NME by Andrew Trendell

Just like their insane live shows and debut album ‘Fine Art’, it’s one hell of a laugh. However it’s also full of heart; telling a real working class story as a call for unity without punching down or patronising.

San Francisco Chronicle by Bob Strauss

In the end, though, “Kneecap” is a dramatically well-structured tale of cultural and personal reclamation – done in the cheekiest, craic-talking way imaginable. It’s as if “The Commitments” had a bastard child with “The Crying Game,” and it mutated into its own, magnificently defiant thing.

Original-Cin by Thom Ernst

Kneecap is one of the most likeable films this year. Turn up the volume and enjoy.

Consequence by Clint Worthington

Rich Peppiatt’s feature debut spins the freewheeling cinematic language of Edgar Wright and Guy Ritchie into a fun, heartwarming, and suitably raunchy celebration of the Irish language.

Little White Lies by Sophie Monks Kaufman

The humour is merciless.

Variety by Carlos Aguilar

Bursting with unruly energy that practically escapes the confines of the screen, Kneecap is a riotous, drug-laced triumph in the name of freedom that bridges political substance and crowd-pleasing entertainment.

Screen Daily by Fionnuala Halligan

The funniest thing to come out of Belfast since [fill in the blank if you can], Kneecap is a riot which strains let’s-form-a-band film tropes (they’re the ‘shit Beatles’ via The Commitments), stirs in some Monty Python, sucks up the Young Offenders in all its shell-suited glory and blows it out at audiences in a blast of two-fingered audaciity.

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) by Barry Hertz

The new comedy Kneecap is a riotous delight that will have even the most staid audiences ready to flip the bird.

TheWrap by William Bibbiani

An audacious film that completely obliterates the expectations of the musical biopic genre.

New Orleans Times-Picayune by Mike Scott

Fueled by driving beats, irreverent humor and stylish direction from first-timer Rich Peppiatt, it plays like an edgier, modern-day answer to 1991’s similarly rousing “The Commitments,” just with Irish-language rap standing in for American R&B.