“Benediction,” Terence Davies’ achingly beautiful portrait of the English war poet and soldier Siegfried Sassoon, is a movie of acute sadness and intense pleasure. The pleasure and the sadness are ...

The hell where youth and laughter go. A decorated veteran of the Western Front before he turned conscientious objector, Sassoon knew of what he spoke. Sprinkling passages of his poetry over somber ...

He is considered by many critics to be England's greatest living filmmaker, even though he has made less than ten movies. Terence Davies would also be on anyone's list of the foremost gay ...

Terence Davies’s latest film is a biography of Siegfried Sassoon, whose writing about World War I changed British literature. By A.O. Scott When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed ...