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
Marty Supreme review: Timothée Chalamet is bravely abrasive in Josh Safdie’s stunning film
Study of an insufferable table-tennis prodigy is an intelligent entertainment as generously stuffed as the greatest 19th-century novel
How bad does a Christmas film have to be for it to disappear forever? Feast your eyes on these
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, anyone? What about Arnie in Jingle All the Way? It doesn’t matter: Christmas movies are the audiovisual equivalent of snow in a can
Four new films to see this week: The SpongeBob Movie, The Six Billion Dollar Man, Avatar: Fire and Ash and 1975: Breakdown
Julian Assange, Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña and Martin Scorsese feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of December 19th, 2025
Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley: ‘There was an undeniable energy and chemistry between us’
The stars of Hamnet, Chloé Zhao’s Oscar-tipped film, talk Shakespeare, acting and growing up in different Irelands
The 12 Days of Christmas Movie Quiz: Which film did not provide an I’m Alan Partridge episode title?
Plus: Who has never played a Swan (or a Swann)?
Dublin Film Critics Circle awards 2025: Sinners wins near unprecedented number of categories
Big winners among Irish productions were Sinéad O’Shea’s Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story and Brendan Canty’s Christy
The Great Gambon by Milly Ellis: A hilarious stocking filler about the Dublin-born actor
Among those contributing anecdoates are Charles Dance, Simon Russell Beale and Tom Hollander
Breakdown: 1975 review – Documentary goes big on entertainment as it pursues a serious end
Morgan Neville unlocks the solipsism at the centre of the decade in a sharp analysis of a body politic apparently unaware of its own psychological instability
Avatar: Fire and Ash review – All the breakneck oomph of an Antiques Roadshow
If the first instalment of the franchise was a version of Dances with Wolves, this one owes a debt to The Jungle Book. It will make a squidillion dollars
Ten great Rob Reiner movie moments: From Co Clare’s ‘Cliffs of Insanity’ to Kathy Bates’s sledge-hammer performance
Reiner had a gift for delivering standout lines and moments in his movies that stayed with audiences long after final credits had rolled
Rob Reiner: Spinal Tap and When Harry Met Sally director had unparalleled run of hit movies
From 1984 to 1992, the unclassifiable film-maker delivered one of the most extraordinary directorial runs in Hollywood history
Sigourney Weaver interview: ‘I had no illusions about the showbiz world. My father called it the racket’
The Avatar, Alien and Ice Storm actor never had any illusions about show business. That may have helped her become an old-school Hollywood star
Sydney Sweeney looked unstoppable. But she leaves 2025 a divisive figure
Young, talented and good-looking? Then prepare for an online onslaught
Éanna Hardwicke: ‘I don’t feel any kind of security. I enjoy the feeling of each job being the one and only’
The Cork actor is having quite the year, with Saipan en route to cinemas and his London role in The Playboy of the Western World