Souleymane’s Story: A powerful and moving chronicle of life on the margins
Boris Lojkine’s much-decorated film follows a Guinean immigrant over three frantic days in Paris
The Leap, at Dublin Theatre Festival, is an imaginative dive into the emotional world of a preteen
Dublin Theatre Festival 2025: Gavin Kostick’s play is Fishamble’s first for young audiences
Four new films to see this week: I Swear, Good Boy, A Want in Her and Tron: Ares
Robert Aramayo, Maxine Peake, Jared Leto and Greta Lee feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of October 10th, 2025
A Want in Her review: Daring and provocative search for a missing mother
Myrid Carten turns the camera to her own fractured family in this fascinating hybrid documentary feature
Tron Ares review: Great music, but it is deja vu all over again for sequel nobody wants
Fabulous styling and camera work cannot save drama about AI program that wants to become human – just like Pinocchio did
Four new films to see this week: A House of Dynamite, Re-Creation, The Smashing Machine and Urchin
Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson, Vicky Krieps, Aidan Gillen and Emily Blunt feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of October 3rd, 2025
‘An illusion of safety’: Kathryn Bigelow and Idris Elba on nuclear-attack thriller House of Dynamite
Dialogue about nuclear weapons has been nonexistent for years, says Oscar-winning director
The God and His Daughter, at Dublin Theatre Festival, has plenty of classical lamentation but not enough Marina Carr
Dublin Theatre Festival 2025: Second part of Marina Carr’s reworking of Sophocles’ Theban plays has plenty of lamentation but not enough Carr
Marina Carr’s The Boy, at Dublin Theatre Festival, asks us to look unflinchingly at the world we have made
Dublin Theatre Festival 2025: Version of the Oedipal myth distinguishes itself with unique Irish sense of fatalism and wit
Urchin review: Harris Dickinson’s impressive directorial debut follows a homeless addict around London
There’s a deep empathy running through the film, which fervently resists sentimentality
Him star Julia Fox: ‘I don’t enjoy adrenaline any more. I just want everything to be calm and soft’
Having endured trauma and instability in her youth, the New York-Italian artist and actor has since had ‘a huge revelation’
The Smashing Machine review: Dwayne Johnson rocks in bruising biopic of MMA pioneer
Contemplative, careful performance in ‘anti-sports movie’ could land punch in awards season
Four new films to see this week: One Battle After Another, Sunphlowers, The Lost Bus and Brides
Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Matthew McConaughey and America Ferrera feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of September 26th, 2025
Brides review: Raw, compassionate chronicle of two teenage girls on a journey into extremism
Nadia Fall’s film is inspired by London schoolgirl Shamima Begum, who left home to join Islamic State
Sunphlowers review: Quietly powerful Irish drama of grief and renewal
Anne McCrudden gives performance of subtlety and strength in director Dave Byrne’s solid debut