[Neds] has an authenticity that imbues it with an uncomfortable power (many of the film’s events parallels Mullan’s experiences of growing up in 1970s Glasgow) and there’s an impressive performance by Conor McCarron as McGill.

The casting is good throughout, but McCarron makes the movie.

A stringent street psychodrama in which brutality is an infection and every male is a carrier.

Better than nearly any other director working today, Mullan is able to get to the very essence of man's cruelty to man in a way that really transcends cinema.