Summer of 85: Hormonal teen drama adds up to a pleasing Ozon doodleReview: French director’s latest flits between puppy love, sunny vistas and deathFri Oct 23 2020 - 05:00
The Secret Garden: An old-fashioned family film bolstered by lovely performancesThe action has moved to 1947 and the British partition of IndiaFri Oct 23 2020 - 05:00
Borat 2: Rudy Giuliani’s trouser-reaching scene is the work of a daring young womanBorat Subsequent Moviefilm review: Maria Bakalova is brilliant as Borat’s daughterThu Oct 22 2020 - 12:07
Ben Wheatley: ‘Films can’t all be about people being bludgeoned to death’The British director’s film of du Maurier’s Rebecca for Netflix is ‘romantic and glamorous. It’s a big entertainment’Thu Oct 22 2020 - 05:00
Joe Dante: You have to give a movie time to age, like wineGremlins director talks Spielberg, low-budget horror and ‘bizarre’ film marketTue Oct 20 2020 - 05:00
Margaret Cho: ‘Comedy is still the best decision I ever made in my life’Comedian and actor on surviving a difficult lockdown and US culture warsMon Oct 19 2020 - 05:00
Time: Righteously angry indictment of US justice systemReview: Documentary follows a family’s efforts to free their dad from a 60-year jail sentenceFri Oct 16 2020 - 05:00
Clouds review: squeaky-clean story of real-life teen’s battle with cancerThis tale of musician and internet star Zach Sobiech is too sanitised for real adolescentsFri Oct 16 2020 - 05:00
The Climb: An indie, buddy comedy that is a love letter to French cinemaKyle Marvin's A funny, clever comedy concerns road racing, male friendship, and fluctuating weightWed Oct 14 2020 - 05:00
Netflix: The best 50 films to watch right nowThere’s been another major turnover but catch the classics while you canSat Oct 10 2020 - 06:00
The 40-Year-Old Version: A wildly entertaining movie, in a big week for NetflixReview: Make way for triple threat Radha Blank – the writer, director and star of new filmFri Oct 09 2020 - 05:00
Olivia Cooke: ‘Colm Meaney does everything with a wink and it’s so delicious’The Manchester actor on making the leap to Hollywood, and starring in new Irish-set film PixieThu Oct 08 2020 - 05:00
My Zoe: Julie Delpy the movie star just about carries the silliest scenesThe preposterous plotline is offset by great acting and a meringue-soft sci-fi settingWed Oct 07 2020 - 05:00
Accomplished actor Jennifer Ehle goes to bat for ‘Saint Maud’Latest film has won many admirers since premiere at Toronto International Film FestivalSat Oct 03 2020 - 05:00
Eternal Beauty: Nuanced portrait of paranoid schizophreniaReview: Writer-director Craig Roberts reunites with Sally Hawkins for this darkly comic pieceFri Oct 02 2020 - 05:00
The Boys in the Band is theatrical, dated and utterly fabulousReview: A terrific ensemble cast spit out one-liners in this high-camp period dramaWed Sept 30 2020 - 08:19
Mark O’Halloran: 'I think I’ve gone as dark as I’m going to go’The writer has adapted his own Irish Times Theatre Award-winning play for the screen, and it wasn’t easyTue Sept 29 2020 - 05:30
Bill & Ted in middle age: ‘We felt if we did it with heart, it would work’Alex Winter on friendship with Keanu Reeves, the risky new film and the fun side of fameSat Sept 26 2020 - 05:00
Enola Holmes is here to to steal some of her older brother Sherlock’s thunderReview: With a thrillingly charismatic Millie Bobby Brown, this crowd-pleaser is warm, witty and heaps of good funFri Sept 25 2020 - 06:00
Bill & Ted Face the Music review: It’s an absolute delightKeanu Reeves and Alex Winter return almost 30 years on from the sequel, this third instalment is most excellentThu Sept 24 2020 - 15:59
Hong Khaou: ‘Vietnam is always seen as a victim. I wanted to show it as it is’The director’s new film, Monsoon, explores the wartime legacy of his childhood homeTue Sept 22 2020 - 05:00
Nocturnal: An impressive piece of work, if a little slightReview: Friendless Lauren attracts the attention of rudderless odd-job man PeteFri Sept 18 2020 - 05:00
Rocks: A lippy, funny, electrifying teen dramaReview: Created by a mostly female crew, starring the most charismatic cast of the yearThu Sept 17 2020 - 05:00
Cosmo Jarvis: ‘I think Ireland tends to produce good actors’Musician, actor and filmmaker believes it is a good time to be in the acting gameTue Sept 15 2020 - 05:00
Max Richter on creating his deliberately soporific masterpieceRichter and partner Yulia Mahr’s Sleep is intended to sustain and soothe the sleeping brainSat Sept 12 2020 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekendThe Painted Bird, Koko-di Koko-da, Max Richter’s Sleep, SavageFri Sept 11 2020 - 06:00
Savage: New Zealand’s racist history and underclass laid bareNZ is not all Lord of the Rings scenery, as this powerful , violent gangland story illustratesFri Sept 11 2020 - 05:00
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
