H Is For Hawk (12A, 114 mins)Brian VinerRating:There are various ways, in the movies as in life, of tackling grief. In H Is For Hawk, a true story, Helen Macdonald (Claire Foy) tries something else. As she bonds with the bird, her teaching suffers – and so does her personal hygiene – making H Is For Hawk an increasingly ­challenging watch. Matthew BondRating:When Helen Macdonald’s book, H Is For Hawk, came out a decade or so ago, I wasn’t keen. It sounded too much the standard grief memoir – beloved parent dies, adult child is plunged into grief only to take up an eccentric hobby that provides solace, healing and eventually a book deal.

Source: Daily Mail January 24, 2026 17:35 UTC