Nothing Like a Dame (film) declaring it an "outrageously funny film". Guy Lodge of "Variety" called the film a "richly enjoyable gabfest" but that the film was "hardly vital cinema". Both Bradshaw and Lodge noted that they wish the film went through a more wide range of topics such as Time's Up and the Me Too movements. Nothing Like a Dame (film) Nothing Like a Dame (released in the United States as Tea With the Dames) is a 2018 documentary film directed by Roger Michell. The film documents conversations between actresses Eileen Atkins, Judi Dench, Joan Plowright and Maggie Smith interspersed with scenes from their
Julian Curry of interviews with thirteen leading actors focussing on specific Shakespearean roles. It was nominated as 2011 Theatre Book of the Year. In "Shakespeare on Stage" Curry interviews Brian Cox (about the titular role of Titus Andronicus), Judi Dench (Juliet), Ralph Fiennes (about the titular role of Coriolanus), Rebecca Hall (Rosalind from "As You Like It"), Derek Jacobi (Malvolio from "Twelfth Night"), Jude Law ("Hamlet"), Adrian Lester ("Henry V"), Ian McKellen ("Macbeth"), Helen Mirren (Cleopatra), Tim Pigott-Smith (Leontes from "A Winter's Tale"), Kevin Spacey ("Richard II"), Patrick Stewart (Prospero from "The Tempest"), and Penelope Wilton (Isabella from "Measure for Measure. A