The Traitors makes no sense. Its logic is flimsy, its flaws obvious. So why do I happily yell through three episodes a week?
Claudia Winkleman’s smash reality show is an effective analogy for the Sisyphean pointlessness of existence. But the contestants can’t say that, obviously
Four new films to see this week
Much trumpeted Bob Dylan biopic is pleasant but bland hagiography. Plus surprisingly original monster mash The Wolf Man, moving speculative documentary Pepe, and slick but decidedly unerotic remake of ‘70s softcore sensation Emmanuelle
Cameron Diaz: ‘I left movies because I wanted to live my life differently. We started our family, and that was all I wanted to do’
The 1990s megastar is back on screen alongside Jamie Foxx in Netflix thriller Back in Action
Oscars 2025 predictions: Irish actors need a miracle, but what about Kneecap?
Saoirse Ronan, Cillian Murphy and Paul Mescal have struggled this awards season. Only a miracle will see an Irish actor get an Oscar nod next week
The Movie Quiz: Pick the actor who was not in Saving Private Ryan?
Plus: How many Terminator films are there?
David Lynch: the surrealist who combined depravity with wholesome iconography of small-town USA
Death of film-maker David Lynch: With Twin Peaks and Wild at Heart it seemed, for a brief magic moment, as if Lynch’s version of the avant-garde could really sit at the centre of mainstream culture. It was not to be
A Complete Unknown review: As Bob Dylan, Timothée Chalamet works his wee nasal cavity to death
James Mangold’s biopic is abundantly flawed, but will serve as a devotional tool for dedicated fans
Wolf Man review: Shocker finds new ways of turning the stomach as it honours the great werewolf tradition
Leigh Whannell’s focus on the psychological over the physical may alienate some gorehounds, but it makes for an original take with subtexts that linger
‘Ireland taking British awards is f**king hilarious’: Kneecap’s six Bafta nominations a leap forward for Irish-language film
Baftas 2025: Rich Peppiatt’s raucous film about the Belfast trio has got into every category where it had even a reasonable chance
Kneecap film and Cillian Murphy’s Small Things Like These lead Ifta nominations
Irish Film and Television Academy awards: Say Nothing and Bad Sisters among other nominees
Mike Leigh: ‘I did a film in Northern Ireland about Catholics and Protestants. I did a play about Jews. To me it’s about people’
Hard Truths is as moving and acute a film as the 82-year-old has ever made. The director talks about rejection, vindication and never changing his approach to movie-making
Megyn Kelly’s rant about Conclave being ‘the most disgusting anti-Catholic film I’ve seen’ is big win for the church
The conservative US journalist’s diatribe might reek of woke-gone-mad overreach, but no, she does indeed describe the twist ending accurately
Maria review: Angelina Jolie captures the tragic glamour of Maria Callas in a masterly portrayal of the opera star
Pablo Larraín’s film attempts to grasp the real human while wallowing in the gorgeousness of it all
A Real Pain review: Kieran Culkin could be on an unstoppable run to an Oscar for this touching, funny drama
Jesse Eisenberg’s light-fingered second directorial effort is a touching, funny drama that allows truths to emerge subtly and sometimes ambiguously