Irish Film Institute -REVIEW ROUND-UP: LIES WE TELL & MEAN STREETS

REVIEW ROUND-UP: LIES WE TELL & MEAN STREETS

This week’s titles at the Irish Film Institute from Friday, 13th October 2023 includes Lies We Tell and Mean Streets 4k Restoration. Read on for a selection of reviews or pop in to make up your own mind!

LIES WE TELL

“A tightly laced, elegantly cut gothic period drama ” 4/5 — The Guardian 

“Agnes O’Casey steals the show” — The Irish Times 

“Mulcahy nicely sustains the gothic tension” — Independent.ie 

“Suitably disturbing and makes for a gripping experience.” — No More Workhorse 

“Mulcahy’s direction is equally direct and unencumbered, with a real sense of style and cinematography” — entertainment.ie 

MEAN STREETS

“Scorsese’s miraculous early masterpiece is a blistering classic” 5/5 — The Guardian 

“Terrific. Top shelf talent at the top of their game, working immediately before they would change Hollywood.” 5/5 — Empire 

“Has an elemental power, a sense of spiraling doom, that a more polished film might have lacked.” 4/4 — Roger Ebert (2003) 

“A triumph of personal filmmaking.” — Pauline Kael, The New Yorker (1973) 

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