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

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

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

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

Unfortunately, writer-director Conor McPherson's lame attempts to push the film into the realm of a horror movie reduce its effect considerably.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 19, 2010

In his quiet house hung with portraits of those who have become ghosts, Michael finally learns to mourn, and we realize that storytelling is how a writer grieves.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 15, 2010

The town and surrounding landscapes make a gorgeous setting -- the Irish tourist board will be happy -- but at its heart The Eclipse is a small, contained ghost story about a haunted man learning to exorcise himself.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 15, 2010

Worth a look if just for the fact that it's such a rarity in the horror world to see a script that takes its characters and its concepts seriously.

| Apr 15, 2010

Hinds, who scored the Best Actor award when the film screened at the Tribeca Festival in New York, possesses an unassuming versatility.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 15, 2010

While McPherson may have an extensive reputation as a playwright, as a filmmaker he's one step up from a total amateur.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 15, 2010

Hinds has been ready for a role of this size and shape for years; it was simply a matter of finding it, and its finding him.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 15, 2010

The supernatural never seems far out of sight in Ireland, and it creeps in here and there during The Eclipse, a dark romance set at a literary festival in the County Cork cathedral town of Cobh. I'm not sure it's required, but it does little harm.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 15, 2010

Ultimately, though, it feels fleeting and slight passing across our line of vision, never a full but merely a partial engagement.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 9, 2010

McPherson has managed a rare hat trick in genre mash-up, fashioning a deeply absorbing movie that balances horror, romance, comedy and observant humanism with surprising finesse.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 9, 2010

An above-average ghost tale elevated by its cast.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 9, 2010

There are few surprises hidden in the film's hushed spookiness.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 6, 2010

A smart, scary, spine-tinglingly matter-of-fact ghost story.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 31, 2010

An interesting blend of very nicely observed character based drama with some horror movie effects.

Full Review | Mar 29, 2010

Makes good on its name by sometimes obscuring its themes and even point, which can have its charms though also severe drawbacks.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 26, 2010

The story explores the prism of liminality. It is not just the ghosts who are stuck between worlds.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 26, 2010