White Irish Drinkers
Screen Media Films | Release Date: March 25, 2011 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 16 Critic Reviews
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75
New York PostKyle SmithMar 25, 2011
Writer-director John Gray, who created "Ghost Whisperer" on TV, is a son of Brooklyn whose love for the borough is as thick as a pint of Guinness, and he keeps finding fresh ways to present familiar plot points. Read full review
75
Rolling StonePeter TraversMar 25, 2011
The performances are uniformly terrific, finding the specific details that create a universal truth. Read full review
75
ObserverRex ReedMar 22, 2011
A thoughtful coming-of-age story with bracing performances, solid writing and direction by John Gray and inescapable take-home values that give you a feel-good lift. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterRay BennettMar 21, 2011
Could easily be filled with cliches but in the hands of filmmaker John Gray, it's a sparkling piece of entertainment that deserves a wide audience. Read full review
70
VarietyJoe LeydonMar 21, 2011
A modestly engaging domestic drama that earns few points for originality but rewards aud attention with persuasive performances, outbursts of robust humor and a vivid yet understated evocation of time and place. Read full review
60
New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanMar 25, 2011
There's an unexpected appeal to John Gray's modest drama, emanating from its center. Read full review
50
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottJun 3, 2011
A movie that offers exactly the kind of bittersweet drama you'd expect from something called White Irish Drinkers. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleApr 21, 2011
The result is a movie that one watches with the sense of pushing it up a hill. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick GroenMar 24, 2011
From that title on down, White Irish Drinkers is a compendium of clichés struggling to upgrade its status and become a respectable archetype. Read full review
50
The New York TimesStephen HoldenMar 24, 2011
Because Mr. Thurston and Mr. Wigdor lack the hard shells necessary to make their characters credible, White Irish Drinkers feels synthetic. Mr. Lang and the older cast members fare better, but they can't save a movie that runs on clichés. Read full review
50
Village VoiceMichael AtkinsonMar 22, 2011
Even though Gray is no raw-boned rookie-he has made TV movies for decades, plus, back in the day, a single Steven Seagal floater-his movie is rather inexcusably obvious, going for "troot," but recycling dese-dose-dem clichés already pressed into plastic lumber 25 years ago. Read full review
42
Christian Science MonitorAndy KleinMar 27, 2011
The casting of both Riegert and Allen may sound like an "Animal House" reunion, but the two have no scenes together. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleMar 24, 2011
The clichés are what make White Irish Drinkers a drearily predictable bout, so much so that the decent last-round plot twist that momentarily dazes is immediately undercut by the sappy, life-changing-fuh-EV-uh jab telegraphed from the beginning. Read full review
40
Time OutDavid FearMar 22, 2011
Atmosphere and acting can't save a script filled with easy-target irony ("Who ever heard of gettin' rich from workin' with computers?") and a plot that telegraphs every left turn miles in advance. Read full review
38
Boston GlobeTy BurrMar 24, 2011
All the good intentions in the world can't save White Irish Drinkers from playing like the baldest of retreads. Read full review
30
MovielineElvis MitchellMar 24, 2011
As you might have guessed from its title, Drinkers is as full of cheap sentimentality and predictable behavior as a Hell's Kitchen bar would have been in the 1970s. Read full review
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