very much an Irish Braveheart,and is intense, timely and terrific

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 9, 2019

Ham-fisted dialogue aside, Martin Feeney's crusade to put the world to rights is undeniably entertaining, if clumsily told.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 8, 2019

Black '47 stays an interesting and worthwhile film due to the merry band that attempts to track Feeney down.

| Jan 10, 2019

Director Lance Daly has made a bleak and gripping film.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 21, 2018

Director and co-writer Lance Daly tells a blunt-force story in blunt-force fashion, draining the color from both landscape and denizens, and spelling out details in dialogue where he thinks it might be helpful.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 27, 2018

That's Celtic pride.

| Oct 24, 2018

A fantastically captivating historical epic, which beautifully evokes its setting.

| Oct 20, 2018

That it all works as well as it does is as much a testament to the crackerjack cast as it is to Daly's brooding, violently controlled direction.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 19, 2018

The movie sits in a murky place between appropriately weary historical drama and a more nimble action-Western hybrid, spurred by an outlaw's revenge

| Oct 12, 2018

[The] historical and political details are almost enough to elevate the material beyond its roots as a typical sort of revenge thriller. Those roots are firmly planted, though...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 12, 2018

Director Lance Daly's Black '47 is a western-tinged revenge tale set amongst the backdrop of the Great Irish Famine (An Gorta Mór).

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 10, 2018

While the screenplay relies too heavily on genre tendencies, it sufficiently evokes its harrowing true-life historical setting.

| Oct 5, 2018

It's not subtle in its didacticism: the British characters...are all cold-hearted bigots. But such bluntness is traditional in angry genre movies, and here it's supported by an adequate yarn.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 5, 2018

While the Great Famine provides the brutal historical backdrop, Lance Daly's gripping film is, at heart, a Western, complete with avenging anti-hero, relentlessly pursuing posse and a couple of cracking shoot-outs.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 4, 2018

A visually arresting, Anglo-Irish western-style revenge tale that maintains a firm directorial grip on the foreboding landscape.

| Oct 4, 2018

It's unfortunate that caricatured villains lessen the impact of the film's upward punch.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 1, 2018

A lean, mean historical actioner which doesn't hold back on brutal realities, mostly succeeding in mixing genres and grappling with weighty themes.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 29, 2018

The cast in this film is incredible. Hugo Weaving transforms from a reprehensible villain to a heroic champion with grand ease. James Frecheville's seething intensity and mastery of physical acting is a sight to behold.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Sep 28, 2018

Despite its Irish setting, Black '47 feels more than anything like an American Western, what with its shades-of-grey morality and almost Biblical quest for payback.

| Original Score: B | Sep 28, 2018

A taut, often violent drama with a powerhouse of a cast - Barry Keoghan, Jim Broadbent and Stephen Rea to name a few.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 28, 2018