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64 out of 100

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  • Starring: Cillian Murphy, Colin Farrell, Kelly Macdonald
  • Summary: A raucous story of the interweaving lives and loves of small-town delinquents, shady cops, pretty good girls and very (very) bad boys. With Irish guts and grit, lives collide, preconceptions shatter and romance is tested to the extreme. (IFC Films)

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 18 out of 27
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 27
  3. Negative: 2 out of 27
  1. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Ruthe Stein
    100
    A breed apart from anything coming off the Hollywood assembly line or, for that matter, from the saccharine romances Britain has lately produced.
  2. Dallas Observer
    Reviewed by: Gregory Weinkauf
    80
    Stupid camera shenanigans aside, theater veteran Crowley deftly directs his large, stellar cast, and playwright-cum-screenwriter Mark O'Rowe serves up a wild knot of character arcs pitched somewhere among the neighborhoods of Ken Loach, Mike Leigh and Danny Boyle.
  3. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: David Sterritt
    50
    It's surprising that so much material, so many moods, and such an interesting cast end up making such a small, unmemorable splash.
  4. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    30
    Turns out to be a tedious and under-inspired comedy.

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  2. Mixed: 1 out of 7
  3. Negative: 1 out of 7
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    2
    Profile of the segment of Irish society unable to construct sentences without using four-letter words. That tends to limit the characters9; ability to articulate their negativity, makes them one-dimensional, and leads to other problems that renders the film nearly unwatchable, in spite of a compelling opening scene.… Expand

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