O'Rowe... evokes both a theatrical and literary sense of narrative, with scenes effectively unfolding like well-honed chapters.

Mark O'Rowe will undoubtedly direct a brilliant piece of cinema someday. The Delinquent Season is not it.

Volatile and a tad short in the love-and-understanding department, Scott becomes one of the wronged parties in the movie's equation...

[Cillian] Murphy is fascinating as a well-meaning man who is regularly a jerk, and the film slowly excavates his psychology; Murphy is especially still in this, as other people orbit around him and push his life in various directions.