the courtroom, where the exchanges are based on transcripts, the piece comes into its own.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 23, 2018

The perfect film countering the era of "alternative facts". [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 22, 2018

"Denial" accomplishes what it sets out to do, and that is to set facts straight and give agency to history, its survivors, and to those who perished because of its ruthlessness.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 22, 2018

All this would be far less effective without a suitably sturdy villain, and a slimmed-down Spall, while far from obvious casting in the role, displays the arrogance and self-possession necessary to make Irving a formidable opponent.

| Jan 2, 2018

The movie stays true to Lipstadt's memoir and to the trial's transcripts. It becomes an intellectual exercise rather than an emotional one. And it is fascinating.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Dec 2, 2017

The scenes filmed at the camps are powerful...

| Nov 19, 2017

Denial spends its first 20 minutes labouring under a rather clunky, wordy screenplay... But it completely changes gear after her legal team decides to visit Auschwitz and suddenly you realise what's at stake.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 17, 2017