He Named Me Malala: a portrait of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning teenage campaignerWhile filming ‘He Named Me Malala’, director Davis Guggenheim had an audience in mind: his own teenage daughtersFri Nov 06 2015 - 06:00
He Named Me Malala review: the private life of a public heroineMalala Yousafzai, the girl who took on the Taliban, is given a poignantly intimate portrayal in Davis Guggenheim’s affecting documentaryThu Nov 05 2015 - 17:00
Scout’s Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse review: even grosser than you'd imagineRisky Business meets Evil Dead 2 in this low-grade teen horror comedyThu Nov 05 2015 - 15:00
Fresh Dressed review: a most excellent history of hip-hop styleSacha Jenkins documentary expertly traces the fashion line from from classic B-Boys and B-Girls to P Diddy and beyondSat Oct 31 2015 - 08:35
They Will Have to Kill Us First review: A breath of Mali’s forbidden musical oxygenThe presence, and bravery, of female musicians Khaira Arby and Fadimata Walet Oumar, aka Disco, lend extra substance to Johanna Schwartz’s moving documentaryThu Oct 29 2015 - 15:08
“Feminism has been a dirty word for a long time” - the untold story of women’s liberation in the USWitches in Washington, illegal abortion networks and reproductive rights: the history of late 20th-century feminism is filled with fascinating stories, says film-maker Mary DoreThu Oct 29 2015 - 07:14
Listen To Me Marlon review: the great, mumbling enigma in his own wordsStevan Riley’s documentary uses private recordings featuring Marlon Brando's fascinating and occasionally disturbing musingsWed Oct 28 2015 - 16:08
The Queen of Ireland review: Tragedy, comedy, a plucky, unlikely heroine, and a sweeping dramatic arcConor Horgan’s triumphant documentary deftly weaves through monumental moment of social history without losing sight of protagonistFri Oct 23 2015 - 15:51
The Legend of Longwood review: a plot as thick as horse thievesBoo-hiss pantomime villains, gothic apparitions, and mystic codology make this film far too cluttered with blarney and competing narrativesFri Oct 23 2015 - 12:58
Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension review - more found footage that should’ve stayed lostThe horror franchise that started with such a bang goes out with a disappointing whimperFri Oct 23 2015 - 12:56
The Last Witch Hunter review: Harry Potter for emo kidsThis CGI-crazed fantasy is like Harry Potter for Emo kids, but broody Vin Diesel and a good cast give it some oomphFri Oct 23 2015 - 12:56
Saoirse Ronan: bold before her timeAt the age of 9 she made her screen debut in RTÉ’s ‘The Clinic’. At 13 she was Oscar-nominated for ‘Atonement’. The Bronx-born, Carlow-raised star truly has been there/done that, which suits her role as an Irish immigrant in ‘Brooklyn’Fri Oct 23 2015 - 06:00
That’s a weight off Colin Farrell’s mindAsk the actor to pile on the pounds, then lose them? No bother. Need a cracking interview in jig time? Here you go. But beneath the bonhomie is an unmistakable intensitySat Oct 17 2015 - 07:00
Censored Voices review: Veteran Israeli soldiers revisit the horrors of Six-Day warRegret and sadness are to the fore in stark documentary featuring controversial testimonies made shortly after the conflictFri Oct 16 2015 - 10:51
Hotel Transylvania 2 review: Old laughs work at monster resortDennis shows no aptitude for the family business of monsteringThu Oct 15 2015 - 20:00
Crimson Peak review: Mia Wasikowska charms, but the gothic romance fails to wooThe set is spectacular, the cast is stellar, but Guillermo del Toro’s haunted costume drama is short on drama - and scaresThu Oct 15 2015 - 19:00
The Program review: a clever expose of a mad sporting subcultureBen Foster excels as blood-doping cyclist Lance Armstrong in Stephen Frears’ biographical dramaThu Oct 15 2015 - 14:50
A very Gothic education: Mia Wasikowska on her scariest roleThe star of Guillermo Del Toro’s new period horror film tells Tara Brady about ghosts, scary sets and why she prefers to act outdoorsFri Oct 09 2015 - 02:00
Emily Blunt: ‘I didn’t want to play a damsel in distress. I got to be a full metal bitch’For new action movie ‘Sicario’, Emily Blunt got FBI training - maybe that’s why she survived the Fox storm after her citizenship jokeThu Oct 08 2015 - 19:00
Red Army review: More than just a cold war chronicleThis documentary about the Soviet Union’s Olympic medal-winning ice-hockey team is both nuanced and brilliantly entertainingThu Oct 08 2015 - 18:00
The Walk review: Joseph Gordon-Levitt plods across the voidRobert Zemeckis latest piece of cinematic wizardry is not a good film – but it may be the greatest Imax film ever madeWed Oct 07 2015 - 17:35
The Intern review: misogyny, dramedy and snivellingGender politics masquerading as a fish-out-of- water comedyThu Oct 01 2015 - 22:00
Ghosthunters review: Boo – and not in a spooky, good wayTobi Baumann’s film may appeal to kids who enjoy shoving crayons up their own nosesThu Oct 01 2015 - 20:00
Fidelio, Alice’s Journey review: On a voyage with nowhere to goAlice is a sailor with a nice land-lubbing chap at home and a boy in every portThu Oct 01 2015 - 19:00
Robert Pattinson: 'I feel I've had a minor stroke and all I can watch is reality TV'Once best known as the undead teen Edward in the Twilight series, Robert Pattinson is slowly but surely reinventing himself – from broody cutie-pie to go-to leading manFri Sept 25 2015 - 13:28
Mia Madre review: wavers between the disparate tones of comedy and tragedyNanni Moretti’s meta-drama is warm and poignant, but often finds itself stranded between competing narrative threadsFri Sept 25 2015 - 05:00
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
