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Connie Ogle, Miami Herald: The role of Mrs. Henderson may not have been written with Judi Dench in mind, but it's hard to imagine who else might slip into the part so effectively. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: A dear film, sentimental and fond, full of beautifully acted British resolve. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: The redoubtable Mrs. Henderson is the sort of character that Dench was born to play: funny, eccentric, cranky and with a spine of all-too-visible steel. Read more
Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle: Although technically not a musical, Mrs. Henderson Presents is filled with musical numbers, some of them quite accomplished. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: The comedic scenes in Mrs. Henderson Presents are light but effective, but the drama is way over the top, especially when Mrs. Henderson almost literally gets on a soapbox and delivers a speech about the importance of topless women in times of war. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: It's an amusing and well-meaning celebration of the stiff-upper-lips that got Britain through the Blitz. And the lead acting couldn't be more nimble. Read more
Bill Muller, Arizona Republic: A lively period piece elevated by a winning pair of leads. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: Frears gives us a sweet, old-fashioned study of time and place and one unsinkable woman. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Just as there will always be an England, there will always be a certain kind of English film: the highly polished entertainment, well-acted, genteelly amusing and impeccably turned out. Read more
Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: Though nudity will keep this from being a family film, for those who love the family of the theater, this postcard from its past is worth framing in your heart. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: The film is supremely well crafted: Raucousness and wit slide into sadness, and yet you never feel as if you're being worked over by a bunch of slicksters. Read more
Michael Booth, Denver Post: The greatest pleasure of Mrs. Henderson Presents is watching two of the grandest British lions taking their talents for a long walk. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: It's a variety show of a film with something for everyone if nothing of great consequence. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: There is no drama, unless you count the wallflower romance of Hoskins and Dench, doing the Britcom shtick that's becomes her version of autopilot. Read more
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: Perfectly enjoyable entertainment for anyone who can abide showbiz sentimentality. Read more
Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly: All is joyful vulgarity until World War II churlishly bursts in, generating oodles of Dunkirk spirit and swelling Martin Sherman's awful script into such orgies of cliche, you want to bottle it. Read more
Gene Seymour, Newsday: Stephen Frears seems constitutionally incapable of making an uninteresting movie. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: Mrs. Henderson Presents is pretty but static. There's flesh from wall to wall, all right. But the movie never comes alive. Read more
Jami Bernard, New York Daily News: The splintered, bantering relationship between Mrs. Henderson and Van Damm (and the chemistry between Dench and Hoskins) is what gives the movie its slender charms. Read more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: A sloppy vaudeville turn by those glorious troupers Judi Dench and Bob Hoskins in what amounts to a silly orgy of nostalgic patriotism and the titillating naughtiness of stationary nudity. Read more
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James Berardinelli, ReelViews: It comes highly recommended and is right at home in the company of other end-of-the-year 'prestige' pictures. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Mrs. Henderson Presents is not great cinema, and neither was the Windmill great theater, but they both put on a good show. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: By the end of the picture, you're left marveling at how [Director] Frears has kept the whole thing so crisp and so fun. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: ... the picture is as tastefully pretty as its girls, and just as motionless. Read more
Susan Walker, Toronto Star: Mrs. Henderson presents a pretty lacklustre songbook; the production numbers are more costume-party fun than musically enjoyable. Read more
TIME Magazine: Dench and Hoskins bicker with an affectionate ferocity that helps defuse the story's inherent sentimentality, and the result is an admittedly minor, but authentic, holiday treat. Read more
David Rooney, Variety: [The film is] buoyed along by the redoubtable Judi Dench, giving an acerbic reading of a formidable woman. But the failure to create tangible conflicts or satisfyingly developed characters around her is problematic. Read more
Jorge Morales, Village Voice: This is Dame Judi's show. However extraordinary an actor she may be, she cannot conceal the obvious fact that she's having the time of her life here. Isn't that delicious? Read more
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: Humor and warmth abound. Read more