Unfortunately, much of the story is thin ice beneath her feet. It threatens to buckle beneath sheer improbability.

| Aug 23, 2017

[Mrs. Palfrey] is a stroll off the beaten path.

| Aug 9, 2017

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Jan 29, 2013

| Original Score: A- | Feb 18, 2012

It's funny," Ireland notes. "The intellectual critics always like to give me a smack about being too weepy. But then the audiences that go see it seem to embrace it, which has been great.

| Jan 3, 2011

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 7, 2008

This underwhelming "prestige" production offers a few pleasures, but doesn't stay in the memory very long.

| Mar 1, 2007

MRS. PALFREY AT THE CLAREMONT is a rare treat, indeed, and a crowning achievement for Dame Joan Plowright.

| Original Score: B+ | Jan 11, 2007

Pour yourself a cup of Earl Grey and enjoy.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 28, 2006

Despite the measured pace and the predictable bitter sweet mood, the film is only occasionally enchanting

| Nov 10, 2006

| Original Score: B | Oct 14, 2006

Never less than enjoyable. All credit must go to Plowright and Friend, who give completely charming performances.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 22, 2006

One of the season's most humane and heartening films.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 1, 2006

You'd half expect the movie to throw caution to the wind and become "Grandmas Gone Wild," but the film is too prim to offer any surprises.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 24, 2006

... an amiable, sweetly sentimental tale ...

| Original Score: 7/10 | Aug 13, 2006

Unfortunately, the result is high melodrama, at once patronizing and predictable.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jun 24, 2006

...the film allows 76-year-old Plowright, for years a wonderful character actress in a wide variety of projects, something to call her own.

Full Review | Jun 12, 2006

It's an altogether satisfying drama -- the sort of movie some people complain they don't make anymore.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 2, 2006

Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont is not a loud, fast-paced, over the top film, but one to be viewed with patience, anticipation and an open heart.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 29, 2006

It's all sweet and well acted (and well enough directed by Dan Ireland), but it's also yawn-provoking and maddening that the script is so far below the acting ability of the assembled talent.

| May 20, 2006