Emma Stone and Steve Carell shine but sport takes a back seat in tennis biopic Battle of the Sexes, says MacDara Conroy
‘It’s as if he got bored with filming the psychological thriller he was hired to make and did whatever took his fancy’ - MacDara Conroy on Rowan Joffé’s adaptation of bestseller Before I Go To Sleep
'As a player, he’s up there at the toppermost. But there remains an enduring mystery about Ginger: why is he such a dick?' - Dara Higgins on Beware Of Mr Baker.
Whitey Bulger saga Black Mass ‘makes a lot less sense than it thinks it does’ says MacDara Conroy
The subject of documentary Bobby Sands: 66 Days is ‘a figure full of contradictions’, says MacDara Conroy
Brawl in Cell Block 99 wallows in its own grotesquery past the point of endurance, says MacDara Conroy
'Not musical alchemists on some lofty pedestal, just goofy teenagers with some chops and an ear for an interesting tune' - MacDara Conroy on Lance Bangs' Slint documentary Breadcrumb Trail
Bridge of Spies is Steven Spielberg at his most provocative – but that message comes with the typical schmaltz, says MacDara Conroy
'Broken City constantly tries to tell you how gritty and 'real' its story and characters are without actually putting in the work to develop these themes in a justifiable and meaningful way.'
The JDIFF award-winning documentary Broken Song opens next week at the IFI & Axis Ballymun.