Neither film nor actor tries to resolve Cahill's contradictions or anyone's feelings for him.

| Apr 1, 2019

The General is a welcome return to basics for Britain's most adventurous and visionary director, who has always stayed faithful to his love of cinema.

| May 1, 2012

The film has little of the visual dazzle often associated with Boorman's movies, but the somber, black-and-white cinematography helps even out the often larger-than-life tone.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 1, 2012

I can no longer stomach the premise in so many Anglo-American crime pictures that mavericks are admirable simply because they're mavericks

| May 1, 2012

Enjoyable for what it is; problem is, what it is doesn't amount to much in the end.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 3, 2009

A movie that says more about the rebellious Irish psyche than a heap of overtly political pictures.

| Mar 26, 2009

All the performances are impressive, but Gleeson and Voight are especially memorable, lending an almost tragic air of inexorability to Cahill and Kenny's cat-and-mouse games.

| Jun 24, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 2, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 1, 2005

An interesting, entertaining view into the life of an Irish crime legend who is almost a Robin Hood, but not quite.

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 9, 2005

Neither Boorman's cinematic expertise nor Gleeson's canny performance is enough to make us care about Cahill's destruction.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 7, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 5, 2004

The most lyric crime picture since Band of Outsiders, with a sublime performance by Gleeson at its core.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 4, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 18, 2003

The film glides on seriocomic wings and whisks us rapturously away. It ranks with Boorman's own classic crime film Point Blank (1967), and that's high praise.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 25, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 14, 2003

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 25, 2003

A well-made film, but a hard one to actually like.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 3, 2003

The General is more character study than cops-and-robbers action drama.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Jan 8, 2003

It's too bad Marvin isn't still around, to at least knock some sense into his old friend, Boorman.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Dec 8, 2002