Box Office MagazineIt is heartening to see the veteran Loach receiving just recognition for a work that ranks alongside his finest.
EmpireA bold attempt to convey a complex situation that captures the anger and tensions of early-20th century Ireland, but falls s...
Entertainment WeeklyThe ferocity of [director Ken] Loach's moral wrath carries the movie, makes it ignite on screen -- at least, until he tries ...
The New York Times... the history presented in "The Wind That Shakes the Barley" hardly feels like a closed book or a museum display. It is as...
The Boston GlobeWhat does come through is Loach's characteristic disdain for cheap romanticism and easy answers.
Salon ArtsThis is a classic example of [director Ken] Loach's work with his longtime screenwriting partner Paul Laverty, meaning that ...
Los Angeles TimesLoach has the gift of finding the intensely moving private emotions in broad, societal dilemmas. He does that with his fine ...
New York MagazineThe acting is solid all around -- so convincing that the rough Irish accents are appropriately indecipherable at times, and ...
NewsweekThe Wind that Shakes the Barley is dense, brutal, with moments of shattering emotional power, and the cast performs with fie...
Time... despite its length (over two hours) and some structural problems, it is an absorbing, worthwhile and often passionate mo...
Washington PostDirector Ken Loach is full of astonishments. In this film, he stages raid and counter-raid, big gunfight and small, with stu...
San Francisco ChronicleThe humanity that Loach and his compassionate screenwriter bring to their story prevents it from being another polemic about...
Chicago Tribune[Loach is] the master of the docu-drama or the realist social film, and Wind is one of his masterpieces.
The Austin ChronicleLoach and his cinematographer, Barry Ackroyd, paint a grim realist portrait in muted tones that captures the solemnity of an...
Film ThreatA social drama so well built that it can pump out thrills while fueling Damian's motivation.
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Partial Film Information
Director: Ken Loach
Writer: Paul Laverty
Studio: IFC Films
Cast: Cillian Murphy, Liam Cunningham, Padraic Delaney
Release: March 16, 2007
Writer: Paul Laverty
Studio: IFC Films
Cast: Cillian Murphy, Liam Cunningham, Padraic Delaney
Release: March 16, 2007
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