All articles by Fionnuala Halligan, Chief Film Critic – Page 3
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Reviews‘Citizen K’: Venice Review
Alex Gibney takes a deep dive into the relationship between Russia’s oligarchs and Vladamir Putin
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Reviews‘Judy’: Telluride Review
Renee Zellweger gives the performance of her career in this by-the-book biopic of Hollywood legend Judy Garland
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Reviews‘Only The Animals’: Venice Review
Dominik Moll opens Venice Days with an intricate, ‘Rashomon’ style potboiler set in a French farming community
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FeaturesComment: This year marks a new low for female directors at Venice
”Barbera has opened the festival’s legs wide for auteurs to further man-spread across the international arthouse landscape.”
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Reviews‘Never Grow Old’: Galway Review
An undertaker profits when a gang of bounty hunters take over his small frontier town
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Reviews'Jihad Jane': Galway Review
Intriguing documentary about self-styled white American jihadi Colleen LaRose
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Reviews'Breaking Out': Galway Review
Enriching and intimate portrait of late Irish musician Fergus O’Farrell
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Reviews'A Bump Along The Way': Galway Review
A single mother and her uptight teenage daughter must deal with an unexpected pregnancy
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Reviews'Lara': Munich/Karlovy Vary Review
Corinne Harfouch is powerful as a jealous mother who struggles to cope with the prospect of her son’s success where she has failed
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Reviews‘Schemers’: Edinburgh Review
A concert promoter tries to stage an Iron Maiden concert in 1980s Dundee
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Reviews'The Specials': Cannes review
The festival closes with a powerful and accomplished film from Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache
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Reviews'Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo': Cannes Review
The beat goes on - and on - in Abdellatif Kechiche’s second ‘Mektoub’ film
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Reviews'Sick, Sick, Sick': Cannes Review
A bereft Brazilian teen turns to witchcraft to bring her boyfriend back to life
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Reviews'Once Upon A Time... In Hollywood': Cannes Review
Quentin Tarantino’s ninth film is funny, revisionist and unexpectedly warm-hearted
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Reviews'Our Mothers': Cannes Review
Sensitive exploration of the 1980s Guatemalan civil war through the recollections of the country’s women
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Reviews'Diego Maradona': Cannes Review
Asif Kapadia’s documentary should extend the footballer’s ‘hand of God’ to the box office
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Reviews'Litigante': Cannes Review
Critics’ Week opens with Franco Lolli’s follow-up to ‘Gente de bien’
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