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Hilary A White

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Song Sung Blue (2025) 78% 4/5 EDIT “Jackman and Hudson are a dream combo in a story that isn’t afraid to take us to dark and difficult junctures. ” – Irish Independent Jan 2, 2026 Full Review Marty Supreme (2025) 93% 5/5 EDIT “[Timothée Chalamet] is outstanding as the never-say-die anti-hero you’ll want to both cheer on and strangle, often in the space of a single scene.” – Irish Independent Jan 2, 2026 Full Review David Bowie: The Final Act (2025) 70% 3/5 EDIT “...Stiasny’s more conventional documentary sometimes struggles to keep its feet on the ground, neither comprehensive enough to be a rounded career retrospective, nor cleanly focused enough on that final journey towards Blackstar.” – Sunday Independent (Ireland) Dec 30, 2025 Full Review Sentimental Value (2025) 97% 5/5 EDIT “...[Stellan Skarsgård's] performance here as the incorrigible, impatient movie helmsman who struggles outside the ordered hierarchy of a film set, is a delicate and vulnerable turn that will remind the world why is truly one of the greats.” – Irish Independent Dec 30, 2025 Full Review Goodbye June (2025) 65% 4/5 EDIT “You’d need to be hard of heart to discard this star-studded hymn that salutes not only the malleability of family bonds but also the incredible staff on our hospital floors (take a bow, Fisayo ­Akinade, as June’s nurse).” – Sunday Independent (Ireland) Dec 16, 2025 Full Review Silent Night, Deadly Night (2025) 77% 3/5 EDIT “It mightn’t win awards, but it lands moments of daft mayhem, especially when writer-­director Mike P. Nelson camps it up.” – Sunday Independent (Ireland) Dec 16, 2025 Full Review Eleanor the Great (2025) 67% 3/5 EDIT “A pretty decent way for ­Johansson to open her directorial account, all told.” – Sunday Independent (Ireland) Dec 12, 2025 Full Review Ella McCay (2025) 22% 2/5 EDIT “What begins as an old-school character study of a woman breaking through the patriarchy through hard work and gumption turns into a muddled, unfocused caper that seems to be constantly bailing out water. A big mess.” – Sunday Independent (Ireland) Dec 12, 2025 Full Review It Was Just an Accident (2025) 97% 5/5 EDIT “Any semblance of a bemusing road-trip drama about possible mistaken identity turns into an altogether darker commentary on state repression, torture and trauma. As only Panahi can do.” – Sunday Independent (Ireland) Dec 4, 2025 Full Review Horseshoe (2025) 3.5/5 EDIT “Some scenes do veer close to jumping the shark, but it makes great use of a committed cast and sweeping Sligo backdrops.” – Sunday Independent (Ireland) Dec 4, 2025 Full Review Blue Moon (2025) 90% 4/5 EDIT “Even for a filmmaker as prone to nostalgia as Linklater, Blue Moon luxuriates in a golden-age patina before showing us that it was still a realm of broken dreams, disillusionment and merciless market whims.” – Sunday Independent (Ireland) Dec 3, 2025 Full Review Zootopia 2 (2025) 91% 4/5 EDIT “Whip-smart, cannily tooled, and littered with winks at Hollywood classics (everything from Ratatouille to The Shining), this humdinger from Jared Bush and Byron Howard is a big fat win for the Mouse House.” – Sunday Independent (Ireland) Dec 3, 2025 Full Review The Thing with Feathers (2025) 46% 4/5 EDIT “Porter’s book never ­exactly screamed “film crossover”, and credit must go to debutante ­Dylan Southern for keeping the scratchy, non-linear warps and wefts of the source text.” – Sunday Independent (Ireland) Nov 19, 2025 Full Review Park Avenue (2025) 3/5 EDIT “Shaw is a treat as the elegant, bohemian matriarch smuggling vulnerability beneath the devil-may-care flourishes.” – Sunday Independent (Ireland) Nov 14, 2025 Full Review Nuremberg (2025) 72% 4/5 EDIT “Malek, ­Shannon, and co-star Richard E. Grant do great work, but Crowe is the main event.” – Sunday Independent (Ireland) Nov 14, 2025 Full Review Anemone (2025) 53% 3/5 EDIT “There’s definitely talent at work in Anemone, but it needed an editor with the courage to shoot down the film’s more gauche, heavy-handed inclinations.” – Sunday Independent (Ireland) Nov 6, 2025 Full Review Predator: Badlands (2025) 86% 4/5 EDIT “Trachtenberg drops the brand baggage and finds light and ­colour amid the cosmic carnage.” – Sunday Independent (Ireland) Nov 6, 2025 Full Review Palestine 36 (2025) 100% 3.5/5 EDIT “No film could ever fully untangle this tragic geopolitical mess, but this is still a compelling snapshot of a chapter that nods ­towards the now. A momentous pathos is detectable, and an ­ensemble cast do good work.” – Sunday Independent (Ireland) Oct 31, 2025 Full Review Bugonia (2025) 88% 3/5 EDIT “It mightn’t “go” anywhere or conclude with a firm full stop, but along the way Lanthimos is able to make us think the loony ­colours he works with are perfectly apt for our loony society.” – Sunday Independent (Ireland) Oct 31, 2025 Full Review The Mastermind (2025) 90% 4/5 EDIT “Reichardt’s portrait of a suburban no-hoper haplessly trying to game the system has a pleasing tragi-comic waft about it, even if Mooney ultimately cuts a rather pathetic dash.” – Sunday Independent (Ireland) Oct 23, 2025 Full Review The Spin (2025) 3.5/5 EDIT “Like a soft-centred meeting point of High Fidelity and Hardy Bucks, it gradually manages to disarm you enough that even its close calls with stage-Irish tropes can be forgiven.” – Sunday Independent (Ireland) Oct 23, 2025 Full Review Souleymane's Story (2024) 100% 4/5 EDIT “Sangare wears on his face the woes of an entire European demographic that is far too often reduced to a headline, a ­statistic or a policy document.” – Sunday Independent (Ireland) Oct 17, 2025 Full Review After the Hunt (2025) 37% 4/5 EDIT “...nothing is simple in writer Nora Garrett’s riveting, elegant and difficult psychological thriller that resists boiling a serious theme down to neat binaries.” – Sunday Independent (Ireland) Oct 16, 2025 Full Review I Swear (2025) 100% 4/5 EDIT “Sweet, salty and substantial, this charming little jewel might reaffirm your faith in cinema as the realm of beautifully told life stories that get the balance just right. ” – Irish Independent Oct 9, 2025 Full Review A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (2025) 75% 4/5 EDIT “Bigelow has our full and ­undivided attention right from the get-go. Noah Oppenheim’s script gives us a “what-if” triptych, looking at the nuclear brink from three different and fiercely contemporary angles.” – Sunday Independent (Ireland) Oct 8, 2025 Full Review
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