'This often charming but untextured fact-based period piece is buoyed along by the redoubtable Judi Dench, giving an acerbic reading of a formidable woman.

The film's real strength is in its portrait -- and Dench's feisty embodiment -- of a reckless, independent spirit.

The actress graciously acknowledges Mrs Henderson's awareness of her own flaws, and while she's shortchanged by too-early disclosure of the tragic past loss that feeds her sympathy for the young soldiers, her galvanic speech in the final act touches the right emotional chords.'

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