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Amongst the Wolves (2024) 3.5/5 “The ending is sufficiently convincing that it proves easy enough to forgive earlier clunks and creaks. An earthy reminder of easily ignored realities. A tribute to the independent spirit.” – Irish Times Apr 30, 2025 Full Review Thunderbolts* (2025) 89% 3/5 “It is a shame the project feels flimsier than the average 온라인카지노추천-show pilot, but, after the catastrophe that was Captain America: Brave New World, one can celebrate something that at least has a middle between its beginning and its end.” – Irish Times Apr 29, 2025 Full Review The Friend (2024) 84% 4/5 “Bing could hardly be more charming as the dog whose presence causes her to confront what’s missing in her own life. How does the closing number go? “A wondrous toy just made for a girl and boy”. I’ll buy that.” – Irish Times Apr 23, 2025 Full Review Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) 79% “Revenge of the Sith is still junk. ” – Irish Times Apr 18, 2025 Full Review Sinners (2025) 98% 5/5 “Far from feeling indulgent, the picture is positively economical in the way it addresses so many ideas – sociological, cultural, historical – while forwarding its rattling, viscera-soaked yarn.” – Irish Times Apr 17, 2025 Full Review Warfare (2025) 92% 4/5 “Many will retain understandable uneasiness about the project, but few could deny the technical brilliance and dedication to an austere brief. An essential watch. Though maybe just the once.” – Irish Times Apr 16, 2025 Full Review One to One: John & Yoko (2024) 89% 4.5/5 “A film that somehow manages to avoid cynicism as it details a country in violent transition. There is always room for a post-Beatles doc if it’s this good and this original.” – Irish Times Apr 9, 2025 Full Review Restless (2024) 96% 4.5/5 “Pitches the tone perfectly. The build from irritation to fury to desperation progresses at a steady pace. Black Hitchcockian humour ... is supplemented by Ward’s comic turn as a bumbler who offers his pal charmingly hopeless assistance ” – Irish Times Apr 3, 2025 Full Review Four Mothers (2024) 89% 3/5 “Four Mothers offers comfort for the last chilly days of spring. It shows professionals of several generations to advantage. There are no moral missteps or properly ugly confrontations. That may be enough to be going on with.” – Irish Times Apr 2, 2025 Full Review The End (2024) 56% 4/5 “Its persuasive, unsettling intelligence will get under your fingernails and into your bones. If any recent release has the potential to become a cult classic it is this melodic warning from beneath the earth.” – Irish Times Mar 28, 2025 Full Review The Ghost (2024) 3.5 “Edited to a taut, busy 92 minutes, the film works itself into a symphony of niggling submelodies: blood, religion, familial abuse.” – Irish Times Mar 27, 2025 Full Review Brief History of a Family (2024) 92% 4/5 “The film does not quite pull off its enigmatic ending, but this remains a startlingly eerie debut that finds new angles to a familiar genre. ” – Irish Times Mar 25, 2025 Full Review Sister Midnight (2024) 97% 4/5 “Endlessly refreshing. So joyous and inventive is each scene that it proves easy to disregard the ambling lack of plot. The actors grasp the singular aesthetic with glee. It has the best goats of the season.” – Irish Times Mar 14, 2025 Full Review Black Bag (2025) 96% 4/5 “Honed to an economic 93 minutes, Black Bag beats all the current worthless streaming thrillers for wit, pace, style and commitment to the bit. Keep it up with a sequel, please.” – Irish Times Mar 14, 2025 Full Review On Falling (2024) 94% 5/5 “Thee completeness of its construction remains a marvel throughout. And Santos deserves endless praise for communicating the despairing human eager to break out from the passive drone society wants her to be. An astonishing, unsettling fable. ” – Irish Times Mar 6, 2025 Full Review Mickey 17 (2025) 77% 2/5 “For all that good work, however, Mickey 17, adapted from a novel by Edward Ashton, feels like a rickety compromise bolted together from incompatible parts.” – Irish Times Mar 6, 2025 Full Review Posso Entrare? An Ode to Naples (2023) 3/5 “I regret to tell you that the director is taking on us a “journey” as she meets writers, musicians, chefs, graffiti artists and striving garment workers. ” – Irish Times Feb 28, 2025 Full Review To a Land Unknown (2024) 97% 4/5 “Most praise must ... go to the two actors, who invite great empathy for characters too often forced into desperate decisions. This is an uncomfortable film, but one that sweeps you along in its momentum. ” – Irish Times Feb 28, 2025 Full Review I'm Still Here (2024) 97% 4/5 “What makes I’m Still Here come alive is Torres’s faultless performance as the stabilising force in a family’s drift back to compromised normality. ” – Irish Times Feb 28, 2025 Full Review The Monkey (2025) 78% 4/5 “The film, shot in oily gloom by Nico Aguilar, sets out to dispatch every passerby in fashions that would appal Caligula. Good old-fashioned disgusting fun. I had a blast.” – Irish Times Feb 28, 2025 Full Review Fight or Flight (2025) 92% 3/5 “James Madigan, hitherto a second-unit director, takes precisely the right attitude from the opening skirmish. This is cartoon violence at a level of savagery that might give Itchy & Scratchy pause for thought.” – Irish Times Feb 28, 2025 Full Review The Last Showgirl (2024) 83% 3.5/5 “Finds endless variation on the city at magic hour – the gigawatts of neon just becoming visible as the horizon reddens. The characters sad in mufti. The nothingness of desert just visible through the haze.” – Irish Times Feb 28, 2025 Full Review Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (2025) 88% 4/5 “Mad About the Boy says things worth hearing about grief and the realities of ageing. It is hard to imagine how the series could have more satisfactorily been continued (or ended?).” – Irish Times Feb 12, 2025 Full Review Hard Truths (2024) 95% 5/5 “[Jean-Baptiste's] great achievement is to generate sympathy for a woman who allows those around her not a moment of consideration. Her mood is a great sadness for husband, son and sister but a genuine tragedy for the woman herself. ” – Irish Times Jan 29, 2025 Full Review A Complete Unknown (2024) 82% 3/5 “If you can endure Elle Fanning as Sylvie Russo (a version of the late Suze Rotolo) watching Dylan sing It Ain’t Me Babe with Baez and weepily realise that, yes, it ain’t Sylvie, babe, then you can also endure the rest of the Walk Hard clunkiness.” – Irish Times Jan 16, 2025 Full Review
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