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

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

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

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

The film's biggest failing is that, unfortunately, Bening is terribly miscast here.Her wandering accent - is it Cockney? is it Home Counties? - becomes more jarring the longer we go on.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 28, 2020

A coastal breath of fresh air, but Bening should ditch the accent.

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

With an acting trio like that you're guaranteed an involving watch but somehow this intense relationship drama fails to cut to the bone. Nicholson adapted this from his own play The Retreat From Moscow, and you can feel it.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 27, 2020

The performances are terrific, especially from Bening who adds yet another deeply nuanced study to her gallery of complicated, smart women of a certain age.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 27, 2020

Though the cast gamely delivers each idea ... Hope Gap never seems to grasp the crucial differences between theatre and film.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 27, 2020

Your sympathies are deftly toyed with; Nighy jitters and surprises; O'Connor has the sad gravity of the eternal referee.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 26, 2020

A cataclysmic casting decision combined with consistently flabby direction have conspired to transform this low-level divorce drama into a titter-inducing dud.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 10, 2020

Indelible and infuriating in equal measure, filmmaker William Nicholson's anatomy of his parents' own broken marriage rides high on superb performances from Annette Bening and Bill Nighy and raw emotions that cut deep,

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 7, 2020

Indeed, the sensation that dogs Hope Gap is that they forgot to roll camera on the most dramatic parts. What's left over isn't bad, only underwhelming.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 12, 2020

Films about marriages cratering on the craggy shores of deceit and betrayal are as common as oxygen, but one that makes as big an emotional impact as "Hope Gap" is a breath of fresh air.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Mar 11, 2020

"Hope Gap" is a deeply sad film, and maybe not what a lot of us are in the mood for these days, but it's ultimately uplifting, in its quiet way.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 11, 2020

Squishy. It felt earnest to the person who made it, but not to me, the person watching it.

| Mar 7, 2020

Hope Gap is pithy, engaging, and insightful-the kind of movie we desperately need more of.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 6, 2020

A drama that's tastefully restrained to a fault in a particularly British manner.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 6, 2020

To Annette Bening's credit, she finds just the right notes to illustrate Grace's capacity for love, as well as her special gift for never letting up and driving you a little bit crazy.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 6, 2020

A sort of British Marriage Story for boomers, with only one side, really, of the story to tell.

| Original Score: B | Mar 5, 2020

[A]n intelligent and absorbing, if slightly bland domestic drama scripted and directed by William Nicholson, inspired by his own parents' divorce.

| Mar 5, 2020