Any fool can have a great career third act; June Squibb, at 96, is on at least her fifth and still accelerating. Last year she starred in the (age-appropriate) action hit Thelma ; now she gets a satisfyingly complicated role as a mischievous but spiky pensioner in a smart comedy-drama of the type we’re often told doesn’t get made anymore.

Squibb’s Eleanor Morgenstein lives a contented life with her best friend of 70 years in Florida, but when tragedy strikes, she moves back in with her daughter (Jessica Hecht) in New York and often takes out her own unhappiness on her family. But when she wanders into the wrong group at the Jewish Community Centre and finds herself among Holocaust survivors, sharing stories, she adopts her late friend’s account in an impulsive moment of madness, or in

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