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Review of Live by Night (2016)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 17 Jan 2017

The early scenes have a certain gritty intensity, but once Coughlin heads south the film loses focus, and Affleck is cast adrift as the only…

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Review of Manchester by the Sea (2016)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 17 Jan 2017

Manchester by the Sea is wistful, elegiac, and the sights and sounds of an Atlantic fishing town are beautifully captured by the muted cinematography…

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Review of Live by Night (2016)

By Ed Power (38) for Irish Independent (461) on 12 Jan 2017

The film is, in its initial stages at least, undeniably handsome…

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Review of Assassin's Creed (2016)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 09 Jan 2017

The actors, however, are not at fault here, the story is -- or rather the lack of one…

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Review of A Monster Calls (2016)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 03 Jan 2017

Weaver is very good as Conor's severe and brittle grandmother and Felicity Jones, who's dominating the multiplexes at the moment in the latest…

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Review of Assassin's Creed (2016)

By Ed Power (38) for Irish Independent (461) on 03 Jan 2017

For anyone prepared to take the movie on its own tacky terms, Assassin's Creed is a high-soaring guilty pleasure…

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Review of Silence (2017)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 03 Jan 2017

Driver is superb in a supporting role and disappears too quickly, while Neeson is as intense as I've ever seen him playing an older and wiser…

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Review of Passengers (2016)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 28 Dec 2016

Passengers is entertaining enough, lovely to look at and there are some ingenious touches…

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Review of The Eagle Huntress (2016)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 28 Dec 2016

The footage used in Otto Bell's film is breathtaking, but unfortunately it's accompanied by an overbearing soundtrack and commentary that cheapen…

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Review of Why Him? (2016)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 28 Dec 2016

Franco's pretty good at comedy and has fun playing the obnoxious but decent Laird…

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Review of Collateral Beauty (2016)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 28 Dec 2016

Someday, someone will have to explain to me how Collateral Beauty ever got made…

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Review of Passengers (2016)

By Ed Power (38) for Irish Independent (461) on 23 Dec 2016

Passengers is handsome and slick. But not even impassioned mugging from Pratt can obscure the void where its heart should be…

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Review of Collateral Beauty (2016)

By Ed Power (38) for Irish Independent (461) on 22 Dec 2016

[Smith] appears to believe he is participating in an uplifting seasonal treat: eggnog latte for the soul…

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Review of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 16 Dec 2016

Ben Mendelsohn is satisfyingly nasty as the film's principal villain, and while I'd like to have seen a little more of Mads Mikkelsen, an ensemble…

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Review of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)

By Ed Power (38) for Irish Independent (461) on 13 Dec 2016

Credit to Jones, then, for imbuing the character with a steely melancholy…

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Review of The Forest (2016)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 05 Dec 2016

The Forest plunders the J-horror vocabulary to muster what jumps it can, and is pretty nice to look at…

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Review of The Program (2015)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 05 Dec 2016

The Program is a drama, not a documentary, which allows it to flesh out the bones of this story into something approaching a minor Shakespearean…

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Review of The Forest (2016)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 05 Dec 2016

The Forest plunders the J-horror vocabulary to muster what jumps it can, and is pretty nice to look at…

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Review of Hail, Caesar! (2016)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 05 Dec 2016

Hail, Caesar! should be a lot of fun, but is essentially a collection of nicely written scenes held together by nothing…

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Review of The Lobster (2015)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 05 Dec 2016

A delightfully bleak satire set in a dystopian present…

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