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This familiar pattern of headstrong girl and passions brimming beneath the surface is well directed by first time Scottish helmer Gillies MacKinnon, though the pace slows in middle reels as plot gives way to the troupe's enjoyable stage performances. Mar 11, 2008 | Full Review…
This familiar pattern of headstrong girl and passions brimming beneath the surface is well directed by first time Scottish helmer Gillies MacKinnon, though the pace slows in middle reels as plot gives way to the troupe's enjoyable stage performances.
Variety Staff
It seems like everyone had a ball; I know I did. Mar 11, 2008 | Full Review…
It seems like everyone had a ball; I know I did.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
This absorbing film boasts several outstanding performances as well as a richness in both story and character that is much too rare these days. Mar 11, 2008
This absorbing film boasts several outstanding performances as well as a richness in both story and character that is much too rare these days.
Jeff Menell
With time, place and mood sensitively evoked, this is solid, intelligent entertainment, mercifully free of the usual 'Oirish' clichés. Jun 24, 2006 | Full Review…
With time, place and mood sensitively evoked, this is solid, intelligent entertainment, mercifully free of the usual 'Oirish' clichés.
Geoff Andrew
There's magic in it. Mar 6, 2005
There's magic in it.
Peter Travers
Mr. Finney, looking puffy and ravaged in the role of a man who has lost much of himself to drink (and whose obsessive interest in Tara somehow offers him the chance of redemption), brings a furious, buried intensity to Hegarty's longing. May 20, 2003 | Rating: 4/5
Mr. Finney, looking puffy and ravaged in the role of a man who has lost much of himself to drink (and whose obsessive interest in Tara somehow offers him the chance of redemption), brings a furious, buried intensity to Hegarty's longing.
Janet Maslin
Not amazing but watchable. Mar 11, 2008 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Not amazing but watchable.
The wry Irish wit sits like froth on the head of a glass of Guinness, masking a deceptively bitter brew. Mar 11, 2008 | Full Review…
The wry Irish wit sits like froth on the head of a glass of Guinness, masking a deceptively bitter brew.
Film4 Staff
The film is set in 1957, before TV and cars became popular, thus explaining the centrality of two institutions in the Irish village: the church and the theater. Jun 21, 2007 | Rating: B | Full Review…
The film is set in 1957, before TV and cars became popular, thus explaining the centrality of two institutions in the Irish village: the church and the theater.
Emanuel Levy
This bit of blarney depicts a sweet, silly love triangle in 1950s provincial Ireland. May 26, 2006 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
This bit of blarney depicts a sweet, silly love triangle in 1950s provincial Ireland.
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Rfeveals the delights and the drawbacks of small town life. Jul 18, 2003 | Full Review…
Rfeveals the delights and the drawbacks of small town life.
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
All in all, The Playboys is an Irish treat. Jan 1, 2000 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…
All in all, The Playboys is an Irish treat.
Pamela Bruce
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