A modest, relatively low-budget affair graced with strong stars and sharp dialogue.

| Jun 25, 2008

Director Damien O'Donnell has achieved a warm and uplifting movie which is marred only by a brief drift into melodrama in the middle.

| Mar 1, 2007

It would all be a lot more heartbreaking if it wasn't quite so blatant.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 21, 2006

A technical mess. The final version looks like an unfinished cut.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 2, 2006

Full marks for intent; barely a pass for execution.

| Jun 24, 2006

O'Donnell should be lauded for offering a sensitive portrayal of disabled people without ever being patronizing.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 1, 2006

Rory O'Shea is half sitcom, half sap.

| Sep 26, 2005

Spiky-haired, handsome MacAvoy shows us how to be audacious and prominent without moving more than his face and two fingers.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 14, 2005

narrowly focused drama

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 8, 2005

Irish drama about disability, interdependence and self-determination is nothing new, but it's nicely made, with two great performances.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 14, 2005

Tries and fails to juggle humor, sentimentality and political correctness with its punk war cry.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 8, 2005

Rory O'Shea, challenging and difficult to watch at times, is to be applauded for taking us about as close to reality as a situation like this allows.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 25, 2005

Randle Patrick McMurphy in a motorized wheelchair.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 18, 2005

Perhaps a better moniker would have been One Flew Over My Left Foot.

| Original Score: C+ | Mar 11, 2005

Nobody will be shocked to learn people with cerebral palsy are people too

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 9, 2005

This problematic individual is quickly reduced to symbolic chump change. Pale martyrdom ensues, as he's dulled down and sanctified according to trite Hollywood formula. Yawn.

Full Review | Mar 5, 2005

How ironic that a movie that claims to assert independence for the disabled cannot set its protagonists free for even a second.

| Original Score: D+ | Mar 3, 2005

Tries and fails to juggle humor, sentimentality and political correctness with its punk war cry.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 3, 2005

...but that's not enough to drag yourself or your loved ones to the cinema.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 27, 2005

Director Damien O'Donnell and his terrific cast lend the film authenticity by quickly retreating whenever the proceedings threaten to get too cloying or sappy.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 27, 2005