The Breadwinner
The Breadwinner is a weighty story but a feast for the senses, says MacDara Conroy... Read More...
MacDara Conroy
You Were Never Really Here
‘The plot is stripped to the bone, and it’s all in the execution’ - MacDara Conroy on Lynne Ramsay’s superlative thriller You Were Never Really Here... Read More...
Red Sparrow
Jennifer Lawrence’s wings are clipped in the lurid but tedious spy drama Red Sparrow, says MacDara Conroy... Read More...
The Shape of Water
There’s something fishy about woman-meets-gillman romance fantasy The Shape of Water, says MacDara Conroy... Read More...
The Post
Political journalism gets the Spielberg treatment in The Post, writes MacDara Conroy... Read More...
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Barbed black comedy Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is “a film better thought or talked about than a story worth feeling”, says MacDara Conroy... Read More...
All the Money in the World
True-life kidnap drama All the Money in the World is “two distinct films fighting for attention”, says MacDara Conroy... Read More...
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
‘It’s a crime to take something so majestic and render it so dull’ - MacDara Conroy on Star Wars: The Last Jedi... Read More...
Battle of the Sexes
Emma Stone and Steve Carell shine but sport takes a back seat in tennis biopic Battle of the Sexes, says MacDara Conroy... Read More...
Brawl in Cell Block 99
Brawl in Cell Block 99 wallows in its own grotesquery past the point of endurance, says MacDara Conroy... Read More...
MacDara Conroy
MacDara Conroy writes about the things he loves: music, movies and professional wrestling