White Irish Drinkers (2010)

All Critics (34) | Top Critics (16) | Fresh (15) | Rotten (19)

Every kitchen-sink dramatic cliché is trotted out in John Gray's Brooklyn period piece.

April 28, 2011 Full Review

Colin Covert

Minneapolis Star Tribune

Top Critic

A movie that one watches with the sense of pushing it up a hill.

April 21, 2011 Full Review

Mick LaSalle

San Francisco Chronicle

Top Critic

Despite the cliches that push every scene forward, there's an unexpected appeal to John Gray's modest drama, emanating from its center.

March 25, 2011 Full Review

Elizabeth Weitzman

New York Daily News

Top Critic

The basic outline of the plot, built around a promised local concert by the Rolling Stones - well, if you don't know where that story is headed, you haven't seen as many movies as I think you have.

March 25, 2011 Full Review

Anthony Venutolo

Newark Star-Ledger

Top Critic

Writer-director John Gray digs into his own background to create the ardent and atmospheric White Irish Drinkers. The close, cramped intimacy of this film is so real it stings.

March 25, 2011 Full Review

Peter Travers

Rolling Stone

Top Critic

White Irish Drinkers is a heavy borrower deep into the pocket of pop culture's loan shark, and lacking the grace to acknowledge the debt.

March 25, 2011 Full Review

Rick Groen

Globe and Mail

Top Critic

A period drama that's as predictable and cliched as green beer on St. Patrick's Day.

June 3, 2011 Full Review

Mike Scott

Times-Picayune

The dialogue and action in White Irish Drinkers couldn't be more on the nose if the film was intended to be a parody. Sadly, Gray means for us to take it seriously.

May 5, 2011 Full Review

Sarah Boslaugh

Playback:stl

Under no circumstances would I recommend that you see "White Irish Drinkers." But if you do, a good, stiff belt would not be a bad idea.

April 29, 2011 Full Review

Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)

St. Paul Pioneer Press

Writer-director John Gray was blessed to find the faces of actors Thurston and Murphy.

April 22, 2011 Full Review

Kelly Vance

East Bay Express

I normally kind of like these sort of modest genre movies, but this is just marinating in its own mediocrity.

April 18, 2011 Full Review

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

Ebert Presents At The Movies

Veteran TV director John Gray brings little or nothing new to conflicts we've seen in an endless stream of movies, including Saturday Night Fever and (to go straight to the top of the list) Mean Streets.

March 25, 2011 Full Review

Andy Klein

Christian Science Monitor

White Irish Drinkers is a visceral experience.

March 25, 2011 Full Review

Bruce Kirkland

Jam! Movies

Here's a 1970s-set film nostalgic for the days young Irish-American men addressed each other as "ya' hump."

March 25, 2011 Full Review

Amy Amatangelo

Boston Herald

This is a gritty, dreamy Everyman story, sure to resonate with viewers who grew up on the wrong side of the tracks.

March 25, 2011 Full Review

Peg Aloi

Boston Phoenix

White Irish Drinkers contains a cast of characters who are as loud, brash and pugnacious as that title would suggest. They also represent just about every Irish-American stereotype.

March 25, 2011 Full Review

Jason Anderson

eye WEEKLY

It's an authentic New York slice of life, and the "coming of age" story has depth. The main character is at a crossroads and you'll be rooting for him all the way.

March 25, 2011 Full Review

Neil Rosen

NY1-TV

• 1. Shauna: Do you dare me to take all my clothes off and run through this cemetery naked?
  2. Brian: I'm not going to dare you, but I might beg you...
  – Submitted by Fred S (2 years ago)
• 1. Shauna: You're not going to ask to draw me naked, are you?
  2. Brian: No, I always wear clothes when I draw...
  – Submitted by Fred S (2 years ago)
• 1. Patrick: Hey Brian, what's a Irish seven-course meal?
  2. Brian: Six pack and a potato.
  3. Patrick: What, that's not funny?
  4. Brian: I heard it.
  5. Patrick: Gets a laugh down at Clancy's every time.
  – Submitted by Fred S (2 years ago)
• 1. Brian: Where's Pop?
  2. Margaret: Where do you think he is?
  3. Brian: I don't know, maybe a parenting seminar?
  – Submitted by Fred S (2 years ago)
• 1. Jerry: We are White Irish Drinkers! We don't do pills, we don't do weed, we don't do needles, we drink...that is what we do!
  – Submitted by Fred S (2 years ago)
• 1. Brian: Danny, I don't want to steal anything anymore. Let's face it. I'm not exactly a criminal mastermind.
  2. Danny: I'll teach you. That's what brothers are for.
  3. Brian: Not really. But I appreciate the thought.
  – Submitted by Melissa P (2 years ago)

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