"[The actors] speak the language beautifully, finding nuances of humor, feeling and fantasy packed into the prose and poetry of the script."
New York Times

"[Mirren is] a remarkable actress and makes for a fine Prospera, at once flinty and determined but with a pulsing parental tenderness she makes evident in lines that lesser actors might throw away."
A.V. Club

"[Wishaw] has a command of the language that, along with Mirren, sets the film along its proper axis."
Movieline

"Here Prospero becomes Prospera and is magnificently played by Helen Mirren with more ferocity than resignation."
Chicago Sun-Times

3 stars out of 5 -- "Mirren, striding around like an ageing Glastonbury hipster, leads from the front, while Felicity Jones is an appealing presence as her lovestruck daughter Miranda."
Total Film