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...
Thriller
Red Sparrow
Jennifer Lawrence’s wings are clipped in the lurid but tedious spy drama Red Sparrow, says MacDara Conroy... Read More...
The Post
Political journalism gets the Spielberg treatment in The Post, writes 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...
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...
Baby Driver
‘It shouldn’t work - a heist thriller with car chases that’s also a stealth musical?’ - MacDara Conroy on Baby Driver... Read More...
A Cure for Wellness
Modern gothic horror A Cure for Wellness is a beautifully composed but utterly lacking in surprise, says MacDara Conroy... Read More...
I Am Not a Serial Killer
Max Records in the lead ’maintains a believable air of menace where the script only confuses’ in YA adaptation I Am Not a Serial Killer, says MacDara Conroy... Read More...
Don’t Breathe
Home invasion shocker Don’t Breathe ‘is steeped in both the best and the worst grindhouse tendencies’ says MacDara Conroy... Read More...
Green Room
Punks-versus-Nazis thriller Green Room is 'a tight, taut, pressure cooker of a movie' says MacDara Conroy... Read More...