All articles by Fionnuala Halligan, Chief Film Critic – Page 7
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Reviews'The Raft': CPH:DOX Review
Marcus Lindeen takes the top prize with a fantastic voyage from 1973
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Reviews'Ready Player One': Review
Steven Spielberg looks back to the future in his YA gamer dystopia.
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Reviews'Tomb Raider': Review
Alicia Vikander takes on all-comers, including a plot which consistently threatens to capsize her efforts
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Reviews'A Mother Brings Her Son To Be Shot': Review
Sinead O’Shea’s debut documentary explains how and why it happened
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Reviews'Mary Magdalene': Review
Rooney Mara plays a rehabilitated Mary Magdalene opposite Joaquin Phoenix as Jesus.
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Reviews'Eldorado': Berlin Review
Markus Imhoof follows refugees as they arrive in a hostile Europe, or ‘Eldorado’
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Reviews'Isle Of Dogs': Berlin Review
Good boys populate Wes Anderson’s stop-motion drama which opens the 2018 Berlin Film Festival
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Reviews'Matangi/Maya/M.I.A': Review
Lively doc about the Tamil/London rapper premiered in Sundance before moving to Berlin
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Reviews'The Happy Prince': Review
Rupert Everett is an exceptional Oscar Wilde in his own directorial debut.
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Reviews'Yardie': Review
Idris Elba makes his dynamic directorial debut with this involving drama set in 1970s Jamaica and 1980s London
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Reviews'Nancy': Sundance Review
Andrea Riseborough seeks to escape her mundane life in Christina Choe’s intriguing debut
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Reviews'American Animals': Sundance Review
Filmmaker Bart Layton turns a traditional heist narrative into a fascinating docu/drama hybrid
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Reviews'The Guilty': Review
An emergency hotline operator takes a terrifying call in Gustav Möller’s claustophobic debut
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Reviews'Three Identical Strangers': Sundance Review
Fascinating documentary about estranged identical triplets reconnecting in 1980s New York City
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Reviews'Loveling': Review
Karine Teles leads as a mother struggling to let go of her teenage son in an uneven but chariming drama
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Reviews'Maze Runner: The Death Cure': Review
The third YA Maze Runner episode finally puts the franchise, if not the audience, to sleep
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Reviews'The Distant Barking Of Dogs': IDFA Review
IDFA winner is the sensitively-told story of an orphaned 10 year-old boy living next to a battle zone in Eastern Ukraine
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Reviews'The Other Side Of Everything': IDFA Review
A personal story of a flat in Belgrade and the warrior woman who lives there is the winner of IDFA’s main competition
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Reviews'The Deminer': IDFA Review
Winner of the Jury Prize at IDFA, this documentary looks at the reckless courage of an incendiary man in Iraq
