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Little about the Doyles makes you want to partake of their sour hospitality, even if it's only for an hour and a half. Oct 18, 2008 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
Little about the Doyles makes you want to partake of their sour hospitality, even if it's only for an hour and a half.
Maureen M. Hart
Because Petrol is so grim, its few moments of repentance and reconciliation don't feel as contrived as they might otherwise; if any film has earned the right to be sentimental, it's this one. Sep 12, 2008 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Because Petrol is so grim, its few moments of repentance and reconciliation don't feel as contrived as they might otherwise; if any film has earned the right to be sentimental, it's this one.
Michael Hardy
As even a novice moviegoer would expect, they argue and drink, then argue and drink some more. Jun 27, 2008 | Rating: 1/4 | Full Review…
As even a novice moviegoer would expect, they argue and drink, then argue and drink some more.
V.A. Musetto
Solid performances and a literary feel help turn a standard family-rift drama into a dry but saucy narrative. Jun 27, 2008 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Solid performances and a literary feel help turn a standard family-rift drama into a dry but saucy narrative.
Joe Neumaier
If, as Tolstoy observed, happy families are alike, and each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, the Dublin-set film Red Roses and Petrol didn't get the message, being a dysfunctional clan movie that feels dispiritingly like all the others. Jun 27, 2008 | Rating: 1.5/5 | Full Review…
If, as Tolstoy observed, happy families are alike, and each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, the Dublin-set film Red Roses and Petrol didn't get the message, being a dysfunctional clan movie that feels dispiritingly like all the others.
Robert Abele
In Red Roses and Petrol, a soused, post-funeral postmortem on a dysfunctional Dublin family, the misery seeps from the screen in cold, damp waves; by the end you'll be grabbing for the bottle yourself. Jun 27, 2008 | Rating: 1.5/5 | Full Review…
In Red Roses and Petrol, a soused, post-funeral postmortem on a dysfunctional Dublin family, the misery seeps from the screen in cold, damp waves; by the end you'll be grabbing for the bottle yourself.
With her static camera, director and co-writer Tamar Simon Hoffs has done little to move it out of its staginess. Jun 27, 2008 | Full Review…
With her static camera, director and co-writer Tamar Simon Hoffs has done little to move it out of its staginess.
Rob Lowman
Mired by cliché and oddly beset by a sense of false Irishness. Jun 27, 2008 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Mired by cliché and oddly beset by a sense of false Irishness.
Sara Maria Vizcarrondo
Hoffs locks down her characters in unimaginatively framed medium shots, while mixing in a few monochromatic flashbacks, some video footage of the dead patriarch and two fast-cut sequences in a vain attempt at visual variety. Jun 8, 2008 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…
Hoffs locks down her characters in unimaginatively framed medium shots, while mixing in a few monochromatic flashbacks, some video footage of the dead patriarch and two fast-cut sequences in a vain attempt at visual variety.
Andrew Schenker
Iâ(TM)d rather just sit in on one of my own families squabbles; weâ(TM)re much more entertaining. Oct 27, 2007 | Rating: 2/5
Iâ(TM)d rather just sit in on one of my own families squabbles; weâ(TM)re much more entertaining.
Eric Campos
Tamar Simon Hoffs's bland-as-boiled-cabbage adaptation of Joseph O'Connor's play finally hobbles into theaters, reminding us every 15 seconds that just because it looks distinctly American and was shot in California, it's a fookin' Irish movie. Jun 25, 2008 | Full Review…
Tamar Simon Hoffs's bland-as-boiled-cabbage adaptation of Joseph O'Connor's play finally hobbles into theaters, reminding us every 15 seconds that just because it looks distinctly American and was shot in California, it's a fookin' Irish movie.
Aaron Hillis
An Irish family gather for the death of the father and some drinks. No one is happy or quiet about it. Fingers of blame are frequent in this static production that looks very much like the static stage production that spawned it, and by the end I felt as if I'd endured a soap opera marathon. Two minor characters eyeball the proceedings early on and beat a hasty retreat ... I was wishing to've left with them.
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