Judi Dench is hilarious and heartbreaking as the title character in Mrs. Henderson Presents. Her deadpan delivery wrings belly laughs out of gay screenwriter Martin Sherman’s zingers, and she jerks tears on cue too.

| May 16, 2022

Dench still has plenty of charisma and a wicked sense of comic timing, but you can't win an Oscar by just being funny, so the third act gives us serious speechifying and forced pathos, smothering what could have been a pleasant little vaudeville romp.

| Jan 8, 2020

The film cries for Oscar from start to finish. Setting the gold standard for the new Weinstein Company, Mrs. Henderson Presents is pure 24 karat.

| Nov 13, 2019

Ultimately the film arrives at obligatory moral lessons and a bit of patriotic uplift.

| Oct 16, 2018

The movie may be slight and a bit predictable, but these two actors are wonderful to watch.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 22, 2016

An unexpectedly classy film. Not for kids.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 2, 2011

Hoskins and Dench share a unique chemistry that pierces the story's heavy-handed construction.

| Original Score: C+ | Apr 16, 2009

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 20, 2008

There's chemistry and tension aplenty in this bittersweet character study.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 20, 2007

One of those "prestige" pictures that you can watch with your dear old Mom ... provided your Mom won't be offended by the unclothed young ladies.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 8, 2007

Don't expect sex, satire or "upstairs/downstairs" irony, just a good song, a flash of sequins and the possibility of a wartime romance--oh, the joys of nostalgia!

| Mar 1, 2007

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 24, 2006

The breast movie of the year ...

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 27, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 3, 2006

a thoroughly enjoyable film

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 10, 2006

Una comedia dramtica con iguales dosis de picarda y emotividad, sostenida en dos buenas actuaciones de Judi Dench y Bob Hoskins.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 11, 2006

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 1, 2006

Mainly an excuse for the entertainment industry to toot its own horn, again.

| Original Score: C+ | Mar 23, 2006

Judi Dench shines but her movie is a little sketchy

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | Feb 28, 2006

A charming piece that entertains without getting heavy, yet dares to make poignant statements when the moment is right.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 24, 2006