Stephen Frears

Stephen Frears on Mrs. Henderson Presents and Career Highlights: 'It's not bad to make an innocent film about naked girls.'

At its best delineating the absurdities of immigrant life lost in the London rat race.

The diminished return of the English striptease comedies...neither swanky nor funny enough to entertain, and Sherman's shallow script never earns its melodramatic turns.

Delicately balances the inherent drama of the tragic circumstances with the comedy of manners that is the Royal Family's dysfunction, and Britain's ambivalent attitudes to the same.

A bold and convincing effort to dramatize contemporary political history.

Doesn’t so much get anything wrong; it just fails to go oh so right.

Ever so charming...with some satirical snap to its characterizations.

Though Coogan's the avowed funnyman, twinkly-eyed Dench makes beautiful comic music with him...and though Dame Judi's the classically trained tragedian, Coogan holds his own when matters get serious.

A legitimately fascinating central character...Not surprisingly, Streep expertly shades every eccentricity, embodying Jenkins in her musical waywardness...