It all rounds up to a film with some decent analytical prowess, but remains pedestrian in execution.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 14, 2024

Hope Gap has good performances from Bill Nighy and Annette Bening but is unsatisfying...

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 17, 2022

Honest to the bone... [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 19, 2022

Bening and Nighy elevate this sensible and contained film.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 12, 2022

Benefits considerably from its central trio of talent and their performances.

| Mar 13, 2021

A portrait of middle-age angst. It may not make for a good date night movie but the nuance of the relationships on display is worth the price of admission.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 30, 2021

Hope Gap isn't afraid to go into darker topics either - that of death and suicide, which are means we contemplate in the darkest, bleakest moments of our lives - and offers a lifeline I never truly thought about.

| Jan 29, 2021

The trouble with opening up this story for long walks on the beach? It seems to flatten out with the tide.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 22, 2020

A film as harsh and truthful as it is devoid of artifice. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 30, 2020

[Annette Bening and Bill Nighy] are... two always great actors, giving more impact to this very British little drama. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 20, 2020

None of it lacks credibility. As a portrait of the breakup of a marriage, and the three-cornered pain of the situation, it's completely convincing.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 14, 2020

...as powerful domestic stories go, it's in the top league.

| Original Score: 18/20 | Oct 10, 2020

Both Nighy and Bening are impressive, although there's an argument neither are hardly out of their comfort zone.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 24, 2020

William Nicholson's Hope Gap benefits from a starry cast in the stagey story...Nighy and Bening are as good as you might expect, though she seems to struggle at times with her accent.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 17, 2020

There's an unusual calmness to this drama that feels bracingly original.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 3, 2020

Bening and Nighy commit as best they can.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 31, 2020

That's undoubtedly an interesting idea but Grace (Bening) and Edward (Nighy) are so odd and awkward together, you can't believe their marriage would have lasted a week, let alone the 29 years it apparently has.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 31, 2020

Hope Gap is the occasion for a volcanically bitter performance from Bening. But it is otherwise prey to all the errors of pseudo-taste to which stage adaptations are prone...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 30, 2020

Diehard fans of Nicholson will probably suck it up. For the rest of us, this is hopeless.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 28, 2020

What's somehow radical here, however, is the way the film mostly follows Grace's point of view, and she is a difficult creature, hard to empathise with. But she is both magnificent and awful in a scene in a solicitor's office.

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