Herself. Published 1/12/2021. Media.
NEW YORK (CNS) -- A miracle story about St. Brigid proves pivotal to the emotionally complex Irish drama 'Herself' (Amazon).
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NEW YORK (CNS) -- A miracle story about St. Brigid proves pivotal to the emotionally complex Irish drama 'Herself' (Amazon).
Review: 'Herself' is a mostly pleasing film that takes too many mood turns Ed Symkus There's a special sort of small British film that doesn't have a precise label, but often has adjectives such as feelgood or laidback attached to it. Top of my head: "Waking Ned Devine," "Calendar Girls," "The Full Monty," "Happy-Go-Lucky." Frequently they're much more about characters and words and acting than about the stories, which are often comparatively slight. That's not a complaint. I'm a fan of the above-mentioned titles and many others. They move along in a genial manner, sometimes take swerves into...
Phyllida Lloyd’s “Herself,” an Irish drama of spousal abuse set against Dublin’s housing crisis, has some narrative weak spots but its foundation of resilience and heart is strong. Previous forays into film by Lloyd, a veteran theater director, have been more elaborate, starrier affairs (“Mamma Mia!
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This is our first newsletter of 2021, and it has already been quite a year. The events of this past week surpass any thoughts on movies at the moment. I feel I have likely said this before, but there is no one better at sorting through the cultural confusion of a moment like Wednesday than Times TV critic Lorraine Ali. As she wrote, “Wednesday’s violent attack cannot be seen as yet another preparatory ‘stress test’ for democracy. It was the real thing. We, as a nation, are not immune to the crises in which we are so often intervening overseas, parachuting in to save the day — and fr...