Captive review: bounces the baloneyometer spectacularly into the redThis combo true crime/faith film is never remotely believable, despite a credibly menacing performance from David OyelowoFri Sept 25 2015 - 00:00
A Girl at My Door review: Secrets and lies and a tangle of gender politicsThis impressive South Korean drama sees Wachowskis’ favourite Bae Doona flex all of her acting muscles with considerable skillThu Sept 24 2015 - 17:54
Fast, furious, female: Meet the all-women Palestinian racing team bringing the speed to the IFI docfestAmber Fares went to the West Bank to work with the UN and ended up making a film about an all-female racing teamWed Sept 23 2015 - 14:23
Horse Money review: a Horse with no narrativeThis Portugese oddity represents arthouse film-making taken to insanely inscrutable heightsFri Sept 18 2015 - 19:00
Bill Bryson’s chequered path into the movie businessSo what happens when Bryson's work gets the Hollywood treatment? Whatever the outcome, it’s got nothing to do with him, he says – you can blame Robert RedfordFri Sept 18 2015 - 13:30
Tangerines review: sweet smell of warEstonia received its first-ever Oscar nominations for this superb and moving antiwar drama, set in Abkhazia in 1992Thu Sept 17 2015 - 21:00
The Second Mother review: good help is hard to shareThis Brazilian comic drama is a superior take on the plight of mothers who must look after other people’s childrenThu Sept 17 2015 - 18:00
Reissue of the Week: Buster Keaton’s Steamboat Bill, Jr (1928)Keaton’s final film for United Artists features one of cinema’s finest acts of lunacy, and so much more besidesThu Sept 17 2015 - 15:24
What’s up with Gran? Hansel and Gretel gets the M Night Shyamalan treatmentFresh from watching his first GAA game, the director talks about The Visit, a fiendishly clever reworking of the Grimm fairy taleMon Sept 14 2015 - 03:00
Reissue of the week: Richard Brooks’ In Cold Blood (1967)Stunning cinematography and chilling performances mark out Brooks’ adaptation of Truman Capote’s chronicle of greed murder and retributionFri Sept 11 2015 - 16:01
'Me & Earl & the Dying Girl' was a script like no other for Thomas MannAs the star of ‘Project X’, Thomas Mann knows his teen zeitgeist, but when he first read ‘Me & Earl & the Dying Girl’, he knew it was a script like no otherFri Sept 11 2015 - 05:00
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials review: sequel running in the right directionAll the muddled exposition from The Maze Runner allows for The Scorch Trials to be far more entertainingFri Sept 11 2015 - 00:00
Legend Review: solid, if not exactly thrilling entertainmentBrian Helgeland’s far-too-glamorous Kray Twins biopic starts well, then grinds into inertia, while Tom Hardy manages to give both the movie's best and worst performancesFri Sept 11 2015 - 00:00
Cartel Land review: on the border of beastly behaviourFor this chilling documentary, director Matthew Heineman was given unprecedented access to ruthless anti-cartel vigilantes on both sides of the Mexican borderFri Sept 04 2015 - 12:45
Thomas Mann: “Me & Earl was the best role I had ever read”The star of such teen flicks as Project X and Beautiful Creatures knows his teen zeitgeist, and when he read it, Thomas Mann knew Me & Earl & the Dying Girl was a script like no otherFri Sept 04 2015 - 07:05
Ricki and the Flash review: Meryl gets her rock onA failed rock’n’roller is given a second chance with her family in this enjoyable but uneven dramedy written by Diablo CodyThu Sept 03 2015 - 21:00
Dope review: Straight into Inglewood for some smart teen movesRick Famuyiwa directs this excellent teen caper which never slips into laddish farceThu Sept 03 2015 - 20:00
Buttercup Bill review: a messed-up, highly erotically-charged two-stepA bafflingly fragmented, if beautifully rendered series of shots of parties and random imagesThu Sept 03 2015 - 17:00
O’Shea Jackson Jr: a chip off the old CubePlaying his own father in the smash NWA biopic ‘Straight Outta Compton’, 24-year-old O’Shea Jackson Jr offers far more than just a surly imitationFri Aug 28 2015 - 06:00
Miss Julie review: Irish take on Swedish romance lacks warmthThe film based on August Strindberg’s play tells of a romance between the classesThu Aug 27 2015 - 20:00
45 Years review: When two become undoneAndrew Haigh’s beautifully acted drama examines the slow unstitching of a relationship with thrilling intensity, writes Tara BradyThu Aug 27 2015 - 17:00
L’Eclisse review: a classic of its time, but perhaps not for all timeMichelangelo Antonioni’s 1962 film is so rooted in 1960s post-war malaise that it cannot truly exist outside of itThu Aug 27 2015 - 15:15
The Wolfpack: Six brothers who never went outsideCrystal Moselle’s documentary The Wolfpack tells the extraordinary story of a family raised in complete isolation in ManhattanMon Aug 24 2015 - 06:00
Reeling in the years: how the past comes back to haunt usIn new film ‘45 Years’, Andrew Haigh focuses on the daily struggles of ordinary peopleFri Aug 21 2015 - 05:00
The Treatment review: Sick, sad, vile and utterly effectiveThis film adaptation of a Mo Hayder thriller pulls no punches about incest, paedophilia and abductionThu Aug 20 2015 - 22:00
Theeb review: Western under the heat of the desert sunA fine coming-of-age tale set in 1916 in the Ottoman Empire is no ‘Lawrence of Arabia’Thu Aug 20 2015 - 21:00
Gemma Bovery review: An affair to forget as new version never takes offModern take on Gustave Flaubert’s ‘Madame Bovary’ looks pretty but lacks substanceThu Aug 20 2015 - 19:00
The Great Wall review: A beautiful tour of Europe’s divisionsO’Sullivan’s camera takes us from the borders of Bulgaria to the City of London and on to the disturbances in GreeceThu Aug 20 2015 - 17:00
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. review: Sixties spy-caper style over substanceHenry Cavill and Armie Hammer turn on the hunk, Guy Ritchie turns on the style in this mindless but diverting take on the vintage spy showFri Aug 14 2015 - 11:07
Greta Gerwig: “People aren’t all one thing, so characters shouldn’t be one thing.”Mumblecore maven Greta Gerwig has moved on and up. In her third gig with director/main squeeze Noah Baumbach, she channels her inner uptown wild thingFri Aug 14 2015 - 06:00
Pixels review: They made this film . . . for some reasonIt’s not a bad idea for a movie but underwritten characters and bad dialogue dominateThu Aug 13 2015 - 21:00
Precinct Seven Five review: the baddest cop on the blockMichael Dowd tells all in this thrilling documentary about his own corruptionThu Aug 13 2015 - 19:00
Manglehorn review: an extremely odd film that's not quite mysterious enoughAl Pacino displays nuance (really) as a grizzled malcontent stranded in a Texan backwater, but there are hints of something else underpinning the enigmatic screenplayFri Aug 07 2015 - 15:17
Hard to Be a God review: a sprawling, epic, exhausting, disgusting masterpieceThis fetid, oblique Russian epic took forever to make, and the result is a powerful argument for the vitality of civilisationThu Aug 06 2015 - 22:00
A Doctor’s Sword review: Secrets of an extraordinary lifeGripping documentary about Corkman’s war experiences uses his own voice as narrationThu Aug 06 2015 - 19:00
Alberto Rodríguez’ Marshland: True Detective, paella styleHBO’s cult series has much in common with the hit Spanish thriller ‘Marshland’. That’s no bother, says Alberto Rodríguez, director of this incendiary police drama set in the bad old post-dictatorship daysThu Aug 06 2015 - 16:00
Beyond the Reach review: death-defyingly daft, eye-rubbingly stupidMichael Douglas finds more than enough scenery to chew in the Mojave Desert in this ludicrous remake of The Road Runner ShowTue Aug 04 2015 - 17:30
Iris review: smart, funny and commendably anti-fashionFor all the frivolity of her business (fashion), Iris Apfel is smart and sassy enough for us to see past a life of privilege and walk-in wardrobesFri Jul 31 2015 - 11:13
Man with a Movie Camera review: power to The PeopleDziga Vertov’s 1929 documentary is rightly considered one of the best films ever madeThu Jul 30 2015 - 21:00
Cub review: bleeder of the packHellishly unhappy campers versus whatever it is that’s stalking them in this nifty, efficient horror film from BelgiumThu Jul 30 2015 - 20:00
Oliver Hirschbiegel: from Hitler to Princess Diana and back againThe ‘Downfall’ director is back with another incendiary look at Deutsches Reich, this time about one lone oddball who decided to strike backThu Jul 30 2015 - 16:08
The Legend of Barney Thompson review: mother cuts to the quickRobert Carlyle’s pitch-black murder comedy is a triumph for a deglamourised Emma Thompson, as the ultimate parent from hellSun Jul 26 2015 - 09:34
‘The Legend of Barney Thompson’: Robert Carlyle throws a curveballThe ‘Trainspotting’ star’s debut as a director is not a predictable low-key indie film but a riotous comedy starring Ray Winstone and Emma ThompsonSun Jul 26 2015 - 08:00
You’re Ugly Too review: two pains in the assesMark Noonan’s debut Irish drama is problematic but impressive, backed up by the stars’ winning two-stepFri Jul 24 2015 - 06:00
Eden review: dancing into paradiseDespite cameos from the likes of Daft Punk, this drama about French Touch music never loses sight of the genre’s garage originsFri Jul 24 2015 - 03:30
The true story that made Rupert Goold jump from stage to screenThe director’s first film explores the dynamic between a murderer and a journalistTue Jul 21 2015 - 01:00
The Wonders review: trippy hippie dippy family flickieThis off-the-wall French comedy has charm but not much plot momentumFri Jul 17 2015 - 04:00
Ant-Man review: super downsize meAfter the bombast of ‘Age of Ultron’, this lo-fi Marvel release is as enjoyably laid-back as its amiable star, Paul Rudd, though the pleasures are decidedly small of scaleThu Jul 16 2015 - 19:29
One more time: Eden reignites a Daft Punk raveThe birth and eventual death of French Touch is explored in an absorbing French film, written by the promoter who was there from the beginningWed Jul 15 2015 - 05:46
Tomm Moore, Celtic cartoonist with two Oscar nods‘Other animators always tell me I’m living the dream’, says the Cartoon Saloon co-founder, and who is he to disagree? Two Oscar nods have given him international clout, but the director of ‘Song of the Sea’ intends to stay the Irish indie courseFri Jul 10 2015 - 05:00
