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

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

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

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

| Mar 10, 2008

Day Lewis' re-creation of writer/painter Christy Brown's condition is so precise, so detailed and so matter-of-fact that it transcends the carping about casting an actor without cerebral palsy.

| Jun 24, 2006

It's easy to imagine what My Left Foot might have looked like in the hands of a lesser director like, say, Ron Howard.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 18, 2005

An intelligent, beautifully acted adaptation of Christy Brown's first book.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 20, 2003

My Left Foot is a great film for many reasons, but the most important is that it gives us such a complete picture of this man's life.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Jim Sheridan's My Left Foot must be the most passionately empathetic film about a physical affliction ever made.

| Jan 1, 2000

Not only does Day-Lewis master the physical aspects of the role, the minute-to-minute struggle of almost complete paralysis, he lives the painful genesis of an artistic character.

| Jan 1, 2000