It feels inappropriate to be moved by a film about propaganda during an era of "alternative facts." Yet I found my soul soothed by Their Finest.

Full Review | Mar 2, 2021

There's a sweet love story and some wonderful work by an array of British actors. My heavens, this is charming, rib-tickling escapism.

| Jan 27, 2021

The characters' endless revision of the film within the film tends to heighten one's awareness of the compromises that must have gone into the writing of this formulaic piece.

| Mar 26, 2020

Their Finest is poignant, well-acted, and at times, pretty fun to watch.

| Jun 27, 2017

Arterton is excellent, her chemistry with Claflin absolute perfection, the two actors disappearing into their respective roles.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 27, 2017

Scherfig has shot the film in a soft-focus wash of chestnut and sepia tones -- the colours of nostalgia -- and the screenplay catches Evans' tone without being quite as funny as the book, despite Nighy's Ambrose.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 26, 2017

Arterton brings a grace and dignity to the role, which suggests reserves of courage in her character that the screenplay only hints at.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 23, 2017

Stories to inspire a nation have long made up a sizable percentage of Hollywood schlock, and Their Finest deserves credit for exploring a woman's role in such an effort.

| Apr 21, 2017

In its modest, largely comic way, it paints an unusually convincing picture of how films are shaped by factors beyond the control of any one individual.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 21, 2017

There's the inevitable love triangle as Catrin is torn between Ellis and Tom, but much of the film professes to depict how a film like this would be made in 1940, and it's here that Their Finest falls short.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 21, 2017

It's the kind of handsome, rousing, rigorous entertainment you can't help but play along with.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 20, 2017

Drenched in a sweet nostalgia that only very rarely tips into sentimentality.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 20, 2017

Establishing the mood, Arterton is chirpy, saintly, sturdy. And, in the vernacular of the time, mustard with the slop.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 20, 2017

You'd need a heart of stone and a funny bone of porridge not to enjoy this sweet-natured and eminently lovable British film - a 1940s adventure, with moments of brashness and poignancy.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 20, 2017

The production makes charming use of the no-budget film-within-the-film and of its talented, likeable ensemble.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 20, 2017

"Their Finest" is a charming and thoughtful movie, about people making a charming and thoughtful movie.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 20, 2017

Grows into something special, powered forward by Arterton's charming central turn.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 20, 2017

[An] entertaining and insightful romantic drama.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 19, 2017

A true breath of fresh which will devastate as well as delight.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 19, 2017

Anchored by a superb Gemma Arterton, Their Finest is a funny, winning, beautifully acted ode to working women and cinema.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 18, 2017