Allelujah

The Playlist by Gregory Ellwood

Perhaps it worked better as a theatrical endeavor, but the result is a film that feels like a collection of familiar hospital set storylines thrown together without a true compelling throughline.

Variety by Guy Lodge

It didactically calls out governmental hypocrisy while exposing corrupt elements and inefficiencies within the precious institution itself. It hedges its bets politically between nostalgic keening for a kinder, fairer Britain of old and advocating for a top-down socialist makeover. It wavers tonally between cozy comedy and head-on polemic.

New York Post by Johnny Oleksinski

There’s nothing wrong with some silver screen sorrow, but not when it amounts to indecisive mush.

The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw

This watchable, undemanding drama rolls along capably, enlivened by unmistakably Bennettian gags and drolleries which come along every minute or so.

The Telegraph by Robbie Collin

Heidi Thomas’s screenplay, cannily expanding a little on Bennett’s glisteningly witty original script, shows its hand with tactical finesse.

TheWrap by Robert Abele

While Thomas and Eyre slip occasionally into feel-good vibes, they ultimately leave intact his narrative’s essential anger about the bureaucratic threat to community health care.

Screen Daily by Wendy Ide

The aims are laudable, but the execution is as baggy as a discarded pair of support tights.