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Cinema Year Zero
Jan 30, 2021
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Credit: Lionsgate UK

Anna Devereux

It was uncomfortable, in 2016, to watch the contortions that Sky News reporter Richard Suchet put himself through to justify calling Saoirse Ronan British. The journalist called her “one of our own” after her performance in John Crowley’s Brooklyn (2015) earned a BAFTA nomination, and after facing an onslaught of critici…

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