A Dog’s Purpose review: a bouncy, wet-nosed, waggly-tailed dog’s-eye taleA dog ponders the nature of his (and her) existence in Lasse Hallström’s wonderful family-friendly filmThu May 04 2017 - 13:59
Julian Barratt: from The Mighty Boosh to a ‘Partridgean joke’Barratt plays a ridiculous 1980s TV star in his new comedy film, MindhornThu May 04 2017 - 05:00
Harmonium review: A sadistically playful family dramaKoji Fukada’s tale of bad-ass bad karma toys with us – and then toys with us some moreWed May 03 2017 - 17:00
Citizen Jane review: A timely warning against big-block buildings with ground-floor shop unitsDocumentarian Matt Tyrnauer recounts how Jane Jacobs fought architectural giant Robert Moses and wonWed May 03 2017 - 15:45
Why Kim Kardashian’s a fan of Irishman Terry George’s new filmAt the core of The Promise is the first World War genocide of the Kardashians’ fellow Armenians, a cause close to the family's heartSat Apr 29 2017 - 05:00
Warning: Suntan may induce a midlife crisis/chronic cringingA lonely middle-aged doctor is an unwelcome beach guest in a film that has to be watched through splayed fingersFri Apr 28 2017 - 10:32
The Promise review: Intimate complications amid the horrors of genocideOscar-winning Irish director Terry George's latest sees Oscar Issac, Charlotte Le Bon and Christian Bale adrift in the Armenian genocideThu Apr 27 2017 - 06:45
'Not everybody wants to confront death. And pay for the ticket'The French director’s ‘Heal the Living’ follows the journey of a heart from donor to transplant recipientThu Apr 27 2017 - 06:30
Lady Macbeth review: a five-star stone-cold instant classicFlorence Pugh is stunning as the carnal, ruthless, suffering, pitiable, monstrous anti-heroine of William Oldroyd’s bold filmThu Apr 27 2017 - 05:30
Warren Beatty: ‘I’ve had 16 books written about me. All baloney’Warren Beatty, a true Hollywood maverick, sets the record straight on his six-decade-long career and the state of cinema todaySat Apr 22 2017 - 05:00
The Belko Experiment: The Purge meets The Office, with added blood and gutsThe staff have 30 minutes to kill two of their office co-workers in this latest gorefest from the Blumhouse stableFri Apr 21 2017 - 06:49
Andrew Scott on the rugby-school comedy ‘Handsome Devil’The actor plays an inspirational teacher in the film about a gay loner and a jockFri Apr 21 2017 - 05:00
Their Finest review: Oh! What a lovely war filmA great ensemble cast, featuring Gemma Arterton, Richard E Grant and Bill Nighy, put in a sterling effort in this second World War-set film-within-a-film comedyThu Apr 20 2017 - 16:44
The Transfiguration review: a transfixing subversion of the vampire genreDebut director Michael O’Shea's acclaimed film tells the tale of an outsider teen from the Projects with a chilling vampire obsessionThu Apr 20 2017 - 16:44
Molly Monster review: Sweet, silly and super for childrenWholesome tale of dragon-like creature’s adventures will keep the little ones amusedThu Apr 20 2017 - 16:39
The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki review: a very worthy contenderJuho Kuosmanen’s Cannes-winning debut feature tells the tale of a boxing underdog with warmth and humourThu Apr 20 2017 - 16:08
Clash review: an Arab Spring thriller that all takes place in a vanPaddywagon-detained suspects bake in heat, uncertainly and fear in Mohamed Diab’s high-concept political thrillerThu Apr 20 2017 - 10:00
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest review: Still raising hellThe sexual politics have dated but the themes of Miloš Forman’s classic remain potent and urgentThu Apr 13 2017 - 07:00
The Handmaiden review: Erotic, exotic and fully empoweredPark Chan-wook’s film provoked controversy for its sexual content but is not the bloody spectacle most were expectingThu Apr 13 2017 - 07:00
Scott Eastwood: Clint’s son rises, but under his own steamScott Eastwood on staying out out of his mega-famous dad’s shadow and stepping into the Fast and Furious franchise following the death of his friend Paul WalkerWed Apr 12 2017 - 06:30
Whatever happened to child beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey?A new Netflix documentary ‘Casting JonBenét’ explores the mystery surrounding the death of the six-year-old in Colorado 20 years agoTue Apr 11 2017 - 05:30
Gael García Bernal: ‘You can’t separate art from politics’Impassioned Oscars speech a sharp reminder of actor's political commitmentFri Apr 07 2017 - 05:00
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekendThis week, you can expand your political consciousness, shred your nerves or turn your stomach. Your choiceFri Apr 07 2017 - 05:00
This documentary will make you rethink everything about US black historyI Am Not Your Negro is already attracting the attention of bigots for its brillianceThu Apr 06 2017 - 11:39
Peppa Pig: My First Cinema Experience - an hour of snorts and giggles for the little onesIt’s not a movie; it’s a perfect toddler-friendly outing - but be warned, there will be oinkingThu Apr 06 2017 - 07:05
A Dark Song review: a nifty, novel Irish horrorAmbiguity soon segues into full-blown weirdness in Liam Gavin’s impressive debut featureWed Apr 05 2017 - 13:31
A Quiet Passion review: Emily Dickinson, from lively girl to thundering wagonThe poet and proto-emo barely deems to step outside her own head in this portrayalTue Apr 04 2017 - 13:14
Fear Eats the Soul - Rainer Fassbinder’s masterpiece is as timely and affecting as everFassbinder’s 1974 drama is a bleak dissection of race, age, gender, bigotry and hateThu Mar 30 2017 - 11:23
The Age of Shadows review: Breakneck skulduggery in 1920s KoreaKim Jee-woon lays on the thrills from the start in this old-fashioned spy dramaThu Mar 30 2017 - 06:00
Cannibalism meets feminism in this new horror movieDirector Julia Ducournau’s feminist-cannibal horror-comedy ‘Raw’ made audience members faint in Toronto, but it's more than a horror movie; it’s a crossover movieThu Mar 30 2017 - 05:30
Ghost in the Shell needs a soul, like Scarlett Johansson’s robotRupert Sanders’ remake is exactly what you’d expect from a project that spent a decade getting kicked around HollywoodWed Mar 29 2017 - 10:04
‘Of course, corruption is not good. But people are complex’Cristian Mungui: 'It is not a very coherent movement to the extent that there was never any formal aesthetic criteria or manifesto’Wed Mar 29 2017 - 06:00
Smurfs: The Lost Village - a pretty sm*rfing pointless rebootThe live-action films have been smurfed from history, along with the snark and zingers - this reboot is strictly for the younger kidsTue Mar 28 2017 - 07:00
Jack Reynor: ‘I was afraid of being Han Solo’The Dublin actor on ‘Transformers’, ‘The Secret Scripture’ and why he’s wary of HollywoodSat Mar 25 2017 - 06:10
The Eyes of My Mother review: a perfectly ghoulish slice of American gothicThe debut feature from director Nicolas Pesce is a visceral, horrible and beautiful reviention of arthouseFri Mar 24 2017 - 10:54
Life review: There’s a very familiar alien monster in those space-station ventsJake Gyllenhaal and Ryan Reynolds are stuck between an extra-terrestrial and a hard place in this Alien knock-offThu Mar 23 2017 - 15:15
Aquarius review: a nuanced portrait of a badass ladyKleber Mendonça Filho’s dazzling drama is a sensual and subtle - and brilliantly doubles as a political allegoryThu Mar 23 2017 - 13:33
The Lost City of Z: a high-end adventure from the good old daysCharlie Hunnam, Robert Pattinson and Sienna Miller bring the old-school in James Gray's superior based-on-fact Amazonian adventureWed Mar 22 2017 - 17:21
A story of austerity, but not as we know itScreenwriter Paul Laverty’s latest film – a tale of prosperity, austerity and olive trees – is set in a Spain that could be IrelandThu Mar 16 2017 - 22:00
Beauty and the Beast review: a joyless performance from Emma WatsonDisney's flat-pack rebuild of its own 1991 animation works as a straight-up musical, but beyond that it's pretty charmlessThu Mar 16 2017 - 16:32
The Salesman: Asghar Farhadi’s Oscar-winner is a serious film for serious timesFarhadi film entered history when Trump’s travel ban helped it towards an Oscar. It deserves to be known for more than thatThu Mar 16 2017 - 16:30
Personal Shopper review: Kristen Stewart refuses to give up the ghostA remarkable Kristen Stewart powers Olivier Assayas teasingly cryptic modern supernatural taleThu Mar 16 2017 - 15:00
Uncertain, a backwater US town filled with the most colourful characters imaginableEwan McNicol and Anna Sandilands’ warm, witty film about life in a Texas- Louisiana border town has rightly won every award possibleThu Mar 16 2017 - 13:33
Jason Blum, the man who made $193m on a $15,000 film budgetJason Blum, the man behind Split, Get Out, The Purge, Paranormal Activity and a host of other blockbuster hits, has a simple, strategic and proven approach to film productionThu Mar 16 2017 - 06:00
Blood, sugar, sex, magic: The Love Witch director Anna Biller goes retroAnna Biller, the creative powerhouse behind the unashamedly retro The Love Witch, talks technicolour, feminism and multitaskingFri Mar 10 2017 - 06:00
Catfight review: Anne Heche and Sandra Oh beat seven shades of snot out of each otherCatfight plays like a movie Larry David might make after a sex-change and years of fight training, and that’s a good thingThu Mar 09 2017 - 17:19
The Dancer review: the mysterious tale of the dancer from Hozier’s Take Me to ChurchSteven Cantor’s winning documentary tells the amazing story of Sergei Polunin’s shock retirement and return to balletThu Mar 09 2017 - 16:15
The Student review: a timely reminder of how religion is used to subjugate othersAn unhinged adolescent and his theological rants cause havoc at a state school in this chilling Cannes prize-winner from Kirill SerebrennikovThu Mar 09 2017 - 12:33
Fist Fight review: Ice Cube rolls up his sleeves for a lame last day of schoolIce Cube and the rest of the teaching faculty take centre stage in this painfully floundering high-school comedyMon Mar 06 2017 - 10:44
Gillian Anderson: A woman of extremely few wordsRecreating Lady Mountbatten’s cut-glass accent in Viceroy’s House is something Gillian Anderson is happy to talk about but unfortunately, that’s where the chit-chat begins and endsFri Mar 03 2017 - 06:02
