All articles by Fionnuala Halligan w5i3a

  • Four Mothers
    Reviews

    ‘Four Mothers’: London Review 3l5p22

    2024-10-13T17:30:00Z 6s35x

    Warm-hearted Irish mother-son drama plays in London Competition

  • The Summer Book
    Reviews

    ‘The Summer Book’: London Review 2432z

    2024-10-12T14:40:00Z

    Glenn Close and the Finnish landscape take centre stage in this adaptation of Tove Jansson’s novel

  • Blitz
    Reviews

    ‘Blitz’: London Review 2fi2z

    2024-10-09T18:30:00Z

    Steve McQueen’s weighty wartime drama starring Saoirse Ronan opens the London Film Festival

  • Nickel Boys
    Reviews

    ‘Nickel Boys’: Review 4p5d70

    2024-09-27T08:00:00Z

    RaMell Ross adapts Colson Whitehead’s novel of southern racism and abuse in a boys penitentiary

  • On Falling
    Reviews

    ‘On Falling’: San Sebastian Review 15375c

    2024-09-23T13:00:00Z

    A Portugese factory worker in Scotland struggles to make a connection in this effective debut

  • Emmanuelle
    Reviews

    ‘Emmanuelle’: San Sebastian Review 3r4p1d

    2024-09-20T12:33:00Z

    Audrey Diwan presents a ‘paralysingly pointless’ update of the 70s soft-porn figure

  • Babygirl
    Features

    Screen critics’ stand-out titles from Venice 2024 5t72p

    2024-09-12T11:51:00Z

    We have selected 11 stand-out titles from the Lido, plus five that are bubbling under.

  • The Blue Road
    Reviews

    ‘Blue Road’: Toronto Review 5tv5u

    2024-09-11T09:09:00Z

    Sinead O’Shea’s spirited documentary is a fitting tribute to Irish author Edna O’Brien

  • venice comment
    Comment

    Comment: Venice 2024 - The Films Are All Right 2cn3o

    2024-09-07T19:05:00Z

    Panic over a paucity of films due to the Hollywood strikes was papered-over by artistic director Alberto Barbera’s suavely-executed line-up 

  • Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2
    Reviews

    ‘Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2’: Venice Review 4h34o

    2024-09-07T13:05:00Z

    The wagons just keep rolling in the second chapter of Kevin Costner’s mythical Western epic

  • Aicha
    Reviews

    ‘Aicha’: Venice Review 5v216z

    2024-09-05T15:05:00Z

    Mehdi M. Barsaoui directs Fatma Sfar in an electric performance as a Tunisian woman on an unexpected journey of reinvention 

  • From Darkness To Light
    Reviews

    ‘From Darkness To Light’: Venice Review 3f5e64

    2024-09-04T09:12:00Z

    Startling documentary about Jerry Lewis’s failed attempt to direct a Holocaust film in Sweden in 1971

  • Queer
    Reviews

    ‘Queer’: Venice Review 6x1m3f

    2024-09-03T16:50:00Z

    Daniel Craig cruises 1950s Mexico in Luca Guadagnino’s adaptation of the William S Burroughs novella

  • ONE TO ONE JOHN & YOKO_dir by Kevin Macdonald
    Reviews

    ‘One To One: John And Yoko’: Venice Review 54515p

    2024-08-30T11:55:00Z

    Kevin Macdonald clips together a portrait of John Lennon and Yoko Ono as they take a dive into 1970s New York activism

  • Maria
    Reviews

    ‘Maria’: Venice Review 3r5l4y

    2024-08-29T17:50:00Z

    Angelina Jolie hits the notes as opera legend Maria Callas in Pablo Larrain’s latest biopic 

  • Riefenstahl
    Reviews

    ​’Riefenstahl’: Venice Review 11445r

    2024-08-29T16:05:00Z

    Clear-eyed portrait of Third Reich German filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl and her post-War attempts to rehabilitate her image 

  • Generic festival
    Comment

    Comment: five fall festival titles that will become awards contenders - and why 5mn5g

    2024-08-23T13:12:00Z

    Identifying the awards-season contenders from the bewildering array of films at this time of year means learning the rules of the game.

  • Acting
    Reviews

    ‘Acting’: Edinburgh Review 5x544d

    2024-08-18T21:45:00Z

    Documentarian Sophie Fiennes teams with theatre company Cheek By Jowl for this illuminating exploration of the acting process

  • Mrs Robinson
    Reviews

    ‘Mrs Robinson’: Galway Review 93kw

    2024-07-13T17:05:00Z

    The life and accomplishments of Mary Robinson, the first female President of Ireland, are celebrated in this unctuous documentary

  • Housewife Of The Year
    Reviews

    ‘Housewife Of The Year’: Galway Review 6r6p21

    2024-07-12T18:50:00Z

    Doc reveals Ireland’s troubling gender politics through the country’s long-running ’Housewife Of The Year’ competition