Wildfire is a powerful 85 minutes filled with great complexity and some potent visual flourishes that emerge from the understated direction.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 3, 2022

Rolling to a stop rather than ending with a bang, Wildfire is an understated British drama that perfectly captures the power of things left unsaid.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 3, 2022

Showcasing the devastating effects of both grief and mental illness, the result is a stirring drama about dealing with anguish and overcoming personal battles.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 26, 2022

Wildfire is an arresting drama that burns and melts with incredible performances and establishes Cathy Brady as a visionary feature director.

| Sep 23, 2021

Haunting, ambient and very impressive.

| Sep 21, 2021

In its study of tragedy, Wildfire does not draw straight lines between its personal narrative and the broader political and social contexts. Instead, the film uses the Troubles and Brexit to frame its understanding of the past and the present.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 7, 2021

An elemental force overturns a precarious peace in a haunting and brilliantly acted debut feature from writer/director Cathy Brady.

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

Savagely powerful, directed with an unshowy but acute eye, this is a terrific feature debut from the writer and director Cathy Brady.

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

A fierce and fearless energy runs through Wildfire, writer-director Cathy Brady's assured, complex feature debut set in post-Troubles Northern Ireland that scrutinises the transgenerational reverberations of trauma and grief.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 3, 2021

This wider theme is latterly thrown away, but Wildfire is made absorbing by the fierce chemistry between Noone and McGuigan.

| Sep 3, 2021

It's a potent drama - and a melancholy reminder of the talent that Irish cinema and 온라인카지노추천 lost in McGuigan.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 2, 2021

Most of its power comes from its stars' electrifying chemistry - at its most potent when the sisters dance with wild abandon to Van Morrison's song 'Gloria' in a bar frequented by an unrepentant IRA bomber.

| Sep 2, 2021

Stark and impressive.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 1, 2021

Valiant effort but the approach to political metaphor feels very two-birds-one-stone.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 31, 2021

Not a lot happens in Wildfire as director Cathy Brady opts to hone in almost solely on the ambiance and the performances. But when you have two actresses as phenomenal as Nika McGuigan and Nora-Jane Noone, that's hardly a complaint.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 23, 2021

Wildfire could make its point sooner and louder, but Brady has traded big emotions for subtlety and stillness.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Aug 10, 2021

[Wildfire] should be commended for providing such a realistic window into an underrepresented section of society, but its authenticity as a family saga is questionable.

| Jun 5, 2021

Because it's so relentlessly bleak, writer-director Cathy Brady never achieves the catharsis the story seems to be seeking.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 25, 2021

Wildfire occasionally threatens to veer off the track entirely, but its twin leads just about keep it together, with McGuigan startlingly good as the disturbed Kelly.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 26, 2020

Brady has managed to make a film that, while not as moving as it perhaps could be, is nonetheless a powerful and at times shocking statement about the strength of family ties.

| Original Score: 3 / 5 | Oct 25, 2020