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Pat Stacey

Pat Stacey's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).

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The Secret of Me (2025) 100% EDIT “Depressingly, so-called corrective surgeries for intersex children still occur in most countries, and Money’s theories still appear in medical textbooks.” – Irish Independent Jan 20, 2026 Full Review The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) 94% EDIT “The magnitude of what Jackson and everyone else involved in The Lord of the Rings have accomplished can't be overstated. It's the trilogy to rule them all.” – Irish Independent Jan 14, 2026 Full Review The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) 95% 5/5 EDIT “It comprehensively blows away any lingering doubts about whether Jackson could equal the achievement of "Fellowship". He hasn't just equalled it, he's surpassed it.” – Irish Independent Jan 13, 2026 Full Review Buried Alive (2025) EDIT “The story of [Mick Meaney's] surreal stunt and its aftermath is told with enormous warmth, humour and poignancy in Daire Collins’s superb bilingual documentary Buried Alive...” – Irish Independent Nov 24, 2025 Full Review The Hand That Rocks The Cradle (2025) 42% 2/5 EDIT “Visually, it’s flat and bland. Dramatically, it’s inert and almost devoid of suspense.” – Irish Independent Oct 23, 2025 Full Review Unforgivable (2025) EDIT “It’s a lot to pack into 105 minutes, with the result that Unforgivable, while gripping and harrowing, feels overloaded and uneven, with a rushed ending.” – Irish Independent Jul 28, 2025 Full Review Mrs. Robinson (2024) 4/5 EDIT “Looking at the wan line-up of candidates and would-be candidates for this year’s presidential election, you realise how exceptionally lucky we were, and still are, to have [Mary Robinson].” – Irish Independent Jul 24, 2025 Full Review My Mom Jayne (2025) 100% EDIT “How [Mariska Hargitay] coped with [life changes] makes for an exceptionally moving story of forgiveness, reconciliation, understanding, healing and in the end, the strength of family, both immediate and extended. It’s a lovely film.” – Irish Independent Jul 15, 2025 Full Review The Trouble with Mr Doodle (2024) EDIT “With its stop-motion animations of doodles and chorus of squeaky, babbling voices (a reflection of Cox’s mental turmoil), the film also sometimes feels like stepping inside a migraine.” – Irish Independent Jul 9, 2025 Full Review Housewife of the Year (2024) EDIT “Vivid and moving as their recollections are, there’s a remarkable lack of bitterness here. The Housewife of the Year show may have been a symbol of a repressive society, but some of them look back on it with a certain degree of affection.” – Irish Independent Jun 2, 2025 Full Review Burkitt (2024) 4/5 EDIT “The documentary is generously illustrated with the images created by both the filmmaker and his subject.” – Irish Independent May 22, 2025 Full Review Britain and the Blitz (2025) EDIT “...what makes Ella Wright’s film so fresh and powerful lies in how images are married to sound effects and snatches of speech. ” – Irish Independent May 6, 2025 Full Review From Roger Moore with Love (2024) EDIT “The picture of Moore that emerges from the starry array of contributors, including Live and Let Die co-stars Jane Seymour and Gloria Hendry, the first black Bond girl, is of a sweet, funny, charming, thoughtful, infinitely kind man.” – Irish Independent Feb 7, 2025 Full Review Jack in Time for Christmas (2024) EDIT “I never imagined I’d see a Christmas special this bad again. I was wrong. Take a bow, Jack in Time for Christmas, an extraordinarily sloppy festive offering from Jack Whitehall.” – Irish Independent Dec 17, 2024 Full Review Beatles '64 (2024) 95% EDIT “Beatles ‘64 is joyously entertaining, but it places their arrival in America in a bigger context. ” – Irish Independent Dec 2, 2024 Full Review Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band (2024) 88% EDIT “The tone of Road Diary is overwhelmingly upbeat and the concert footage, even though we get to hear only a few songs all the way through, is as electrifying as ever.” – Irish Independent Oct 24, 2024 Full Review War Game (2024) 80% EDIT “The nail-biting docu-thriller War Game imagines how a sitting administration might respond to another insurrection far more serious than the previous one.” – Irish Independent Oct 2, 2024 Full Review The Corridors of Power (2022) 78% EDIT “A riveting, unmissable series.” – Irish Independent Aug 8, 2024 Full Review Atomic People (2024) 100% 5/5 EDIT “If it’s the bigger picture you’re looking for, you’ll find it in the powerful documentary Atomic People — 90 minutes of quiet heartbreak from director Benedict Sanderson.” – Irish Independent Aug 8, 2024 Full Review A Storm Foretold: Roger Stone and Die (2023) 100% EDIT “Stone is the subject of Danish filmmaker Christoffer Guldbrandsen’s jaw-dropping documentary A Storm Foretold” – Irish Independent Aug 8, 2024 Full Review Brats (2024) 85% 3/5 EDIT “By the end, you’re hoping McCarthy has got it all out of his system. Better to be remembered for the Brat Pack years than for the self-indulgence of Brats.” – Irish Independent Jul 8, 2024 Full Review Beyond Utopia (2023) 100% EDIT “There is no narration and none of those dramatised recreations beloved of so many documentaries... Frankly, when the stories a documentary is telling are as nail-bitingly tense and heart-breakingly sad as the ones here, no such adornments are necessary.” – Irish Independent Jan 31, 2024 Full Review Space: The Longest Goodbye (2023) 79% EDIT “It’s a fascinating documentary, yet the longer it goes on, the less desirable a mission to Mars seems.” – Irish Independent Sep 15, 2023 Full Review Sidney (2022) 90% 4/5 EDIT “Warm and hugely engaging.” – Sunday Independent (Ireland) Sep 30, 2022 Full Review My Name Is Leon (2022) 88% 3/5 EDIT “At heart, this 90-minute adaptation of Kit de Waal’s novel, set in the 1980s, is a tearjerker about a little boy who is separated from his mother and baby brother. But it’s also about racism in Birmingham...” – Sunday Independent (Ireland) Jun 29, 2022 Full Review
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