Athena review: War in the suburbsRomain Gavras’s blistering actioner is a wild ride.Fri Sept 23 2022 - 05:00
Romain Gavras: ‘I was not allowed to watch Disney as a kid. I was raised on Greek tragedy’The son of Costa-Gavras has made the most incendiary picture of the year in Athena, set in a French banlieuWed Sept 21 2022 - 05:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekTicket to Paradise, Róise & Frank, Clerks III, Funny PagesSun Sept 18 2022 - 05:00
‘Marilyn Monroe was never respected. Not in her lifetime. She was consumed’Is Andrew Dominik’s controversial biopic the latest act of exploitation of the star’s life?Sat Sept 17 2022 - 05:00
Clerks III: The gang’s (nearly) all back in this enjoyable slice of Gen-X fan serviceKevin Smith goes back to his New Jersey video store roots for this rough-hewn but heartfelt slacker reunionFri Sept 16 2022 - 05:00
Funny Pages: Comic books story a million miles away from the MarvelverseOwen Kline’s Cannes-pleaser is a darkly delightful glimpse into the underground of underground comixFri Sept 16 2022 - 05:00
The talented Eoin Macken has come a long way: an actor on the way up This erstwhile UCD psychology undergraduate and model may not be a household name, but he really should beThu Sept 15 2022 - 05:00
Hallelujah: How Leonard Cohen’s best-known song went from no-show to global hymnFilmmakers Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine chart the strange history of a song that Bono has called the most perfect in the worldWed Sept 14 2022 - 05:00
Juliette Binoche: ‘I know that situation ... to be in love with two men together’The protagonist makes bad choices in Both Sides of the Blade, but she’s made many good choices in her careerSun Sept 11 2022 - 05:00
The Score: A musical crime caper with too many ideas and ambitionsFirst-time film-maker Malachi Smyth has assembled a talented cast for this very different take on an old plotFri Sept 09 2022 - 05:00
Marilyn Monroe — topless, bloodied and killed by her lovers — just got exploited again Andrew Dominik’s long-delayed experimental film, featuring Ana de Armas as the Hollywood star, is daring but problematicThu Sept 08 2022 - 18:00
The discreet charmlessness of the bourgeoisieAga Woszczyńska’s debut film observes the moral emptiness of a holidaying Polish coupleWed Sept 07 2022 - 05:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekFall, Three Thousand Years of Longing, The Territory...and BlackbirdSun Sept 04 2022 - 05:00
The Cry of Granuaile review: An entirely unique addition to the burgeoning Grace O’Malley canonReview: Donal Foreman’s playful take collapses the boundaries between history and mythologyFri Sept 02 2022 - 08:43
The Territory: Documenting the Amazon’s destructionReview: Powerful film charts attack on ‘the heart of the whole world’Fri Sept 02 2022 - 05:00
Fall review: Heightened suspense in effective genre thrillerDon’t mind the dialogue and don’t look downFri Sept 02 2022 - 05:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekOfficial Competition, Beast, Queen of Glory, Mr Malcolm’s listSun Aug 28 2022 - 05:00
Hugh Bonneville on acting, adapting and his mother the MI6 operative: ‘We’re all performing in some way’The actor’s life was changed by Downton Abbey and Paddington. Now he gets the chance to show his nasty sideSat Aug 27 2022 - 05:00
Mr Malcolm’s List film review: A charming but slender piece of Jane Austen fan fictionThis creamy confection, shot in Ireland, has more in common with Bridgerton than Pride and PrejudiceFri Aug 26 2022 - 05:00
Official Competition: Cruz and Banderas have a ball dismantling their own craftReview: The script mercilessly skewers every outrageous story you’ve ever heard about obsessive film-makersFri Aug 26 2022 - 05:00
Funny Pages and the fine art of cringemakingOwen Kline’s comedy is about a young man’s ‘completely misguided ideas of authenticity’Wed Aug 24 2022 - 05:00
Bat Out of Hell: The Musical — ‘The madness is the beauty of it’Jim Steinman and Meat Loaf may be gone, but their magnum opus is live and dangerousTue Aug 23 2022 - 05:00
The Feast: Something nasty in the Welsh rabbitFilm review: A dinner party turns into a nightmarish folk horrorFri Aug 19 2022 - 05:00
My Old School: A pleasing tale of deceptionFilm review: Alan Cumming lip-syncs as the protagonist of this 1990s classroom scandalFri Aug 19 2022 - 05:00
‘My curiosity made me want to meet the wife of the man I was having an affair with’The writer-director Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet on her film Anaïs in Love, filming sex scenes, and the ‘loosening’ of French societyMon Aug 15 2022 - 05:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekNope on general release, Hole in the Head at the IFI, Where Is Anne Frank and Blind Ambition on select releaseSun Aug 14 2022 - 06:00
The Brontës: New film Emily imagines the life of the most mysterious of the sisters‘I wanted to connect the film to Wuthering Heights,’ says first-time writer-director Frances O’ConnorFri Aug 12 2022 - 10:15
Where is Anne Frank? An exquisite, eye-catching animation Review: The director of Waltz with Bashir translates Diary of Young Girl for pre-teen viewersFri Aug 12 2022 - 05:00
Blind Ambition: appealing documentary of an unlikely taleFour Zimbabwean men form their country’s first Wine Tasting Olympics teamFri Aug 12 2022 - 05:00
Waltz with Bashir director aims to bring Anne Frank to new generation: ‘It’s important we use the past to tell the story of today’Ali Folman conjures up Kitty from the pages of the famous diary in his first family animationWed Aug 10 2022 - 05:18
Four new films to see this week ... One of them is a lean, exhilarating thrillerThirteen Live and Prey streaming, Bullet Train and Maisie in cinemasSun Aug 07 2022 - 06:00
Prey film review: This thrilling new Predator movie is the year’s best action flickThrilling new Predator instalment pitches the alien against a young Comanche girl and her dogFri Aug 05 2022 - 05:00
Maisie: Tribute to an artform that’s been changed foreverBritain’s oldest drag performer meets the US equivalent in warm, witty documentaryFri Aug 05 2022 - 05:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekHit the Road, Joyride, Fire of Love, The Deer KingSun Jul 31 2022 - 06:00
‘When David was originally performing, it was still illegal to be homosexual in the UK’A compelling, and frequently hilarious documentary about Maisie Trollette, Britain’s oldest drag queen, ahead of David Raven’s 85th birthday celebrationsSat Jul 30 2022 - 05:00
The Deer King: Not the classic we might have hoped forFilm review: Long-time Studio Ghibli animator makes his directorial debutFri Jul 29 2022 - 05:00
Fire of Love: Volcanic romance that should be seen on largest possible screenMoving, thrilling portrait of married volcano nuts, who first bonded over their love of Mount EtnaFri Jul 29 2022 - 05:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekWhere the Crawdads Sing on general release, Robust, Notre Dame on Fire and Kurt Vonnegut: Unstock in Time on limited releaseSun Jul 24 2022 - 06:00
Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time — An extensive but scattershot documentary Film review: Curb Your Enthusiasm director Robert B Weide’s fond portrait of a countercultural icon and friendFri Jul 22 2022 - 05:00
Notre Dame on Fire: Too soonFilm review: Jean-Jacques Annaud’s French disaster film feels too fresh to yield any surprisesFri Jul 22 2022 - 00:00
Four new films to see this weekPersuasion and The Gray Man streaming, The Railway Children Return and McEnroe on cinema releaseSun Jul 17 2022 - 06:00
Russo brothers: ‘There’s an inherent elitism in Anglo Cinema that is not interesting to us’Having directed four of the biggest movies of all time, Anthony and Joe Russo know what their audience wants — and how to reach itSat Jul 16 2022 - 05:00
McEnroe: Engaging chronicle of the softening of a superbratThe liveliest archive footage dates from McEnroe’s early punkish appearances on courtFri Jul 15 2022 - 06:00
The Gray Man: High-octane hokumFilm review: The Russo Bros return with Netflix’s biggest-budget movie to date, and it will make you pine for the relative complexity of Fast & FuriousFri Jul 15 2022 - 06:00
Director Carrie Cracknell on Persuasion: ‘I always intended to absolutely honour the heart of the book’Netflix has a new Jane Austen adaptation starring Dakota Johnson and Richard E GrantWed Jul 13 2022 - 05:30
Four new films to see this weekThe Sea Beast streaming, Thor: Love and Thunder, Brian and Charles and Futura on cinema releaseSun Jul 10 2022 - 06:00
Brian and Charles: A whimsical delightFilm review: English comedy about an inventor and his robot is like Wallace & Gromit without the clayFri Jul 08 2022 - 06:00
Futura: A vibrant, vital chronicle of young Italy Film review: Documentary finds an alarming sense of uncertainty among its subjectsFri Jul 08 2022 - 06:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekNitram, The Princess, Pompo: The Cinephile, Minions: The Rise of GruSun Jul 03 2022 - 06:00
The massacre that ‘shifted everything in Australia ... It’s taboo to discuss it’Justin Kurzel’s Cannes prizewinning film, Nitram, deals with an Australian tragedy — the Port Arthur MassacreSat Jul 02 2022 - 06:00
