‘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
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Jennifer Lawrence’s wings are clipped in the lurid but tedious spy drama Red Sparrow, says MacDara Conroy
There’s something fishy about woman-meets-gillman romance fantasy The Shape of Water, says MacDara Conroy
Political journalism gets the Spielberg treatment in The Post, writes MacDara Conroy
Barbed black comedy Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is “a film better thought or talked about than a story worth feeling”, says MacDara Conroy
True-life kidnap drama All the Money in the World is “two distinct films fighting for attention”, says MacDara Conroy
‘It’s a crime to take something so majestic and render it so dull’ - MacDara Conroy on Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Emma Stone and Steve Carell shine but sport takes a back seat in tennis biopic Battle of the Sexes, says MacDara Conroy
Brawl in Cell Block 99 wallows in its own grotesquery past the point of endurance, says MacDara Conroy
“…a bloodless escapade, lacking in the tension and thrills needed to really pull it off” - MacDara Conroy on NI prison break drama Maze