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Michael Dwyer

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Mission: Impossible II (2000) 58% EDIT “The pyrotechnics are dazzling, and although the movie falls far short of Woo's best work in Asia or the US, it's certainly more accomplished - and more entertaining - than the first Mission Impossible movie.” – Irish Times May 8, 2025 Full Review Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) 54% EDIT “Of course, it was impossible not to admire the sheer technical virtuosity of the series, and that element is elevated to even higher planes of achievement, sophistication and wizardry in the new film.” – Irish Times Apr 16, 2025 Full Review Flags of Our Fathers (2006) 76% EDIT “Clint Eastwood returns to Rosenthal's famous photograph in his thoughtful, moving new film, which punctures the myths built around the image and addresses issues unpalatable for the postwar era in which the Wayne movie was made.” – Irish Times Nov 11, 2023 Full Review Wild Things (1998) 65% EDIT “This yarn of double-crossing and counter-scheming gets off to a lively start with an entertaining first half which promises rather more than it delivers in the disjointed second half. ” – Irish Times Feb 2, 2023 Full Review Happy Together (1997) 85% EDIT “To describe Happy Together as unpredictable is an understatement, as Wong's free-style film-making steers the narrative in any number of directions. ” – Irish Times Jan 24, 2023 Full Review U.S. Marshals (1998) 31% EDIT “The movie's raison d'etre is to pile one energetic action set-piece atop another. Director Stuart Baird, a long-time film editor who turned director two years ago with the gripping and under-rated Executive Decision, delivers these setpieces with aplomb.” – Irish Times Jan 24, 2023 Full Review John Grisham's The Rainmaker (1997) 82% EDIT “This effort shows no sign of a halt to the decline of Coppola, a film-maker who, in the 1970s, was producing towering achievements such as the first two Godfather movies and The Conversation. ” – Irish Times Jan 24, 2023 Full Review U-Turn (1997) 59% EDIT “The more outsized the performances the more fun the film, and while Penn is refreshingly less mannered than usual, it's the scenery-chewers who carry the picture.” – Irish Times Jan 24, 2023 Full Review The Big Lebowski (1998) 79% EDIT “The redoubtable Jeff Bridges is admirably deadpan as the amiable Dude, and John Goodman rarely has been so effectively employed on screen.” – Irish Times Jan 24, 2023 Full Review Titanic (1997) 88% EDIT “James Cameron succeeds in bringing the story to life on screen like never before, employing state-of-the-art technology to create pure cinema that is, by turns, thrilling, heartbreaking, spellbinding and breathtaking.” – Irish Times Mar 17, 2022 Full Review Devil in a Blue Dress (1995) 92% EDIT “Franklin smoothly alternates the humour and the tension, the production values are very impressive, and the film features a notable discovery in Don Cheadle as Rawlin's urbane sidekick.” – Irish Times Oct 26, 2021 Full Review L.A. Confidential (1997) 99% EDIT “Directed with vibrant panache by Hanson, L.A. Confidential is a terrific thriller, lean, taut and deeply involving, and rich in moral complexity.” – Irish Times Oct 20, 2021 Full Review Comedy of Power (2006) 82% EDIT “[Chabrol's] untypically slow-burning drama is conspicuously short on narrative tension, and certainly not as tightly wound as his finest thrillers. But it is engrossing nonetheless, benefiting from a strong cast and the sting in its tale.” – Irish Times Sep 23, 2020 Full Review Bogwoman (1997) EDIT “Bullets fly and the violence gets progressively more mindless and shocking in the frenetically-paced consequences, which are littered with heavy-handed references.” – Irish Times Apr 2, 2019 Full Review Very Bad Things (1998) 40% EDIT “However, the further the extremes to which he pushes his material, the more [director Peter] Berg loses his grip on the picture, and he allows it to fizzle out in a gross, ill-advised epilogue.” – Irish Times Apr 2, 2019 Full Review Dobermann (1997) 63% EDIT “Bullets fly and the violence gets progressively more mindless and shocking in the frenetically-paced consequences.” – Irish Times Apr 2, 2019 Full Review Two Girls and a Guy (1997) 51% EDIT “Downey Jr delivers one of his most complex performances.” – Irish Times Apr 2, 2019 Full Review Stepmom (1998) 45% EDIT “It is hard to credit that it took five credited writers to assemble this slender, contrived and heavily padded concoction, directed with unremitting blandness by Chris Columbus.” – Irish Times Apr 1, 2019 Full Review Practical Magic (1998) 27% EDIT “[An] inane and insipid effort beset by ponderous plotting.” – Irish Times Mar 30, 2019 Full Review The Cable Guy (1996) 57% EDIT “While it makes a convincing case that too much television is ultimately brain-rotting, it does so with an unjustifiable smugness.” – Irish Times Mar 11, 2019 Full Review Crash (2004) 73% EDIT “Issues are raised and confronted head-on and prejudices are revealed simultaneously as the movie deftly assembles its intricately plotted narrative jigsaw.” – Irish Times Feb 19, 2019 Full Review Million Dollar Baby (2004) 90% EDIT “Eastwood seductively draws the viewer into the world of three lonely, bruised people, to the point where the viewer becomes wholly immersed in them and their fates.” – Irish Times Feb 19, 2019 Full Review The Departed (2006) 91% EDIT “An enthralling morality tale in which the mortality rate escalates in tandem with the tensions generated by its riveting narrative.” – Irish Times Feb 19, 2019 Full Review No Country for Old Men (2007) 93% EDIT “The consequences are powerfully gripping as the Coens ratchet up the tension in a visceral thriller that ranks with their best work.” – Irish Times Feb 19, 2019 Full Review Much Ado About Nothing (1993) 90% EDIT “What a piece of work is this.” – Irish Times Feb 19, 2019 Full Review
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