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 ...

“Benediction,” Terence Davies’ achingly beautiful portrait of the English war poet and soldier Siegfried Sassoon, is a movie of acute sadness and intense pleasure. The pleasure and the sadness are ...

Not every temporal shift lands in this ambitiously conceived study of the gay British poet, but at its best it's sublime, with a tremendous star turn by Jack Lowden. For his second consecutive biopic ...

The tragic life of the poet and soldier is revisited with melancholy and theatricality in a bleak, and often hard to watch, biopic Terence Davies’s uncompromisingly sombre film about Siegfried Sassoon ...

Check out the trailer for Benediction, the upcoming biopic that explores the turbulent life of WWI poet Siegfried Sassoon (played by Jack Lowden). The movie also stars Peter Capaldi, Simon Russell ...

Droll banter is not a pleasure one might traditionally expect from the achingly sad films of Terence Davies. And yet Liverpool’s melancholy master of autobiography (The Long Day Closes) and adaptation ...

Terence Davies’s latest film is a biography of Siegfried Sassoon, whose writing about World War I changed British literature. By A.O. Scott When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed ...