Fresh
Stunning.
Scott Foundas, Variety
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Bloody Sunday
Overview
The dramatised story of the Irish civil rights protest march on January 30 1972 which ended in a massacre by British troops.
Director and cast
- Paul Greengrass Director
- James Nesbitt as Ivan Cooper
- Allan Gildea as Kevin McCorry
- Gerard Crossan as Eamonn McCann
- Mary Moulds as Bernadette Devlin
- Carmel McCallion as Bridget Bond
- Tim Pigott-Smith as Major General Ford
- Nicholas Farrell as Brigadier Maclellan
- Christopher Villiers as Major Steele
- James Hewitt as Colonel Tugwell
- Declan Duddy as Gerry Donaghy
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
92%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Greengrass sacrifices character and plot to a chilling impressionistic stylization.
Patrick Z. McGavin, Chicago Reader
Fresh
Watching director Paul Greengrass's explosive Bloody Sunday, you have to remind yourself at moments that you're not looking at a documentary.
David Ansen, Newsweek
Fresh
Comparisons with The Battle of Algiers are not inappropriate.
Trevor Johnston, Time Out
Fresh
As a terrifying example of what can happen when too many angry people are crowded into too small a space, it's a gripper.
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post
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