Barry Keoghan Reviews and Articles | Little White Lies

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Review

Bring Them Down review – a chilling neo-western

by Hannah Strong

Ten­sions reach fever pitch in a rur­al Irish farm­ing com­mu­ni­ty in Christo­pher Andrews’ fierce fea­ture debut.

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Review

Bird review – a magical, energetic marvel

by Hannah Strong

Social and mag­i­cal real­ism merge in Andrea Arnold’s scin­til­lat­ing Thames Estu­ary fable about the friend­ship between a latchkey kid and a smil­ing wan­der­er search­ing for home.

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In Retrospect
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Review

Saltburn review – gorgeous, lurid, shallow and frustrating

by Hannah Strong

A work­ing-class stu­dent finds him­self thrust into a new world in Emer­ald Fennell’s styl­ish but under­whelm­ing sec­ond feature.

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Review

The Banshees of Inisherin

by Hannah Strong

Mar­tin McDon­agh deploys his sig­na­ture acer­bic wit to an affec­tion­ate folk­tale as he reunites with Bren­dan Glee­son and Col­in Farrell.

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Review

Calm with Horses

by David Jenkins

This Irish gang­land saga is pow­ered by excep­tion­al per­for­mances from Niamh Algar, Cos­mo Jarvis and Bar­ry Keoghan.

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Review

American Animals

by Manuela Lazic

Doc­u­men­tar­i­an Bart Lay­ton blurs the line between fact and fic­tion in his com­pelling heist drama.

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Review

The Killing of a Sacred Deer

by Trevor Johnston

Yor­gos Lan­thi­mos is up to his old tricks in this typ­i­cal­ly strange and idio­syn­crat­ic psycho-thriller.

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Review

Mammal

by David Jenkins

This dour show­case for Aus­tralian actor Rachel Grif­fiths is a dra­ma of grief and moth­er­hood that is sub­tle with a cap­i­tal S.

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