"Who needs a story to hang together or a character to not be a hideous, blank monster? Fuck that shit. That’s for Werner Herzog or one of them geezers. Gratuitous murder salves those wounds" - Dara Higgins on The Accountant
"This is a story about a new strain of an old oppression, a fresh alienation from a long-standing social order" - Ian Maleney on Ken Loach's I, Daniel Blake
Doctor Strange ’can be distilled into three words: Inception, but fun’ says MacDara Conroy
"Why does Hollywood keep doing this?" - Dara Higgins reviews The Girl On The Train
De Palma is ‘a masterclass in cinema, and mandatory viewing for any self-respecting film buff’ says MacDara Conroy
’Yes, this is the film where Harry Potter plays a farting corpse’ - MacDara Conroy on Swiss Army Man
For Deepwater Horizon "it's the explosion that’s the star in this very American of movies" says Dara Higgins
‘For once we have a remake that definitively trumps its predecessor’ - MacDara Conroy on the 2016 version of The Magnificent Seven
Zombie drama The Girl with All the Gifts follows the exploits of a most dysfunctional family, says MacDara Conroy
There’s a natural limit to how revelatory things can get in Ron Howard’s Beatles documentary Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years, writes MacDara Conroy