Brian Eggert Deep Focus Review Aug 22, 2023 3/4

Even if the plot is standard stuff, McPherson’s hushed, almost poetic treatment of the material has a way of getting under the skin and lasting long after the film has ended.

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Laura Kern Film Comment Magazine Jun 28, 2013

The Eclipse is wholly, if strangely, cinematic; its dream-like tonal and narrative unpredictability, interspersed with a few completely jarring horror-film moments, make for an experience that will, yes, haunt audiences for a long time to come.

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Kevin Carr Film School Rejects Jul 31, 2012 2/5

When the ghost story moments are in the forefront, the film does manage a strong and creepy sense of foreboding.

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Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Jul 18, 2011 B

Quiet, subtle and tocuhing, this drama of a widower is extremely well acted by Hinds and Aidan Quinn

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Dan Callahan House Next Door Feb 23, 2011

No, this is not The Eclipse where Monica Vitti and Alain Delon fail to rendezvous on Antonioni's empty street corner.

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J. R. Jones Chicago Reader Jan 3, 2011

The whole thing would probably have flown apart if not for Hinds, whose character, like a dark star imploding, pulls everything toward him.

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Robert Roten Laramie Movie Scope Dec 15, 2010 C+

The story is thin, but it has a kind of easy Irish charm.

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Dominic Corry Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Dec 1, 2010 3/5

A solid and occasionally genuinely freaky little effort.

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Ian Buckwalter DCist Jul 17, 2010 7.3/10

The way McPherson handles the relationships in the movie is remarkable, in that he doesn't fall prey to a playwright's natural tendency to try put everything into the text.

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Dustin Putman TheFilmFile.com Jul 13, 2010 3.5/4

Blends romance, drama and supernatural horror into a truly original, thoroughly unforgettable concoction.

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Steve Newton Georgia Straight Jul 6, 2010 3.5/5

Like any ghost tale worth telling, The Eclipse will leave you strangely haunted.

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John Anderson Variety Jul 6, 2010

Quinn, alternately charming and loathsome, is brilliant, as is Hinds, an actor who has elevated everything he's been in.

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Marty Mapes Movie Habit May 31, 2010 3.5/4

Being haunted by one's past really means something from director Conor McPherson

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Jonathan F. Richards Film.com May 11, 2010

McPherson brews a strangely appealing composite, a movie that is mostly character-driven romance but that seasons the proceedings with timely scare-your-pants-off moments of horror.

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Robert W. Butler Kansas City Star May 7, 2010 3.5/4

No, this is a wonderfully nuanced tale of love and loss set in a picturesque Irish coastal town during its annual literary festival.

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Keith Cohen Entertainment Spectrum May 6, 2010 2/4

The high caliber acting is wasted on the bland and dull story. Despite an 88-minute running time, the movie is excruciatingly slow and grows tiresome as nothing much happens. It maintains a melancholy mood with the characters contemplating deep thoughts r

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Philip Martin Arkansas Democrat-Gazette May 1, 2010 84/100

an enjoyable minor-key Irish romance enlivened by excellent performances - including a wonderfully observed turn by Aidan Quinn as an insufferably boorish American typer of best-sellers - but marred by the occasional intrusion of a bad horror movie

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Rob Thomas Capital Times (Madison, WI) Apr 30, 2010 3/4

For the most part, this love triangle plays out with great warmth and delicacy.While Quinn seems to be having a ball playing against type as the boozy Nicholas, Hinds and Hjelje create fully-rounded, sympathetic characters.

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Chris Hewitt St. Paul Pioneer Press Apr 23, 2010 3/4

The haunted quality of Eclipse is a holdover from McPherson's plays, as is the abundance of dark, piercing wit.

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David Kaplan Kaplan vs. Kaplan Apr 21, 2010

The cinematography captures the Irish countryside beautifully, making for an appropriate backdrop to an intriguing and unpredictable tale.

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