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Shadow Dancer
Directed by
James Marsh
R
2012
1h 41m
Thriller
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6.2
85%
52%
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Set in 1990s Belfast, an active member of the IRA becomes an informant for MI5 in order to protect her son's welfare.
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Cast of Shadow Dancer
Andrea Riseborough
Colette McVeigh
Clive Owen
Mac
Gillian Anderson
Kate Fletcher
Aidan Gillen
Gerry
Domhnall Gleeson
Connor
Brid Brennan
Ma
David Wilmot
Kevin Mulville
Stuart Graham
Ian Gilmour
Martin McCann
Brendan
Maria Laird
Young Collette
Barry Barnes
Gerry Senior
Michael McElhatton
Liam Hughes
Gary Lydon
Geoff
Daniel Tatarsky
Watcher
Tom Bennett
Watcher #2
Nicholas Asbury
Agent
Morgan Watkins
MI5 Officer
Karl Shiels
Mulville's Driver / Gunman
Mark Huberman
RUC Officer at Hospital
Ronnie McCann
RUC Constable
Eoin Murtagh
Louie, Fletcher's Son
Alan Devine
Social Club Barman
Ben Smyth
Sean
Nia Gwynne
Female Watcher
Cathal Maguire
Mark
Ian Patterson
News Reporter
Alan O'Neill
RUC Officer
David Herlihy
Senior Staff Officer
Frank Smith
Henderson
Kate Nic Chonaonaigh
Henderson's Wife
Lisa Walsh
Brendan's Girlfriend
Una Carroll
Brendan's Mum
James Greene
British Soldier (uncredited)
Anna Elizabeth McGrath
Mourner (uncredited)
Shadow Dancer Ratings & Reviews
New York Post
Sara Stewart
The proceedings move so quietly and thoughtfully as to be occasionally somnolent, though they're punctuated with spasms of the violence that marked the Troubles.
Los Angeles Times
Robert Abele
The character mechanics ... leave the viewer always feeling a step ahead of the story and its too-late-to-excite twists.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
[Riseborough's] work is indrawn and riveting. It's hard to read the look in her eye, but we never stop trying.
Arizona Republic
Bill Goodykoontz
These are characters for whom true belief in a cause has probably become impossible; they know how much that costs. Marsh does a compelling job of illustrating that for the rest of us.
NPR
Ian Buckwalter
Shadow Dancer feels like a thriller, but Marsh is wisely more interested in the tension than in the release. What thrills exist here are carefully tempered by the considered pacing.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
A tautly minimalist, occasionally generic study of betrayal and family ties.
indieWire
Eric Kohn
While not designed to entertain on the level of style and spectacle that one expects from a Bond film, this tense period drama from the director of "Man on Wire" presents a far more credible take on the daring exploits of British agents.
AV Club
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
Director James Marsh, best known for his documentaries Man On Wire and Project Nim, crafts an atmosphere of tenuous dread.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
"Shadow Dancer" is ominously subdued and grimly taciturn. The dialogue is minimal. Only what has to be said is said, and the tone of most of it is one of quiet urgency.
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
Riseborough once again transforms herself dramatically, expanding her role as best she can. But neither the hesitant script - adapted by Tom Bradby from his own novel - nor the sluggish tempo give her enough support.
Observer
Rex Reed
The movie eventually wafts into a detective story, which would be doubly effective if only we could hack our way through the thickly coated Irish brogues that render so much of the dialogue incomprehensible.
HollywoodChicago.com
Brian Tallerico
A slow-burn thriller that may be a bit too slow at times but builds in power by the final reel.
Film Comment Magazine
Jared Eisenstat
By the end, the film shows not only the power of this influence but also its terrible price in an often merciless conflict.
San Francisco Chronicle
Walter V. Addiego
The film relies on terse dialogue and boggy colors to create an atmosphere dense with anxiety -- all well handled by director James March.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
This British thriller by James Marsh is a little too neatly scripted and tightly edited for my taste, but there are galvanizing performances from Andrea Riseborough... and Clive Owen.
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Leonard Maltin
Shadow Dancer is a quiet film that demands careful attention...
Slate
Dana Stevens
Riseborough's ever-mobile face is a study as Collette cycles from hopelessness to panic to mama-bear rage.
Village Voice
Nick Schager
The film rests on the desperate chemistry of a paunchy, weathered Owen and a tense, quietly ferocious Riseborough.
Slant Magazine
Andrew Schenker
James Marsh perfectly matches his aesthetic strategies to the story's shifting moral terrain.
The Hollywood Reporter
David Rooney
James Marsh's gripping thriller set in Northern Ireland demands patience and concentration of its audience, but the impeccably crafted film is well worth the effort.
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