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Fionnuala Halligan

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Screen International film critic.

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Aontas (2025) “Crowley, Brennan and to a lesser extent Gaffney (in a smaller role) are charged with delivering Aontas and turning it into the small-scale crowdpleaser that it is. Even if all the pieces don’t quite fit, the fun is in the game.” – Screen International Mar 19, 2025 Full Review All I Had Was Nothingness (2025) “It turns out, 40 years later, that the struggle to be accurate above all else, to never distort the facts, still continues, and Shoah is still a central defence in it. All I Had Was Nothingness furthers the aim.” – Screen International Mar 17, 2025 Full Review Christy (2025) “The perspective of the terrified young carer is not one that’s usually given the respect that it is here. But two lovely central performances, from Power and Noyes help bring it home.” – Screen International Mar 17, 2025 Full Review Hallow Road (2025) 95% “Despite its vaguely-generic title, this well-crafted close-quarters suspense from British-Iranian director Babak Anvari is firmly-written, -shot and -acted.” – Screen International Mar 14, 2025 Full Review Late Shift (2025) “Occasionally schematic, albeit only in the service of pricking our consciences, Petra Volpe’s tense drama is a shot in the arm of undiluted empathy for the over-stretched, under-valued nursing profession.” – Screen International Feb 20, 2025 Full Review Islands (2025) 92% “Gerster hits a few too many balls for a little too long, but Islands owns its own court. Locations are uncannily well-used to reinforce how people run but can’t really hide -- from themselves.” – Screen International Feb 18, 2025 Full Review Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (2025) 88% “Check your cynicism at the gate for Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy, an oddly comforting, leisurely, snufflingly nostalgic trip through almost a quarter of a century’s worth of singleton antics. ” – Screen International Feb 12, 2025 Full Review Khartoum (2025) 92% “Sudanese politics are notoriously complex and affected by external players, from Ethiopia to the UAE, but Khartoum simplifies the process by which two generals wage a war and the population dies.” – Screen International Jan 28, 2025 Full Review The Stringer (2025) 100% “A documentary that leaves you longing for some of the hard cut and thrust of the field won’t be a dynamic commercial contender, but The Stringer’s dogged probing makes it a valuable document.” – Screen International Jan 27, 2025 Full Review Kiss of the Spider Woman (2025) 82% “The effort is strenuous; all 128 minutes of it. But it’s almost as exhausting to watch as it must have been to make.” – Screen International Jan 27, 2025 Full Review The Thing with Feathers (2025) 53% “There’s much that is brilliant here, although the loss of nuance in translation from page to screen reduces a potent brew of emotions to more literally-depicted stages and consequences of pure, overwhelming, overwrought grief.” – Screen International Jan 26, 2025 Full Review The Librarians (2025) 100% “In its own way too, The Librarians is part of the polemic: it urges that the time for debate has gone and society should wake up to a threat that is only gaining power.” – Screen International Jan 26, 2025 Full Review Brides (2025) 83% “Part of what makes Brides so engaging -- and not in a passive way -- is its closeness to the truth: not just of the Begum story, but life truths.” – Screen International Jan 26, 2025 Full Review Omaha (2025) 88% “It begs for forgiveness and understanding, then and now. It’s a plea Omaha makes more eloquently than you might have imagined, going into a road movie with two cute kids, a dog and a guitar-based soundtrack.” – Screen International Jan 23, 2025 Full Review Wicked (2024) 87% “It’s so doggedly faithful to the show, so emphatically orchestrated and so powered by Cynthia Erivo’s exceptional performance, that resistance to its 169 minutes of theme park magic becomes futile. ” – Screen International Nov 19, 2024 Full Review Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story (2024) 100% “It’s executed in the same spirit of openness and friendship that O’Brien brought to her own headlong passions and you get the feeling that, yes, she’d think it got her right.” – Screen International Oct 30, 2024 Full Review Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (2024) 100% “Pure, idiosyncratic entertainment for everyone.” – Screen International Oct 28, 2024 Full Review The Summer Book (2024) 73% “To read about the Eastern Gulf of Finland is one thing, but to see it depicted here is always wonderful. McDowell... works with DoP Sturla Brandth Grøvlen again to present a film in which nature is emphasised, but cinematography does its own quiet work. ” – Screen International Oct 15, 2024 Full Review Blitz (2024) 81% “Oddly enough, in trying to capture a time that was wracked by scarcity, by the idea of make-do-and-mend, by the plucky spirit of the men and women under the might of the machines, Blitz just fires far too much heavy artillery.” – Screen International Oct 9, 2024 Full Review Nickel Boys (2024) 91% “It makes its own rules, and breaks them. It’s very exciting from a cinematic perspective, and that’s partly the point: this story needs its own voice, it needs to live, in order to best respect the people who lived it. ” – Screen International Sep 27, 2024 Full Review Emmanuelle (2024) 17% “Fans of 50 Shades Of Grey may be tempted by the premise, but there’s really no substance here to whip them up, apart from lashings of vanilla.” – Screen International Sep 20, 2024 Full Review Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2 (2024) 54% “The fussily-conceived Chapter 2 is a little more dynamic than the opener. There’s a comfort in knowing that every bad guy will get his just deserts in this prairie oater, after all. ” – Screen International Sep 7, 2024 Full Review Aïcha (2024) “Barsaoui sets himself and his technical team a challenge -- they deliver, but a two-hour running time is too much for the format, and the framework of the film can't always support it.” – Screen International Sep 5, 2024 Full Review From Darkness to Light (2024) “Like its subject, Eric Friedler and Michael Lurie’s film is not entirely complete, but it doesn’t cut the viewer short on jaw-dropping revelations.” – Screen International Sep 5, 2024 Full Review Queer (2024) 77% “For a Burroughs adaptation, it has all the provocation but none of the haunting power that Naked Lunch still holds, almost 35 years later.” – Screen International Sep 3, 2024 Full Review
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