Making An Cailín Ciúin: ‘An Irish-language film going toe to toe with world cinema was special’Colm Bairéad’s film of Claire Keegan’s story is part of a new wave of cinema in IrishSat May 07 2022 - 05:00
Wake Up Punk: Railing against the commodification machineFilm review: Lively, ragged documentary bemoans sad fate of once-spiky movementFri May 06 2022 - 05:00
Wild Men: Masculinity in an absurdist crisisFilm review: Thomas Daneskov’s amusing Danish comedy caper accentuates the ridiculousFri May 06 2022 - 05:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekDownton Abbey: A New Era, The Velvet Queen, Casablanca Beats, The Lady of HeavenSun May 01 2022 - 06:00
The Velvet Queen is quite unlike any other wildlife filmCannes prizewinner features trio’s search for the regal snow leopard of the titleFri Apr 29 2022 - 05:00
Casablanca Beats film review: A messy but vibrant street musicalWhile the teacher remains unknowable his charges are open books begging to be readFri Apr 29 2022 - 05:00
Four new films to see in cinemas and stream this weekHappening, Playground, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, EnnioSun Apr 24 2022 - 06:00
‘Music and dancing is like oxygen...It’s super important’Casablanca Beats is a mash-up docu-drama and hip-hop musical set in a Moroccan suburbSat Apr 23 2022 - 00:00
Ennio review: Warm portrait of cinema’s greatest maestroTributes become repetitive but there’s much to enjoy in this documentary about Ennio MorriconeFri Apr 22 2022 - 05:00
Playground review: Powerful depiction of school bullyingClautrophobic setting intensifies the sense of dreadFri Apr 22 2022 - 05:00
‘It was a novel that was read by everyone’The 10th anniversary tour of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, adapted from the novel by Mark Haddon, comes to Dublin’s Bord Gáis EnergyThu Apr 21 2022 - 06:00
‘Illegal abortions are not an old story for many women’Audrey Diwan on her new film, Happening, based the 2000 memoir by celebrated French writer Annie ErnauxTue Apr 19 2022 - 00:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekRobert Eggers’s The Northman, Bullock & Tatum in The Lost City, Small Body, BenedetaSun Apr 17 2022 - 06:00
Small Body: Don’t miss this lush productionCeleste Cescutti leads largely unprofessional cast with a fierce performanceFri Apr 15 2022 - 05:00
Benedetta: Absurd, bodice-ripping nunsploitation flickReview: Paul Verhoeven has made an explicit, curiously unsexy version of Carry On, SisterFri Apr 15 2022 - 05:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekThe Outfit, Fantastic Beasts 3, Compartment No 6, All I Can SaySun Apr 10 2022 - 06:00
Compartment No 6: Strangers bond on a trainCannes award-winner follows unlikely friendship in post-Soviet RussiaFri Apr 08 2022 - 05:00
All I Can Say: Moving portrait of a 1990s rock’n’roll casualtyDocumentary does fine job of sifting through footage of Blind Melon singer Shannon HoonFri Apr 08 2022 - 05:00
‘I had to plan to give birth in five hospitals on the way to Cannes’Croatian filmmaker Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic on success and sexismMon Apr 04 2022 - 00:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekTrue Things, Morbius, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, The Bad GuysSun Apr 03 2022 - 06:00
Compartment No 6: ‘In Russia everything is a bit bigger. The characters are a bit larger’Juho Kuosmanen’s film places a Russian corner boy on a train with a Finnish studentSat Apr 02 2022 - 05:00
True Things: Making a very big romantic mistakePoised performances from two leads give this drama real intensityFri Apr 01 2022 - 05:00
Sonic the Hedgehog 2: Haven’t we suffered enough?Grim sequel to an unimpressive originalFri Apr 01 2022 - 05:00
Harry Wootliff: ‘That’s my genre – smart, strong women making bad choices’The British film-maker on her new drama True Things and being true to herselfWed Mar 30 2022 - 05:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekAmbulance, The Cellar, The Worst Person in the World, RiverSun Mar 27 2022 - 06:00
The Worst Person in the World: Life lessons for millennialsFilm review: Freewheeling drama doesn’t always convince but has plenty to entertainFri Mar 25 2022 - 05:00
River: Poetic exploration of the planet’s arteriesFilm review: Documentary features incredible aerial imagery and sonorous narrationFri Mar 25 2022 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekFresh and Deep Water on demand, The Phantom of the Open and Hive in cinemasSun Mar 20 2022 - 06:00
Making The Worst Person in the World, an Oscar-nominated ‘unromantic comedy’The writer-director Joachim Trier on his character study of a flibbertigibbetSat Mar 19 2022 - 05:00
Hive: Award-winning portrait of feminist resistance in the face of oppressionKosovo-set drama focuses on inspirational central characterFri Mar 18 2022 - 05:00
Fresh: Wildly entertaining horror on modern datingDaisy Edgar-Jones shines in a clever film that contains the craziest reveal of the yearFri Mar 18 2022 - 05:00
Jacques Audiard: ‘My characters are all wrong about themselves’The director’s new film, Paris, 13th District – a series of love stories – marks a departureWed Mar 16 2022 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekRed Rocket and Foscadh in cinemas, Turning Red and The Adam Project streamingSun Mar 13 2022 - 06:00
The Adam Project: Effective retro entertainment that comes back from the futureFilm review: Ryan Reynolds time-travel adventure gives all the good lines to the boysFri Mar 11 2022 - 05:00
Foscadh: Get ready for the new wave as GaeilgeDónall O Héalai shines in this ambiguous, compelling dramaFri Mar 11 2022 - 05:00
Sean Baker: ‘Suitcase pimps live off female talent in the adult film world’The American director’s latest film, Red Rocket, is a ‘roller-coaster of tones and ethics’Wed Mar 09 2022 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekThe Batman, Ali & Ava, and Irish-themed You Are Not My Mother and NightrideSun Mar 06 2022 - 06:00
Ali & Ava: Mature romance with emotional punchThis Yorkshire-set drama about a quietly magnetic couple is strangely joyfulFri Mar 04 2022 - 05:00
You Are Not My Mother: An unholy marriage of Irish folklore and familial dysfunctionFilm review: Impressive debut blurs line between friction, bipolar disorder and the supernaturalFri Mar 04 2022 - 05:00
Dónall Ó Héalai on his new role: ‘A few people have remarked on the haircut’The first bona fide Irish-language movie star on Arracht and his latest film, FoscadhWed Mar 02 2022 - 05:00
‘Cannon Arm’ and his quest to play an arcade game for 100 hoursDirector of extraordinary documentary talks about eccentric obsessives who inspired itMon Feb 28 2022 - 05:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekCyrano, The Duke, Foo Fighters’ Studio 666, RurangiSun Feb 27 2022 - 06:00
The Batman reinvented, with Robert Pattinson, Zoe Kravitz, and Colin Farrell as The PenguinDirector Matt Reeves on his lifelong preparation for the latest Batman filmSat Feb 26 2022 - 05:00
The Duke: Buoyant Brit-com keeps things fluffy and funFilm review: Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren deliver in this cosy comedyFri Feb 25 2022 - 05:00
Cyrano: A classic successfully rebornFilm review: Dinklage deserves Oscar recognition for this fine musical reworkingFri Feb 25 2022 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekHere Before, The Beatles and Charlie Chaplin in cinemas, Texas Chainsaw streamingSun Feb 20 2022 - 06:00
Dublin International Film Festival: What to see at the 2022 eventThis year’s festival is looking back at past glories while screening future classicsSat Feb 19 2022 - 05:00
The Real Charlie Chaplin: Unravelling the little TrampBetween the myths and the mysteries, Chaplin remains hard to graspFri Feb 18 2022 - 05:00
Here Before: A creeping sense of dreadReview: Stacey Gregg’s spooky Belfast-set psychodrama pushes all the right buttonsFri Feb 18 2022 - 05:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekKenneth Branagh’s Death on the Nile, Oscar nominee Flee, Irish documentary The Dance, and Drive My Car director’s Wheel of Fortune and FantasySun Feb 13 2022 - 06:00
