A star who became a symbol of sexual freedom, artistic frustration and political controversy

Talk around Netflix’s potential takeover of Warner Bros has accelerated fretting over cinema’s lifespan

Plus: Which director did not have a film released in Irish cinemas this year?

This is an entertaining ride even for those who don’t know one end of a football from another

Beautifully played piece of highish-middle-brow filmmaking that makes the best of strategically staged confrontations

Study of an insufferable table-tennis prodigy is an intelligent entertainment as generously stuffed as the greatest 19th-century novel

Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, anyone? What about Arnie in Jingle All the Way? It doesn’t matter: Christmas movies are the audiovisual equivalent of snow in a can

Julian Assange, Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña and Martin Scorsese feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of December 19th, 2025

The stars of Hamnet, Chloé Zhao’s Oscar-tipped film, talk Shakespeare, acting and growing up in different Irelands

Plus: Who has never played a Swan (or a Swann)?

Big winners among Irish productions were Sinéad O’Shea’s Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story and Brendan Canty’s Christy

Among those contributing anecdoates are Charles Dance, Simon Russell Beale and Tom Hollander

Morgan Neville unlocks the solipsism at the centre of the decade in a sharp analysis of a body politic apparently unaware of its own psychological instability

If the first instalment of the franchise was a version of Dances with Wolves, this one owes a debt to The Jungle Book. It will make a squidillion dollars

Reiner had a gift for delivering standout lines and moments in his movies that stayed with audiences long after final credits had rolled