Jim Sheridan tells his gripping tale with a fury that stokes up an audience the way early Costa Gavras movies used to do.

Daniel Day-Lewis is remarkable.

In the Name of the Father is a model of this kind of engaged, enraged filmmaking, a politically charged Fugitive that uses one of the most celebrated cases of recent British history to steamroller an audience with the power of rousing, polemical cinema.

...an overlong yet consistently engaging drama that benefits from its inherently compelling subject matter and raft of top-notch performances...