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Impassioned and meticulously observed, In the Name of the Father mines rousing drama from a factual miscarriage of justice, aided by scorching performances and director Jim Sheridan's humanist focus.
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Jim Sheridan tells his gripping tale with a fury that stokes up an audience the way early Costa Gavras movies used to do. Feb 14, 2018 | Full Review…
Jim Sheridan tells his gripping tale with a fury that stokes up an audience the way early Costa Gavras movies used to do.
David Ansen
Daniel Day-Lewis is remarkable. Feb 28, 2014 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
Daniel Day-Lewis is remarkable.
Gene Siskel
In the Name of the Father is a model of this kind of engaged, enraged filmmaking, a politically charged Fugitive that uses one of the most celebrated cases of recent British history to steamroller an audience with the power of rousing, polemical cinema. Feb 28, 2014 | Full Review…
In the Name of the Father is a model of this kind of engaged, enraged filmmaking, a politically charged Fugitive that uses one of the most celebrated cases of recent British history to steamroller an audience with the power of rousing, polemical cinema.
Kenneth Turan
At every point, Day-Lewis is at the center of the story, and he carries the film with an impassioned performance. It helps that it's a great part. Feb 28, 2014 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
At every point, Day-Lewis is at the center of the story, and he carries the film with an impassioned performance. It helps that it's a great part.
John Hartl
The picture turns into a kind of stylized morality play about the right and the wrong ways for Irishmen to respond to distorted portraits of their character, and it's terrifically effective. Feb 28, 2014 | Full Review…
The picture turns into a kind of stylized morality play about the right and the wrong ways for Irishmen to respond to distorted portraits of their character, and it's terrifically effective.
Terrence Rafferty
Day-Lewis, so intricately repressed in The Age of Innocence, here offers a role reversal in an unreserved and emotional performance that throws caution and inhibition to the winds. Feb 28, 2014 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
Day-Lewis, so intricately repressed in The Age of Innocence, here offers a role reversal in an unreserved and emotional performance that throws caution and inhibition to the winds.
Desmond Ryan
In the Name of the Father is a deeply stirring film that lessens the moral authority of the I.R.A., English soldiers in Ireland, the British police and the British government. Feb 28, 2014 | Full Review…
In the Name of the Father is a deeply stirring film that lessens the moral authority of the I.R.A., English soldiers in Ireland, the British police and the British government.
Candice Russell
If Sheridan didn't feel the need to pile on the pedantic subtexts, this would be an absorbing personal drama, rather than a vituperative, question-begging broadside. Feb 28, 2014 | Full Review…
If Sheridan didn't feel the need to pile on the pedantic subtexts, this would be an absorbing personal drama, rather than a vituperative, question-begging broadside.
People Staff
This is a stirring and exceptionally well acted, though controversial, dramatisation of Gerry Conlon's book about the grave miscarriage of justice suffered by the Guildford Four. Feb 28, 2014 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
This is a stirring and exceptionally well acted, though controversial, dramatisation of Gerry Conlon's book about the grave miscarriage of justice suffered by the Guildford Four.
Sue Heal
Day-Lewis outdoes his acclaimed performance in My Left Foot, making Gerry a character of palpable realness and complexity. Feb 28, 2014 | Full Review…
Day-Lewis outdoes his acclaimed performance in My Left Foot, making Gerry a character of palpable realness and complexity.
David Sterritt
In this powerful, Oscar-nominated movie, Jim Sheridan infuses a fact-based social injustice drama with a more intimate family tale of estranged father and son, splendidly played by Daniel Day-Lewis and Peter Postlethwaite. Mar 25, 2009 | Rating: A- | Full Review…
In this powerful, Oscar-nominated movie, Jim Sheridan infuses a fact-based social injustice drama with a more intimate family tale of estranged father and son, splendidly played by Daniel Day-Lewis and Peter Postlethwaite.
Emanuel Levy
Sheridan takes a controversial subject and gives it wider appeal by focusing on the family drama of two men who are also political prisoners. Mar 11, 2008 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
Sheridan takes a controversial subject and gives it wider appeal by focusing on the family drama of two men who are also political prisoners.
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