2024 · comedy · drama · music
Kneecap
Directed by Rich Peppiatt1h 45m2024
When fate brings Belfast teacher JJ into the orbit of self-confessed "low life scum" Naoise and Liam Óg, the needle drops on a hip-hop act like no other. Rapping in their native Irish, they lead a movement to save their mother tongue.
Our read: Kneecap (2024) reads as a warm, breathless, grounded comedy · drama · music entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, breathless, measured comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- warm
- brisk
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