A brutal film...deeply moving yet painful to watch.

Ultimately, the politics outweigh the poetry ... but it succeeds despite its hesitations and far-reaching ambition

Gripping, powerful, heart-breaking.

Laverty's screenplay is not a simple-minded exercise, although there is a schematic aspect to it. He and Loach want to be fair to both sides of the Irish debate ...

A film that shows the slow push for freedom as the sticky, messy and lengthy process it really is.

the intensity of Murphy and Delaney's performances is shattering... 'Wind' never loses sight of the fact that sometimes a victim's wounds may be invisible to the eye, but every bit as painful as a stabbing...

There are moments that stir, and it's always lovely, but it's generally too remote to gain hold of you truly.

While the film has its share of exciting battle scenes, Loach captures them with an almost detached, documentary-like feeling, as if not wanting the thrills to overwhelm the essential tragedy he sees in the story.

Loach remains focused on the personal, which serves best to highlight the seriousness of the political with which it intersects.

Director Ken Loach borrows the title of his 1920s Irish insurrection drama "The Wind That Shakes the Barley" from a Robert Dwyer Joyce poem, and, in turn, his film is visual poetry.