The domestic monsters of this story may have a #MeToo-era contemporary edge, but the underlying themes of what the film-makers call "identity under duress" are ancient and timeless.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 19, 2021

Occasionally frustrating, but worth getting frustrated about.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 17, 2021

An arthouse character portrait segues into a moody revenge thriller in this stylish Irish tale about confronting the crimes of the past.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 17, 2021

Rose Plays Julie is impactful and unsettling, heightened by slippery performances and enigmatic visual construction.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 16, 2021

It's still a parent trap, only this one has teeth.

| Sep 15, 2021

Skelly embodies the energy of the film - unpredictable, quietly furious, fiercely purposeful.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 15, 2021

Every decision and every moment is loaded with complex ethical dilemmas and difficult questions about how we go about laying our personal demons to rest.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 13, 2021

Directors/writers Joe Lawlor and Christine Molloy avoid the obvious in this very dark Irish tale on the duplicitous roles we play in life to hide from who we are and what we've done.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 31, 2021

You feel that the turn from drama to thriller is fully earned. I really enjoyed this film.

| Mar 22, 2021

Rose Plays Julie knows in its bones, and revels in the fact, that there is nothing so scrumptious, so heavenly, as a dish gone icy, icy cold.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 19, 2021

A deeply aware film, "Rose Plays Julie" allows for the fantastic as a means and space of catharsis.

| Mar 18, 2021

As far as #MeToo thrillers go, "Rose Plays Julie" stands out for its unpredictability.

| Mar 18, 2021

Beneath the eerily calm surfaces of Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor's terrific "Rose Plays Julie," a transgressive story bides its time.

| Mar 17, 2021

A taut and at times uncomfortable journey, Rose Plays Julie is a shrewd reimagining of the adoption drama narrative that reframes the trope in a powerful and compelling manner.

| Aug 15, 2020

Rose, wonders about the other life she might have lived under her birth name Julie, then effectively finds herself playing the role of Julie-effectively impersonating herself.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Oct 7, 2019

It is a really powerful film and Brady's final dialogue scene exerts a lethal grip.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 5, 2019