While not remotely the best project of either Caine or Jackson’s career -- it wouldn’t crack the Top 10 -- the film is a slight but sweet ode to a particular flavour of Britannia that will leave its target audience in sentimental shambles.

| May 30, 2024

For that reason, it in tandem explores – particularly through Jackson’s superb performance as Rene – the privilege of making it to old age, especially with someone you love.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 9, 2024

[Caine and Jackson] sell even the more on-the-nose moments in William Ivory’s script, and add gravitas to what could easily have been a patronising narrative.

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

Oliver Parker’s retelling of this hero-for-a-day saga, with its salty script by William (Made in Dagenham) Ivory, could have been a lot cuddlier. I’m glad it isn’t.

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

By genre it is neither a grey-pound comedy nor a senile psychodrama but an unassuming tale about autumnal dignity and the quiet compensations of lifelong companionship.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 9, 2023

A moving and surprisingly nuanced drama offering far more than flag-waving nostalgia. Superb performances from Michael Caine and Glenda Jackson...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 9, 2023

In her last role before her death this summer, she [Glenda Jackson] is the best thing in the film, pin-sharp where it is out of focus.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 9, 2023

There’s a real emotional heft to the storytelling and Caine, at 90, is a knockout.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 8, 2023

Parker occasionally finds himself drawn into that same pat, patriotic sentimentalism -- the type which patronises older generations by treating them as strange curiosities.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 5, 2023

Caine and Jackson and their ineffable class give this film some real grit: it’s a wonderful last hurrah for Jackson and there is something moving and even awe-inspiring in seeing these two British icons together.

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