In Camera: Debut feature unnerves, provokes and intrigues
A film that steers away from didacticism, this is a deliberately puzzling, oblique affair that never runs when it can sneak
The Movie Quiz: Skellig Michael made its first appearance in which Star Wars film?
Plus: Connie Nielsen is back in Gladiator II. Who else returns from the first film?
Gladiator II: What the critics say about Paul Mescal’s performance
The word on the Irish actor’s performance was consistently positive, not so much for the film itself
Gladiator II review: Don’t blame Paul Mescal but there’s no good reason for this jumbled sequel to exist
Ridley Scott’s sequel to his own historical epic fails to rise above second-hand status, despite valiant efforts from a fine cast
Sonny Boy: A Memoir by Al Pacino – A meandering but not unengaging memoir from Hollywood’s enduring oddball
The star reflects on his ‘difficult’ reputation, his baffling and hilarious money troubles, and how drinking ‘saved his life’
Show Clint Eastwood some respect. His new film Juror #2 is no dud
The way Warner Bros has handled the veteran star’s 40th film as director is in keeping with Hollywood studios’ new approach to the movie economy
Four new films to see this week
Saoirse Ronan in in elaborate but conventional WWII drama Blitz, plus superior family film Paddington in Peru, static adaptation of August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson, and peculiar ‘Legoised’ Pharrell Williams doc Piece by Piece
Bird director Andrea Arnold on Barry Keoghan: ‘I thought he had the most incredible face. Wow. What a man’
The English film-maker talks about tough shoots, her working-class background and working with Irishmen Keoghan and Robbie Ryan
The Movie Quiz: What three Oscars has Meryl Streep won?
Plus: What was the first film Clint Eastwood directed in which he did not act?
‘This feels categorically mental’: Paul Mescal stunned by celebrations at Gladiator II premiere
Actor attends Irish premiere of Ridley Scott film at Light House Cinema in Dublin
Piece by Piece review: Pharrell Williams’s life story, told through Lego. Kind of weird
The peculiarity here is how little this documentary differs from the average pop hagiography
The Piano Lesson review: Denzel Washington’s project is admirable, but this film can’t shake off its stage origins
Danielle Deadwyler and Samuel L Jackson are outstanding in the third instalment of the star’s effort to bring August Wilson’s Pittsburgh cycle to the screen
‘It’s a joke, you c**t’: Tony Hinchcliffe, Bernard Manning and the problem with trying to hide behind humour
Comedian’s gag at Trump rally again showed that rendering an idea through a joke does not automatically inoculate the teller from responsibility for implied beliefs
Bill Nighy: ‘My grandmother kind of raised me. She was a proper Irish woman, a Catholic. I was to be a priest’
Love Actually actor talks about running away as a teenager, begging in Paris and breaking into acting
The Movie Quiz: In what Irish town is Cillian Murphy’s Small Things Like These set?
Plus: What was the only Netflix title among this year’s Oscar nominees for best picture?