The 50 best films of 2024 – a full list in reverse order
The 10 highest-grossing titles were all sequels – but none is in our 50-best list in a year audiences turned out in numbers for ‘cultural cinema’
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Dublin Film Critics Circle awards 2024: The Zone of Interest and Kneecap big winners
Critics also favoured Ralph Fiennes in Conclave and Mikey Madison in Palme d’Or-winning Anora
The 50 best films of 2024 – the top 10 movies of the year
We reach our top 10 favourite movies released in Ireland this year
All We Imagine as Light director Payal Kapadia: ‘In India we have fables because women can’t always express their feelings’
The acclaimned film-maker on the dynamics of Mumbai, the significance of rice cookers and why doesn’t mind being overlooked in India’s Oscar race
The Commandant’s Shadow review: The fascinating real-life story behind The Zone of Interest
There is no sense of catharsis in documentary featuring son of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss
Jonathan Glazer’s Gaza remarks have been twisted by both sides. It requires effort to misunderstand the Oscar-winner
Donald Clarke: The film-maker’s relatively mild snatch of humanist polemic has resulted in a furore that shows no signs of going away
Oscars 2024: Cillian Murphy now a ‘favourite’ for the next James Bond, plus other things we learned from the 96th Academy Awards
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
Oscars 2024: ‘Very proud Irishman’ Cillian Murphy wins best actor, one of seven awards for Oppenheimer
Emma Stone wins best actress Oscar as Irish-produced Poor Things picks up four Academy Awards
‘It is dishonest’: Germany divided over Oscar-nominated Auschwitz film The Zone of Interest
After largely ecstatic reviews in the English-speaking world, German critics and audiences have been more ambivalent about Jonathan Glazer’s film, which is is up for five Oscars
‘We’ll be talking about this Auschwitz film for decades to come’
In the News podcast: Donald Clarke on The Zone of Interest
The Zone of Interest review: We will be discussing Jonathan Glazer’s Auschwitz film for decades
Jonathan Glazer’s formally breathtaking film is unlikely to be bettered this year
‘It’s like Big Brother in a Nazi house’: Christian Friedel on making The Zone of Interest
In Jonathan Glazer’s Oscar-nominated film, Christian Friedel plays the commandant of Auschwitz. His performance became a search for the truth
From Saoirse Ronan’s Ammonite to Spielberg’s West Side Story, 50 films to watch in 2021 (we hope)
The Covid-19 pandemic has caused a traffic jam of anticipated films for this year
50 scary films to watch at Halloween
Scare yourself silly with this list of everything from classic films to modern hits
Film is still dodging bullets despite being under heavy fire
The Decade in Culture: As we move into the roaring twenties many things remain the same about the seventh art
‘It's a romantic attempt to describe how we are as humans to an extra-terrestrial audience'
Emer Reynolds's new film ‘The Farthest’ looks at the extraordinary, humbling story the Voyager space project
ADiff review: Evolution’s strange sci-fi will blow your mind
Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s new film is an unsettling nightmarish masterpiece
Micachu & The Shapes: ‘London’s just going to be a place for rich people’
Micachu & The Shapes’ new album was born from a long, spontaneous jam. They talk about altering their creative process and how the city that shaped their sound is changing for the worse
The real mad men: how adverts get off the drawing board
The advertising industry produces some cutting-edge art. Two of the creatives who’ll be at the Offset conference explain how their ideas take shape
Donald Clarke’s cultural highs and lows of 2014
The Irish films of 2014 were ’Out of Here’ and ’Frank’
Jonathan Glazer: the joy of division
He has made just three films in 14 years – the first was universally praised, the second is a continuing puzzle to most, and now, Glazer latest,Under the Skin, starring Scarlett Johansson, is cleaving audiences into impassioned opposing camps
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