Netflix’s Emilia Pérez was tipped as a big Oscar winner – then an unexpected scandal erupted Oscars 2025: What has gone wrong for Emilia Pérez after its 13 nominations and triumphant awards season? Thu Feb 06 2025 - 05:00
The Seed of the Sacred Fig review: An odd, special, important film A taut thriller that unfolds against the backdrop of an increasingly draconian Iranian regimeThu Feb 06 2025 - 05:00
Bring Them Down review: Barry Keoghan’s new film should be called Bring Me the Head of Alfred O’Garcia Christopher Andrews’s odd debut counts as one of too many films that long to be considered displaced westernsTue Feb 04 2025 - 19:00
Peter Sarsgaard: ‘I was around all these professional actors – Jeremy Irons, Gabriel Byrne... They all acted pretty crazy’ The September 5 star broke through with films such as Boys Don’t Cry. His new movie is a taut account of the attack on the 1972 Munich OlympicsTue Feb 04 2025 - 06:15
Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist has architects up in arms – but they’re missing the pointIgnore all the whingers. Go to see the excellent The Brutalist. Take along an architect you hate. The film is 3½ hours long. They might actually explode with furySun Feb 02 2025 - 05:45
Four new films to see this weekMike Leigh’s latest drama is ‘desperately moving’. Plus evocative doc on Edna O’Brien, a clever spin on The Stepford Wives, and a lovely, low-key anime from JapanSun Feb 02 2025 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: Stars from which TV series are going head-to-head for an Oscar?Plus: Which movie star directed Saoirse Ronan in a 2014 featureFri Jan 31 2025 - 05:00
Hard Truths review: Mike Leigh makes a moving return to the domestic miseries of north LondonThis study of a perpetually sad and pathologically abrasive woman is a rough-hewn marvelWed Jan 29 2025 - 05:30
Harry Potter hyperfans will be putting their faith in the new TV reboot. But be careful what you wish for Warner Bros has shown restraint in waiting so long to resurrect JK Rowling’s stories. Potterites will be counting on a word-perfect adaptationSun Jan 26 2025 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekAstonishing epic The Brutalist practically groans with ambition. Plus lo-fi spooker Presence, heartfelt indie drama Parachute, and affectionate Naples portrait Posso Entrare?Sun Jan 26 2025 - 05:00
Saturday Night Live: ‘You can take the temperature of America by watching that show’Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray and other stars of the US comedy were regular visitors when Jason Reitman was young. Now he’s made Saturday Night about its first episodeSat Jan 25 2025 - 05:15
The Movie Quiz: Which James Bond has something in common with Donald Trump?Plus: Who’s the host of this year’s Oscars?Fri Jan 24 2025 - 05:00
Oscars 2025: Kneecap’s failure to get a nomination is a genuine upsetBiopic of the West Belfast rap trio lost out on Oscar nomination for best international picture and best original songThu Jan 23 2025 - 16:58
Oscars 2025 nominations today: What are the chances for Kneecap, Saoirse Ronan and Cillian Murphy? Saoirse Ronan, Cillian Murphy and Paul Mescal have struggled this awards season. Only a miracle will see an Irish actor get an Oscar nodThu Jan 23 2025 - 06:30
Posso Entrare? An Ode to Naples review: Trudie Styler’s documentary offers brutal truths and blissful sunlit escapeThe core interview is with the stoical writer Roberto Saviano, who regrets publishing his 2006 novel, GomorrahThu Jan 23 2025 - 05:00
The Brutalist review: Adrien Brody’s Jewish refugee mud-wrestles American capitalism in this astonishing filmBrady Corbet’s cold-eyed third film allows the possibilities of the United States while admitting the Faustian costsWed Jan 22 2025 - 05:00
John Sayles: ‘For the last 25 years it’s been hard for me to get screenwriting work, much less actually get a movie made’The one-time darling of independent cinema is keeping busy, most recently with Save the Man, a novel about exploitation of Native AmericansWed Jan 22 2025 - 04:22
The Traitors makes no sense. Its logic is flimsy, its flaws obvious. So why do I happily yell through three episodes a week?Claudia Winkleman’s smash reality show is an effective analogy for the Sisyphean pointlessness of existence. But the contestants can’t say that, obviouslySun Jan 19 2025 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekMuch trumpeted Bob Dylan biopic is pleasant but bland hagiography. Plus surprisingly original monster mash The Wolf Man, moving speculative documentary Pepe, and slick but decidedly unerotic remake of ‘70s softcore sensation EmmanuelleSun Jan 19 2025 - 05:00
Cameron Diaz: ‘I left movies because I wanted to live my life differently. We started our family, and that was all I wanted to do’The 1990s megastar is back on screen alongside Jamie Foxx in Netflix thriller Back in ActionSat Jan 18 2025 - 05:30
The Movie Quiz: Pick the actor who was not in Saving Private Ryan?Plus: How many Terminator films are there?Fri Jan 17 2025 - 05:00
David Lynch: the surrealist who combined depravity with wholesome iconography of small-town USADeath of film-maker David Lynch: With Twin Peaks and Wild at Heart it seemed, for a brief magic moment, as if Lynch’s version of the avant-garde could really sit at the centre of mainstream culture. It was not to beThu Jan 16 2025 - 21:00
A Complete Unknown review: As Bob Dylan, Timothée Chalamet works his wee nasal cavity to deathJames Mangold’s biopic is abundantly flawed, but will serve as a devotional tool for dedicated fansThu Jan 16 2025 - 05:00
Wolf Man review: Shocker finds new ways of turning the stomach as it honours the great werewolf tradition Leigh Whannell’s focus on the psychological over the physical may alienate some gorehounds, but it makes for an original take with subtexts that lingerWed Jan 15 2025 - 17:00
‘Ireland taking British awards is f**king hilarious’: Kneecap’s six Bafta nominations a leap forward for Irish-language filmBaftas 2025: Rich Peppiatt’s raucous film about the Belfast trio has got into every category where it had even a reasonable chanceWed Jan 15 2025 - 15:30
Kneecap film and Cillian Murphy’s Small Things Like These lead Ifta nominationsIrish Film and Television Academy awards: Say Nothing and Bad Sisters among other nomineesTue Jan 14 2025 - 08:00
Mike Leigh: ‘I did a film in Northern Ireland about Catholics and Protestants. I did a play about Jews. To me it’s about people’Hard Truths is as moving and acute a film as the 82-year-old has ever made. The director talks about rejection, vindication and never changing his approach to movie-makingSun Jan 12 2025 - 05:15
Megyn Kelly’s rant about Conclave being ‘the most disgusting anti-Catholic film I’ve seen’ is big win for the churchThe conservative US journalist’s diatribe might reek of woke-gone-mad overreach, but no, she does indeed describe the twist ending accuratelySun Jan 12 2025 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: Who wears the balaclava in Kneecap? Plus: Who wears the balaclava in Kneecap?Fri Jan 10 2025 - 05:00
Maria review: Angelina Jolie captures the tragic glamour of Maria Callas in a masterly portrayal of the opera starPablo Larraín’s film attempts to grasp the real human while wallowing in the gorgeousness of it allThu Jan 09 2025 - 05:00
A Real Pain review: Kieran Culkin could be on an unstoppable run to an Oscar for this touching, funny dramaJesse Eisenberg’s light-fingered second directorial effort is a touching, funny drama that allows truths to emerge subtly and sometimes ambiguouslyWed Jan 08 2025 - 05:00
10 great films to watch if you’re stuck indoorsWhat to watch when it’s too cold and icy to go out? Try It Follows, The Thing, The Fly, Roman Holiday, Up, Uncle Buck and moreTue Jan 07 2025 - 10:32
Golden Globes 2025: Colin Farrell wins award for The Penguin as Emilia Pérez and The Brutalist triumphAdrien Brody and Brazilian actor Fernanda Torres win main acting awards at a lively Golden Globes ceremony in Los Angeles that delivered a few surprisesMon Jan 06 2025 - 05:52
What U2 knew about the United States that some quintessentially English stars didn’tBetter Man, the new Robbie Williams biopic, has been baffling Americans. Hitting a wall in the US really can be to do with being just a little too foreignSun Jan 05 2025 - 05:00
Four new films to see this week Nosferatu, Nickel Boys, We Live in Time, BeezelSun Jan 05 2025 - 05:00
Angelina Jolie: ‘It’s usually just me alone with my kids. I actually have quite a private life’To play Maria Callas in Pablo Larraín’s new film, the star is drawing on her own experience of fame. But she’s far more ordinary than you might think, she saysSat Jan 04 2025 - 05:30
50 people to watch in 2025: From film and music to arts, activism, sport and moreAs a new year gets into gear, here are the artists, entrepreneurs, activists and musicians set to shake things upSat Jan 04 2025 - 05:30
Bafta longlists 2025: Kneecap in running for seven awards as Saoirse Ronan named on best actress listPortia A Buckley’s Irish drama Clodagh is one of the 10 titles listed for best British short filmFri Jan 03 2025 - 14:07
The Movie Quiz: Which film has the most nominations at this weekend’s Golden Globes 2025?Plus: Wings of Desire, The Proposal and Blonde share a connection with which great post-punk band?Fri Jan 03 2025 - 05:00
Beezel review: This queasy horror set in an impressively creepy Massachusetts house is pulp as pulp should beFilm feels oddly of its moment, taking place in a similar space from which Longlegs emergedThu Jan 02 2025 - 05:00
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor: ‘One of the references I have when I talk about Nickel Boys is the Magadelene laundry mothers in Ireland’Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor missed out on an Oscar for her role in King Richard. It will be no surprise if she’s nominated again for RaMell Ross’s acclaimed new filmMon Dec 30 2024 - 05:00
We Live in Time review: Is there is a word for a manipulative drama that isn’t up to the task?Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield seem to have emerged from Richard Curtis Posho Factory in John Crowley’s drippily insubstantial filmMon Dec 30 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see in the cinema this week Clever Robbie Williams biopic Better Man and gripping Christmas shocker Terrifier 3, plus How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies and Sonic the Hedgehog 3Sun Dec 29 2024 - 05:00
Donald Clarke: In 1975, Dylan, Patti Smith, Bowie and Marley woke up a cosseted music culture2025 marks the golden jubilee of some fine records, to be sure, but also of a time when punk came to sack rock’s citadel and popular music began to go in new directionsSun Dec 29 2024 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: What is the only 2024 film in the box office top 10 that’s not a sequel?Plus: How many films titled for Marvel characters were released in cinemas this year?Fri Dec 27 2024 - 04:57
Better Man review: Robbie Williams as a monkey is a surprising look at the ego-driven’s star’s lifeGenuinely challenging critique is an impressive juggling act between celebration and self-deprecationMon Dec 23 2024 - 05:00
The 50 best films of 2024 – a full list in reverse orderThe 10 highest-grossing titles were all sequels – but none is in our 50-best list in a year audiences turned out in numbers for ‘cultural cinema’Sun Dec 22 2024 - 05:30
The Oscars aren’t fair. Just look at what’s happening to Cillian MurphyThe actor’s performance in Small Things Like These seems perfectly positioned for an Academy Award nomination. So what’s gone wrong?Sun Dec 22 2024 - 05:00
Dolphin Boy review: What in the name of bejaysus are we looking at here?The animation is horrible. The voice work is annoying. The plot can be hard to followFri Dec 20 2024 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: What is the name of everyone’s second-favourite Christmas film?Plus: Who has the very first line in holiday classic It’s a Wonderful Life?Fri Dec 20 2024 - 05:00
