The Peacemaker

Released Feb 9, 2018

1h 30m

Documentary

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15 Reviews

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Irish peacemaker Padraig O'Malley has an uncanny ability to gain a person's trust. Filmmaker James Demo follows O'Malley for five years as he brokers peace in crisis zones from Nigeria to Iraq.

Ty Burr

Boston Globe

By the end of "The Peacemaker," you feel you're watching a Samuel Beckett character furiously trying to improvise himself out of the play. In the process, he's bringing the rest of us along.

Rated: 3.5/4

Apr 12, 2018

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G. Allen Johnson

San Francisco Chronicle

The Peacemaker is absorbing, and O'Malley is a fascinating character.

Mar 26, 2018

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Owen Gleiberman

Variety

The more we get to know him, the more his core motivation - is he an idealist or something else? - becomes the mystery of the film.

Mar 22, 2018

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Erin Blackwell

Bay Area Reporter

After 60 minutes, Peacemaker loses traction and shifts into a maudlin, slow-moving, and perverse unraveling of the man and his self-ordained mission.

Jun 2, 2020

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Phil Guie

Film-Forward.com

Despite a fairly weighty middle section, The Peacemaker is an unexpectedly hopeful character study that balances moments of big-stage heroism with ones of a quieter sort.

Rated: 4/5

Mar 23, 2019

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Douglas Davidson

FilmFed

While an uplifting story to be sure, there's also a great deal of pain; pain that [subject] O'Malley, and his closest confidantes, don't shy away from discussing.

Rated: 8/10

Mar 1, 2019

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James Demo

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Beth Murphy

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Stephen Nemeth

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Beth Balaban

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Synopsis

Irish peacemaker Padraig O'Malley has an uncanny ability to gain a person's trust. Filmmaker James Demo follows O'Malley for five years as he brokers peace in crisis zones from Nigeria to Iraq.

Director: James Demo
Producer: James Demo
Screenwriter: James Demo
Distributor: Central Square Films
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Feb 9, 2018, Limited
Box Office (Gross USA): $4.4K
Runtime: 1h 30m

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