American Fiction review: Jeffrey Wright gives a knockout performance in this edgy, Oscar-nominated comedyCord Jefferson marries broad humour with affecting familial dysfunction and biting observations on raceThu Feb 01 2024 - 05:10
Blue Giant: This big-screen experience is as improbably close to watching a live performance as animation can getCarefully calibrated soundtrack composed by celebrated jazz pianist Hiromi Uehara steals the showWed Jan 31 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekAll of Us Strangers, The Color Purple, Samsara, Padre PioSun Jan 28 2024 - 05:00
Padre Pio: A breathtakingly intense Shia LeBeouf lifts Abel Ferrara’s messy historyThe fiercely committed actor lived in a Capuchin monastery and reportedly converted to Catholicism during productionFri Jan 26 2024 - 05:00
The Color Purple: Polished musical looks pretty and sounds fabulous without ever blazing up the screenThis too often feels like a retread of the Spielberg film with occasional song interruptionsThu Jan 25 2024 - 05:00
Samsara director Lois Patiño: ‘I had this radical idea of watching a film with your eyes closed’The Spanish film-maker has come as close as anyone could to a movie adaptation of the Tibetan Book of the DeadMon Jan 22 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this week: Mean Girls, The Holdovers, The End We Start From, The KitchenFrom big-screen translation of the stage musical based on the 2004 high-school classic to a terrifying vision of neoliberal blighted London in the 2040sSun Jan 21 2024 - 05:00
American Fiction star Jeffrey Wright: ‘We are not good at conversations about race’ The Oscar-tipped star of American Fiction was steeped in storytelling as a child. But he also puts his success down to an Irish theatre directorSat Jan 20 2024 - 05:15
The Kitchen: Urban grit with spectacular sci-fi trimmings in Daniel Kaluuya’s directorial debutThis is a terrifying vision of neoliberal blighted London in the 2040sFri Jan 19 2024 - 05:00
The End We Start From review: Jodie Comer shines as a new mother surviving in apocalyptic circumstancesDirector Mahalia Belo’s savvy debut is enhanced by a gifted castThu Jan 18 2024 - 05:00
‘Werner Herzog lives every day like he wants his life to be an adventure’ Thomas von Steinaecker goes deep beneath the skin of the much-mythologised German film-maker in his documentary Radical DreamerTue Jan 16 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this week: Poor Things, The Beekeeper, Freaks vs the Reich, LiftPoor Things, The Beekeeper, Freaks vs the Reich, LiftSun Jan 14 2024 - 05:00
Freaks vs the Reich review: Superpowered circus acts take on the Nazis in this historical monster mashDespite its premise, this carnivalesque alternate history is closer in tone to Hellboy than throwaway Syfy-channel NaziploitationFri Jan 12 2024 - 04:57
The Beekeeper review: Jason Statham strolls into armies of enemies like an annoyed man taking out overflowing binsA film about explosions and bad guys getting their comeuppance is a good fit for the action veteran, dodgy accent asideThu Jan 11 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekEmpathetic take on well-known Andean crash survivors story Society of the Snow, plus Anthony Hopkins in fine historical drama One Life, fun documentary Scala!!!, and uneven comedy-drama Good GriefSun Jan 07 2024 - 05:00
Good Grief: Dan Levy’s bereavement comedy doesn’t quite come togetherThe script cannot quite reconcile grief with the film’s romcom ambitions, but a promising first filmThu Jan 04 2024 - 05:00
‘The Scala made sleaze romantic. That cinema was a refuge from suburbia’Founded by Crying Game producer Stephen Woolley, the London club helped change attitudes to cinemaWed Jan 03 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekFive stars for Sofia Coppola’s perceptive Priscilla biopic but only two for Michael Mann’s plodding Ferrari. Plus: Ben Kingsley in a charming ET for geezers and John Cena in a rotten action comedySun Dec 31 2023 - 05:00
50 films to see in 2024: From All of Us Strangers to Gladiator 2Against all odds – and the best efforts of studio executives – 2024 is going to be a fantastic year for cinemaSat Dec 30 2023 - 06:15
Jules: This sci-fi adventure feels like ET for older peopleThis pleasant dramedy is jollied along by its talented veteran ensemble and the odd narrative curveballFri Dec 29 2023 - 05:00
Ferrari: Even Adam Driver and Penélope Cruz can’t save this dull mech-bro biopicFerrari, as adapted from Brock Yates’ 1991 biography, Enzo Ferrari: The Man, the Cars, the Races, the Machine, has been knocking around Hollywood for decadesTue Dec 26 2023 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekSpiritual Japanese animation The Boy and the Heron and exemplary documentary on fearless photographer Trish Murtha. Plus: misfired sports biopic Next Goal Wins and dull Star Wars clone Rebel MoonSun Dec 24 2023 - 05:00
Society of the Snow: A rugby team’s flight crashes in the Andes. The survivors are forced into cannibalism. This is the best screen account yetTechnically, it’s a marvel: the cinematographer Pedro Luque finds variations in the snowbound predicamentFri Dec 22 2023 - 05:00
Tish: Each photograph Tish Murphy took was an act of solidarity, the antithesis of ‘poverty porn’Paul Sng’s exemplary documentary chronicles the life and work of the late photographerFri Dec 22 2023 - 05:00
‘People assume I was having play dates with Lily Allen and Peaches Geldof. We didn’t know anyone in show business’Leo Leigh grew up in the film world. In Sweet Sue, his first feature, his approach to movie-making has produced one of the year’s most complex female charactersWed Dec 20 2023 - 05:00
The Boy and the Heron: Studio Ghibli pioneer Hayao Miyazaki bids farewell with a masterpieceThe Japanese director has threatened to retire twice, most recently after the 2013 release of The Wind Rises, a film that felt like a definitive farewellWed Dec 20 2023 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekGodzilla Minus One, Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget, I Like Movies, In the Shadow of BeirutSun Dec 17 2023 - 05:00
Godzilla Minus One: Up from the depths comes the best action film of 2023This commentary on American imperialism, postwar malaise, survivor guilt and weaponised atomic power has historical depth and exciting set piecesFri Dec 15 2023 - 05:00
I Like Movies: Teen film bro restores our faith in the teen comedyWarmth and goofiness of Isaiah Lehtinen’s performance harks back to Napoleon Dynamite, High Fidelity or ClerksFri Dec 15 2023 - 05:00
The 10 worst films of 2023We’ve already told you our favourite movies released in Ireland this year. Here are the ones we hatedMon Dec 11 2023 - 05:30
‘It’s more subversive to show tenderness between men than the hard sex or brutal sex we often see’Zeno Graton’s new film, The Lost Boys, stars Julien De Saint Jean and Khalil Ben Gharbia as young men who meet in a youth detention centreMon Dec 11 2023 - 05:00
European Film Awards: Anatomy of a Fall dominates evening with landslide of winsPalme d’Or winner secures gongs for Best Actress, Best Screenplay, Best Director and Best Film at Berlin eventSun Dec 10 2023 - 09:00
The 50 best films of 2023 – in reverse order: 10 to 1We reach our top 10 favourite movies released in Ireland this yearSat Dec 09 2023 - 05:30
The best and worst films of 2023 – in reverse orderBarbenheimer of course features, but most of the year’s finest flicks did not exactly run box office attendants off their feetSat Dec 09 2023 - 05:30
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget - Behind the scenes at the long-awaited sequelAardman’s unassuming studio has painstakingly created follow-up to beloved classicSat Dec 09 2023 - 05:30
The 50 best films of 2023 – in reverse order: 50 to 31We start our countdown of our favourite movies released in Ireland this yearFri Dec 08 2023 - 08:14
The 50 best films of 2023 – in reverse order: 30 to 21We continue our countdown of our favourite movies released in Ireland this yearFri Dec 08 2023 - 08:13
The 50 best films of 2023 – in reverse order: 20 to 11We continue our countdown of our favourite movies released in Ireland this yearFri Dec 08 2023 - 08:12
The Peasants: This Polish yarn of haystack sex and cabbage parties is a waste of paintForty-thousand oil paintings were used to make the film, an astonishing, laborious feat akin to putting lipstick on a pigFri Dec 08 2023 - 05:00
Trenque Lauquen: This daring mystery is a much better use of your time than a certain historical epic on releaseDirector Laura Citarella cannily wields narrative like a magician might. misdirecting the audience or obfuscatingFri Dec 08 2023 - 05:00
Thelma Schoonmaker on Michael Powell: ‘He asked me to put ‘film director and optimist’ on his gravestone. Which I did’Since her husband’s death, the Oscar-winning editor has been restoring the magnificent films he made with Emeric Pressburger, including The Red ShoesThu Dec 07 2023 - 05:00
Wonka director Paul King: ‘I only wanted to do something Roald Dahl would be proud of’The Paddington 2 maker’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory prequel stars Timothée Chalamet as the budding chocolatier – plus Sally Hawkins as his Irish motherWed Dec 06 2023 - 05:15
I Dream in Photos: An intimate portrait of the Pulitzer-winning Irish photographer Cathal McNaughtonMcNaughton is an amiable and thoughtful subject, and his testimony even as he recounts experiences in conflict zones is clear-headed and stoicalFri Dec 01 2023 - 05:00
Fallen Leaves: Never mind Christmas reissues. This is the crowd-pleaser of the seasonIn keeping with Finnish film-maker Aki Kaurismäki’s sense of humour, this lovely romance is the fourth film in his proletariat trilogyFri Dec 01 2023 - 05:00
Marrakesh 2023: Jessica Chastain sparkles, Mads Mikkelson shows his class and Seydou Sarr confirms powerful new talent Marrakesh diary: Sumptuous opening ceremony makes Cannes and Venice look like jumble sales with notionsMon Nov 27 2023 - 10:27
‘We thought, Oh wow, we hit the big time: they mentioned Dad on The Flintstones’Maestro, Bradley Cooper’s film about the West Side Story composer Leonard Bernstein, has been an emotional experience for his daughtersSat Nov 25 2023 - 05:30
Girl: An unnerving Glasgow tale of repressed traumaWorking from Onashile’s slightly fantastic script, Tasha Back’s shimmering cinematography ensures that Girl never looks like a typically gritty Glasgow storyFri Nov 24 2023 - 05:00
The Eternal Daughter: Joanna Hogg’s vaporous new film lacks the punch of The Souvenir but casts its own spooky spell The Eternal Daughter follows film-maker Julie as she arrives at a remote and creaky hotel with RosalindThu Nov 23 2023 - 05:15
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: ‘For the Dublin production they said give us everything you have. And we did’Broadway veterans Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman on the complex process of writing new songs for Bord Gáis Energy Theatre’s Christmas showWed Nov 22 2023 - 14:12
