Review of The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006) by Lilianetty L — 19 Mar 2008

BEST MOVIE EVER MADE!

CILLIAN ROCKS!!!!

This review of The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006) was written by Lilianetty L on 19 Mar 2008.

The Wind That Shakes the Barley has generally received very positive reviews.

Was this review helpful?

Yes

More reviews of this movie:

More Reviews of The Wind That Shakes the Barley

Review of The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)

By Tor M (646) on 20 Jul 2014

Bleak, uncompromising, like most of Loach's work, beautifully told through Irish eyes…

Read Review

Review of The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)

By Trevor H (360) on 30 Mar 2013

A fine film by Ken Loach and certainly one of his best…

Read Review

Review of The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)

By Aaron M (1,334) on 27 May 2014

This film is really great. It gives a perspective of Irish history that is rarely put on the screen…

Read Review

Review of The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)

By Saoirse M (31) on 14 Dec 2014

Really powerful story not gory but yet real depictions of of what war looked like for the Irish during 1920s…

Read Review

Review of The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)

By Kenneth Turan (2,323) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 01 Nov 2014

The Wind That Shakes the Barley turns out to be a more complicated, more dramatically potent story than it appears at first…

Read Review

Review of The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)

By Andres G (473) on 26 Sep 2013

Intense drama about Ireland's independence from the UK and the ultimate reasons for the need of freedom…

Read Review

Review of The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)

By Patrick M (1,282) on 11 Jan 2013

Absolutely worth the watch! This is the best movie about the Irish revolution that I have seen…

Read Review

Review of The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)

By Milly B (81) on 30 Apr 2013

When I heard about it at first, I honestly thought it sounded like a snooze fest, but I was surprised to find that I thoroughly enjoyed it…

Read Review

Review of The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)

By Ajai K (45) on 18 Aug 2014

Despite the fact that Anglo-Irish relations are probably better now than they have ever been the truth about Britain's history in Ireland is…

Read Review

Review of The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)

By James O (968) on 30 Jun 2016

Pretty decent period piece with an engaging story and decent acting. I just don't think it was wildly memorable…

Read Review

More reviews of this movie

Reviews of Similar Movies

Review of The Straight Story (1999)

By Burniev (1) on 04 Jul 2007

I never dreamt there were bad movies without Steven Seagal, it was a horror to sit through…

Read Review

Review of Leaving Las Vegas (1995)

By Anne H (75) on 11 Jul 2015

I don't find anything about acute alcoholism or those who are so unfortunate as to be involved in prostitution to be entertaining…

Read Review

Review of The Celebration (1998)

By Godfrey Cheshire (178) for Variety (12,700) on 08 Apr 2016

A propulsively inventive but uneven family comedy-cum-melodrama…

Read Review

Review of The Pianist (2002)

By Dave J (1,987) on 24 Feb 2013

I just hated the characters,especially the pianist…

Read Review

Review of Schindler's List (1993)

By Garyl. (2) on 11 Aug 2008

It was such a banal film, I think Spielberg rather wanted the audiences to symphathize with the Jews in the Holocaust rather than let the audience…

Read Review

Review of The English Patient (1996)

By Pauls. (29) on 07 Nov 2005

Nothing to offer, overated, long and boring…

Read Review

Review of Lili Marleen (1981)

By Minna S (192) on 17 Mar 2010

Unbelievably and unbearably uninteresting. And it took about 10 minutes to realize this. So the 2 hours were more or less torture…

Read Review

Review of A River Runs Through It (1992)

By Broyax (884) on 12 Apr 2018

Ah ces acteurs qui se mettent à réaliser des films ! des fois franchement, ça devrait être interdit…

Read Review

Review of Sissi (1955)

By Sari P (368) on 18 Oct 2015

MÃªme en ayant rien Ã faire Ã Ste-Rose pendant 10 ans, non, non et re-non! Une Ã©toile pour les images... le reste, m'en calisse…

Read Review

Review of Casablanca (1943)

By Kalrion (1) on 22 Jun 2020

What a miserable and overrated movie. I'm not even counting the fact that the film itself is quite biased. Don't spend your precious time watching it…

Read Review

More Reviews

Popular Movies Right Now

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

2014

79%1,167 Reviews

Mad Max: Fury Road

2015

83%1,378 Reviews

The Platform

2019

70%94 Reviews

The Killing of a Sacred Deer

2017

69%660 Reviews

Split

2017

71%1,218 Reviews

Where the Crawdads Sing

2022

63%92 Reviews

Hillbilly Elegy

2020

61%141 Reviews

Everything Everywhere All at Once

2022

78%291 Reviews

Ghostbusters: Afterlife

2021

66%228 Reviews

Parasite

2019

87%251 Reviews

Movies You Viewed Recently

The Wind That Shakes the Barley

2006

79%594 Reviews

Knock Knock

2015

48%599 Reviews

The Watch

2012

48%727 Reviews

Gangs of New York

2002

75%929 Reviews

You Only Live Twice

2007

68%558 Reviews

Queens Logic

1991

50%9 Reviews

Jannat

2008

64%130 Reviews

Change of Plans

2009

54%4 Reviews

American Pie

1999

58%549 Reviews

The Indian Runner

1991

71%211 Reviews