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Actor: Barry Keoghan

Barry Keoghan was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for The Banshees of Inisherin, and The Killing of a Sacred Deer gave him a performance of complete affectlessness that is the most disturbing thing in that film. Dunkirk and Saltburn followed, the last making him widely known. He grew up in foster care in Dublin.

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Dunkirk (2017)

2017 Christopher Nolan WWII film. Three timelines covering the 1940 evacuation from the Dunkirk beaches.

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Eternals (2021) Review

The Celestials are cosmic-scale beautiful. The rest of the film fails under decorative diversity and two-and-a-half hours of incoherent narrative.