H Is for Hawk lives on the festival circuit, and that's not a bad thing. Each scene reads like an empathetic festival drama or like an Oscar contender circa the early 2010s.

Claire Foy stars along with a goshawk in an adaptation of Helen MacDonald’s award-winning memoir. By Alissa Wilkinson When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site, we ...

A woman struggling after the death of her father turns to a pet hawk for companionship in "H is for Hawk," an emotionally raw story about grieving and learning to move on that refuses to tidy itself ...

Philippa Lowthorpe pares Helen Macdonald’s intricately layered memoir down to what she considers essential, focusing on the author’s odd choice to adopt a goshawk as a kind of emotional escapism.

Movies about the relationship between a person and one of God’s creatures is becoming a virtual genre of its own. My Penguin Friend, Penguin Lessons, The Starling and Penguin Bloom are recent examples ...

Based on a memoir of the same name by Helen Macdonald, ‘H Is For Hawk’ tells the story of a woman whose devastating grief over the death of her father is channeled through her training of a goshawk, a ...

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