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Ciaran Carty

Ciaran Carty's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).

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The Howling (1981) 76% EDIT “Cinema is all about making connections: finding unlikely affinities. So that we see the familiar in a new and unexpected light. That's the fun about "The Howling."” – Sunday Independent (Ireland) Mar 18, 2026 Full Review Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) 87% EDIT “Another triumph for Audrey Hepburn. Never before have I seen her get so completely inside a part. She IS Holly Golightly...” – Sunday Independent (Ireland) Mar 5, 2026 Full Review One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) 92% EDIT “Director Milos Forman is not laughing at the mad, he's laughing with them. And through their laughter he enables us to look at murky undercurrents in society that normally we might prefer to ignore.” – Sunday Independent (Ireland) Mar 5, 2026 Full Review Nashville (1975) 89% EDIT “Nobody need bother making a movie to mark the bicentennial of American independence. Robert Altman has already done so with Nashville... It will probably come to be accepted as the definitive American movie of all time.” – Sunday Independent (Ireland) Mar 5, 2026 Full Review Barry Lyndon (1975) 78% EDIT “Barry Lyndon is 2001 in reverse -- a visual poem of haunting beauty which, through its freedom from the rooted-in-time artifice of dialogue, magically evokes the sensation of being in the past in the same way 2001 evoked the future.” – Sunday Independent (Ireland) Mar 5, 2026 Full Review Jaws (1975) 97% EDIT “Let me just take Jaws as it is -- as a first-class fun spectacle that manages to make audiences scream without actually frightening them. It's in the splendid hokum tradition of the fairground, rather like a ride on a ghost train. ” – Sunday Independent (Ireland) Feb 7, 2026 Full Review Vanishing Point (1971) 65% EDIT “A virtuoso exploitation of the astonishing range of the movie camera.” – Sunday Independent (Ireland) Feb 5, 2026 Full Review Manhattan (1979) 93% EDIT “Manhattan is a latter-day Modern Times with Allen as a Chaplin of the psyche. But in putting down cultural chic, it comes near to being what it satirises. ” – Sunday Independent (Ireland) Feb 4, 2026 Full Review Days of Heaven (1978) 93% EDIT “People are only elements in the grand order of life: as much attention is lavished on a close-up of a locust destroying the corn crop as on Miss Adams. It's an eerie, haunting poetic movie; completely out of ordinary run of commercial cinema. ” – Sunday Independent (Ireland) Feb 4, 2026 Full Review Bite the Bullet (1975) 69% EDIT “Based on a true event, a gruelling 700 mile horse race over savage country, it becomes as much as an endurance test for the audience as for the riders.” – Sunday Independent (Ireland) Jan 15, 2026 Full Review Christine (1983) 72% EDIT “Never mind that the whole idea is outlandish. What matters is the conviction with which Carpenter builds up Stephen King's story, hooking us with its horrifying logic.” – Sunday Independent (Ireland) Dec 17, 2025 Full Review The Terminator (1984) 90% EDIT “Director James Cameron has a stunning visual fluency that makes the complexities of the plot ambivallant without ever becoming tedious or obscure; the throbbing momentum builds up to a sadly elegiac denouement that for once isn't a letdown.” – Sunday Independent (Ireland) Dec 8, 2025 Full Review Beverly Hills Cop (1984) 83% EDIT “Just sheer enjoyment. It leaves you with the pleasurable afterglow of being in the company of someone who makes you laugh even when he's being vicious.” – Sunday Independent (Ireland) Dec 8, 2025 Full Review Dracula (1979) 63% EDIT “Not a memorable "Dracula" but a memorable Dracula if only because he's so different.” – Sunday Independent (Ireland) Oct 23, 2025 Full Review Hard Times (1975) 72% EDIT “The sensitive feel of a writer is evident. There's a colorful sense of time and place.” – Sunday Independent (Ireland) Sep 27, 2025 Full Review
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