A review highlights that Lesley Manville and Ciarán Hinds, portraying a long-established couple, make 'Midwinter Break' a worthwhile experience.

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Movie Review: In ‘Midwinter Break,’ a quiet marriage story with Lesley Manville and Ciarán Hinds  Associated Press News

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The director, Polly Findlay (an acclaimed British stage director making her first feature), presents all of this in a stately and fastidious prestige-teleplay-of-the-week way. Adapting a 2017 novel by Bernard MacLaverty (the script is by MacLaverty and Nick Payne), she creates a generous space for her actors, who turn what might have been a rather staid movie — and still at times is — into a meticulous duet.

The Irish literary adaptation 'Midwinter Break' is reviewed as sedate and too cold to emotionally resonate, despite strong performances from Lesley Manville and Ciarán Hinds.

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Stranger Things’ Joe Keery is joined by a stellar cast battling an outbreak of virulent brain spores, but the film doesn’t offer much more than endless wisecracks and a splatterhouse grossfest ‘Pay attention! This shit is real!” screams an on-screen warning at the start of this overstuffed horror-comedy-action outing. As much as the deadly fungus it foists on Earth, an outbreak of sardonic attitude runs rampant here. It falls to two bantering storage facility workers, played by Stranger Things’ Joe Keery and Barbarian’s Georgina Campbell, to contain a potential apocalypse event – with intermittent high-grade thespian help from Lesley Manville, Vanessa Redgrave and old faithful Liam Neeson. (Somebody clearly called in a few favours here.) Things kick off as the Skylab space station falls out of orbit in 1979 – one of its research containers winds up in the Australian outback. Fast-forward to the early 00s and a team of bioterror operatives, including Robert (Neeson) and Trini (Manville), wipe out the virulent fungus that escapes – though not before it turns one of them into a human smoothie. But the Kansas facility where they stow a sample is later decommissioned, and the ground floor converted into storage lockers. Before you can say “heinous government negligence”, night-shifters Teacake (Keery) and Naomi (Campbell) are itching to check out the random alarm sounding somewhere behind the walls. Continue reading...

Lesley Manville and Ciarán Hinds portray an Irish couple grappling with secrets during a holiday in Amsterdam in Polly Findlay's adaptation of Bernard MacLaverty's novel 'Midwinter Break'.