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September 5 review: Tightly assembled thriller revisits the Munich Olympics hostage crisis

September 5 review: Tightly assembled thriller revisits the Munich Olympics hostage crisis

The 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

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 authorities

Tue Feb 04 2025 - 05:15
Four new films to see this week

Four new films to see this week

Mike 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 Japan

Sun Feb 02 2025 - 05:00
Companion review: Sophie Thatcher is the scream queen to beat in this post-AI spin on The Stepford Wives

Companion review: Sophie Thatcher is the scream queen to beat in this post-AI spin on The Stepford Wives

Docile, robot heroine becomes the victim in Drew Hancock’s playful horror comedy

Thu Jan 30 2025 - 05:00
The Colors Within review: The story of a socially awkward Catholic student and her friends

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 adolescence

Wed Jan 29 2025 - 05:00
Four new films to see this week

Four new films to see this week

Astonishing 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 Brutalist

This century’s The Godfather: How Brady Corbet made the staggering film The Brutalist

Aged 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 Oscar

Sat Jan 25 2025 - 05:15
Presence review: Steven Soderbergh’s ghost story is flashy film-making but short on thrills

Presence review: Steven Soderbergh’s ghost story is flashy film-making but short on thrills

The presence lacks presence and the script can’t get around the gimmicky, oppressive first-person camera

Thu Jan 23 2025 - 05:00
Parachute: Brittany Snow’s sensitive Gen Z romance is a low-key wonder

Parachute: Brittany Snow’s sensitive Gen Z romance is a low-key wonder

Snow draws her own experiences with an eating disorder into this carefully calibrated directorial debut

Wed Jan 22 2025 - 05:00

Four new films to see this week

Much 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 Emmanuelle

Sun 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’

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 destiny

Fri Jan 17 2025 - 05:15
Emmanuelle review: The fancy couch is more erotic than the onscreen couplings in this pointless reboot

Emmanuelle review: The fancy couch is more erotic than the onscreen couplings in this pointless reboot

Writer-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 fantasy

Pepe: Pablo Escobar’s hippo ruminates on his fate in this odd hybrid fantasy

The cumulative effect of this speculative fantasy is profoundly sad

Tue Jan 14 2025 - 05:00
The Girl with the Needle review: Splendid but sombre serial-killer-inspired fairy tale for grown-ups

The Girl with the Needle review: Splendid but sombre serial-killer-inspired fairy tale for grown-ups

Magnus von Horn’s feature is loosely based on early-20th-century Danish child-killer Dagmar Overbye

Fri Jan 10 2025 - 05:00
The Damned review: Chilly horror powered along by suspicion, atmospherics and an unforgettable landscape

The Damned review: Chilly horror powered along by suspicion, atmospherics and an unforgettable landscape

Thordur Palsson’s work is powered along by suspicion, atmospherics and an unforgettable landscape

Thu 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 playful

Babygirl review: Five stars for a fearless Nicole Kidman’s dive into a hot erotic mess. Bondage has seldom been as playful

Harris Dickinson may be the most versatile young star on the planet

Wed Jan 08 2025 - 05:00
10 great films to watch if you’re stuck indoors

10 great films to watch if you’re stuck indoors

What 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 more

Tue Jan 07 2025 - 10:32
Four new films to see this week

Four new films to see this week

Nosferatu, Nickel Boys, We Live in Time, Beezel

Sun Jan 05 2025 - 05:00
Babygirl director Halina Reijn: ‘Our film is very sexy. It’s important to bring sex back after #MeToo’

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 underling

Fri Jan 03 2025 - 05:00
Nosferatu review: Lily-Rose Depp is exquisite in a horror of two halves

Nosferatu review: Lily-Rose Depp is exquisite in a horror of two halves

Robert Eggers’s take on Murnau’s 1922 classic is spellbinding, but then it dithers about its direction

Wed Jan 01 2025 - 05:00
Nickel Boys review: You’ll never have seen anything like this daring, heartbreaking chronicle of abuse and inequality

Nickel Boys review: You’ll never have seen anything like this daring, heartbreaking chronicle of abuse and inequality

RaMell Ross’s film brings Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer-winning tale to the screen

Tue Dec 31 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see in the cinema this week

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 3

Sun Dec 29 2024 - 05:00
50 films to see in 2025, from Babygirl to You’re Cordially Invited

50 films to see in 2025, from Babygirl to You’re Cordially Invited

Nicole Kidman stars in a kinky office romance, Reese Witherspoon and Will Ferrell play wedding planners, and Éanna Hardwicke and Steve Coogan replay Saipan

Sat Dec 28 2024 - 05:30
Terrifier 3 review: Everyone is on Art the Clown’s naughty list

Terrifier 3 review: Everyone is on Art the Clown’s naughty list

Gruesome horror film has generated reports of fainting and vomiting at early screenings

Thu Dec 26 2024 - 05:00
How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies review: Warm, witty tear-jerker about an improbable subject

How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies review: Warm, witty tear-jerker about an improbable subject

Wholesome film became the biggest Thai release of the year with $50m in ticket sales worldwide

Wed Dec 25 2024 - 05:00
Nosferatu director Robert Eggers: ‘We needed to find a way to make the vampire scary again’

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 Hoult

Mon Dec 23 2024 - 05:00
The 50 best films of 2024 – a full list in reverse order

The 50 best films of 2024 – a full list in reverse order

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’

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 War

The Six Triple Eight: Stirring tribute to the only black women’s unit to serve in Europe during the second World War

The script is seldom subtle but impressive war tableaux act as a salve for dialogue

Thu 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’

‘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 War

Wed Dec 18 2024 - 05:15
The Order review: This taut, gritty white-supremacist thriller could pass for a rediscovered early-1970s classic

The Order review: This taut, gritty white-supremacist thriller could pass for a rediscovered early-1970s classic

Jude Law impresses as an FBI agent on the trail of murderous bank robbers, bomb-builders and counterfeiters

Wed Dec 18 2024 - 05:00
Beauty & the Beast review: On the way home, younger audience members re-enact scenes. There’s no higher recommendation

Beauty & the Beast review: On the way home, younger audience members re-enact scenes. There’s no higher recommendation

Alan Hughes and Karl Broderick’s interactive pantomime, directed by Simon Delaney, features the promising Caoileann Woodcock as Belle

Mon Dec 16 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this week

Four new films to see this week

Lord 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 Light

Sun Dec 15 2024 - 05:00
Queer review: There’s not a trace of William S Burroughs in Luca Guadagnino’s hugely disappointing adaptation

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 shoot

Thu Dec 12 2024 - 05:00
The Bibi Files: Scathing portrait of Binyamin Netanyahu’s alleged history of backhanders

The Bibi Files: Scathing portrait of Binyamin Netanyahu’s alleged history of backhanders

Alexis Bloom’s documentary, using leaked footage of police interrogations of the Israeli prime minister, paints a murky picture

Wed 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’

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 change

Mon Dec 09 2024 - 05:00
Trans-musical Emilia Pérez wins best film at European Film Awards

Trans-musical Emilia Pérez wins best film at European Film Awards

Karla Sofía Gascón becomes the first trans woman to win best actress as Belfast’s Kneecap film loses out on two nominations

Sun Dec 08 2024 - 10:31
The 10 worst films of 2024 – and Gladiator II is one of them

The 10 worst films of 2024 – and Gladiator II is one of them

We 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 year

The 50 best films of 2024 – the top 10 movies of the year

We reach our top 10 favourite movies released in Ireland this year

Sat Dec 07 2024 - 05:30
The 50 best films of 2024: No 20 to No 11

The 50 best films of 2024: No 20 to No 11

We continue our countdown of our favourite movies released in Ireland this year

Fri Dec 06 2024 - 05:30
The 50 best films of 2024: No 30 to No 21

The 50 best films of 2024: No 30 to No 21

We continue our countdown of our favourite movies released in Ireland this year

Thu Dec 05 2024 - 05:30
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl: Rungano Nyoni’s darkly comic abuse-survival tale is a blistering original

On Becoming a Guinea Fowl: Rungano Nyoni’s darkly comic abuse-survival tale is a blistering original

Review: Splendidly sardonic drama drowns out repressed traumas with a gaggle of aunties and absurdly elaborate funeral arrangements

Thu Dec 05 2024 - 05:00
The 50 best films of 2024: No 50 to No 31

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 house

Merchant Ivory: Stephen Soucy’s documentary lifts up the petticoats of the prestigious production house

A rollicking account of a long movie partnership that was flying by the seat of its pants

Wed Dec 04 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this week

Four new films to see this week

Vatican 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 Secret

Sun Dec 01 2024 - 05:00
‘They are stupid people for stupid times’: Cate Blanchett on presidents, prime ministers and power

‘They are stupid people for stupid times’: Cate Blanchett on presidents, prime ministers and power

The Oscar-winner plays a scheming German chancellor in Rumours, Guy Maddin’s raucous, phantasmagorical comedy about the G7

Sat 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’

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 race

Fri Nov 29 2024 - 05:00
Moana 2: Entertaining Disney sequel has the best boat chases since Live and Let Die

Moana 2: Entertaining Disney sequel has the best boat chases since Live and Let Die

The film’s best scenes lean into the chemistry between Auliʻi Cravalho’s Moana and Dwayne Johnson’s Maui

Tue Nov 26 2024 - 19:48
Our Little Secret: Awkward! Lindsay Lohan’s Christmas flick may as well be AI generated

Our Little Secret: Awkward! Lindsay Lohan’s Christmas flick may as well be AI generated

Ho ho ho, it’s a dull-witted, soundstage-bound romance with festive trimmings and a clockwork plot

Tue Nov 26 2024 - 19:34
Four new films to see this week

Four new films to see this week

Movie of smash-hit musical Wicked is well-cast and spectacular. Plus moving and evocative Irish documentary Housewife of the Year, solid IVF drama Joy, and fascinating feminist doc Witches

Sun Nov 24 2024 - 05:00
Joy: Thomasin McKenzie is luminous in a film about the journey towards test-tube babies that feels more like classy telly

Joy: Thomasin McKenzie is luminous in a film about the journey towards test-tube babies that feels more like classy telly

Spot-on lead performances and canny supporting players elevate a nuts-and-bolts script

Thu Nov 21 2024 - 05:00
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