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MacDara Conroy
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MacDara Conroy writes about the things he loves: music, movies and professional wrestling
Joaquin Phoenix and Ekaterina Samsonov in You Were Never Really Here
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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
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Jennifer Lawrence in Red Sparrow
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Red Sparrow

Jennifer Lawrence’s wings are clipped in the lurid but tedious spy drama Red Sparrow, says MacDara Conroy
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Doug Jones and Sally Hawkins in The Shape of Water
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The Shape of Water

There’s something fishy about woman-meets-gillman romance fantasy The Shape of Water, says MacDara Conroy
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Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep in The Post
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The Post

Political journalism gets the Spielberg treatment in The Post, writes MacDara Conroy
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Sam Rockwell and Frances McDormand in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
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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
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Michelle Williams in All the Money in the World
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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
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Daisy Ridley in Star Wars: The Last Jedi
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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
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Emma Stone and Steve Carell in Battle of the Sexes
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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
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Brawl in Cell Block 99

Brawl in Cell Block 99 wallows in its own grotesquery past the point of endurance, says MacDara Conroy
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Maze

“…a bloodless escapade, lacking in the tension and thrills needed to really pull it off” - MacDara Conroy on NI prison break drama Maze
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