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Review of Noble (2014)

By George Byrne (39) for The Herald (Ireland) (99) on 18 Sep 2014

A moving, dramatic, harrowing and funny story about a quite remarkable woman…

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Review of The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014)

By George Byrne (39) for The Herald (Ireland) (99) on 04 Sep 2014

Clearly aimed at the grey euro market, at least The Hundred-Foot Journey knows what it's about and goes about its business with honest efficiency…

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Review of A Most Wanted Man (2014)

By George Byrne (39) for The Herald (Ireland) (99) on 04 Sep 2014

On the evidence of A Most Wanted Man, one of [Hoffman's] final films, our loss is all the greater as he's simply magnificent in a gripping…

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Review of If I Stay (2014)

By George Byrne (39) for The Herald (Ireland) (99) on 28 Aug 2014

With arguably the most banal dialogue this side of a Nicholas Sparks movie, If I Stay wastes the considerable talents of Moretz in a calculated…

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Review of Mystery Road (2013)

By George Byrne (39) for The Herald (Ireland) (99) on 28 Aug 2014

Aaron Pendersen is thoroughly believable as the conflicted Jay and the blasted landscape is photographed so well you'll be sweating and swatting…

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Review of The Expendables 3 (2014)

By George Byrne (39) for The Herald (Ireland) (99) on 14 Aug 2014

Dear God, this joke is wearing particularly thin…

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Review of The German Doctor (2013)

By George Byrne (39) for The Herald (Ireland) (99) on 07 Aug 2014

There's a wonderful sense of dread built up…

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Review of Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)

By George Byrne (39) for The Herald (Ireland) (99) on 31 Jul 2014

Where it does work is in the lightness of touch director James Gunn brings to proceedings…

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Review of Earth to Echo (2014)

By George Byrne (39) for The Herald (Ireland) (99) on 24 Jul 2014

As a whole it's a headache-inducing ordeal which might, hopefully, put an end to 'found footage' as a sub-genre…

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Review of Norte, the End of History (2014)

By George Byrne (39) for The Herald (Ireland) (99) on 24 Jul 2014

While the final hour or so of the film is depressing beyond belief, the middle section does grab attention, with Diaz creating some truly memorable…

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Review of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)

By George Byrne (39) for The Herald (Ireland) (99) on 17 Jul 2014

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes shows it is possible to have actual ideas and serious themes in a film which also manages to entertain in a…

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Review of Goltzius & the Pelican Company (2012)

By George Byrne (39) for The Herald (Ireland) (99) on 10 Jul 2014

Naturally, the scenes all deal with sex and depravity, but the levels of pretension are laughable and the whole thing ends up looking like…

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Review of Mrs. Brown's Boys D'Movie (2014)

By George Byrne (39) for The Herald (Ireland) (99) on 06 Jul 2014

Mrs Brown's Boys D'Movie is relentlessly crude, utterly devoid of any cinematic qualities and, most crucially, completely unfunny…

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Review of Chef (2014)

By George Byrne (39) for The Herald (Ireland) (99) on 06 Jul 2014

Make sure you eat well beforehand or you'll be chewing your arm off halfway through this understated delight of a film, such is the way the…

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Review of Tammy (2014)

By George Byrne (39) for The Herald (Ireland) (99) on 05 Jul 2014

Tammy is a waste of a fine cast and a waste of everyone's time…

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Review of Heaven Is for Real (2014)

By George Byrne (39) for The Herald (Ireland) (99) on 12 Jun 2014

While the film makes decent use of the plains of Nebraska to give us a portrait of smalltown Red States America, there's a hectoring, insincere…

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Review of The Food Guide to Love (2013)

By George Byrne (39) for The Herald (Ireland) (99) on 12 Jun 2014

Whatever comedy is attempted in the script just isn't funny at all, and the dramatic aspects are ludicrous…

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Review of Belle (2013)

By George Byrne (39) for The Herald (Ireland) (99) on 12 Jun 2014

The direction from Amma Assante is perfectly judged and impeccably paced and the result is a film which is very easy on the eye but has a lot…

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Review of Grace of Monaco (2014)

By George Byrne (39) for The Herald (Ireland) (99) on 05 Jun 2014

It's preposterous, but taken on its merits as a live-action fairytale (as we're reminded by the script several times) it could have been a lot worse…

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