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 ...

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, ...

More to the point, World War I poet Siegfried Sassoon reflects a summit in the reflections of Davies’ own experience. Davies’ watermark narratives have been consistently personal, candid, and ...

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 ...

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 struggles to capture every side of the multifaceted war poet You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. Reviews and recommendations are ...

Author biopics can be terribly dull, but then few authors have lived a life quite like Sigfried Sassoon. The British poet’s words became a chilling epitaph for so many in the First World War, but ...

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 ...