Hampstead Reviews
At best, you'll find this to be a corny comedy-drama that you wish you'd never seen. The acting isn't terrible, but not even that can save this from being uninspired.
| Apr 15, 2020
Robert Festinger's screenplay never really establishes any expectations or promises for what the story and characters will be.
| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 19, 2019
Here Keaton reprises the role of the slightly kooky, klutzy, and lovable gal next door in this toasty crumpet of a film, set around London's scenic Hampstead Heath.
| Jul 18, 2019
Diane Keaton still looks like Annie Hall, a little older and a little wiser. Pairing her with the grizzled but appealing Brendan Gleeson is a plus.
| Original Score: 6/10 | Jun 20, 2019
Predictable even by romantic-comedy standards, but the charms of mismatched but oddly compatible stars Diane Keaton and Brendan Gleeson are not to be dismissed.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 20, 2019
Lovable actors, supportive relationships in sweet romcom.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 18, 2019
After so many predictable segues, tiresome quips and familiar narrative beats, the film's cumulative effect devolves from tolerable to grating.
| Jun 15, 2019
More often, though, Hopkins and writer Robert Festinger pile up the commonplaces hoping they'll result in actual characters.
| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 14, 2019
Despite some charming if unlikely chemistry between its two stars, this pleasant and fluffy British romantic comedy misses an opportunity to become something bigger.
| Jun 14, 2019
Keaton and Gleeson can be marvelous --- they are not here. They have absolutely no chemistry. In a romantic comedy, a spark between the two lovers is a must, but all we get is a dying ember.
| Jun 14, 2019
Despite a good cast led by Diane Keaton and Brendan Gleeson, and although it's based on a true story, I didn't find anything about the movie very compelling.
| Jun 14, 2019
Keaton's nutty charm moves the story along, rallying against the classism of Heath residents and embracing the individualist.
| Jun 13, 2019
The quasi-credible friendship that develops between Emily and Harry gives way to a less plausible romance. But the winning, sympathetic Keaton and an enjoyably puckish Gleeson largely sell the contrived setup.
| Jun 13, 2019
It's a pleasant rattle of a film that makes fine use of its likable leads - Keaton's oddly regal klutziness matches well against Gleeson's gruff moral rectitude - and an appealing setting.
| Jun 13, 2019
Flavorless stuff, forgettable as soon as it ends.
| Original Score: C | Jun 12, 2019
It's strange that two such individually loveable actors can so comprehensively fail to gel.
| Mar 19, 2019
It is bringing nothing fresh - just hollow echoes of Richard Curtis, but sorely lacking any of his willingness to occasionally bite through the schmaltz with some nice, savage British humour.
| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 1, 2019
But Hopkins... is not prepared to stray too far from the path he has set, with the result that we end up in a wholly predictable, perfectly pleasant, crashingly bland place.
| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 22, 2018
Combines the Annie Hall-ish self-confidence of Diane Keaton with the grunts of a bearded Brendan Gleeson. [Full review in Spanish]
| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 13, 2017
Keaton and Gleeson are simply too good for there not to be some fun here, despite a leisurely pace, much hanging on a rather arcane piece of British law, and Emily's eventually rather annoying habit of failing to speak up for herself.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 9, 2017