Four new films to see this weekEngrossing drama about Munich Olympics hostage crisis. Plus long but twist Iranian thriller, Barry Keoghan in ersatz Irish western, and acceptable female boxing biopicSun Feb 09 2025 - 05:00
The Fire Inside review: The Olympic champion Claressa ‘T-Rex’ Shields deserves an Oscar-worthy biopic. This isn’t quite thatThis Barry Jenkins-scripted sports drama has enough quality to please genre and sports enthusiasts but feels like an undercard fixtureThu Feb 06 2025 - 05:10
September 5 review: Tightly assembled thriller revisits the Munich Olympics hostage crisisThe lack of geopolitical context is questionable, but the film-making is sound Wed Feb 05 2025 - 05:00
A flogging and eight years in prison: The risks Mohammad Rasoulof ran to make the Oscar-nominated Seed of the Sacred Fig The nail-biting thriller is one of the most-lauded films of the past year - and making it involved secret shoots as well as interrogation by Iranian authoritiesTue Feb 04 2025 - 05:15
Four new films to see this weekMike Leigh’s latest drama is ‘desperately moving’. Plus evocative doc on Edna O’Brien, a clever spin on The Stepford Wives, and a lovely, low-key anime from JapanSun Feb 02 2025 - 05:00
Companion review: Sophie Thatcher is the scream queen to beat in this post-AI spin on The Stepford WivesDocile, robot heroine becomes the victim in Drew Hancock’s playful horror comedyThu Jan 30 2025 - 05:00
The Colors Within review: The story of a socially awkward Catholic student and her friends Naoko Yamada’s gentle animated drama has all of the yearning and discomfort of adolescenceWed Jan 29 2025 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekAstonishing epic The Brutalist practically groans with ambition. Plus lo-fi spooker Presence, heartfelt indie drama Parachute, and affectionate Naples portrait Posso Entrare?Sun Jan 26 2025 - 05:00
This century’s The Godfather: How Brady Corbet made the staggering film The BrutalistAged 36, the auteur has already made three of the most remarkable films of the 21st century – including the one tipped to win this year’s best-picture OscarSat Jan 25 2025 - 05:15
Presence review: Steven Soderbergh’s ghost story is flashy film-making but short on thrillsThe presence lacks presence and the script can’t get around the gimmicky, oppressive first-person cameraThu Jan 23 2025 - 05:00
Parachute: Brittany Snow’s sensitive Gen Z romance is a low-key wonderSnow draws her own experiences with an eating disorder into this carefully calibrated directorial debutWed Jan 22 2025 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekMuch trumpeted Bob Dylan biopic is pleasant but bland hagiography. Plus surprisingly original monster mash The Wolf Man, moving speculative documentary Pepe, and slick but decidedly unerotic remake of ‘70s softcore sensation EmmanuelleSun Jan 19 2025 - 05:00
Wolf Man director Leigh Whannell: ‘For most film-makers, a lot of movies that happen are accidents. It feels very chaotic’Australian creator of the Saw horror series talks about rebooting a werewolf classic and why he never thought Hollywood was his destinyFri Jan 17 2025 - 05:15
Emmanuelle review: The fancy couch is more erotic than the onscreen couplings in this pointless rebootWriter-director Audrey Diwan follows up her Golden Lion-winning Happening with this adaptation of the saucy 1970s soft porn sensation. Why?Thu Jan 16 2025 - 05:00
Pepe: Pablo Escobar’s hippo ruminates on his fate in this odd hybrid fantasyThe cumulative effect of this speculative fantasy is profoundly sadTue Jan 14 2025 - 05:00
The Girl with the Needle review: Splendid but sombre serial-killer-inspired fairy tale for grown-upsMagnus von Horn’s feature is loosely based on early-20th-century Danish child-killer Dagmar OverbyeFri Jan 10 2025 - 05:00
The Damned review: Chilly horror powered along by suspicion, atmospherics and an unforgettable landscapeThordur Palsson’s work is powered along by suspicion, atmospherics and an unforgettable landscapeThu Jan 09 2025 - 05:00
Babygirl review: Five stars for a fearless Nicole Kidman’s dive into a hot erotic mess. Bondage has seldom been as playfulHarris Dickinson may be the most versatile young star on the planetWed Jan 08 2025 - 05:00
10 great films to watch if you’re stuck indoorsWhat to watch when it’s too cold and icy to go out? Try It Follows, The Thing, The Fly, Roman Holiday, Up, Uncle Buck and moreTue Jan 07 2025 - 10:32
Four new films to see this week Nosferatu, Nickel Boys, We Live in Time, BeezelSun Jan 05 2025 - 05:00
Babygirl director Halina Reijn: ‘Our film is very sexy. It’s important to bring sex back after #MeToo’Reijn’s wild ride of a movie stars Nicole Kidman, in a wickedly funny turn, as a chief executive embroiled in a sexual power struggle with an underlingFri Jan 03 2025 - 05:00
Nosferatu review: Lily-Rose Depp is exquisite in a horror of two halvesRobert Eggers’s take on Murnau’s 1922 classic is spellbinding, but then it dithers about its directionWed Jan 01 2025 - 05:00
Nickel Boys review: You’ll never have seen anything like this daring, heartbreaking chronicle of abuse and inequalityRaMell Ross’s film brings Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer-winning tale to the screenTue Dec 31 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see in the cinema this week Clever Robbie Williams biopic Better Man and gripping Christmas shocker Terrifier 3, plus How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies and Sonic the Hedgehog 3Sun Dec 29 2024 - 05:00
50 films to see in 2025, from Babygirl to You’re Cordially InvitedNicole Kidman stars in a kinky office romance, Reese Witherspoon and Will Ferrell play wedding planners, and Éanna Hardwicke and Steve Coogan replay SaipanSat Dec 28 2024 - 05:30
Terrifier 3 review: Everyone is on Art the Clown’s naughty list Gruesome horror film has generated reports of fainting and vomiting at early screeningsThu Dec 26 2024 - 05:00
How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies review: Warm, witty tear-jerker about an improbable subjectWholesome film became the biggest Thai release of the year with $50m in ticket sales worldwideWed Dec 25 2024 - 05:00
Nosferatu director Robert Eggers: ‘We needed to find a way to make the vampire scary again’The film-maker follows in the eerie footsteps of FW Murnau and Werner Herzog in his new feature, starring Lily-Rose Depp and Nicholas HoultMon Dec 23 2024 - 05:00
The 50 best films of 2024 – a full list in reverse orderThe 10 highest-grossing titles were all sequels – but none is in our 50-best list in a year audiences turned out in numbers for ‘cultural cinema’Sun Dec 22 2024 - 05:30
The Six Triple Eight: Stirring tribute to the only black women’s unit to serve in Europe during the second World WarThe script is seldom subtle but impressive war tableaux act as a salve for dialogueThu Dec 19 2024 - 05:00
‘When these women left home there were rumours that they were sent to Europe to be concubines for black soldiers’The Six Triple Eight director Tyler Perry on the true story behind his new film, about the only US army unit of black women sent to Europe during the second World WarWed Dec 18 2024 - 05:15
The Order review: This taut, gritty white-supremacist thriller could pass for a rediscovered early-1970s classicJude Law impresses as an FBI agent on the trail of murderous bank robbers, bomb-builders and counterfeitersWed Dec 18 2024 - 05:00
Beauty & the Beast review: On the way home, younger audience members re-enact scenes. There’s no higher recommendationAlan Hughes and Karl Broderick’s interactive pantomime, directed by Simon Delaney, features the promising Caoileann Woodcock as BelleMon Dec 16 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekLord of the Rings anime prequel is violent fun for fans, but Luca Guadagnino’s Queer is a vacuous disappointment. Plus documentaries The Bibi Files and Chasing the LightSun Dec 15 2024 - 05:00
Queer review: There’s not a trace of William S Burroughs in Luca Guadagnino’s hugely disappointing adaptation A vacuous film that frequently feels like an overstyled catalogue shootThu Dec 12 2024 - 05:00
The Bibi Files: Scathing portrait of Binyamin Netanyahu’s alleged history of backhandersAlexis Bloom’s documentary, using leaked footage of police interrogations of the Israeli prime minister, paints a murky pictureWed Dec 11 2024 - 10:15
Love Actually and That Christmas writer Richard Curtis: ‘I still hope to convince my wife to watch one episode of Blackadder’There’s little in comedy writing that Richard Curtis hasn’t done. So adapting his That Christmas children’s tales for the screen has been a welcome changeMon Dec 09 2024 - 05:00
Trans-musical Emilia Pérez wins best film at European Film AwardsKarla Sofía Gascón becomes the first trans woman to win best actress as Belfast’s Kneecap film loses out on two nominationsSun Dec 08 2024 - 10:31
The 10 worst films of 2024 – and Gladiator II is one of themWe gave you the best films, now here’s the worst. Is it a surprise half of these are sequels?Sun Dec 08 2024 - 05:30
The 50 best films of 2024 – the top 10 movies of the yearWe reach our top 10 favourite movies released in Ireland this yearSat Dec 07 2024 - 05:30
The 50 best films of 2024: No 20 to No 11We continue our countdown of our favourite movies released in Ireland this yearFri Dec 06 2024 - 05:30
The 50 best films of 2024: No 30 to No 21We continue our countdown of our favourite movies released in Ireland this yearThu Dec 05 2024 - 05:30
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl: Rungano Nyoni’s darkly comic abuse-survival tale is a blistering originalReview: Splendidly sardonic drama drowns out repressed traumas with a gaggle of aunties and absurdly elaborate funeral arrangementsThu Dec 05 2024 - 05:00
The 50 best films of 2024: No 50 to No 31 The 10 highest-grossing titles were all sequels – but none is in our 50-best list in a year audiences turned out in numbers for ‘cultural cinema’Wed Dec 04 2024 - 05:30
Merchant Ivory: Stephen Soucy’s documentary lifts up the petticoats of the prestigious production houseA rollicking account of a long movie partnership that was flying by the seat of its pantsWed Dec 04 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekVatican thriller Conclave is gripping hokum. Plus poetic Mumbai drama All We Imagine as Light, mild and pleasant Disney sequel Moana 2, and ho-ho-hum Christmas romcom Our Little SecretSun Dec 01 2024 - 05:00
‘They are stupid people for stupid times’: Cate Blanchett on presidents, prime ministers and powerThe Oscar-winner plays a scheming German chancellor in Rumours, Guy Maddin’s raucous, phantasmagorical comedy about the G7Sat Nov 30 2024 - 05:30
All We Imagine as Light director Payal Kapadia: ‘In India we have fables because women can’t always express their feelings’The acclaimned film-maker on the dynamics of Mumbai, the significance of rice cookers and why doesn’t mind being overlooked in India’s Oscar raceFri Nov 29 2024 - 05:00
Moana 2: Entertaining Disney sequel has the best boat chases since Live and Let DieThe film’s best scenes lean into the chemistry between Auliʻi Cravalho’s Moana and Dwayne Johnson’s MauiTue Nov 26 2024 - 19:48
Our Little Secret: Awkward! Lindsay Lohan’s Christmas flick may as well be AI generatedHo ho ho, it’s a dull-witted, soundstage-bound romance with festive trimmings and a clockwork plotTue Nov 26 2024 - 19:34
