{"id":593486,"date":"2026-05-20T00:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T00:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/593486\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T00:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T00:54:12","slug":"paul-mescals-masterpiece-irish-drama-is-the-movie-you-need-to-see-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/593486\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Mescal’s “masterpiece” Irish drama is the movie you need to see tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"

God\u2019s Creatures, the “masterpiece” Irish drama starring Paul Mescal and Emily Watson, has just landed a new streaming home in the UK.<\/p>\n

Released in 2022, the film stars Mescal as Brian, a young man who returns to his home in a remote fishing village in Ireland after moving to Australia. When Brian is accused of sexual assault, his mother, Aileen (Watson), lies for him, and his family and the close-knit community are torn apart.<\/p>\n

Co-directed by Saela Davis and Anna Rose Holmer, the film marked Paul Mescal\u2019s first major film role after his breakout performance in the television series Normal People. His starring role in Aftersun premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2022, the same month as God\u2019s Creatures.<\/p>\n

\"emily<\/p>\n

A24<\/p>\n

Who’s in God\u2019s Creatures?<\/p>\n

\u2022 Paul Mescal as Brian O’Hara<\/p>\n

\u2022 Se\u00e1n T. \u00d3 Meallaigh as Nigel O’Connor<\/p>\n

\u2022 Brendan McCormack as Francie D’Arcy<\/p>\n

\u2022 Emily Watson as Aileen O’Hara<\/p>\n

\u2022 Steve Gunn as Dennis Guiney<\/p>\n

\u2022 Marion O’Dwyer as Mary Fitz<\/p>\n

\u2022 Aisling Franciosi as Sarah Murphy<\/p>\n

\u2022 Leah Minto as Sheila Breen<\/p>\n

\u2022 John Burke as John Ferris<\/p>\n

\u2022 Lalor Roddy as Paddy O’Hara<\/p>\n

\u2022 Toni O’Rourke as Erin O’Hara<\/p>\n

\"emily<\/p>\n

A24<\/p>\n

What did the critics say about God\u2019s Creatures?<\/p>\n

God\u2019s Creatures was popular among critics and has a 90% rating on Rotten Tomatoes<\/a> from 98 reviews. Although high, it is Mescal’s fourth-highest-rated movie overall, behind All of Us Strangers, Aftersun, and The Lost Daughter. <\/p>\n

In the film’s trailer<\/a>, W Magazine is cited as calling it “an affecting, clear-eyed masterpiece”. <\/p>\n

“It\u2019s bleak and understated, but strong performances and a thorny moral maze give this considerable power despite the gloomy skies,” said Empire Magazine<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The Wrap<\/a> added of the film: “Holmer and Davis demonstrate a remarkable control over tone, performance and visual and aural storytelling, applying their sensibility to the taut, perfectly structured script by Shane Crowley.”<\/p>\n

\"paul<\/p>\n

A24<\/p>\n

Where can I watch God\u2019s Creatures?<\/p>\n

If you’d like to watch God’s Creatures, the film is now available to stream on BBC iPlayer after airing on BBC Three on Sunday night. <\/p>\n

It’s also available on other streaming services, including Apple TV<\/a> and Prime Video<\/a> via their BFI Player channel. BFI Player costs \u00a36.99 a month. On Prime, you can get a seven-day free trial, while on the BFI Player<\/a> site, you can get a 14-day free trial. <\/p>\n

God’s Creatures is now available to stream on BBC iPlayer.<\/p>\n

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\"Lettermark\"<\/p>\n

Reporter, Digital Spy<\/p>\n

Harriet is a freelance news writer specialising in TV<\/a> and movies<\/a> at Digital Spy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A horror enthusiast, she joined Digital Spy after working on her own horror website, reviewing films and focusing largely on feminism in the genre.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In her spare time, Harriet paints and produces mixed-media art. She graduated from the University of Kingston with a BA in fine art, where she specialised in painting. She also has an MA in journalism from Birkbeck University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"God\u2019s Creatures, the “masterpiece” Irish drama starring Paul Mescal and Emily Watson, has just landed a new streaming…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[147950,379,202989,381,96,2788,190731,1156,2839,202988,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-593486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-collection-latest-news","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-de03effd-9d2a-40ba-abdc-c9c39c3718d9","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-entertainment","tag-hasproduct-true","tag-issyndicated-false","tag-locale-gb","tag-movies","tag-shorttitle-paul-mescals-irish-drama-is-the-movie-to-see-tonight","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}