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

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

| 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

Other films have bigger budgets and more glamorous stars, some even take home more awards. But few if any can quietly move you as much as "Rosie."

| Jul 18, 2019

Doyle's screenplay is brutally specific about the overwhelming demands of child care under these circumstances, and Rosie's efforts to keep up appearances with relatives and school officials are heartbreaking.

| Jul 18, 2019

It is vibrant... this is a superwoman performance by somebody in a very down to earth situation.

| Mar 11, 2019

Wrenchingly powerful and heartbreakingly relevant...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 10, 2019

Thanks to a sterling central turn from Greene (plus solid support from Moe Dunford as her hard-working hubby), the film pits the unfeeling state against the near-mythic resilience of the family unit.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 8, 2019

There is great sadness in this film - and great anger.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 7, 2019

There is a bittersweetness of vision in this movie: an imaginative, compassionate reaching-forth to this young Mother Courage setting out her daily stall of stoical desperation.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 6, 2019

Its less-is-more approach pays heartbreaking dividends.

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

This small, tough film provides no easy solutions.

| Sep 28, 2018

Rosie may not be very original, but the message of this film is important, and in delivery it is warm, urgent and terribly affecting.

| Original Score: 7 | Sep 14, 2018

A quietly, gradually heartbreaking portrait of regular people coping with a desperate situation...

| Sep 10, 2018