Devastating and utterly heart-breaking...

| Jul 9, 2021

A gritty, empathic and timely look at the challenges families face when life takes an unexpected left turn.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 30, 2021

Rosie is affecting, but too narrow in relation to the dimensions of the problem and the overall situation in Ireland.

| Aug 6, 2020

This drama, directed by Irish director Paddy Breathnach, is crafted with a simplicity that makes it interesting at times to examine the deep socio-economic housing crisis that is raging in Dublin, but the narrative loses steam. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jul 27, 2020

Rosie is a five-star treat.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 17, 2020

By employing techniques such as close-ups, extreme close-ups and hand-held long shots, Breathnach offers the viewer an unflinching look at Rosie's desperation, even as she's trying to keep up appearances.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 31, 2020

Sensitively directed by Paddy Breathnach and starring Sarah Greene this gut-wrenching, unsentimental study is powerful in its simplicity.

| Jan 31, 2020

For anyone who has ever worked hard and worried about how to pay for tomorrow, Rosie hits a nerve.

| Jan 31, 2020

Rosie does not provide easy answers but finds hope in the family bonds that offer glimmers of light in our darkest moments.

| Original Score: A- | Jan 31, 2020

It just goes to show that you don't always need life-or-death stakes to create nail-biting tension in a film.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 30, 2020

This unspectacular film does a disciplined job of staying right on the edge.

| Jan 30, 2020

Excellent performances and a sharp script by Roddy Doyle propel this harrowing drama about a working-class Irish mother of four struggling to find a safe home for her family following an eviction.

| Jan 30, 2020

A terrific movie and one of the best female performances of the year.

| Oct 2, 2019

Rosie cannily captures something about the fundamental tension between the banality and panic of poverty, and while far from experimental cinema in this sense there is something intrinsically radical about the film.

| Aug 9, 2019

Draws considerable power from a pervasive ignorance on just how thin the barrier is between housing security and absolute free fall.

| Original Score: 3.75/5 | Jul 22, 2019

Moving drama about a suddenly homeless family dealing with the challenges of this increasingly common situation.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 22, 2019

Depicting 36 stressful hours in these people's lives, the film doesn't grant a resolution. However, it's a heartbreaking, accurate, well-acted ride...

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 22, 2019

Director Paddy] Breathnach shows Rosie coping, multi-tasking, melting down, loving, forging ahead with her little girl. She is beautiful in every way. Her story is, too.

| Jul 19, 2019

Greene's committed performance bolsters a sharply observed screenplay that never passes judgment or resorts to cheap sentimentality.

| Jul 19, 2019

The drama of Rosie ... is in the simple need to survive...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 19, 2019