This is all about Cox's performance and, thankfully, he rises to the occasion with a gruff Scottish brogue and a delightful dose of grumpy old man.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 15, 2020

The Etruscan Smile isn't a groundbreaking film, but it's a compelling character study of how one man deals with a terminal illness and how he tries to right some of the wrongs in his life.

| Jul 17, 2020

The marvelous performance by Brian Cox is what puts a Bonnie proper kilt on the dull narrative and at least makes it bearable.

| Original Score: B- | Apr 9, 2020

Brian Cox gives one of his finest performances in this familiar but affecting drama about a cantankerous Scotsman facing his journey's end.

| Apr 5, 2020

'Succession' star Brian Cox delivers a rich and winning performance in charming human dramedy.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 4, 2020

If nothing else, the movie makes a strong case for Cox's astounding resilience, an ability to take even the most routine gig and deepen its potential.

| Original Score: C+ | Apr 3, 2020

Its use of the beauty of Gaelic culture and language for flavoring adds to a story of how family has a profound effect on the person we become along the giant walls we build as an obstacle to reconnecting and growing as adults ourselves.

| Original Score: 7.5/10 | Mar 24, 2020

Brian Cox alone can't make for a compelling movie experience. He's just not given enough to work with here.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 20, 2020

Rory is often a brute, but The Etruscan Smile forgives that all because he is being authentically himself. But at the cost of every other character?

| Feb 25, 2020

Shamelessly sentimental, predictable and ham-fistedly written, it's worth watching for Cox's bravura performance with some of the best grownup actors alive.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 6, 2019

Soap opera elements are unavoidable, but the film has energy and spirit, thanks to Cox's bright, charming performance.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 3, 2019

While Cox's typically sterling performance is not quite enough to rescue The Etruscan Smile from succumbing to bathos, it goes a long way toward making the film palatable.

| Oct 31, 2019

Suffice to say that Rory's Way doesn't break much fresh ground and appears to be content with running a by-the-numbers routine that snuggles up to a very risk-free screenplay and a comfy score drumming to the bland beat of "mediocre".

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 18, 2019

Rory's Way is a slight, dated and punishingly predictable film. It is also extraordinarily beautiful to look at, winningly performed and doesn't outstay its welcome by a second.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 16, 2019

I'd have happily watched Cox flirt with Rosanna Arquette's museum curator for 90 minutes; her game attempts to parrot his Gaelic and a tentative kiss while gardening, knee-deep in soil, are strangely charming.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 2, 2019

To be fair, the story heads exactly where you expect it to, but meaty performances sustain it, with American co-star JJ Feild putting up surprisingly strong resistance to veteran scene-stealer Cox.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 31, 2019

Co-directed by two Israelis, adapted from an Italian-set novel, it's 100 per cent inauthentic.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 31, 2019

It has a trump card in Cox, who holds it together with the excellence of his acting.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 31, 2019

A more entertaining prospect than its groaning fish-out-of-water premise initially promises.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 30, 2019

Capable performers throng these otherwise nondescript digital frames, vainly trying to persuade us we're not watching some rogue telefilm.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 30, 2019