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By Susan Granger (2,214) for www.susangranger.com (329) on 14 Apr 2007

Bloody and brutal, evoking obvious, relevant comparisons between Ireland's internal conflicts and the ongoing civil war in Iraq…

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By Jack Garner (583) for Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (558) on 12 Apr 2007

Director Loach, one of Britain's most controversial and socially aggressive filmmakers, here makes a subtle, and surprisingly restrained film,…

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By David Elliott (754) for San Diego Union-Tribune (1,408) on 12 Apr 2007

Barry Ackroyd's wonderful imagery often gives a sense of vernal moisture, which adds to the sweaty tension…

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By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 08 Apr 2007

Though Loach's film loses some of its dramatic impetus in the second half, it illuminates the events that led to eight decades of tortured…

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By Jeffrey M. Anderson (3,573) for Combustible Celluloid (2,644) on 05 Apr 2007

Loach manages to depict the film's violence, romance, action and politics each with the same gravity and dignity. It's a crowning achievement…

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By Enrique Buchichio (359) for Uruguay Total (359) on 02 Apr 2007

Un crudo relato sobre el movimiento independentista irlandés que confirma a Ken Loach como cineasta comprometido con la historia reciente…

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By Prairie Miller (985) for Long Island Press (211) on 21 Mar 2007

Bid for a genuine sense of history unraveling as strict realism, with currents of immense human heroism and courageous suffering in wartime…

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By Marcy Dermansky (134) for About.com (1,470) on 18 Mar 2007

At 124 minutes, the heartfelt drama comes across as pedantic and tedious…

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By Lisa Johnson (11) for FilmStew.com (638) on 16 Mar 2007

The film's star refused to comment on the similarities between Ireland and Iraq when he spoke to journalists, but we couldn't help talking…

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By Geoff Pevere (572) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 16 Mar 2007

you can feel the panic, rage and fear of the participants, and there's a rare sense in the movie of history being less recreated than relived…

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By Richard Schickel (546) for TIME Magazine (1,130) on 16 Mar 2007

despite its length (over two hours) and some structural problems, it is an absorbing, worthwhile and often passionate movie…

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By David Edelstein (2,124) for New York Magazine/Vulture (3,519) on 16 Mar 2007

The acting is solid all around -- so convincing that the rough Irish accents are appropriately indecipherable at times, and the story itself…

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By Glenn Whipp (553) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 16 Mar 2007

It does [make for good drama], though at times its didacticism can be a bit wearying…

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By Rob Vaux (1,125) for Flipside Movie Emporium (617) on 16 Mar 2007

It transforms the simplistic polemic of the early scenes into something much deeper and more complex…

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By Frederic And Mary Ann Brussat (3,072) for Spirituality and Practice (3,072) on 16 Mar 2007

A poignant drama about Ireland in the 1920s and the violence that tears apart the fabric of community and pits brother against brother…

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By Kent Turner (504) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 15 Mar 2007

Wind's not necessarily for the armchair historian; it's more gut-wrenching than intellectual…

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By Andrew O'hehir (1,324) for Salon.com (2,725) on 15 Mar 2007

This is a classic example of [director Ken] Loach's work with his longtime screenwriting partner Paul Laverty, meaning that it blends colorful…

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By Jan Stuart (404) for Newsday (2,345) on 15 Mar 2007

Folks who are heavily invested in stereotypes of thuggish terrorists may balk at Loach's portrait of articulate IRA ideologues…

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By Tony Medley (1,109) for tonymedley.com (461) on 13 Mar 2007

an action-packed, psychologically violent film that captures the little known history of the Irish fight for independence…

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By Jeremiah Kipp (262) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 12 Mar 2007

As a document of the shape of political thought, the film is successful; but as a living, beating heart about a populace living through a time…

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