A superb movie chronicling the life of writer and artist Christy Brown, who was born with cerebral palsy, portrayed with astonishing passion and sensitivity by Daniel Day-Lewis.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 17, 2024

This is Jim Sheridan’s first feature film, but he’s an experienced man of the theatre, with a moviemaker’s vision and a grownup’s sense of integrity.

| Sep 11, 2023

The lives depicted in My Left Foot are full-bodied, flesh and blood dramas of existence. There's no sentimentality in any of the performances.

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 9, 2023

[Daniel Day-Lewis's] performance is extraordinary for its subtleties over the obvious physical manifestations The direction by Jim Sheridan is tough-edged.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 16, 2021

The story is consistently eye-opening, moving, and utterly engaging.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Sep 6, 2020

It's the kind of role that showoff stars leap at. Luckily for the film and us, an actor got there first.

| Jun 12, 2020

It is a spellbinding journey.

| Jun 12, 2020

It's Day-Lewis who lights up the screen most brilliantly.

| Jun 12, 2020

[Jim Sheridan's] inconspicuous but affecting direction filters through the well-drawn characters (played by a uniformly brilliant cast).

| May 19, 2020

You may not want to see My Left Foot, fearing that it will be too harrowing and possibly too sentimental. There are times when it is both, but take courage and see it if you can, because it is one of the most remarkable films of the year.

| Apr 9, 2019

Gritty yet uplifting tale of artist with cerebral palsy.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 1, 2015

Despite fine performances from Daniel Day-Lewis and Brenda Fricker, My Left Foot is a middling biopic that takes a rather superficial look at the extraordinary life of Christy Brown, never daring to go deeper into what made him tick.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 12, 2015

A fairly generic biopic with an amazing turn by Daniel Day-Lewis.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 15, 2011

Deviating from the standard Hollywood biopic, Sheridan's chronicle told with candor, realism, and humor the story of paraplegic writer-artist Christy Brown, embodied in a tour-de-force Oscar-winning performance by Daniel Day-Lewis.

| Original Score: A | Mar 26, 2009

All performances are on the mark in this perfect little film.

| Mar 26, 2009

[The film] leaves one with an overwhelming sense of the miraculousness of life and of this man's spirit.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 10, 2008

Even if all My Left Foot had to offer was Day-Lewis's performance, it'd be a must-see movie.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 10, 2008

For all his character's travails the film as a whole winds up surprisingly upbeat.

| Mar 10, 2008

Nothing can detract from the power of this film, especially Daniel Day-Lewis' astonishing performance as Christy Brown.

| Feb 2, 2008

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 21, 2007