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Review of On Chesil Beach (2018)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 28 May 2018

Saoirse Ronan's performance and accent are nothing short of miraculous…

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Review of Show Dogs (2018)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 28 May 2018

This is clumsy stuff, and Arnett looks lost among his slobbering co-stars…

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Review of Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 28 May 2018

Ron Howard has ensured that Solo is no embarrassment to the franchise, but the chases and hair's breadth escapes become a little tiresome…

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Review of Citizen Lane (2018)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 20 May 2018

O'Sullivan's film provides a real insight into Hugh Lane's life and legacy, and Tom Vaughan-Lawlor's performance catches a fascinating,…

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Review of Deadpool 2 (2018)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 20 May 2018

The writing's funnier this time and Reynold's exhaustingly energetic performance holds the show together, while leaving little room for…

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Review of Filmworker (2018)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 20 May 2018

Stanley Kubrick was not quite so generous a soul if one reads between the lines of the documentary Filmworker, which tells the salutary…

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Review of 7 Days in Entebbe (2018)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 13 May 2018

That all-action ending is thrown away in a matter of minutes by a film that spends 100 minutes building to a climax that never happens, and…

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Review of Life of the Party (2018)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 13 May 2018

Perhaps Life of the Party shouldn't work but, overall, it does thanks to McCarthy's superb comic instincts, a mainly decent script and a…

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Review of How to Talk to Girls at Parties (2017)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 13 May 2018

A dreamy young extraterrestrial (Elle Fanning) languidly greets him, and asks how do I further access the punk?. What happens next is not edifying…

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Review of Breaking In (2018)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 13 May 2018

Breaking In feels a bit like one of those straight-to-video 80s B-thrillers you'd find at the bottom of a bargain bin on a rainy Monday…

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Review of The Delinquent Season (2018)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 29 Apr 2018

Intense, earthy, [and] bristling with authorial intelligence…

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Review of Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 29 Apr 2018

Joe and Anthony Russo's film is like an over-egged birthday cake, edible in patches but spoilt by too many competing ingredients…

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Review of Beast (2018)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 29 Apr 2018

There's a haunting starkness to [Michael] Pearce's direction and bleak poetry in his tricky, icky story, which starts out as a…

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Review of The Cured (2017)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 22 Apr 2018

Freyne's film is full of good ideas shot in and around north central Dublin…

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Review of Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts (2017)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 22 Apr 2018

[Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts] is gorgeously composed and photographed and also singularly unpleasant…

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Review of The Leisure Seeker (2018)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 22 Apr 2018

It's hard to sentimentalise something as nasty as Alzheimer's, but The Leisure Seeker certainly gives it a try and only the wily acting of…

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Review of Making the Grade (2017)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 17 Apr 2018

Wardrop's latest film uses the seemingly innocuous subject of piano lessons as the platform for an... absorbing human journey…

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Review of Ghost Stories (2018)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 17 Apr 2018

Andy Nyman and Jeremy Dyson's nicely atmospheric chiller... evokes the great traditions of British horror…

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Review of Rampage (2018)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 17 Apr 2018

One takes this kind of Cgi for granted these days, but the creatures really are impressively rendered and let's be honest, who doesn't want…

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Review of Wonderstruck (2017)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 08 Apr 2018

The links between the stories seem tenuous and the overall enterprise feels contrived…

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