Even if the plot is standard stuff, McPherson’s hushed, almost poetic treatment of the material has a way of getting under the skin and lasting long after the film has ended.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 22, 2023

When the ghost story moments are in the forefront, it manages a strong and creepy sense of foreboding. I just wished that would have been the focus from beginning to end.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 20, 2014

The Eclipse is wholly, if strangely, cinematic; its dream-like tonal and narrative unpredictability, interspersed with a few completely jarring horror-film moments, make for an experience that will, yes, haunt audiences for a long time to come.

| Jun 28, 2013

When the ghost story moments are in the forefront, the film does manage a strong and creepy sense of foreboding.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 31, 2012

Quiet, subtle and tocuhing, this drama of a widower is extremely well acted by Hinds and Aidan Quinn

| Original Score: B | Jul 18, 2011

No, this is not The Eclipse where Monica Vitti and Alain Delon fail to rendezvous on Antonioni's empty street corner.

| Feb 23, 2011

The whole thing would probably have flown apart if not for Hinds, whose character, like a dark star imploding, pulls everything toward him.

| Jan 3, 2011

The story is thin, but it has a kind of easy Irish charm.

| Original Score: C+ | Dec 15, 2010

A solid and occasionally genuinely freaky little effort.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 1, 2010

The way McPherson handles the relationships in the movie is remarkable, in that he doesn't fall prey to a playwright's natural tendency to try put everything into the text.

| Original Score: 7.3/10 | Jul 17, 2010

Blends romance, drama and supernatural horror into a truly original, thoroughly unforgettable concoction.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 13, 2010

Like any ghost tale worth telling, The Eclipse will leave you strangely haunted.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 6, 2010

Quinn, alternately charming and loathsome, is brilliant, as is Hinds, an actor who has elevated everything he's been in.

Full Review | Jul 6, 2010

Being haunted by one's past really means something from director Conor McPherson

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 31, 2010

McPherson brews a strangely appealing composite, a movie that is mostly character-driven romance but that seasons the proceedings with timely scare-your-pants-off moments of horror.

| May 11, 2010

No, this is a wonderfully nuanced tale of love and loss set in a picturesque Irish coastal town during its annual literary festival.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 7, 2010

The high caliber acting is wasted on the bland and dull story. Despite an 88-minute running time, the movie is excruciatingly slow and grows tiresome as nothing much happens. It maintains a melancholy mood with the characters contemplating deep thoughts r

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 6, 2010

an enjoyable minor-key Irish romance enlivened by excellent performances - including a wonderfully observed turn by Aidan Quinn as an insufferably boorish American typer of best-sellers - but marred by the occasional intrusion of a bad horror movie

| Original Score: 84/100 | May 1, 2010

For the most part, this love triangle plays out with great warmth and delicacy.While Quinn seems to be having a ball playing against type as the boozy Nicholas, Hinds and Hjelje create fully-rounded, sympathetic characters.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 30, 2010

The haunted quality of Eclipse is a holdover from McPherson's plays, as is the abundance of dark, piercing wit.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 23, 2010