There is a rich ethical murkiness that runs through this film on a near molecular level, and it strives to gets into the meat of what this kind of violent civil unrest and violence does to people.

An impressive debut feature buoyed by a captivating central turn.

'71 makes so much effort to be suspenseful that it doesn't have much time to get into nuance.

Nominated for nine awards at this year's British Independent Film Awards, ''71' will likely go widely unnoticed in the US of A even though it has success written all over it.