No Bears review: Clever and gripping cinemaIranian master Jafar Panahi defies the odds with this blistering politically charged dramaFri Nov 11 2022 - 05:00
‘A remarkable woman artist looking at another woman artist looking at another woman artist’ An absorbing new documentary explores the literary detective work of award-winning author Doireann Ní GhríofaThu Nov 10 2022 - 05:00
Women with HIV: ‘A lot of people can’t tell their stories’How to Tell a Secret is a fascinating hybrid documentary about the experiences of women with the virusWed Nov 09 2022 - 05:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekMy Father’s Dragon, Lyra, Living, The Peculiar Sensation of Being Pat IngoldsbySun Nov 06 2022 - 05:00
The Peculiar Sensation of Being Pat Ingoldsby review: A portrait of the artist as an older gentlemanPleasing collaboration between Tom Burke and Seamus Murphy lets Ingoldsby’s witty poems do much of the talkingFri Nov 04 2022 - 05:00
Living review: Understated, perfectly pitched drama about terminal illnessCinema: Bill Nighy puts in a career-best turn as a civil servant with six months to liveFri Nov 04 2022 - 00:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekBarbarian, The Wonder, Bros, Triangle of SadnessSun Oct 30 2022 - 05:00
Pat Ingoldsby: ‘I didn’t want to be in anything that involved talking about myself’The poet and broadcaster has reluctantly re-emerged into public view with a new documentary about his lifeSat Oct 29 2022 - 05:00
Barbarian review: This entertaining, properly scary horror film is a flawless piece of movie-makingZach Cregger’s Halloween horror has deservedly become a seasonal US hit — and a terrific argument against rental propertiesFri Oct 28 2022 - 05:00
The Wonder review: Adaptation of Emma Donoghue’s novel falls flatFlorence Pugh is the standout in the well-cast film that really ought to pack a greater punchFri Oct 28 2022 - 03:00
‘I wanted to have the most vomiting that we have ever had on screen’Triangle of Sadness, the double Palme d’Or winner Ruben Östlund’s chunky new satire, takes aim at the fashion industry and the badly behaved super-richThu Oct 27 2022 - 05:00
Decision to Leave review: A dazzling piece of cinemaFeverish, discombobulating South Korean riff on Hitchcock’s VertigoFri Oct 21 2022 - 05:00
Wendell & Wild review: Giggles from the graveCoraline director Henry Selick teams with Peele and Key for a Halloween treatFri Oct 21 2022 - 05:00
Paul Feig: ‘I like the comedy of women. I’m not an aggressive guy’The amiable Bridesmaids director has high hopes for The School for Good and Evil, his teen fantasy with Michelle Yeoh, Kerry Washington and Charlize TheronTue Oct 18 2022 - 04:00
Four new films to see this weekAll Quiet on the Western Front, Emily and Holy Island in cinemas, Rosaline streamingSun Oct 16 2022 - 05:00
‘I want to be an open representative of my community’Actor Quintessa Swindell is breaking new ground in the DC Expanded UniverseSat Oct 15 2022 - 05:00
Rosaline review: Shakespeare-inspired romcom doesn’t quite workYoung Adult retelling of Romeo and Juliet undermines a great love story with its offhand frivolityFri Oct 14 2022 - 05:00
Emily review: Impressive origin story for Wuthering HeightsFirst-time director Frances O’Connor heads for the wild, windy moorsFri Oct 14 2022 - 05:00
Steve Coogan: ‘I’ve always wanted to tell an Irish story, to make a film about a nice priest’The creator of Alan Partridge on his new film on Richard III and preparing to play Jimmy SavileSun Oct 09 2022 - 05:39
Vicky: A steely portrait worthy of the fighter who took on CervicalCheck and the HSEReview: Sasha King’s unsentimental film about Vicky Phelan, the women’s health campaigner, chronicles a murky world of laboratory testing and tendersFri Oct 07 2022 - 05:00
Amsterdam: An exhausting, muddled plot worn very thinDavid O Russell’s comedy looks good but a star-studded cast can do little to rescue the wholly misconceived scriptFri Oct 07 2022 - 05:00
The enigma of Emily Brontë: ‘I think she suffered from social anxiety’How did the shy young daughter of an Irish clergyman come to write Wuthering Heights? A brilliant new biopic has a crack at the puzzleWed Oct 05 2022 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekFlux Gourmet, Pure Grit and Midwives on limited release, Hocus Pocus 2 streamingSun Oct 02 2022 - 05:00
Hocus Pocus 2: An unlovely, unwarranted sequelStartlingly magic-free belated sequel to witchy 1993 comedy wastefully reunites stars Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy NajimyFri Sept 30 2022 - 05:00
Midwives review: A compelling and hopeful insight into events leading up to Myanmar coupBurmese documentary film chronicles the friendship and conflicts between a Buddhist Bamar midwife and her Muslim Rohingya apprenticeFri Sept 30 2022 - 05:00
Peter Strickland: Cooking up a foodie horror concoction with relishBritain’s most daring director finds sonic inspiration in food in his new film, Flux GourmetWed Sept 28 2022 - 05:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this week, including a controversial Marilyn Monroe biopicBlonde, Don’t Worry Darling, Athena, After YangSun Sept 25 2022 - 05:00
A soulful Colin Farrell gives one of his best performances so farDelicate, melancholy study of transhumanism has taken 18 months to get here following its Cannes debut, but it was worth the waitFri Sept 23 2022 - 05:00
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
