Stephen Holden reviews movie The Bridge of San Luis Rey, directed by Mary McGuckian and starring Robert DeNiro, Kathy Bates, Gabriel Byrne, Harvey Keitel, F Murray Abraham and Geraldine Chaplin ...

Gabriel Byrne as Samuel Beckett in “Dance First.” (Photo courtesy of Magnolia Pictures) Aiden Gillen as James Joyce in “Dance First.” (Photo courtesy of Magnolia Pictures) ...

Publicity and self-promotion were anathema to this most private of authors, who died in 1989. It's safe to say that he wouldn't have relished being the subject of a movie. When Beckett learned ...

Kristen & Ashleigh watch the masterfully crafted 1995 crime thriller The Usual Suspects! Following a brutal massacre and ...

Very insecure in many ways.” Gabriel Byrne as Samuel Beckett and Sandrine Bonnaire as his wife, Suzanne Dechevaux-Dumesnil, in “Dance First.” (Photo courtesy of Magnolia Pictures) Gabriel Byrne plays ...

But Byrne is present even in those earlier parts of the movie thanks to the creative decision to have him reflecting back on the regrets of his life in conversation with himself.