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  • Aisha (2022)
    Review preview for Aisha

    Wright’s performance is among the very best of the year to date.

    Jennie Kermode · 5 out of 5
    A young Nigerian woman seeking asylum in Ireland flounders in a maze of social services and bureaucracy as her situation becomes increasingly dire.
  • An Everlasting Piece (2000)
    Review preview for An Everlasting Piece

    However hard they try, the actors cannot lift the movie out of its time and place.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2.5 out of 5
    Selling toupees to the IRA is a moral, as well as a business decision for two likely lads.
  • Breakfast On Pluto (2005)
    Review preview for Breakfast On Pluto

    Breakfast On Pluto's tone is a discomforting mixture of comedy and tragedy.

    Richard Mellor · 4 out of 5
    An Irish transvestite, searching for the mother who abandoned him, is caught up in terrorist violence and hilarious goings on in London.
  • Joyride (2022)
    Review preview for Joyride

    The director does achieve some quiet drama - a kiss on a cheek, an attempt at breast feeding - but elsewhere, it feels as though a committee was insisting on moments of 'quirky humour'.

    Amber Wilkinson · 2.5 out of 5
    A woman planning to give up her baby finds herself on an oddball roadtrip with a 12-year-old.
  • Philomena (2013)
    Review preview for Philomena

    This will have even the bitterest viewer sobbing into their popcorn.

    David Graham · 4.5 out of 5
    The true story of an Irish Catholic woman who decides to find her son more than 50 years after she was forced, as an unmarried mother, to give him up for adoption.
  • Run & Jump (2013)
    Review preview for Run & Jump

    A rambling tale that mixes drama with gentle comedy.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    A woman struggles to deal with her husband's personality changes after he suffers a stroke.
  • That They May Face The Rising Sun (2023)
    Review preview for That They May Face The Rising Sun

    A film built on the repeated turn of the seasons and the idea of leaving and returning.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    Drama about a couple who return to the small rural lakeside hamlet where one of them grew up.
  • Victoria And Abdul (2017)
    Review preview for Victoria And Abdul

    Judi Dench has become the living embodiment of fine acting, so much so that it is easy to take her for granted. Don't even think it!

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    Queen Victoria's friendship with a young Indian clerk.
  • Wild About Harry (2000)
    Review preview for Wild About Harry

    Warm-hearted but wayward.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2.5 out of 5
    A popular TV chef, on the brink of divorce, loses his memory and falls in love again.

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