In making a film about a real person's choices, Ms. Skogland should have been brave enough to say whether or not she agreed with them. By saying nothing, she says more than she seems to be aware.

| Aug 9, 2018

An action-packed historical Irish thriller.

| Original Score: B- | Jul 13, 2015

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 18, 2011

Fifty Dead Men Walking is a largely uninvolving crime thriller that fails to do justice to the intriguing story of an informant within the IRA.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 14, 2011

A 'war on terror' thriller set in Ireland? Surprisingly, it works.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 13, 2011

Despite trying a little too hard to be cool and edgy, this is nevertheless an entertaining thriller with a decent twist.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 14, 2009

One of the more absorbing and riveting portraits of The Troubles since 1993's In the Name of the Father.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 11, 2009

Although the ranks of great IRA films are swelling rapidly this combination of political history and mystery suspense masterwork is one of the best.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Aug 28, 2009

Jim Sturgess makes a believable cocky lad who signs on for the con; an oddly bewigged Ben Kingsley is fussier and too actorly as his handler.

| Original Score: B | Aug 26, 2009

Conventional modes of representation hamper Fifty Dead Men Walking and its look at a subject that demands a fresher point of view.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 26, 2009

A viscerally intense, gripping and character-driven thriller filled with pulse-pounding action, strong performances and stylish, gritty cinematography.

| Original Score: 8.0/10 | Aug 24, 2009

Skogland is a crisp and efficient storyteller. She keeps the players vivid and relatively honest, and never shies away from the brutalities.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 21, 2009

Move over Donnie Brasco. Fifty Dead Men Walking is going to put Jim Sturgess, best known for crooning in Across the Universe, on the acting map.

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 21, 2009

Sturgess is solid and Kingsley predictably sneaky, but the atmosphere -- scurries through the Catholic/Protestant border, tense stand-offs, spontaneous riots -- is what's genuinely gripping.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 21, 2009

Suspenseful thriller about divided loyalties and tensions of a double agent in his own home, informing on those he has known since childhood, but without political context.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Aug 21, 2009

Impressively compact in its storytelling and visually sumptuous despite a budget of pocket-change proportions.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 21, 2009

A streamlined, adrenalized thriller that is not as deep as it would like to appear, treads a retrospective political tightrope.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 21, 2009

An action packed adventure that grows more suspenseful with each sequence.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 21, 2009

This is gritty storytelling where violence is a way of life and confrontation between Catholics and Protestants and police a daily occurrence.

| Original Score: B | Aug 20, 2009

Fifty Dead Men Walking provides another example of what happens when mediocre moviemaking meets an interesting life.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 20, 2009