‘H Is for Hawk’ Review: Claire Foy Is Enraptured With Raptors in an Unconventional Yet Moving Grief Drama

‘H Is for Hawk’ Review: Claire Foy Stars in a Grief Memoir Adaptation That Never Takes Flight

Few stiff upper lips — not even Queen Elizabeth’s — have ever been stiffer than the one Claire Foy sports throughout the better part of Philippa Lowthorpe’s “H Is for Hawk,” which is adapted from Helen MacDonald’s deservedly ubiquitous 2014 grief memoir of the same name. Foy naturally plays a version of the author (her character uses she/her pronouns, while MacDonald identifies as non-binary), a level-headed Cambridge academic who develops an al…

‘H Is for Hawk’ Review: Claire Foy Is Enraptured With Raptors in an Unconventional Yet Moving Grief Drama

“Looking for goshawks is like looking for grace: it comes, but not often, and you don’t get to say when or how,” writes Helen Macdonald in “H Is for Hawk,” a book I picked up by accident (all credit to cover artist Chris Wormell) and which proved to be the greatest tool I had when […]