Overview
- Early reviews commend Tessa Thompson’s commanding turn as Hedda, calling her performance magnetic and career-best.
- Critics highlight the film’s high-craft sheen, citing Sean Bobbitt’s lush cinematography, Hildur Guðnadóttir’s pulsing score, and Lindsay Pugh’s sumptuous costumes.
- DaCosta reframes the classic through race and queerness, including a gender-flipped Eileen Løvborg, while setting the story in mid-century England.
- Some reviewers question the opening police-interrogation framing device and note occasional emotional or structural unevenness.
- The drama unfolds over one charged night at a mansion-set party, with a cast that includes Imogen Poots, Nina Hoss, Tom Bateman, and Nicholas Pinnock.