The actor has gone from his teenage break in EastEnders to playing Dr Watson in Netflix’s Sherlock Holmes franchise, and roles in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey and Ryan Coogler’s The X-Files

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Novel has a meandering quality and a subtlety in terms of what’s actually happening that proves a bit too subtle

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Nobody wants casting directors to be administering DNA tests to establish the genetic suitability of auditioning actors

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Ariella Mastroianni is mesmerising as woman struggling with fractured family and fragmented psyche

An extravagantly original fable about marriage, bad housekeeping and some kind of vampirism

The Academy Award can help move a director to the top of the heap – or make everyone involved lose the run of themselves and deliver a catastrophic flop

Australian creator of the Saw horror series talks about rebooting a werewolf classic and why he never thought Hollywood was his destiny

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Amid the kerfuffle, it was somewhat lost that the second-biggest winner of the evening was Poor Things – a remarkable feat for an Irish production

Cillian Murphy wins best actor award at the Oscars after a remarkable night

Emma Stone wins best actress Oscar as Irish-produced Poor Things picks up four Academy Awards

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The Oscars 2024 front-runner values his family’s ‘normal, lovely life’ in Ireland – especially as the glare of awards season has been ‘such a baptism of fire’

It’s shaping up to be Oppenheimer’s year at the Academy Awards. What about Barbie? And could Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things also do well?

The Age of Cillian has firmly arrived, but past history tells us anything can happen between now and next month