Fionnuala Halligan 6e5m5k
As the title's chief critic, she supervises over 1,000 reviews a year between general release and festival titles. She has served on multiple festival juries from Chicago to San Sebastian and Jerusalem and has written two books on filmmaking – Filmcraft: Production Design and The Art Of Movie Storyboards.
A journalism graduate, Fionnuala started work as a film critic for the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong, where she was based for 12 years. She has retained a long-lasting association with Asia and was a consultant to and international programmer for the Macao International Film Festival for five years (2016-2021) alongside her work at Screen Internatoonal.
She is a member of the London Film Critics’ Circle, Bafta and the European Film Academy, and a top-rated critic on Rotten Tomatoes.
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Reviews‘Four Mothers’: London Review 2x244
Warm-hearted Irish mother-son drama plays in London Competition
Reviews‘The Summer Book’: London Review 6z26f
Glenn Close and the Finnish landscape take centre stage in this adaptation of Tove Jansson’s novel
Reviews‘Blitz’: London Review 522p2v
Steve McQueen’s weighty wartime drama starring Saoirse Ronan opens the London Film Festival
Reviews‘Nickel Boys’: Review 4y575v
RaMell Ross adapts Colson Whitehead’s novel of southern racism and abuse in a boys penitentiary
Reviews‘On Falling’: San Sebastian Review 6m636q
A Portugese factory worker in Scotland struggles to make a connection in this effective debut
Reviews‘Emmanuelle’: San Sebastian Review 1q5c5d
Audrey Diwan presents a ‘paralysingly pointless’ update of the 70s soft-porn figure
FeaturesScreen critics’ stand-out titles from Venice 2024 2v3x6
We have selected 11 stand-out titles from the Lido, plus five that are bubbling under.
Reviews‘Blue Road’: Toronto Review 4h5f6
Sinead O’Shea’s spirited documentary is a fitting tribute to Irish author Edna O’Brien
CommentComment: Venice 2024 - The Films Are All Right 374u3p
Panic over a paucity of films due to the Hollywood strikes was papered-over by artistic director Alberto Barbera’s suavely-executed line-up
Reviews‘Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2’: Venice Review 5v1y2n
The wagons just keep rolling in the second chapter of Kevin Costner’s mythical Western epic
Reviews‘Aicha’: Venice Review 495c35
Mehdi M. Barsaoui directs Fatma Sfar in an electric performance as a Tunisian woman on an unexpected journey of reinvention
Reviews‘From Darkness To Light’: Venice Review 26n3i
Startling documentary about Jerry Lewis’s failed attempt to direct a Holocaust film in Sweden in 1971
Reviews‘Queer’: Venice Review 3vi46
Daniel Craig cruises 1950s Mexico in Luca Guadagnino’s adaptation of the William S Burroughs novella
Reviews‘One To One: John And Yoko’: Venice Review 5o1u5a
Kevin Macdonald clips together a portrait of John Lennon and Yoko Ono as they take a dive into 1970s New York activism
Reviews‘Maria’: Venice Review 496863
Angelina Jolie hits the notes as opera legend Maria Callas in Pablo Larrain’s latest biopic
Reviews’Riefenstahl’: Venice Review 5w3s1p
Clear-eyed portrait of Third Reich German filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl and her post-War attempts to rehabilitate her image
CommentComment: five fall festival titles that will become awards contenders - and why 4q6d4t
Identifying the awards-season contenders from the bewildering array of films at this time of year means learning the rules of the game.
Reviews‘Acting’: Edinburgh Review 6z2ps
Documentarian Sophie Fiennes teams with theatre company Cheek By Jowl for this illuminating exploration of the acting process
Reviews‘Mrs Robinson’: Galway Review 4i5jv
The life and accomplishments of Mary Robinson, the first female President of Ireland, are celebrated in this unctuous documentary
Reviews‘Housewife Of The Year’: Galway Review 165s4o
Doc reveals Ireland’s troubling gender politics through the country’s long-running ’Housewife Of The Year’ competition