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H Is for Hawk
Directed by
Philippa Lowthorpe
PG-13
2026
2h
[Drama](/on-demand/category/drama)
6.5
81%
76%
7.1
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After losing her beloved father, Helen finds herself saved by an unlikely friendship with a stubborn hawk named Mabel.
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Cast of H Is for Hawk
Claire Foy
Helen Macdonald / Executive Producer
Brendan Gleeson
Alisdair Macdonald
Lindsay Duncan
Mum
Denise Gough
Christina
Sam Spruell
Stuart
Emma Cunniffe
Mandy
Josh Dylan
James
Arty Froushan
Amar
Eden Hamilton
Young Helen
Sean Kearns
Breeder
William Chubb
Master
Miranda Bell
Master's Wife
Katy Carmichael
Professor Campbell
Kamal Simpson
Director of Studies
Garry Cooper
Charlie
Naomi Wirthner
GP
Carys Eleri
Funeral Director
Claudius Peters
Jogger
Angus Cooper
Male activist
Molly Williams
Female Heckler
H Is for Hawk Ratings & Reviews
San Jose Mercury News
Randy Myers
Foy's internalized performance conveys how important it is to reconcile with grief, not to abandon it nor place it on an out-of-the-way emotional shelf.
Entertainment Voice
Alci Rengifo
H is for Hawk has a warmth and kindness at its core, in the end expressing that pain is natural and freedom can be achieved by trying something new that puts us in contact with another form of life.
Detroit News
Adam Graham
It approaches its subject with respect and doesn't pretend to offer easy answers for complicated matters. Grief is difficult, as is hawk training, and Lowthorpe's film treats both with proper reverence.
Boston Movie News
James Verniere
Claire Foy is riveting as an academic using a hawk to deal with her father's death. The human-animal connection is strongest since Chloe Zhao's "The Rider."
Cambridge Day
Tom Meek
It's a bittersweet exploration of loneliness and self-doubt that soars on the strength of its restraint and Foy's full embodiment of Helen's emotional state.
Kermode and Mayo's Take (YouTube)
Mark Kermode
It never falls into sentimentality or emotional pleading. The story tells itself.
MovieJawn
Janet Reinschmidt
H is for Hawk is not a perfect film. It's a little too long, repetitive, and meandering, ending abruptly without a satisfying or happy conclusion. However, it's hard to dislike the film for those reasons as they perfectly echo the grieving process.
In Review Online
Daniel Gorman
One wishes the film was willing to go further with [its] philosophical inquiry, embracing the metaphysical alongside the dully literal.
The Travers Take
Peter Travers
In this slow but touching biopic, Claire Foy excels as an academic who buries her grief about her father's death by caring for a predator goshawk, so both can relearn to fly.
Boston Globe
Odie Henderson
Helen is held at such a distance that we're not even sure why she chose this specific temperamental goshawk in the first place. The flashbacks and overbearing music serve as this film's emotional core, and the result rings false and superficial.
RogerEbert.com
Isaac Feldberg
The film's strengths lie squarely with Foy, whose performance is restrained where it should be and revelatory at some moments you don't expect.
Chicago Reader
Noah Berlatsky
Some viewers may be put off by the fact that H Is for Hawk has no neat moral and no cathartic end to grief. But it wouldn't be true to either the impossible bird or the impossible person if it did.
Austin Chronicle
Kimberley Jones
On the subject of parental loss, a fairly universal experience, H Is for Hawk's insights read familiar but never epiphanic. The goshawk is the revelation.
New York Times
Alissa Wilkinson
What does work about "H Is for Hawk" (aside from Mabel, whose presence is enough to recommend the film) is its refusal to make grief facile or tidy, or to proclaim that healing must look the same for everyone.
AARP Movies for Grownups
Thelma Adams
Grief is an individual journey, but it's possible to see the universal agony of mourning a parent in this very specific, well-acted, intelligent tale of loss and recovery.
Wall Street Journal
Kyle Smith
The film's reflections on grief are fairly routine, but the scenes built around its feathered star are wonderful.
RogerEbert.com
Robert Daniels
"H is for Hawk" is so long-winded that when the aching payoff does arrive, its effectiveness is not enough to erase the exorbitant amount of time spent getting there.
Variety
Peter Debruge
Instead of bemoaning what's missing, it's best to recognize what is there. On that front, "H Is for Hawk" remains a moving account of one person's eccentric interest in falconry.
IndieWire
David Ehrlich
The trouble here has less to do with verisimilitude than engagement; this story about the power and pratfalls of emotional projection simply doesn't inspire enough feeling for us to see much of anything on either of its two blank screens.
The Hollywood Reporter
Angie Han
As an appreciation of birds and our connection to them, it's engrossing and endearing -- a fresher take, certainly, than yet another weepie about dog or cat owners. But as an exploration of grief, it's hindered by a 128-minute run time.
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