Generally favorable reviews - based on 21 Critics  Critic score
distribution:   1. Positive: 18 out of 21   2. Negative: 1 out
of 21   1. Emily Watson is ravishingly good -- and brings an
amazing focus and intensity to what could have been a disease-
of-the-week picture.   2. 100     It is a triumph, and one of
1998's few "don't miss" motion pictures.   3. 88     The movie
makes no attempt to soften the material or make it comforting
through the cliches of melodrama.   4. The wildly ambitious but
flawed biographical film about the English cellist Jacqueline du
Pré.   5. Reviewed by: Allan Ulrich     You may have surmised
that Americans have held the copyright on turning out awful
movies about serious musicians (especially musicians with
physical or mental afflictions), but along comes the high-gloss
weepie.   6. For all its knock-'em-dead acting and aggressively
stylish direction, Hilary and Jackie is still best described as
arthouse comfort food.   7. Reviewed by: Troy Patterson
Neither the stars' harmoni