This dark Irish fable about a couple of teens desperately fleeing abusive homes will enchant with its carefree, lyrical surface, while testing your heart with its cruel truths...

| Jun 18, 2020

It's exciting, sweet, gritty and generally just a joy to watch.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 1, 2011

There are undoubtedly more dark days ahead for Kylie and Dylan, but in Kisses, we see the beginning of character forged by circumstance.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 12, 2010

A coming-of-age drama so Irish you'll want to take out your Pogues' lyric sheets beforehand to brush up on Gaelic mumbling.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 12, 2010

In writer-director Lance Daly’s lens, downtown Dublin is like a modern-day Oz — and the movie even starts by showing the kids’ dreary home life in black-and-white, slowly moving to full color.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 9, 2010

Sincere and vulnerable, aching with youthful insight

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 20, 2010

Cute but foul-mouthed, tough but vulnerable and obviously crazy about each other in a reticent way, these kids are a wonderful presence, giving the most contrived scenes genuine emotion and a veneer of realness.

| Original Score: B- | Aug 13, 2010

A darkling, modern-day fairy tale and lyrical coming-of-age story, Irish filmmaker Lance Daly's 2008 film "Kisses" is a small gem.

| Original Score: A- | Aug 5, 2010

What the writer and director, Lance Daly, means as some kind of transporting urban adventure for them is a disenchanting slog for us.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 5, 2010

When it's not trite, Kisses can be refreshing in its realism.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 5, 2010

Lance Daly's Ireland is not the scenic Irish wonderland of Ondine.

| Aug 3, 2010

A blend of gritty realism sand magical fantasy that's undoubtedly calculated but still deeply satisfying.

| Original Score: B | Aug 3, 2010

Dorothy parachutes into Dublin in search of the Wizard but there is no place like home.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Aug 2, 2010

It's arresting.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 29, 2010

A marginally sweet movie about two woebegone Irish kids.

| Original Score: B- | Jul 23, 2010

Rewarding tale of two kids loose on Dublin's mean streets with outstanding performances.

Full Review | Jul 19, 2010

Terrific non-pro actors Kelly O'Neill (Kylie) and Shane Curry (Dylan) are the backbone of the film, directed by Lance Daly, who says as a kid he thought of running away.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 19, 2010

Exquisitely-shot and deeply affecting with just the right balance of humor, sweetness and grittiness. Newcomers Kelly O'Neill and Shane Curry shine in raw, heartfelt and charismatic performances.

| Original Score: 8.95/10 | Jul 17, 2010

A Xmas where neverending nightmares instead of sugarplums dance in children's heads

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 17, 2010

There's nothing so frustrating as a small movie, made by a clearly gifted filmmaker, that flies close to magic only to be sternly jerked back to earth.

Full Review | Jul 16, 2010