McCormack, Grant and Delpy waltz with flair in this stylish if unoriginal slow-burn thriller. Best consumed with a large glass of red wine and one’s tongue in one’s cheek.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 12, 2023

The film results in tremendous entertainment. [Full review in Spanish]

| Oct 5, 2023

... A movie that loves its actors and bounces buoyantly from scene to scene on the thrilling chemistry they provide.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 25, 2023

The feature debut from accomplished 온라인카지노추천 director Alice Troughton is a neatly atmospheric piece...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 24, 2023

As a scratchy string quartet for the four actors, it continues to work surprisingly well – you might hand it back with a B+ in that department. But as a storytelling assignment, it droops little by little into the C zone.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 22, 2023

With a host of fine performances and an engaging narrative, The Lesson is a real breath of fresh air, and one of the most watchable films of the year so far.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 21, 2023

Nobody here watches the telly, or uses a smartphone, or listens to music composed in the last 80 years. It leaves the film feeling like it’s lacking some vital texture – those little unexpected details that give characters life.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 21, 2023

Has anyone ever come out of the cinema thinking: ‘I wish Richard E. Grant had given it more?’ The monstrous character is his speciality and he is deliciously, marvellously, full-on monstrous here.

| Sep 21, 2023

It’s an unfortunate irony, given that the story hinges on unkind remarks about other people’s writing, but the snag is the script.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 21, 2023

An amusing essay in conceit and revenge.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 21, 2023

Like many an Oxford undergrad, this film isn’t as enchantingly clever as it thinks it is, and while The Lesson does have indisputably good taste in both actors and influences, the pastiche of a rarified, literary world never fully convinces.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 20, 2023

I was very on board with this until I realized, "Oh, you're going to go the place I thought you were going all along, but very slowly."

| Jul 21, 2023

The film proves as pleasingly undemanding as a typical summer read: neither a legit page-turner, nor easy to put down.

| Jul 11, 2023

While slow to start, the cerebral story sticks the landing with a twist made even more delicious by the incomparable cast.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 7, 2023

The script builds a shaky plot around a cliché -- good writers borrow, great writers steal -- that is treated as one of Sinclair’s mischievous and brilliant insights.

| Jul 7, 2023

While none of the performers phone it in, the script gives them only the most commonplace ideas and states to convey. “The Lesson” is a wash.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 7, 2023

It’s beautifully acted and photographed, with major props due to cinematographer Anna Patarkina.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 6, 2023

Maybe some grasp of the dynamics of the modern publishing industry would have added some grit, making it more than it is: a formulaic and forgettable pulpy beach read.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 6, 2023

The Lesson is worth a watch as a tightly crafted film made by and for adults unafraid of some rhododendron metaphors and casual Tchaikovsky talk.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 6, 2023

Grant is magnificent as a cruel, past-his-prime genius burdened by terrible guilt over an earlier family tragedy, and Delpy — well, can any actor express so much with a single, withering look?

| Jul 6, 2023