… an impeccably shot but ultimately misguided melodrama that once investigated past the sheen of the production falls into bathos over the pathos Mendes is desperately trying to inject in
Sam Mendes writes and directs this tribute to cinema (biographical, no doubt, though it's interesting that Mendes cracked showbiz via theatre) starring Olivia Colman, Toby Jones, Micheal Ward and Colin
Director Eva Husson and star Josh O’Connor discuss the acclaimed British period film.
… given such a lush and evocative treatment by Husson that it defies the conventions that many British period pictures succumb to.
… excels as a thrilling and dryly humourous spy drama …
In James Marsh’s new film, The Mercy, the revered British actors play characters that history has viewed as foolhardy, however, as the best actors do, they see them as human
...a refreshingly honest diversion from the usual wispiness that hovers over a lot of modern biopics.
...manages to be sporadically engaging but is too bloated and unwieldy to hit the mark like its predecessor.