Four new films to see this week: The Devil Wears Prada 2, The Song Cycle, Hokum, Reflection in a Dead Diamond
Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Adam Scott and Nick Kelly feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of May 1st, 2026
Reflection in a Dead Diamond review: Who needs a new Bond film when there’s this to be dazzled by?
The Belgian duo Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani have crafted the most convincing Bond film since A View to a Kill
Hokum review: Adam Scott excels in this Irish ghost story with a sly sense of fun
Director Damian McCarthy corrals witches, grief and dark comedy into a claustrophobic hotel drama
Severance actor Adam Scott on filming in west Cork: ‘I was the American weirdo upstairs. I loved it’
Severance star’s new film is Hokum, directed by the Irish film-maker Damian McCarthy
Four new films to see this week: Mother Mary, Rose of Nevada, Michael, Exit 8
Anne Hathaway, Michaela Coel, George MacKay, Callum Turner and Michael Jackson feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of April 24th, 2026
Exit 8 review: An elegant horror that forces the unfortunate hero’s paranoid mindset on the viewer
Trapped in an endless passageway, the protagonist must scan his surroundings for anomalies
Michael review: Two hours of cosplay karaoke – and absolutely no suggestion of impropriety
Jaafar Jackson does a good job channelling his late uncle, but this is a sanitised, corporatised cash-in
Primavera director Damiano Michieletto: ‘Wexford is in my heart. It’s an important part of my story’
Crafting a film, he notes, is an adjacent but separate skill set from staging opera
Four new films to see this week: Lee Cronin’s The Mummy, Kiss of the Spider Woman, The Wizard of the Kremlin, The Blue Trail
Jack Reynor, Jennifer Lopez, Paul Dano, Alicia Vikander and Jude Law feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of April 16th, 2026
The Blue Trail review: Ageing rebel’s spirit reawakens in defiant journey down the Amazon
Gabriel Mascaro’s exuberant film blends dystopian sci-fi with real-world concerns about elder care
The Wizard of the Kremlin review: Jude Law lends gravitas to this clunky drama
Too often the film feels like a prestige television series compressed into an unwieldy feature length
Couture director Alice Winocour: ‘Angelina Jolie was a punk when she was younger. She still has that spirit’
The French director immersed herself in the fashion world for her upcoming movie, which stars Jolie as a film-maker who learns during Paris Fashion Week that she has breast cancer
Four new films to see this week: Father Mother Sister Brother, Undertone, You, Me & Tuscany, The Stranger
Tom Waits, Cate Blanchett, Halle Bailey, Benjamin Voisin and Rebecca Marder feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of April 10th, 2026
Father Mother Sister Brother review: The lowest point of Jim Jarmusch’s wildly uneven film is sadly the Dublin section
Jim Jarmusch’s anthology of three family dramas is wildly uneven – Cate Blanchett and Vicky Krieps are miscast
Undertone review: Creepy Catholic iconography adds to unease of debut director’s eerie chiller
Ian Tuason shot the film in his own childhood home, where he cared for both parents at the end of their lives