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Puffin Rock and the New Friends: Chris O’Dowd at his charming best in a world-conquering Irish animation

Puffin Rock and the New Friends: Chris O’Dowd at his charming best in a world-conquering Irish animation

There’s enough jeopardy to keep small humans riveted in this first big-screen outing, but nothing too scary

Fri Jul 14 2023 - 07:00
Medusa: Consistently trippy satirical art-house horror takes aim at Brazil’s evangelical cults

Medusa: Consistently trippy satirical art-house horror takes aim at Brazil’s evangelical cults

The film’s ideas about women as religious enforcers, complicit in their own subjugation, are fascinating

Fri Jul 14 2023 - 05:00
‘Freediving was like nothing I’d ever seen’: breathtaking Irish film about a deeply dangerous sport garners early awards buzz

‘Freediving was like nothing I’d ever seen’: breathtaking Irish film about a deeply dangerous sport garners early awards buzz

Kildare filmmaker Laura McGann’s documentary The Deepest Breath centres on the mysterious bond between an Italian competitor and her Irish safety diver

Mon Jul 10 2023 - 05:30
Simon Pegg: ‘We’re at a tipping point, and people are getting upset because so and so isn’t playing Spider-Man’

Simon Pegg: ‘We’re at a tipping point, and people are getting upset because so and so isn’t playing Spider-Man’

The nerdy obsessive behind Shaun of the Dead and Spaced has come such a long way that Tom Cruise even has a nickname for him

Sun Jul 09 2023 - 06:30
Four new films to see this week

Four new films to see this week

Cruise & co firing on all cylinders in latest Mission: Impossible, plus Pierce Brosnan in fun caper comedy The Out-Laws, French satire Smoking Causes Coughing, and Morocco-set drama The Damned Don’t Cry

Sun Jul 09 2023 - 05:00
The Damned Don’t Cry: ‘After a few days of being shy, the cast was like: my character would never, ever say that’

The Damned Don’t Cry: ‘After a few days of being shy, the cast was like: my character would never, ever say that’

Fyzal Boulifa on learning to trust the non-professional cast of his Morocco-set second feature, The Damned Don’t Cry

Sat Jul 08 2023 - 05:15
Smoking Causes Coughing: Vive les super-heros

Smoking Causes Coughing: Vive les super-heros

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse has a worthy rival in this French Power Rangers spoof

Fri Jul 07 2023 - 05:00
The Damned Don’t Cry: Brilliant Moroccan melodrama offsets tragedy with beauty

The Damned Don’t Cry: Brilliant Moroccan melodrama offsets tragedy with beauty

Fyzal Boulifa’s muscular second feature is about a mother and son’s achingly human need for security and belonging

Thu Jul 06 2023 - 05:00
Four new films to see this week

Four new films to see this week

Harrison Ford does his gruffly charming best in frenetic but underwhelming Indiana Jones 5, plus enjoyable animation Ruby Gilman, Teenage Kraken, amiable doc Hello, Bookstore, and Succession’s Sarah Snook in eerie Run Rabbit Run

Sun Jul 02 2023 - 05:00
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken: starry cast  fails to save an amiable but busy yarn

Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken: starry cast fails to save an amiable but busy yarn

Animated film can’t decide if it’s a menstrual metaphor, generational conflict story, Nickelodeon sitcom or underwater Harry Potter

Fri Jun 30 2023 - 05:15
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny: Not even Harrison Ford’s gruff charm can save this phoney adventure

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny: Not even Harrison Ford’s gruff charm can save this phoney adventure

To damn this (hopefully) final instalment with the faintest praise, it’s not as bad as Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Wed Jun 28 2023 - 20:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this week

Four new films to see in cinemas this week

We Anderson’s exquisitely crafted but twee and exhausting Asteroid City, plus Jennifer Lawrence’s cringy, atrocious romcom No Hard Feelings and superior documentaries The Last Rider and The Super 8 Years

Sun Jun 25 2023 - 05:00
Hello, Bookstore: A fond reminder that being in a bookshop can feel like a reunion with old friends

Hello, Bookstore: A fond reminder that being in a bookshop can feel like a reunion with old friends

Move over, Tom Cruise; the jaunty owner of a US bookstore is this summer’s most compelling movie hero

Sat Jun 24 2023 - 05:00
The Last Rider: This Greg LeMond film is an antidote to the scandals that have rocked cycling

The Last Rider: This Greg LeMond film is an antidote to the scandals that have rocked cycling

LeMond and his wife, Kathy, are the primary contributors to this engaging account of his second Tour de France win

Thu Jun 22 2023 - 05:00
No Hard Feelings review: Jennifer Lawrence may need to have a word with her agent

No Hard Feelings review: Jennifer Lawrence may need to have a word with her agent

What exactly is this supposed to be? The crummiest beta AI could produce a funnier movie than this one

Wed Jun 21 2023 - 13:00
Four new films to see this week

Four new films to see this week

High-energy superheroics in The Flash, plus the human body close up in De Humani Corporis Fabrica, gay religious drama You Can Live Forever, and trashily kinetic Extraction 2 on Netflix

Sun Jun 18 2023 - 05:00
Alexandra Burke on her screen debut in Pretty Red Dress: ‘I was beside myself when I got the part’

Alexandra Burke on her screen debut in Pretty Red Dress: ‘I was beside myself when I got the part’

Fifteen years after her X Factor success, this star retains the enthusiasm evident in that winning run of performances

Sat Jun 17 2023 - 05:00
De Humani Corporis Fabrica: The faint of heart should look away now

De Humani Corporis Fabrica: The faint of heart should look away now

This French surgery documentary is cinema at its most visceral

Fri Jun 16 2023 - 05:00
You Can Live Forever: Teen romance versus religious dogma in a gentle LGBTQ drama

You Can Live Forever: Teen romance versus religious dogma in a gentle LGBTQ drama

Puppy love between a grungy teenager and a minister’s daughter in a Jehovah’s Witness community in 1990s Quebec

Fri Jun 16 2023 - 05:00
Four new films to see this week

Four new films to see this week

Hard-hitting Native American drama War Pony and Ukrainian crime thriller Panfir, plus so-so Flamin’ Hot streaming on Disney — and yet another noisy Transformers

Sun Jun 11 2023 - 05:00
Riley Keough: ‘People wanted a white person they could identify with. That was a weird note we got a lot’

Riley Keough: ‘People wanted a white person they could identify with. That was a weird note we got a lot’

The actor turned director talks about the love that went into bringing reservation drama War Pony to the big screen

Sat Jun 10 2023 - 05:00
Pamfir: Masculinity has seldom been more cartoonishly toxic

Pamfir: Masculinity has seldom been more cartoonishly toxic

A feral presence and carnivalesque showdown bring colour and Sturm und Drang to the grimmest locales

Fri Jun 09 2023 - 05:00
War Pony: Riley Keough’s directorial debut is a respectful portrayal of a Native American community under pressure

War Pony: Riley Keough’s directorial debut is a respectful portrayal of a Native American community under pressure

The compelling star of Daisy Jones & the Six successfully transitions to the other side of the camera

Fri Jun 09 2023 - 05:00
Four new films to see this week

Four new films to see this week

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Paul Mescal in Carmen, Amanda and Reality

Sun Jun 04 2023 - 05:00
Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City: ‘Every scene and every sentence will have three or four hidden things’

Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City: ‘Every scene and every sentence will have three or four hidden things’

The Wes Anderson ensemble on how they made the Amerindie’s 11th feature.

Sat Jun 03 2023 - 05:00
Reality: Sydney Sweeney shines as a whistleblower under FBI interrogation in this nail-biting thriller

Reality: Sydney Sweeney shines as a whistleblower under FBI interrogation in this nail-biting thriller

Tina Satter’s film adaptation of the case is inventive, but the film is ultimately a showcase for Sweeney

Fri Jun 02 2023 - 05:00
Amanda: Fleabag looks like a girlboss next to the heroine of this riotous Gen Z comedy

Amanda: Fleabag looks like a girlboss next to the heroine of this riotous Gen Z comedy

There’s something of the Greek weird wave or Wes Anderson in Carolina Cavalli’s deadpan humour, offset by Benedetta Porcaroli’s wildly energetic central turn

Fri Jun 02 2023 - 05:00
Sydney Sweeney on the demands of making Reality: ‘Once we got into that room there was no way out’

Sydney Sweeney on the demands of making Reality: ‘Once we got into that room there was no way out’

The Euphoria star plays jailed US intelligence contractor Reality Winner in her new film. Her acting chops eclipse the scurrilous rumours, the memes and the nudity

Wed May 31 2023 - 18:38
Four new films to see in cinemas this week

Four new films to see in cinemas this week

Plus: The Little Mermaid, Disney’s latest live-action cash grab, is nicely sung. Plus Paul Schrader’s masterly Master Gardener, Irish documentary 406 Days, and Finland’s Ramboesque Sisu

Sun May 28 2023 - 05:00
Paul Schrader: ‘I thought, you know what would really f*** with people’s heads? Let’s cast Kevin Spacey. The producer said no’

Paul Schrader: ‘I thought, you know what would really f*** with people’s heads? Let’s cast Kevin Spacey. The producer said no’

The director is still hell-bent on provocation as his latest film, Master Gardener, portrays an interracial romance between a former Proud Boy and his young charge

Sat May 27 2023 - 05:00
Master Gardener:  a five-star masterclass from director Paul Schrader

Master Gardener: a five-star masterclass from director Paul Schrader

Schrader’s new film explores a provocative mix of racial tensions, class struggle and age-gap relationships

Fri May 26 2023 - 05:00
Sisu: Gold-thieving Nazis pick on the wrong guy

Sisu: Gold-thieving Nazis pick on the wrong guy

Storming action film from Finland a welcome throwback to simpler, shared swastika-slaying values

Fri May 26 2023 - 04:45
Maya Hawke: ‘If you were to call me a child of nepotism, then I would be totally comfortable with it’

Maya Hawke: ‘If you were to call me a child of nepotism, then I would be totally comfortable with it’

Cannes diary 2023: Kidnapped is a film that you’ll bawl at least once and feel enraged for the rest of it

Thu May 25 2023 - 10:30
Melissa McCarthy on The Little Mermaid: ‘We all saw camp in the original and we all loved it’

Melissa McCarthy on The Little Mermaid: ‘We all saw camp in the original and we all loved it’

The scene-stealing star plays Ursula in Disney’s new live-action version of the story that has become an unlikely LGBTQ touchstone

Wed May 24 2023 - 05:45
Asteroid City review: Wes Anderson’s new film feels like a pretty collection of actors in search of a movie

Asteroid City review: Wes Anderson’s new film feels like a pretty collection of actors in search of a movie

In competition at Cannes, the director’s 11th feature is an aesthetic triumph. But Anderson’s trademark deadpan silences have seldom felt longer

Tue May 23 2023 - 21:31
Cannes: An unabashedly melodramatic and sexy film offers an unflinching anatomy of a couple

Cannes: An unabashedly melodramatic and sexy film offers an unflinching anatomy of a couple

Cannes diary 2023: Michelle Yeoh does not mince her words, dog vomit and the biggest laughs of the festival so far

Tue May 23 2023 - 13:32
Four new films to see in cinemas this week

Four new films to see in cinemas this week

Joaquin Phoenix in provocative character epic Beau Is Afraid and long-awaited Judy Blume adaptation Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, plus the 10th Fast & Furious and Under the Fig Trees from Tunisia

Sun May 21 2023 - 05:00
Rambo in Finland: ‘I really love films where people are picking on the wrong man’

Rambo in Finland: ‘I really love films where people are picking on the wrong man’

First Blood was a key influence on the remarkable Sisu by director Jalmari Helander

Sat May 20 2023 - 05:00
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret: Judy Blume classic novel gets the big-screen treatment it deserves

Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret: Judy Blume classic novel gets the big-screen treatment it deserves

Blume’s seminal book adapted into a funny, exhilarating coming-of-age movie that will charm all genders

Fri May 19 2023 - 05:00
Fast X: The Furious family just keeps getting bigger. And louder

Fast X: The Furious family just keeps getting bigger. And louder

Unfortunate that gritty street races that once defined the Fast sequence have given way to green screen, CGI and unintelligible fast cuts

Thu May 18 2023 - 05:00
Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me – An almost unbearably unhappy tale

Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me – An almost unbearably unhappy tale

A documentary that works hard to humanise a woman so often depicted as a cartoon

Mon May 15 2023 - 17:00
Four new films to see this week

Four new films to see this week

The stars slightly charm in Book Club sequel, plus The Eight Mountains from Italy, Plan 75 from Japan, and Anna Nicole Smith documentary streaming

Sun May 14 2023 - 05:00
Brainwashed: How the male gaze in cinema has kept women boxed in

Brainwashed: How the male gaze in cinema has kept women boxed in

Nina Menkes on her startling new doc, which shows how women are framed, lit and shot in films to reinforce Hollywood’s male dominance

Sat May 13 2023 - 05:00
The Eight Mountains: Bracing bromance slowly builds towards a sense of catharsis

The Eight Mountains: Bracing bromance slowly builds towards a sense of catharsis

A deserving winner at Cannes, this film is narratively conventional, overlong and occasionally tangential

Fri May 12 2023 - 05:15
Four new films to see in cinemas this week

Four new films to see in cinemas this week

A third enjoyable Guardians of the Galaxy, plus Irish drama Lakelands, Return to Seoul from South Korea and The Blue Caftan from France

Sun May 07 2023 - 05:00
Return to Seoul: Ji-Min Park is remarkable in this smart if maddening character study

Return to Seoul: Ji-Min Park is remarkable in this smart if maddening character study

Davy Chou’s film is a sobering depiction of the impact of intercountry adoption

Fri May 05 2023 - 05:00
The Blue Caftan: Superb performances offset the glitches in this delicate romantic drama

The Blue Caftan: Superb performances offset the glitches in this delicate romantic drama

Three central cast and the warmth of the screenplay get this Moroccan love story over the line

Fri May 05 2023 - 05:00
Harka: ‘Who was this man who became the symbol of the Arab Spring? That was my entry point’

Harka: ‘Who was this man who became the symbol of the Arab Spring? That was my entry point’

Lotfy Nathan has turned Mohamed Bouazizi’s story into the powerful, poignant Harka, starring the extraordinary Adam Bessa

Wed May 03 2023 - 05:15
Four new films on select release this week

Four new films on select release this week

Irish biopic on Ann Lovett, plus French feminist biker flick Rodeo and documentaries on Little Richard and Castro’s spies

Sun Apr 30 2023 - 05:00
The SpongeBob Musical: ‘We all come to the stage smiling, all the songs are uplifting. Everyone is happy’

The SpongeBob Musical: ‘We all come to the stage smiling, all the songs are uplifting. Everyone is happy’

One of the most widely distributed franchises in the world is coming to Dublin on a cloud of joy, laughter and inclusivity

Sat Apr 29 2023 - 05:00
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