Last Chance Harvey

Dustin Hoffman plays Harvey Shine, a divorced American musician who flies to London for his daughter's wedding, only to learn that she wants his ex-wife's new husband to walk her down the aisle. Drowning his sorrows after missing his flight home, Harvey meets Kate (Emma Thompson), a dowdy single Brit.

Anna Smith, Empire: Hoffman is an enjoyable lead, gleaning laughs from trivial misfortunes such as a security tag still attached to a suit jacket. But it's Thompson that really shines, imbuing every line with depth and pathos - lines that could have been thrown away by other mouths... Last Chance Harvey is a brief but slow-paced film with no grand romance, no tension, no tragedy. It recalls Sleepless In Seattle and Four Weddings And A Funeral, but it doesn't have the suspense or energy to compete. It's cute, but it's not compelling. (Verdict: three stars out of five)

Nigel Andrews, Financial Times: Two people, two hearts, two stories. Finally hero and heroine meet and quaintly accelerate towards courtship: he a Dustinesque pother of nods, tics and ingratiation; she an Emma-style force-flood of controlled repression that will, and finally does, burst its banks. Anyone nasty enough to dislike the film is a summer Scrooge. Anyone mad enough to isolate it for praise has caught too much sun. (Verdict: two stars out of five) ·