End of Sentence

Restrained in comparison, low-key...Hawkes is a main reason to see it...

It's occasionally tougher than it sounds, and Hawkes and Lerman are fine in their oppositional roles. But it's all so familiar, and the progress so predictable.

End of Sentence still delivers in its final moments, thanks to Hawkes and Lerman's ability to carve meaning into the spaces between words.

Tonally, the film vacillates oddly between wanting to be a complex character study and a chaotic road movie which culminates in a bafflingly ill-judged car-chase in its third act.

End of Sentence is a reminder of how pleasurable it is to see genuinely pitch-perfect acting, the kind that quietly brings characters' inner lives to the fore.

End of Sentence is sometimes a little too familiar and sometimes a little too willing to villainize its female characters, but John Hawkes and Logan Lerman work as a duo struggling to connect.

There is a lot to like about Elfar Adalsteins’ debut effort - a movie about two hurting souls, past family trauma, and the importance of communication.

Grounded acting and a decent storyline make it watchable, and John Hawke is superb as the repressed and unfailingly decent Frank.

End of Sentence is not a wildly original story, but it does have some nice original details. It wriggles into unexpected places.

All three actors come out of director Elfar Adalsteins' debut feature with their reputations enhanced - but the biggest winner is arguably Ireland itself.