Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekendColin Farrell reunites with his Lobster director for the Killing of a Sacred Deer, a moving Holocaust documentary and a lesbian puzzler from NorwayFri Nov 03 2017 - 06:00
‘Sometimes I say that this is worse than with the Holocaust’Tomi Reichental, who has worked tirelessly to keep the memory of Jewish Holocaust victims alive, is saddened that lessons from history have not been learned, as the world’s treatment of Syrian refugees showsFri Nov 03 2017 - 05:00
Perfect Blue review: Peerless animation that inspired ‘Black Swan’The late Satoshi Kon’s psychodrama about celebrity is a screwy masterpieceThu Nov 02 2017 - 11:00
Thelma review: Thrilling but chilly tale of lesbianism and ChristianityEponymous heroine is struggling to reconcile supernatural abilities – and the result is mesmerisingThu Nov 02 2017 - 05:00
The Killing of a Sacred Deer: Colin Farrell and Barry Keoghan in an extraordinary filmFarrell does Buster Keaton via Beckett and Keoghan steals the show in Lanthimos’s new movieWed Nov 01 2017 - 09:53
Jigsaw review: ‘Saw’ still hacking away with blunted teethAnother mainstream monster is back in business, in a serviceable midtable offeringTue Oct 31 2017 - 12:46
Happy Death Day review: If you can’t enjoy this give up on filmThe sleeper slasher hit you’ve been waiting forFri Oct 27 2017 - 12:17
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekendNew this week: Thor hammers at the funny bone, Andrew Garfield catches his breath, a gay romance and exorcismsFri Oct 27 2017 - 06:00
‘Can you still love someone who has done terrible things?’Property of the State review: Grim chronicle examines systemic failures during disturbed killer Brendan O'Donnell's teenage yearsThu Oct 26 2017 - 11:00
Exorcism: 'It’s the last chance for a lot of people'Federica Di Giacomo followed a famous exorcising priest for three years for her strange, unsettling documentaryThu Oct 26 2017 - 05:00
Grace Jones: ‘You have to be a high-flying bitch sometimes’Grace Jones Bloodlight and Bami review: Although this biopic is unfocused in parts, the live performances make for spectacular viewingWed Oct 25 2017 - 12:00
Back from the dead: how horror is this year’s rising film trendThe quality on offer at this weekend’s Horrorthon festival shows why the genre is far from undeadWed Oct 25 2017 - 05:00
The Ballad of Shirley Collins: a life worthy of a folk taleThis wonderful, warm film centres on the ‘lost’ singer who made her most recent album at 82Tue Oct 24 2017 - 18:13
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekendVince Vaughn's bone-crushing return while Armando Iannucci takes on Stalin are among this week's best moviesFri Oct 20 2017 - 06:00
I Am Not a Witch review: Serious satire on a terrifying phenomenonRungano Nyoni’s knockout debut tackles the treatment of ‘witches’ in ZambiaThu Oct 19 2017 - 09:58
‘Why do people want to see other people’s penises?’Italian director Luca Guadagnino's new film, ‘Call Me by Your Name’, is surprisingly coy despite its notorious peach-masturbation sceneThu Oct 19 2017 - 05:00
My Little Pony: An innocent riot of colour – but why the short faces?Feature-length update of now snub-nosed equine will appeal to kids and Bronies alikeWed Oct 18 2017 - 15:13
Vince Vaughn is back with a show of bone-crunching menaceBrawl in Cell Block 99 review: Vaughn has never brooded bigger and badder than he does hereWed Oct 18 2017 - 11:47
Kevin Roche: ‘I’m basically a problem-solving construction guy’His father built up Galtee cheese, and his first job was designing a piggery: now 95, the unassuming Irish ‘starchitect’ focuses on the small problems, such as where you hang your coatSat Oct 14 2017 - 05:00
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekendNew this week: Two thrillers from Scandi land, another Lego go, and a tough Irishman who wouldn’t stand downFri Oct 13 2017 - 06:00
‘There’s an entire generation whose first exposure to sex was depraved’Rafe Spall grew up during the lad culture of the 1990s, and there’s little doubt in his mind how the likes of Harvey Weinstein were allowed to flourishFri Oct 13 2017 - 05:00
The Irish man who built AmericaThe Quiet Architect review: an elegant documentary examines Kevin Roche, one of the greatest architects of the modern eraWed Oct 11 2017 - 05:00
The Lego Ninjago Movie: Everything is not awesomeReview: Three directors, eight writers and some great voices can't save this filmTue Oct 10 2017 - 13:23
The Ritual: The folk horror revival continues, so stay out of the woodsFour former college friends set out on an isolated hiking trail – what could go wrong?Tue Oct 10 2017 - 10:20
Cillian Murphy as a ‘handsome banker’ in a toe-curling misfireThe Party review: The film is barely over an hour long, but shortness is the least if its problemsTue Oct 10 2017 - 09:50
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekendNew this week: The return of the skinjobs, the real Arab women of Israel, and zany animeFri Oct 06 2017 - 06:00
Don’t raise your voice. Men don’t like women with raised voicesIn Between review: Tel Aviv gets the Broad City treatment in this terrific female-centered featureFri Oct 06 2017 - 05:00
The Glass Castle review: Misery porn at its most dishonestWoody Harrelson, Brie Larson and the talented child stars make it soapishly watchableThu Oct 05 2017 - 05:00
The strange, true story of Ghana's modern-day camps for witchesFor her new film, Rungano Nyoni spent more than a month in a real-life witch camp, that works as a tourist attraction, labour camp and women’s refugeThu Oct 05 2017 - 05:00
The Night Is Short, Walk on Girl review: A blistering night of partying and drinkingBy the final act in this film, the randomness coalesces into something philosophicalWed Oct 04 2017 - 16:31
Domhnall Gleeson: How is he using his ‘Star Wars’ success?He’s writing a bawdy comedy with his brother and Michael McElhatton. Who wouldn’t? he asksSat Sept 30 2017 - 05:00
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekendNew this week: Winnie the Pooh – the origin story, the devil’s own spaghetti western, and a Bridget Jones for the fleabag generationFri Sept 29 2017 - 07:00
Dakota Fanning: Women like to watch other women on screenAt just 23, Dakota Fanning is a Hollywood veteran - just don't expect her to go all Lindsay Lohan anytime soonThu Sept 28 2017 - 05:00
Daphne review: an anti-Bridget Jones for the Fleabag generationEmily Beecham is an appealing mess of uncertainties in this strong debut featureWed Sept 27 2017 - 08:00
Will this film finally put the rom-com out of its misery?The format has been on the wane for years. Home Again could be its nadirTue Sept 26 2017 - 10:27
A lone voice in the forest at a time of climate change denialTribe’s Bruce Parry heads back to the Bornean jungle in Tawai: A Voice from the ForestTue Sept 26 2017 - 05:35
Tom Vaughan-Lawlor: ‘I fought my way up from the mean streets of Rathgar’From Love/Hate to the Avengers: Infinity War, he does a fine line in onscreen menaceSat Sept 23 2017 - 00:00
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekendNew this week: The 1983 breakout from The Maze and Shi LaBeouf remarkably channels tennis brat John McEnroeFri Sept 22 2017 - 06:00
The best offbeat romcom of the year?Writer-director Ildikó Enyedi mines female aloofness for both comedy and sadness in On Body and SoulThu Sept 21 2017 - 12:35
Borg Vs McEnroe: a smashing match made in heavenThis dramatisation cleverly demonstrates that the two weren’t so different after allThu Sept 21 2017 - 09:15
First They Killed My Father: Angelina Jolie does it againThis Cambodian tale shows Jolie is perfectly capable of tackling geopolitical complexitiesThu Sept 21 2017 - 08:00
American Assassin review: an utterly brainless espionage caperDylan O’Brien and Michael Keaton exact vigilante brutality on a global scaleMon Sept 18 2017 - 18:02
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekendNew this week: J-Law in the mother of all weird-outs and an unhinged Asian ExtremeFri Sept 15 2017 - 06:00
Jungle Bunch review: Interspecies love and terror among the treesThis weird animation, adapted from a French TV series, needs English lessonsThu Sept 14 2017 - 08:00
Darren Aronofsky: ‘My ego finds its way into all the films’`Everything I do is autobiographical,' says the film-maker, so what are we to make of 'mother!', the maddest movie of the year, which stars his psychologically tortured real-life girlfriend Jennifer LawrenceThu Sept 14 2017 - 05:00
Here's 2017’s most breathtakingly unhinged action filmSit down, Wonder Woman. Here’s how avenging angels should rollWed Sept 13 2017 - 10:20
No laughing matter: why are we so terrified of clowns?Real-life clowns are protesting that Stephen King’s ‘It’ is killing their business. So why are they so often seen as evil?Sat Sept 09 2017 - 05:00
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekend'It' efficiently delivers the jolts, while mystery 'Wind River' provides more thoughtful fareFri Sept 08 2017 - 05:00
Insyriated review: War-torn quandaries in SyriaA fascinating ethical conundrum fails to fully ignite a drama that feels a little too contrivedThu Sept 07 2017 - 09:15
Wind River: Snowy noir on a Native American reservationA strong sense of place elevates this procedural above the normThu Sept 07 2017 - 08:00
