Film Review — The Father

Anthony Hopkins’s celebrated performance towers over a film that fails to shake off its stage origins.

Describing Anthony Hopkins in The Father as brilliant is an exercise in redundancy. Words are pathetic. Inadequate. It is a performance to be savoured, cherished, and celebrated. Hopkins has been rightly rewarded with an Oscar.

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A celluloid statement of faith: Films should first and foremost be seen in the cinema. I make every effort to do so, and do not review films released on “streaming”. Every film reviewed here is one I’ve seen on the big screen.

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