Adapted from Helen Macdonald’s acclaimed 2014 memoir of the same name, H is for Hawk is about an academic who’s suddenly lost after the unexpected death of their father (Macdonald identifies as nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns). In grief, they take on the training of a young goshawk, one of the more difficult raptors in falconry’s pantheon, and become increasingly feral themself. Co-written by the director Philippa Lowthorpe and the novelist Emma Donoghue (Room), the film stars Claire Foy (The Crown) as Macdonald and Brendan Gleeson (Harry Potter) as their father, the award-winning British photographer Alisdair Macdonald. The film enlaces the lush Cambridge countryside and Macdonald’s raw psychological journey. Foy, as always, is wonderful. —Paulina Prosnitz