Nominated for 2 Oscars. 7 wins & 14 nominations total
Top Critics Reviews
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It understands that not everyone falls into love through the avenue of physical desire; that for some, the lust may be for another's mind, for inner beauty.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
1 Jan 2000
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Sit back, watch a master at work, and never once believe that you're not observing the real C.S. Lewis.
– James Berardinelli,
ReelViews,
1 Jan 2000
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Here is Mr. Hopkins giving an amazingly versatile and moving performance, shifting the light in those knowing blue eyes to reveal endless shadings between delight and sorrow.
– Janet Maslin,
New York Times,
20 May 2003
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Superlative acting by Hopkins and Winger elevates this fictionalized late-in-life romance between the repressed British scholar and writer C.S. Lewis and the American Jewish housewife-poet who introduces him to sex and rejuvenates his life.
– Emanuel Levy,
Variety,
30 Nov 2005
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Biting down on his pipe, his shirt collar permanently askew, Hopkins assays another concerted study in English repression -- a condition unexpectedly relieved by Winger's brash intelligence and brittle wit.