Letitia Wright stars as a Nigerian seeking asylum in Ireland. Josh O’Connor co-stars.

A mother, caught in a moral quandary, discovers that her prodigal son might not be the man she had believed him to be.

A return to form for Martin McDonagh, with this dark, macabre comedy. Though the story is gritty, grim, and grotesque, the location lends it an almost epic-like grandeur.

Kate Dolan’s ability to create maximum tension with a minimal budget and scant practical effects marks her as a director to watch.

It’s generous to assume that something has been lost in translation from the stage to the screen.

Framed by a doorway, a young man in darkness seems to hold back from moving forward into the next room—he’s so still I wondered if the film had stalled. The lead character in Gerard Barrett’s Glassland often hesitates to move onward, with good reason. His mother is an incorrigible alcoholic on a slow-motion death train, […]

As I took my seat to watch Brooklyn at the New York Film Festival, the middle-aged man to my left flashed me a dirty look. Clearly the gentleman did not want company next to him, and so he made sure to throw me the kind of pitch-black shade that lets you know you’ve invaded a […]

Directed by Erik Poppe Written by Harald Rosenlow Eeg Produced by Finn Gjerdrum and Stein B. Kvae Released by Film Movement Norway/Ireland/Sweden. 117 min. Not rated With Juliette Binoche, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Lauryn Canny, Adrianna Cramer Curtis, Maria Doyle Kennedy, and Larry Mullen Jr Through 1,000 Times Good Night, Norwegian co-writer and director Erik Poppe dramatizes […]

Written and Directed by Lance Daly Produced by Macdara Kelleher and Daly Released by Magnolia Pictures Ireland/Sweden. 83 min. Rated R With Fionnula Flanagan, Pat Shortt, Kelly Thornton, Eva Birthistle, Gerry McCann, Lesley Conroy, Philip Judge, Paul Ronan, Brian Gleeson, and Will Higgins The Irish recession is becoming a fertile font for satire. Life’s a […]