The fact that most of what the story tells us is actually true, I think gives it a kind of a real sense of bite that this relationship does become a microcosm of a much wider conflict.

| Mar 6, 2024

Shoshana diverts its energies by packaging itself as sexy and stylish, which isn’t quite what this drama needs; what’s interesting is the historical detail.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 22, 2024

The movie is costumed, staged and acted with intelligence and care although, after a while, whenever you see a street scene in wide shot, quiet for a few seconds, you tense for the inevitable bomb-blast.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 21, 2024

It’s a brave effort, but since it’s not clear what Winterbottom, wants to say, he ultimately ends up saying nothing very much at all.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 10, 2023

The film has epic ambitions, and its contentiousness (depicting only Jewish terrorism) is self-evident. Yet it’s ultimately a smartly crafted and rigorously acted plea for tolerance and compassion.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 10, 2023

A handsomely mounted period piece about a place and time in which friends were forced into becoming enemies, and Winterbottom draws an especially solid performance from his leading lady.

| Sep 21, 2023

Even if audiences occasionally get confused as to who is doing what to who amid the onslaught of bombings, bank robberies and scenes of police interrogation and torture, the ambience of Winterbottom’s film is more important.

| Sep 18, 2023

Like nearly all of Winterbottom’s work, this film judiciously balances earnestness with more visceral concerns, and mostly hits the right notes...

| Sep 13, 2023

While the romantic element of the story doesn’t always entirely persuade, there’s no question about the fact that the real villain of the piece is the crude and overbearing forces of British colonialism.

| Sep 9, 2023

[A] classy and somewhat old-school historical drama.

| Sep 9, 2023