A hyperkinetic ride through Dublin's underside. Just imagine Robert Altman directing on speed.

| Sep 21, 2021

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 1, 2006

The great thing about Intermission is that you barely have time to spot the gaps.

Full Review | Aug 1, 2004

Not real Irish, but the movie kind: the latest to stumble off the [John] Ford assembly-line.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 28, 2004

Such are the dangers of teaching foreign cultures to yelp like Reservoir Dogs.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | May 28, 2004

Intermission bursts with the energy of a documentary filmed on the run with a stolen camera.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 24, 2004

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 11, 2004

One of those films that should keep you entirely entertained but that disappears from memory almost immediately.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 9, 2004

Invigorating fun -- cheeky, saucy, a bit crass and just drunk enough on its own sense of playful invention.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Apr 9, 2004

A welcome reminder that the best, most fun entertainment encourages thinking, not the cessation of it.

| Original Score: A- | Apr 1, 2004

Very, very funny, thanks to a lively first script by Mark O'Rowe, who has a good ear for earthy dialogue and a sense of life's absurd little synchronicities.

Full Review | Mar 26, 2004

So full of pep you can't help surrendering to its creative energy.

Full Review | Mar 26, 2004

The cast is strong enough to overcome the more frantic moments and lend some weight to the characters.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 26, 2004

Often unsettling -- random acts of violence outnumber those of kindness. But it's also touching, startlingly original and even profound.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 26, 2004

A virtuoso act from beginning to end, juggling violence and farce, coincidence and luck, characters with good hearts and others evil to the core.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 26, 2004

There are some genuinely funny moments... There also are some genuinely horrifying ones. The problem is, they never really mesh.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 25, 2004

If Intermission isn't profound, it's got boisterous humor and energy.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 25, 2004

Shirley Henderson, Colin Farrell, Colm Meaney, my film star crush (as if she isn't everybody else's) Kelly Macdonald, and more, and they all look like they're having a ball.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 24, 2004

This is a likeable movie about nasty people.

Full Review | Mar 22, 2004

Working off a very funny and intricately formulated screenplay by Mark O'Rowe, what Crowley gives us is an entertaining example of Irish-Alt cinema ('alt' standing for both 'alternative' and 'Altman').

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 19, 2004