Iris

Kate Winslet sliter verkligen tappert med uppgiften att gestalta den unga Iris, sprudlande och originell, begåvad och omsvärmad.

Vackert foto, nyanserade rollfigurer och fantasirikedom i detta relativt okomplicerade uppväxtdrama.

...it’s a happily modest movie that, while frequently edging toward boredom, is never actively off-putting.

All the players are ardent, all the camera work thoughtful—but none so engaging as the novelist now gone, her mind, in its prime, eternally aglowin her own words.

While Dench's superb performance screams Oscar, Broadbent is so outstanding that he, too, deserves to find his name on the nomination lists come the big night.