Allelujah
- 2023 film
When a small hospital ward is faced with closure, they decide to fight back. What could go wrong? Stars Jennifer Saunders, Bally Gill, Russell Tovey, David Bradley, Judi Dench and Ross Tomlinson
Streaming rank this week: 6,017
Press clippings
Jennifer Saunders's new movie has the wildest twist ending of the year
Allelujah may look like a feel-good comedy, but hold on a second...
Digital Spy, 18th March 2023Allelujah, review
A moving love letter to the NHS set in a world of death and incontinence.
Geoffrey Macnab, i Newspaper, 17th March 2023Allelujah review
Standout performances but it is almost scuppered by a tone-deaf ending.
Kevin Maher, The Times, 17th March 2023Made me laugh for all the wrong reasons: Allelujah reviewed
If you're going to do Alan Bennett, don't meddle with Alan Bennett.
Deborah Ross, The Spectator, 17th March 2023Allelujah review
A cheery adaptation of Alan Bennett's play that flatlines after a jarring final act twist.
Time Out, 17th March 2023Allelujah: Actor Bally Gill talks about new film role as NHS doctor
Bally Gill says his parents wanted him to become a doctor. He chose acting, but now he's playing an NHS medic in his first film role.
Shabnam Mahmood, BBC, 16th March 2023Allelujah review
Starry NHS hospital drama is less than scalpel-sharp.
Danny Leigh, The Financial Times, 16th March 2023Jennifer Saunders shares the secret to four decades of marriage
Jennifer Saunders, 64, talks about her latest film role in what she describes as a love letter to the NHS, as well as the reasons she's been blessed with such long-lasting relationships, why you shouldn't throw things away tomorrow if you can do it today and how she's ended up with no nose lining...
Larushka Ivan-Zadeh, Metro, 16th March 2023Jennifer Saunders on how Allelujah tackles "political football" of NHS
"This script is drawing attention to and asking the big question - what are we going to do?"
Morgan Cormack, Radio Times, 16th March 2023Allelujah, Alan Bennett's 2018 play about the ailing fortunes of a geriatric hospital, gets a tonally bizarre big screen adaptation courtesy of Call The Midwife creator Heidi Thomas and director Richard Eyre. A slew of beloved British stage and screen stars - among them Judi Dench and Derek Jacobi - play the hospital's ailing patients, while Jennifer Saunders (as a ward nurse), Russell Tovey (as a government management consultant) and Bally Gill (as an immigrant doctor) attend to the plot, which revolves around the cash-strapped hospital's viability. Tovey gets a couple of good scenes, but a last-minute swerve into The Good Nurse territory doesn't come off at all.
Alistair Harkness, The Scotsman, 15th March 2023