Four new films to see this week: Marty Supreme, Cover-Up, Sentimental Value and David Bowie: The Final Act
Timothée Chalamet, Seymour Hersh, Stellan Skarsgard and Renate Reinsve in a quartet of movies released in the week of December 26th, 2025
Stellan Skarsgard
Actor
Sentimental Value review: The most civilised film of 2025
Beautifully played piece of highish-middle-brow filmmaking that makes the best of strategically staged confrontations
Elle Fanning: ‘Someone called their dad for the first time in years after Sentimental Value’
The actress stars in Joachim Trier’s acclaimed Sentimental Value, which is an awards-season favourite
Alexander Skarsgard: Filming The Northman in Ireland was ‘months in the mud’
The Swedish actor stars in a new Viking epic full of revenge, nudity and Nordic berserkers
The Painted Bird: This film sent patrons running from cinema. I recommend you watch it
Review: Wartime horrors and inhumane acts are present from the very beginning
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote: Compromised and astonishingly unfinished
Review: 25 years in the making, the hollowness of the female characters is bad timing
Golden Globes: Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood wins big
Saoirse Ronan, nominated for Little Women performance, loses out to Renée Zellweger
Sarajevo Film Festival: A quarter century of big names, tears and awards
From war-zone beginnings, the event is now a cornerstone for the global film industry
Emmy nominations 2019: Fiona Shaw and Chris O’Dowd among nominees
Irish actors up for three awards, as Game of Thrones breaks records with 32 nominations
Chernobyl writer urges Instagram tourists to ‘respect’ nuclear disaster site
Spike in visitors, including someone posing in a g-string, prompts HBO writer to speak out
Chernobyl TV drama will bring new light to 1986 nuclear disaster, says Adi Roche
Campaigner welcomes hard-hitting Sky and HBO TV series that prompted tears at UN
Pierce Brosnan: Our New VBF
If you are having a low day, Brosnan’s Instagram account is a surefire way to lift that dark cloud
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again: implausible and maddeningly odd – but great fun
Review: No musical staffed by actors who sing like suffering badgers had any right to be so much fun
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