Hope Gap

The trouble with opening up this story for long walks on the beach? It seems to flatten out with the tide.

None of it lacks credibility. As a portrait of the breakup of a marriage, and the three-cornered pain of the situation, it's completely convincing.

Diehard fans of Nicholson will probably suck it up. For the rest of us, this is hopeless.

The film's biggest failing is that, unfortunately, Bening is terribly miscast here.Her wandering accent - is it Cockney? is it Home Counties? - becomes more jarring the longer we go on.

A coastal breath of fresh air, but Bening should ditch the accent.

With an acting trio like that you're guaranteed an involving watch but somehow this intense relationship drama fails to cut to the bone. Nicholson adapted this from his own play The Retreat From Moscow, and you can feel it.

Hope Gap has good performances from Bill Nighy and Annette Bening but is unsatisfying...

Honest to the bone... [Full review in Spanish]

Bening and Nighy elevate this sensible and contained film.

Benefits considerably from its central trio of talent and their performances.