Saoirse Ronan Archives

City of Ember (2008)

Rating: ★★★★

Aug 13, 2009Young Adult/Underground City

Excellent Young Adult adapted work about teenagers in a vast underground city coming to an awareness of the forgotten surface world. The underground world is a production designer's marvel

Director: Gil Kenan

Actors: Saoirse Ronan, Harry Treadaway, Bill Murray, Tim Robbins, …

Category: Science Fiction

13 August 200929 September 2025 by Roog

The Lovely Bones (2009)

Rating: ★

Jan 17, 2010Murdered Girl Looks on From the Afterlife

A film about a dead girl trying to stop her paedophile murderer from the afterlife. A grim story becomes a visual effects vehicle wrecked by Peter Jackson's overblown amateur hour symbolism

Director: Peter Jackson

Actors: Saoirse Ronan, Mark Wahlberg, Stanley Tucci, Rachel Weisz, …

Category: Fantasy

17 January 201029 July 2026 by Roog

Hanna (2011)

Rating: ★★½

Apr 16, 2011Teenage Girl Assassin

A film about a genetically tinkered teenage girl assassin that never lives up to its potential. Saoirse Ronan is great in the title role but director Joe Wright never gives the action scenes the kick they need

Director: Joe Wright

Actors: Saoirse Ronan, Cate Blanchett, Eric Bana, Jason Flemyng, …

Category: Science Fiction

16 April 201111 March 2026 by Roog

Byzantium (2012)

Rating: ★★★½

Nov 4, 2013Vampire Film

Neil Jordan makes a vampire film that stands at marked contrast to Twilight and Jordan's earlier Interview with the Vampire. Jordan stamps the class of a mature filmmaker on what might have been a lesser work in another's hands

Director: Neil Jordan

Actors: Saoirse Ronan, Gemma Arterton, Caleb Landry Jones, Sam Riley, …

Category: Horror

4 November 201316 December 2025 by Roog

The Host (2013)

Rating: ★★★

Mar 29, 2013Alien Body Snatchers

Andrew Niccol, a director of smart conceptual sf, seems mismatched on an adaptation of a Stephenie Meyer novel but Niccol tones down Meyer's overripe teen romance to deliver a smart take on the alien body snatchers genre

Director: Andrew Niccol

Actors: Saoirse Ronan, William Hurt, Diane Kruger, Max Irons, …

Category: Science Fiction

29 March 20134 November 2025 by Roog

How I Live Now (2013)

Rating: ★★

Nov 15, 2013England Invaded/Outbreak of Nuclear War

While the title suggests a self-help manual about someone going to live off the land, this depicts an imaginary invasion of England similar to Red Dawn having been pitched as a Young Adult work

Director: Kevin Macdonald

Actors: Saoirse Ronan, George MacKay, Tom Holland, Harley Bird, …

Category: Science Fiction

15 November 20132 November 2025 by Roog

Foe (2023)

Rating: ★★

Dec 13, 2024Near Future/Android Replacement

From the pen of Iain Reid who wrote I’m Thinking of Ending Things, an SF film about a man recruited for a space mission and the training of his android replacement. Expectedly, what is going on is shifting and pulls expectation out from under us

Director: Garth Davis

Actors: Saoirse Ronan, Paul Mescal, Aaron Pierre

Category: Science Fiction

13 December 202413 November 2025 by Roog