Hilary And Jackie Critic Reviews

One of the most insightful and wrenching portraits of the joys and tribulations of being a classical musician ever filmed.Read the full review

Emily Watson is ravishingly good -- and brings an amazing focus and intensity to what could have been a disease-of-the-week picture. Read the full review

It is a triumph, and one of 1998's few "don't miss" motion pictures.Read the full review

Neither the stars' harmonious interplay nor director Anand Tucker's insistent urbanity of camera work can disguise that the cello drama is melodrama.Read the full review

An astoundingly moving and elegiac meditation on life, love, music, and the bonds of blood.Read the full review

It takes two to be sisters, two to have a rivalry, and two exceptional actresses to turn Hilary and Jackie into a compelling look at the most intimate and troubling of family dynamics.Read the full review

The movie makes no attempt to soften the material or make it comforting through the cliches of melodrama.Read the full review

Eye-grabbing performances from Emily Watson and Rachel Griffiths, who portray celebrated British cellist Jacqueline Du Pre and her older sister, Hilary, distinguish this ambitious but flawed biography.Read the full review

The movie is exquisitely directed by Anand Tucker in an anti-documentary style that sometimes fractures the time sequence, sometimes re-creates moments impressionistically instead of objectively and is vivid in style.Read the full review