Koko-di Koko-da: The singing villain will haunt your dreamsReview: Johannes Nyholm’s unforgettable woodland reverie is grotesque and gloriousFri Sept 11 2020 - 05:00
Sally Potter: the always adventurous filmmakerPotter explores the fluidity of thought in her new movie about a father and daughter dealing with dementiaThu Sept 10 2020 - 05:00
Les Misérables: better than La Haine, more incendiary than Do the Right ThingReview: A wild and electrifying modern French dramaFri Sept 04 2020 - 11:08
Sócrates: A beautifully performed slice of Brazilian social realismReview: This tale of a 15-year-old living by his wits features wildly charismatic performancesFri Sept 04 2020 - 05:00
‘Happy-ever-afters don’t make the most interesting stories’Matthias & Maxime is Xavier Dolan’s eighth feature as writer-director – and he’s only 31Sat Aug 29 2020 - 06:00
She Dies Tomorrow: this no-budget sci-fi film is better than TenetSeimetz creates lovely fragments and mysterious moods to sift through and decipherFri Aug 28 2020 - 07:10
Matthias and Maxime: A finely wrought dramaWriter-director Xavier Dolan gives a crowning and delicate performanceFri Aug 28 2020 - 05:00
Amy Seimetz: ‘I like laughing out really dark things’She Dies Tomorrow has been described as the ‘pandemic movie of the moment’ though it was made well before Covid, explains the directorSat Aug 22 2020 - 05:00
Coup 53: A maddening, gripping portrait of how imperialism worksReview: A story of western skulduggery in Iran takes in Bernie Sanders and Jimmy CarterFri Aug 21 2020 - 05:00
The One And Only Ivan: Never as good as a film featuring Chaka Khan as a chicken should beReview: There are too many subplots for the film to coalesce into a satisfactory movieThu Aug 20 2020 - 05:00
Sputnik: A more interesting watch than recent Hollywood alien filmsSleekly packaged with well-paced horror set-pieces, it’s easy to see why film is a hit in its native RussiaFri Aug 14 2020 - 05:00
Spree: Brash satire starring Patrick Bateman of the social media ageReview: Stranger Things actor’s central turn holds inventive, cultish thriller togetherFri Aug 14 2020 - 05:00
The New Mutants: ‘I kept reading all these articles and none of it was true’After four years, and rumours of creative tensions, Josh Boone’s film is finally hereWed Aug 12 2020 - 05:00
All eyes on Tenet, the spy movie with everything to proveCovid-19 crisis means Christopher Nolan’s new film will be a bellwether for all cinemaSat Aug 08 2020 - 05:00
Four new films to stream this weekendEndings Beginning, Howard, Giraffe, Spaceship EarthFri Aug 07 2020 - 06:00
Spaceship Earth: Engaging but also frustrating and messyReview: A quarantine chronicle, Matt Wolf’s film concerns a group of eight new agersFri Aug 07 2020 - 05:00
Howard: Portrait of lyricist from Disney’s new Golden AgeReview: Film suitable for young fans despite difficult ending to Ashman’s lifeFri Aug 07 2020 - 05:00
The untold story of the man who gave Disney’s beast its soulHoward Ashman’s story is part of Hollywood’s new awareness of its own diverse historyMon Aug 03 2020 - 05:00
Flash Gordon at 40: The greatest superhero film ever made?The shoot was as colourful as the film: ‘It was all madness. But it was delicious madness’Sat Aug 01 2020 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekendBroken Law, Proxima and The Vigil in selected cinemas, Make Up on demandFri Jul 31 2020 - 06:00
Proxima: A corrective to a very NASA-centric genreFilm review: Eva Green gives a career best performance as an ESA astronautFri Jul 31 2020 - 05:00
The Vigil: Demonic horror set among Hasidic Jews deserves a franchiseReview: A long, creepy night of the souls makes excellent use of its settingFri Jul 31 2020 - 00:00
Last and First Men: An extraordinary, engrossing and moving piece of cinemaReview: The first and last film by composer Jóhann Jóhannsson, who died in 2018Wed Jul 29 2020 - 05:00
‘Our film says you can be both: a good mother and a good astronaut’Alice Winocour’s Proxima challenges the male monopoly on space travel storiesTue Jul 28 2020 - 05:00
Paddy Slattery: ‘Film could be poetic. It could be spiritual’Film-maker's cherished Broken Law makes it to cinema – with awards already wonSat Jul 25 2020 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekendSaint Frances, Stage Mother on release, Last and First Men, The Traitor streamingFri Jul 24 2020 - 06:00
Stage Mother: Glittery, old-fashioned and big-heartedReview: There’s nothing novel in the plot or characterisation, but plenty that’s campFri Jul 24 2020 - 05:00
Demi Isaac Oviawe of Young Offenders: ‘I naturally have a resting bitch face’The Young Offenders star on race in Ireland, being tall and juggling acting with schoolSat Jul 18 2020 - 06:00
Four new films to stream this weekendClemency, The Night Eats the World, Landless, Come as You AreFri Jul 17 2020 - 05:00
The Night Eats the World: A new kind of zombie hits our screensReview: Non-vocal zombies make for a fine and creepy innovation – not a rampaging horde in sightFri Jul 17 2020 - 05:00
Landless: Capturing the stamina required for political changeReview: Film chronicles life of 600 families occupying property owned by indebted sugarcane plantFri Jul 17 2020 - 05:00
Finding the Way Back: A career-best performance from Ben AffleckReview: He marries hulking physicality and internal demons with grief and addictionThu Jul 09 2020 - 07:53
Scoob! Scooby-Doo adaptation has hideous animation and a useless plotFrustratingly, there are some good jokes and ideas buried in the displeasing filmThu Jul 09 2020 - 07:47
‘There is a class of white people that is hearing us for the first time’Gina Prince-Bythewood, director of the Netflix movie The Old Guard, on getting films made as a black woman in HollywoodWed Jul 08 2020 - 06:00
Pierce Brosnan: ‘I was an only child from a fractured family’The Irish actor on ‘growing a beard, going grey, and playing Gerry Adams or Will Farrell’s dad’Sat Jul 04 2020 - 05:00
Four new films to stream this weekendHamilton, Lynn + Lucy, The Booksellers, InheritanceFri Jul 03 2020 - 06:00
Lynn + Lucy: A surefooted, gripping, moving filmReview: The cast are terrific, Roxanne Scrimshaw and Nichola Burley positively transfixingThu Jul 02 2020 - 05:00
Hamilton the movie soars above its stage-bound originsReview: The cultural event of this troubled season – it might even break the internetWed Jul 01 2020 - 12:32
Hamilton: The Broadway smash that made its way to the White HouseFilm of the musical comes to Disney+ on July 3rd - but what is all the fuss about?Sat Jun 27 2020 - 05:00
Fanny Lye Deliver’d: The dampest spectacle you will see this yearReview: Thomas Clay’s latest film is a home invasion horror with a Cromwellian twistFri Jun 26 2020 - 05:00
Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga – Enjoyable silliness that hits the right notesReview: Pierce Brosnan has not arched his eyebrows this much in yearsFri Jun 26 2020 - 05:00
Charles Dance: ‘The English did not behave very well, I’m afraid’The actor’s new film, Fanny Lye Deliver’d, is set during the turmoil of the English revolutionWed Jun 24 2020 - 05:00
On the Record: A #MeToo documentary about hip-hop producer Russell SimmonsA new film looking at allegations of sexual abuse at Def Jam recordsSat Jun 20 2020 - 05:00
7500: Who will succumb to Stockholm Syndrome first?Review: This clever feature marks a welcome return for Joseph Gordon-LevittFri Jun 19 2020 - 05:00
Joan of Arc: The world’s most unlikely summer franchiseReview: This is not so much a Joan of Arc movie as an anti-Joan of Arc movieFri Jun 19 2020 - 05:00
The 50 greatest Irish film actors of all time – in orderIs Jamie Dornan better than Donal McCann? Ruth Negga superior to Brenda Fricker?Sat Jun 13 2020 - 05:00
Da 5 Bloods: Spike Lee’s implausible pot-of-gold adventureReview: Director, nonetheless, manages to mine a compelling parallel political narrativeFri Jun 12 2020 - 05:00
Virus Tropical: Delightful, monochrome screen adaptation of a graphic novelReview: Power Paola’s latest offering is a breezy, heartfelt coming-of-age taleFri Jun 12 2020 - 05:00
Judd Apatow: ‘When people tell stories about being horrible, it’s always hilarious’Comedy’s fairy godfather goes serious for his new film, The King of Staten IslandThu Jun 11 2020 - 05:00
Kenneth Branagh: ‘It’s a challenge, Irishness in cinema’The Belfast-born director has, at last, put Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl on the screenSun Jun 07 2020 - 05:00
