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Movie Info

An 18-year-old is sentenced to three months in prison after he is caught holding drugs.

Genre:

drama
Original Language:

English
Director:

Frank Berry
Producer:

Donna Eperon, Tristan Lynch, Aoife O'Sullivan
Writer:

Frank Berry
Runtime:

1h 36m

Cast & Crew

Dafhyd Flynn
Michael McCrea

Lalor Roddy
Francis McCrea

Moe Dunford
David

Robbie Walsh
Dermot Hogan

Steve Blount
Governor Lally

John Burke
Charlie

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Critic Reviews for Michael Inside

All Critics (14) | Top Critics (3) | Fresh (14)

It's cautionary and terrifying with a tough fatalistic ending.

September 14, 2018 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Kevin Maher
Times (UK)
Good research must have helped Berry attain his 20/20 peripheral vision. No minutia or refraction-of-a-minutia seems false.

September 12, 2018 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Nigel Andrews
Financial Times
It's a prison film and a social-realist picture of the Loachian school: fierce, unsentimental, engrossing.

September 12, 2018 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Peter Bradshaw
Guardian
It is the generous humanism underlying the documentary realism that sets the film apart.

April 5, 2018 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Donald Clarke
Irish Times
While its tough subject matter may be a hard ask for audiences outside Ireland, where it should find an enthusiastic reception, this is a film shot with integrity and heart.

July 17, 2017 | Full Review…

Fionnuala Halligan
Screen International
Frank Berry's Irish prison film Michael Inside... is a stripped back and unrelenting take on the sub-genre focusing on the long-term effects of incarceration and drug involvement on Ireland's youth

September 17, 2018 | Full Review…

Chloe Leeson
Screen Queens
Stunningly acted, never didactic and yet provoking endless important questions, Michael Inside is a searing portrait of a damaged system, and the boys we lose to it.

April 19, 2018 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…

Roe McDermott
Hot Press
Berry has a clear vision of our social problems; his film opens the doors of our prison system and draws the viewer inside.

April 9, 2018 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Katy Hayes
Sunday Times (UK)
It's moving, emotionally gripping and every scene has the ring of truth.

April 9, 2018 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…

Paul Whitington
Irish Independent
It's insightful and compassionate without ever being mawkish about people we perhaps all too easily choose to write off.

April 9, 2018 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…

Aine O'Connor
Sunday Independent (Ireland)
It's no easy watch, that's for sure -- but it's an important one. Stellar Irish film-making.

April 9, 2018 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…

Chris Wasser
The Herald (Ireland)
[Frank] Berry directs with the eye of a documentary maker but could show plenty of others a thing or two about keeping the tension in a drama from start to finish.

April 4, 2018 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…

Harry Guerin
RTÉ (Ireland)

It's cautionary and terrifying with a tough fatalistic ending.

September 14, 2018 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Kevin Maher
Times (UK)
Good research must have helped Berry attain his 20/20 peripheral vision. No minutia or refraction-of-a-minutia seems false.

September 12, 2018 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Nigel Andrews
Financial Times
It's a prison film and a social-realist picture of the Loachian school: fierce, unsentimental, engrossing.

September 12, 2018 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Peter Bradshaw
Guardian
It is the generous humanism underlying the documentary realism that sets the film apart.

April 5, 2018 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Donald Clarke
Irish Times
Frank Berry's Irish prison film Michael Inside... is a stripped back and unrelenting take on the sub-genre focusing on the long-term effects of incarceration and drug involvement on Ireland's youth

September 17, 2018 | Full Review…

Chloe Leeson
Screen Queens
Stunningly acted, never didactic and yet provoking endless important questions, Michael Inside is a searing portrait of a damaged system, and the boys we lose to it.

April 19, 2018 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…

Roe McDermott
Hot Press
Berry has a clear vision of our social problems; his film opens the doors of our prison system and draws the viewer inside.

April 9, 2018 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Katy Hayes
Sunday Times (UK)
It's moving, emotionally gripping and every scene has the ring of truth.

April 9, 2018 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…

Paul Whitington
Irish Independent
It's insightful and compassionate without ever being mawkish about people we perhaps all too easily choose to write off.

April 9, 2018 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…

Aine O'Connor
Sunday Independent (Ireland)
It's no easy watch, that's for sure -- but it's an important one. Stellar Irish film-making.

April 9, 2018 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…

Chris Wasser
The Herald (Ireland)
[Frank] Berry directs with the eye of a documentary maker but could show plenty of others a thing or two about keeping the tension in a drama from start to finish.

April 4, 2018 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…

Harry Guerin
RTÉ (Ireland)
Teenagers who have encountered the sharp end of the system, even to a lesser degree, will find much to relate to here.

February 28, 2018 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Jennie Kermode
Eye for Film