By the time a film arrives on movie screens, its makers often strive to find ways to articulate how relevant it is, how it ...

Tom Basden and Tim Key break hearts in The Ballad of Wallis Island, a movie with a jaded musician, an eccentric fan and ...

For those who enjoy movies about musicians, their music, and the feelings that percolate between band members — think Once ...

I knew I’d have to include James Griffiths’ “The Ballad of Wallis Island,” a twee-sounding British comedy about a folk musician named Herb McGwyer (Tom Basden) who plays a gig on a remote ...

It’s never a bad time for a film like “The Ballad of Wallis Island,” but at the moment it feels like a much-needed balm.

The Ballad of Wallis Island follows Charles (Tim Key), an eccentric lottery winner who lives alone on a remote island and dreams of getting his favorite musicians, Mortimer-McGwyer (Carey Mulligan ...

My mistake — encouraged by the offbeat bona fides of the British performers Tom Basden and Tim Key — was expecting “The Ballad of Wallis Island” to provide one. Bereft of chuckles or even ...

Carey Mulligan and Tom Basden in The Ballad of Wallis Island Alistair Heap/Courtesy of Focus Features A carefully considered mix of humor and melancholy glows in the fragile sunshine that bathes ...

He’s kind of right, but mostly wrong, which sets both the comedic and dramatic wheels spinning in the British comedy “The Ballad of Wallis Island,” in theaters April 4. That millionaire ...

I knew I’d have to include James Griffiths’ “The Ballad of Wallis Island,” a twee-sounding British comedy about a folk musician named Herb McGwyer (Tom Basden) who plays a gig on a remote ...

It’s never a bad time for a film like “The Ballad of Wallis Island,” but at the moment it feels like a much-needed balm. Modest in scope and made with the lightest of touch, not unlike the ...

It’s never a bad time for a film like “The Ballad of Wallis Island,” but at the moment it feels like a much-needed balm. Modest in scope and made with the lightest of touch, not unlike the ...