The Children Act's reviews
Media reviews
Variety
"The entire film hinges on how deeply felt [Thompson's] performance comes across."
Indiewire
"No matter how iffy the story gets, or how clinical Eyre?s direction becomes, Thompson makes it absolutely heartrending to watch Fiona?s veneer crack one line at a time."
The Hollywood Reporter
"The two central performances could hardly be better."
The Guardian
"'The Children Act' is concerned with love, intimacy and moral responsibility and it is refreshing to see a movie which sets itself standards of this sort. But there is also something a little too neat in the way all these things are wrapped up. Emma Thompson?s performance, so elegant and vulnerable, carries the picture."
The Wrap
"If Emma Thompson can?t make 'The Children Act' into something interesting and meaningful, then no one can. And she can't. "
Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote