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

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

Dench deserves better, and unfortunately it will probably be a long time before she gets another starring role in a movie custom-made for an actress her age.

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

Though nudity will keep this from being a family film, for those who love the family of the theater, this postcard from its past is worth framing in your heart.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 3, 2006

The greatest pleasure of Mrs. Henderson Presents is watching two of the grandest British lions taking their talents for a long walk.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 3, 2006

A lively period piece elevated by a winning pair of leads.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 2, 2006

| Original Score: C+ | Jan 21, 2006

The redoubtable Mrs. Henderson is the sort of character that Dench was born to play: funny, eccentric, cranky and with a spine of all-too-visible steel.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 13, 2006

It's a variety show of a film with something for everyone if nothing of great consequence.

| Original Score: B- | Jan 13, 2006

Perfectly enjoyable entertainment for anyone who can abide showbiz sentimentality.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 13, 2006

Frears gives us a sweet, old-fashioned study of time and place and one unsinkable woman.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 13, 2006

Humor and warmth abound.

| Jan 12, 2006

Me, I prefer my candy bittersweet. But purring Dench and sparring Hoskins are agreeable company.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 12, 2006

It's an amusing and well-meaning celebration of the stiff-upper-lips that got Britain through the Blitz. And the lead acting couldn't be more nimble.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Jan 12, 2006

A dear film, sentimental and fond, full of beautifully acted British resolve.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 12, 2006

Dench's Oscar-worthy performance is a delight. She turns Mrs. Henderson into a cross between the stereotypical little old lady and a hurricane. As Guest's character discovers, you've got to love her even as she's steamrolling you.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 12, 2006

Mrs. Henderson Presents is not great cinema, and neither was the Windmill great theater, but they both put on a good show.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 12, 2006

Wickedly funny.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 31, 2005

Although technically not a musical, Mrs. Henderson Presents is filled with musical numbers, some of them quite accomplished.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 27, 2005

... the picture is as tastefully pretty as its girls, and just as motionless.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 27, 2005