Beauty & the Beast review: On the way home, younger audience members re-enact scenes. There’s no higher recommendation
Alan Hughes and Karl Broderick’s interactive pantomime, directed by Simon Delaney, features the promising Caoileann Woodcock as Belle
Four new films to see this week
Lord of the Rings anime prequel is violent fun for fans, but Luca Guadagnino’s Queer is a vacuous disappointment. Plus documentaries The Bibi Files and Chasing the Light
Queer review: There’s not a trace of William S Burroughs in Luca Guadagnino’s hugely disappointing adaptation
A vacuous film that frequently feels like an overstyled catalogue shoot
The Bibi Files: Scathing portrait of Binyamin Netanyahu’s alleged history of backhanders
Alexis Bloom’s documentary, using leaked footage of police interrogations of the Israeli prime minister, paints a murky picture
Love Actually and That Christmas writer Richard Curtis: ‘I still hope to convince my wife to watch one episode of Blackadder’
There’s little in comedy writing that Richard Curtis hasn’t done. So adapting his That Christmas children’s tales for the screen has been a welcome change
Trans-musical Emilia Pérez wins best film at European Film Awards
Karla Sofía Gascón becomes the first trans woman to win best actress as Belfast’s Kneecap film loses out on two nominations
The 10 worst films of 2024 – and Gladiator II is one of them
We gave you the best films, now here’s the worst. Is it a surprise half of these are sequels?
The 50 best films of 2024 – the top 10 movies of the year
We reach our top 10 favourite movies released in Ireland this year
The 50 best films of 2024: No 20 to No 11
We continue our countdown of our favourite movies released in Ireland this year
The 50 best films of 2024: No 30 to No 21
We continue our countdown of our favourite movies released in Ireland this year
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl: Rungano Nyoni’s darkly comic abuse-survival tale is a blistering original
Review: Splendidly sardonic drama drowns out repressed traumas with a gaggle of aunties and absurdly elaborate funeral arrangements
The 50 best films of 2024: No 50 to No 31
The 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’
Merchant Ivory: Stephen Soucy’s documentary lifts up the petticoats of the prestigious production house
A rollicking account of a long movie partnership that was flying by the seat of its pants
Four new films to see this week
Vatican thriller Conclave is gripping hokum. Plus poetic Mumbai drama All We Imagine as Light, mild and pleasant Disney sequel Moana 2, and ho-ho-hum Christmas romcom Our Little Secret
‘They are stupid people for stupid times’: Cate Blanchett on presidents, prime ministers and power
The Oscar-winner plays a scheming German chancellor in Rumours, Guy Maddin’s raucous, phantasmagorical comedy about the G7