The team from 'The Ballad of Wallis Island' discussed the fine line they had to walk in making the main character bearable.

James Griffiths’ The Ballad of Wallis Island boasts wonderful performances from Carey Mulligan, Tom Basden, and Tim Key.

James Griffiths’ comedy-drama with songs stirs up the troubled romantic past of a once-popular Brit folk-rock duo, their ...

"The Ballad of Wallis Island" resembles a band that continues playing despite the fact that their instruments are clearly out of tune. It's a film that keeps plowing ahead despite exhausting its ...

The snap, crackle and pop of vinyl marks the start of The Ballad of Wallis Island, a music-themed rom-com that’s half-whimsical com and half-unrequited rom. In the absence of a new film by John Carney ...

This sublime and human comedy, starring Carey Mulligan, Tom Basden and the wonderful Tim Key, is anything but kooky or ...

Photos from the Sundance Film Festival 2025, the premieres of 'Atropia' & 'The Ballad of Wallis Island' on Day 3.

The Ballad of Wallis Island is quaint but unexpectedly moving in its slightness, with great performances and a script that is ...

The irresistibly charming, bittersweet “The Ballad of Wallis Island” is jam-packed with whimsy, comedy, and emotion—earning one of Sundance’s biggest standing ovations thus far.

Review: Herb McGwyer (Tom Basden), a songwriter who found fame as part of the folk duo McGwyer Mortimer, sits in a boat ...

Key, who reprises his role as the eccentric music fan Charles in “The Ballad of Wallis Island,” co-wrote the feature film with Tom Basden. “It felt like we’d missed a trick in a way ...