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Review of All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022)

By Tara Brady (805) for The Irish Times (483) on 27 Jan 2023

Poitras’s biopic of Goldin is powered along by righteous fury: an engaging portrait of both the artist and her activism…

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Review of Plane (2023)

By Tara Brady (805) for The Irish Times (483) on 26 Jan 2023

The dialogue is yellow-pack, the set-up is so silly you wonder why they didn’t parachute in a dinosaur or set off a volcanic explosion for…

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Review of Holy Spider (2022)

By Tara Brady (805) for The Irish Times (483) on 20 Jan 2023

It’s a cracking, effective thriller, powered by uneasiness, and made all the more potent by the recent death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old…

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Review of Dreaming Walls (2022)

By Tara Brady (805) for The Irish Times (483) on 20 Jan 2023

For all Joachim Philippe and Virginie Surdue’s handsome cinematography, this lyrical documentary lacks focus and, more disappointingly, historical…

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Review of Enys Men (2023)

By Tara Brady (805) for The Irish Times (483) on 13 Jan 2023

The film arguably shares DNA with the psycho-geographical works of Pat Collins and Alan Gilsenan…

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Review of Empire of Light (2022)

By Tara Brady (805) for The Irish Times (483) on 09 Jan 2023

Mendes’s script, though it contains some memorable scenes, tries to do too much, as it takes on racial and sexual inequality, mental-health…

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Review of Till (2022)

By Tara Brady (805) for The Irish Times (483) on 06 Jan 2023

Against the distress, Chukwu and Deadwyler find purpose in Mamie’s transformation into a hugely influential civil rights activist…

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Review of Till (2022)

By Tara Brady (805) for The Irish Times (483) on 06 Jan 2023

Against the distress, Chukwu and Deadwyler find purpose in Mamie’s transformation into a hugely influential civil rights activist…

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Review of Alcarràs (2022)

By Tara Brady (805) for The Irish Times (483) on 06 Jan 2023

An entirely non-professional cast makes it seem as if the director-editor Ana Pfaff and cinematographer Daniela Cajias simply happened upon…

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Review of France (2021)

By Tara Brady (805) for The Irish Times (483) on 02 Jan 2023

We’re accustomed to Dumont leapfrogging from one genre to another, but he has seldom attempted so many swerves and shifts as he manages here…

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Review of Corsage (2022)

By Tara Brady (805) for The Irish Times (483) on 02 Jan 2023

Corsage shares some obvious DNA with Pablo Larraín’s Spencer and Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette, but where those films swoon for their…

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Review of The Pale Blue Eye (2022)

By Tara Brady (805) for The Irish Times (483) on 22 Dec 2022

The Pale Blue Eye is beautifully shot and absurdly plotted…

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Review of The Apology (2022)

By Tara Brady (805) for The Irish Times (483) on 16 Dec 2022

Working on a small budget, writer-director Alison Locke puts the confinement of one location in service of her claustrophobic script…

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Review of Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022)

By Tara Brady (805) for The Irish Times (483) on 09 Dec 2022

It’s a lovely thing to behold, but who exactly is this for…

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Review of Lady Chatterley's Lover (2022)

By Tara Brady (805) for The Irish Times (483) on 02 Dec 2022

The pretty pictures and silhouetted, sanitised sex will do well enough for Bridgerton fans, but the material has strayed so far from the source,…

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Review of Three Minutes: A Lengthening (2022)

By Tara Brady (805) for The Irish Times (483) on 02 Dec 2022

Between Kurtz and Stigter – a Dutch journalist who authored Atlas Of An Occupied City: Amsterdam 1940-1945 – no stone is left unturned…

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Review of Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical (2022)

By Tara Brady (805) for The Irish Times (483) on 28 Nov 2022

Save for some Skittle-coloured CG and cartoon violence, the original West End director Matthew Warchus puts a filmed version of the stage show…

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Review of Bones and All (2022)

By Tara Brady (805) for The Irish Times (483) on 27 Nov 2022

Bones and All deftly segues between teenage romance, hinterland tableaux and genuinely unsettling encounters…

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Review of BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths (2022)

By Tara Brady (805) for The Irish Times (483) on 18 Nov 2022

Named for a Buddhist concept referencing the transition between birth and death, Bardo may transport the viewer to a dream space but not perhaps…

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Review of Barbarian (2022)

By Tara Brady (805) for The Irish Times (483) on 28 Oct 2022

Taking a leaf from Parasite, Barbarian both literally and figuratively plays with the idea that however unpleasant things seem there’s always…

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