At times, it feels as though Mr. Garbarski needs to lighten up, given that the screenplay is just too full of gaping holes — logistic and otherwise — for anyone to take his film that seriously.

| Apr 21, 2023

This is a terrible, preposterous film that is also horrible and hateful and has the worst soundtrack ever; the same four doomy notes played loudly and over and over.

| Aug 23, 2018

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

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 17, 2011

Un drama sensible y austero, no exento de cierto sentido del humor, que deja de lado cualquier aspecto sórdido del asunto para concentrarse en una historia de amor y sacrificio.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 4, 2008

| Original Score: B | Oct 18, 2008

A gobsmackingly awful British film -- awful in the way that somehow only British films can be: our 온라인카지노추천 drama, of whatever quality, is never as creaky, naive, badly written and flatulent as this.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 18, 2008

Engaging, enjoyable and quietly thought-provoking British drama with a refreshingly offbeat script and a great central performance from Marianne Faithfull.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 18, 2008

| Original Score: C+ | Oct 18, 2008

Garbarski combines social satire, hand jobs, feminism, and romantic grace to create a tenderhearted tale of found love and female empowerment. And he actually pulls it off, give the guy a hand. On second thought...

| Jul 30, 2008

A pleasingly sentimental British domestic drama.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 13, 2008

The performances will keep you watching, and make Irina Palm well worth seeing.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 13, 2008

There's a heartwarming quality that softens the hardcore setting but this does lack an assured, er, hand.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 13, 2008

takes the notion of risqué empowerment a few preposterous steps further.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 13, 2008

Irina Palm is a showcase for Faithfull but it never truly allows her to shine.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jun 8, 2008

At first blush, it seems like another entry in the saucy-but-safe Brit genre, a la Calendar Girls, Saving Grace or The Full Monty, but it turns out to be both more ambitious and less successful than those diversions.

| Original Score: C | May 30, 2008

Although director and co-writer Sam Garbarski takes great care in tracing this difficult dramatic path (he has to balance the twin tracks of other people's morality and Maggie's personal course), he can't avoid the predictability.

| May 16, 2008

This would never have worked with anyone else but Faithfull, who gives a touching performance even as she flaunts her 40-year metamorphosis from porcelain pop diva to elderly bad girl.

| May 16, 2008

Irina Palm is saddled with an odd title, an outlandish plot and an unlikely star--notorious rock maven Marianne Faithfull cast as a suburban frump. But it turns out a success

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 15, 2008

An alleged story of determination and empowerment, about the lengths -- and girths -- a formerly timid dowager will go to in order to save someone's life.

| May 14, 2008