Most biopics are thuddingly prosaic: There’s a lot of “this happened, then that happened,” performed by a famous person covering themselves in latex in an attempt to resemble another famous person. In ...

The outstanding new Terrence Davies' film Benediction, out now in theaters, is a biopic that is more patient and poetic in pacing than is typical of the form. It tells the true story of the late poet ...

Benediction (2022) Film Review, a movie directed and written by Terence Davies, and starring Jack Lowden, Peter Capaldi, Simon Russell Beale, Jeremy Irvine, Calam Lynch, Kate Philips, Gemma Jones, ...

Legendary British director Terence Davies is back with the elegiac biographical film Benediction. Amid the horrors of the First World War, poet and writer Siegfried Sassoon (Jack Lowden) takes a stand ...

Terence Davies makes movies about exceptional, lonely people. His newest film, Benediction, is no exception to that rule. The film tells the life story of Siegfried Sassoon, the real-life English poet ...

If sorrow and futility enshroud it, Davies leavens the bitterness with his tartest dialogue yet; the second act, much of it depicting Sassoon’s romantic disappointments in the no man’s land of the ...

Jack Lowden and Peter Capaldi play World War I English poet Siegfried Sassoon in his younger years and his ruminative old age, respectively, in this melancholy bio-drama. By David Rooney Chief Film ...

Terence Davies, that most meticulous of auteurs, returns to the Toronto International Film Festival with “Benediction,” a lush biopic of Siegfried Sassoon, the poet and decorated veteran who became an ...