A movie that stayed rigorously inside its heroine's muzzled sense of frustration could be compelling, but Jackson keeps cutting to superfluous subplots.

| Sep 28, 2017

The excellent cast delivers the dramatic goods and a sequence involving a journey to Auschwitz provides a chilling reminder as to just what the legal arguments are really about.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 14, 2017

Solidly crafted, Denial is anchored by wonderful performances from Rachel Weisz and Tom Wilkinson. It's also shockingly relevant to the odd place we find ourselves today.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 12, 2017

It's a film of many pleasures beyond relevance.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 12, 2017

Weisz brings a barrelling energy to her performance as the academic who finds herself in the unaccustomed and decidedly uncomfortable position of having to let her legal team fight her battle for her.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 29, 2017

It could hardly seem more relevant than in this era of "alternative facts".

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 27, 2017

It's a shame, then, that the film's thematic relevance should outstrip its dramatic urgency.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 26, 2017

I find this film and its clear-headed premise rewarding. This reasserts the primacy of truth. What a tonic.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 26, 2017

You could call Denial less a feature film, more a glorified telly play: focused, small-scale, monothematic. But it's probing, witty and compelling ...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 26, 2017

A sturdy by-the-numbers legal drama that really belongs on the small screen.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 26, 2017

Lipstadt's day in court with Irving has been dramatised by David Hare with his usual keen fidelity to argument and counter-argument.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 26, 2017

As a courtroom drama, Denial is always intriguing.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 25, 2017

The courtroom finale is so tautly assembled and performed it allows the film a final-reel rally, which signals the cast-iron potency of unarguable truth to some effect.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 25, 2017

Worthy premise. Excellent production. Magnetic performances.

| Nov 8, 2016

Hare's screenplay (based on Lipstadt's book) is smart and engaging, and veteran director Mick Jackson ("The Bodyguard") treats the material with the heft it deserves.

| Original Score: B | Oct 14, 2016

Facts and opinions duke it out in this thought-provoking if slightly low-key drama based on true events.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 13, 2016

As courtroom dramas go, Denial is somewhat sedate.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 13, 2016

Denial deftly establishes how the moral relativism of contemporary academics and the journalistic belief in giving all viewpoints equal time lead to intellectual bankruptcy.

| Oct 13, 2016

The final verdict, of course, is a matter of historical record, but Denial brings with it so many parallels to contemporary issues of huge lies and great truths that its message is all the more resonant. Well done.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 13, 2016

Ultimately "Denial' works, thanks to its strong cast - particularly Spall, who gives Irving a slightly mad gleefulness, and Weisz, whose smart, tough Deborah chafes against the quiet acquiescence expected of her.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 13, 2016