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Denial
2016 1h 49m PG-13
Drama
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History
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Biography
6.8
82%
71%
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Acclaimed writer and historian Deborah E. Lipstadt must battle for historical truth to prove the Holocaust actually occurred when David Irving, a renowned denier, sues her for libel.
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Directed By
Mick Jackson
Written By
Deborah Lipstadt
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David Hare
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Cast of Denial
Rachel Weisz
Deborah Lipstadt
Tom Wilkinson
Richard Rampton
Timothy Spall
David Irving
Andrew Scott
Anthony Julius
Jack Lowden
James Libson
Caren Pistorius
Laura Tyler
Alex Jennings
Sir Charles Gray
Harriet Walter
Vera Reich
Mark Gatiss
Professor Robert Jan van der Pelt
John Sessions
Prof. Richard Evans
Nikki Amuka-Bird
Libby Holbrook
Pip Carter
Anthony Forbes-Watson
Jackie Clune
Heather Rogers
Will Attenborough
Thomas Skelton Robinson
Max Befort
Nik Wachsman
Daniel Cerqueira
Sam Glass
Laurel Lefkow
Storm Glass
Elliot Levey
Roger Levy
Helen Bradbury
Rachel Levy
Jacob Krichefski
Rabbi Brenner
Abigail Cruttenden
Janine Stone
Hilton McRae
Judge John Trench
Andrea Deck
Leonie
Lachele Carl
Gloria
Edward Franklin
Simon
Sally Messham
Meg
Sean Power
Mitch
Tom Clarke Hill
Sam Dixon
Amber Batty
Kate Kelland
Paul Hunter
Judge's Clerk
Amanda Lawrence
Court Usher
Ziggy Heath
Gerald
Todd Boyce
Reporter
Sara Powell
Reporter
Nicholas Tennant
Angry Man
Jeremy Paxman
Himself (Archive Footage)
Paul Bailey
Paralegal #1 (uncredited)
Laura Evelyn
Maureen
Ian Bartholomew
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Denial Reviews
Detroit News
Adam Graham
Hare's screenplay (based on Lipstadt's book) is smart and engaging, and veteran director Mick Jackson ("The Bodyguard") treats the material with the heft it deserves.
Newsday
Rafer Guzman
Facts and opinions duke it out in this thought-provoking if slightly low-key drama based on true events.
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
It's strangely refreshing to watch a courtroom drama where theatricality doesn't trump meticulous examination and cross-examination.
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
The final verdict, of course, is a matter of historical record, but Denial brings with it so many parallels to contemporary issues of huge lies and great truths that its message is all the more resonant. Well done.
National Newspaper Publishers Association
Dwight Brown
Worthy premise. Excellent production. Magnetic performances.
Film Comment Magazine
Michael Sragow
Denial deftly establishes how the moral relativism of contemporary academics and the journalistic belief in giving all viewpoints equal time lead to intellectual bankruptcy.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
Ultimately "Denial' works, thanks to its strong cast - particularly Spall, who gives Irving a slightly mad gleefulness, and Weisz, whose smart, tough Deborah chafes against the quiet acquiescence expected of her.
Movie Mom
Nell Minow
This is a compelling courtroom drama, that goes to the deepest questions not just of Holocaust history or any history but of how we know what we know and who we believe.
Chicago Sun-Times
Richard Roeper
Despite the drawbacks, the power of the story shines through.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
As Lipstadt, Rachel Weisz delivers her usual brand of exquisite distress, but a frightfully gaunt Timothy Spall walks away with the movie as Irving.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Calvin Wilson
"Denial" is a flawed but impassioned film that deals in big ideas.
Washington Post
Stephanie Merry
Hare's screenplay is efficient at delivering facts, but just the facts. The movie may be competent at telling its story, but it's missing one key ingredient: feeling.
Boston Globe
Peter Keough
Spall's performance as Irving is a nuanced masterpiece of patriarchal monstrosity.
San Diego Reader
Scott Marks
It's the ever-spellbinding Timothy Spall who will make audiences squirm. His knotty-pouted advocate for the myth of the six million displays all the seductiveness and in-built logic of a pedophile luring a kindergartner into the back seat of a Buick.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Weisz's conviction, passion and galvanizing outrage drive "Denial." For a Jewish academic, this was no intellectual exercise, and Weisz lets us see it.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
Brisk, efficient, and dry.
RogerEbert.com
Susan Wloszczyna
Much like Lipstadt, viewers aren't privy to the inner workings of the defense except in dribs and drabs.
TIME Magazine
Stephanie Zacharek
The picture is methodically constructed, to the point that it's sometimes dull. But here and there it sets off a mini charge, building up to a subtly satisfying conclusion.
Associated Press
Jake Coyle
"Denial" is carried less by the normal theatrics of courtroom dramas than a staunch sense of duty to protect the truth. It's an argument for the patient, methodical dismantling of fools.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
You wonder if the material would have been more effective as a courtroom procedural adapted for the stage.
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