Jimmy's Hall

...the proceedings are conducted with both intelligence and compassion prominently placed, and the acting all around, particularly from Norton, is first-rate.

...evinces a nice sense of culture coalescing a community — there’s a lovely jazz-dance lesson set-piece — and the production values feel authentic.

...something sparks thanks to Jim Norton's robust but nuanced performance as the cantankerous, obsessive hardliner Father Sheridan, whom he brings to life with terrifying fire and not a little caustic humour.

Loach and his frequent scriptwriter Paul Laverty make these sequences electric with movement and alert to the meaning two people can cram into a two-minute clutch – the profound arousal, say, in shared breath.

...en lige dele fornøjelig og forglemmelig autoritetskritik med setting i 1930’ernes Irland...

...den pæne og redelige biografiske skildring af Graltons sidste år i Irland med flashback til hans første år, hvor forsamlingshuset blev etableret og udgjorde startskuddet til en demokratiseringsproces.