Denial's reviews
Media reviews
The Hollywood Reporter
Rachel Weisz?s arresting, combative Lipstadt, a shining woman warrior, is a role she will be remembered for, while as her antagonist Timothy Spall makes a spookily stubborn, thoroughly despicable, but still human Irving.
Indiewire
A simple courtroom drama that never betrays its convictions, the film is a basic but bitterly urgent reminder.
Los Angeles Times
'Denial' periodically plays like a standard-issue drama. But because Hare's script grapples with serious themes and singular events whose ramifications are still being felt, it is effective when it counts.
The Washington Post
Hare's screenplay is efficient at delivering facts, but just the facts. The movie may be competent at telling its story, but it's missing one key ingredient: feeling.
Chicago Sun-Times
Despite the drawbacks, the power of the story shines through.
The A.V. Club
Intentionally or not, 'Denial' is perfectly timed to a season of insane conspiracy theories and feelings-based readings of facts.
The Playlist
What?s most disturbing is Jackson?s pedestrian direction has resulted in a film that barely recognizes how powerful this is in contemporary society.
The Guardian
Under the workmanlike direction of Mick Jackson ('The Bodyguard'), what should have been a rousing and ragingly topical crowdpleaser, instead feels more like a Lifetime movie.
New York Post
The movie sneers at the journalists covering the trial, but for those of us who followed it at the time, the newspaper accounts were a lot more engrossing than this film.