Zoe Kazan: ‘Look at the numbers. It’s getting worse for women’Zoe Kazan is evolving from writer to actor and is hoping to subvert rom-com stereotypes with ‘The Big Sick’Fri Jul 21 2017 - 05:45
47 Metres Down review: From sister act to best chumsDecent yarn never plummets the genre’s depthsThu Jul 20 2017 - 08:00
Dunkirk review: No guts but plenty of glory in Nolan’s heavy calibre war filmThe greatest spectacle of the summer puts all others to shameTue Jul 18 2017 - 09:38
Cars 3: Third time's an automotive charmA sly dig at inaccurate pollsters and lessons about male privilege leaves us pleasantly surprisedFri Jul 14 2017 - 09:00
War for the Planet of the Apes: A spectacular finish for the trilogyTrumpian subtexts, breathtaking visuals and an Oscar-worthy turn from Andy SerkisFri Jul 14 2017 - 06:00
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekendThis week, take your pick between inter-species war and holy-relic adventuresFri Jul 14 2017 - 05:33
‘No place and no people had an effect on me like Ireland’‘Pilgrimage’ and 'Punisher' star Jon Bernthal on how he got his life back on track, and shooting in Ireland, 'the most beautiful place in Earth'Thu Jul 13 2017 - 05:12
Genocidal Organ review: A dark, futuristic anime gemDespite a glossy fan-friendly package Shuko Murase’s film is demanding viewingWed Jul 12 2017 - 09:12
Sofia Coppola: ‘Colin Farrell is the thinking woman's hunk’Coppola's latest film ‘The Beguiled’ sees Dublin actor Colin Farrell stirring passions in an all-girls school during the US Civil WarFri Jul 07 2017 - 06:30
The Midwife: an uneven odd-couple dramaActing powerhouses Catherine Frot and Catherine Deneuve are wasted in Martin Provost’s fitful dramaThu Jul 06 2017 - 09:15
Sanctuary: a forbidden tryst with a twist in the tailLen Collin’s feature debut is a must-see knockabout comedy that takes a serious look at the rights of the intellectually disabledThu Jul 06 2017 - 07:30
'My stepfather always told me you can’t trust anyone but family'Trey Edward Shults has a gift for imagining the worst and his latest film is a horror in tune with these dystopian timesThu Jul 06 2017 - 06:22
Cars, Dunkirk, Spider-Man and more: the summer movie guideFrom blockbusters to indie flicks, here are the best releases from now until autumnSat Jul 01 2017 - 05:00
All Eyez on Me: Tupac biopic fails to live up to the hip-hop legendEdges are duly smoothly and tricky questions are never posedFri Jun 30 2017 - 12:51
Alone in Berlin: Emma Thompson and Brendan Gleeson offer a timely blueprint for dissentSolid performances help save Vincent Pérez’s anti-Nazi war drama from its low-budget stodginessFri Jun 30 2017 - 11:28
Steve Carell: Some people sprint to the top. For me it happened over years. I didn’t noticeThe actor on hitting every rung on the Hollywood ladderFri Jun 30 2017 - 06:30
The most enjoyable summer blockbuster has arrivedDespicable Me 3 review: Minions, manic laughs and Pharrell Williams chimes in with his boppiest soundtrack to dateThu Jun 29 2017 - 16:00
Kedi review: Truly, moggy, deeply in cat-crazy IstanbulA wonderful tribute to the Turkish port city’s love of its lucky feline inhabitantsThu Jun 29 2017 - 14:00
How the street cats of Istanbul landed on their feetIn Turkey, stray cats and humans coexist peacefully – why can’t we do the same here?Thu Jun 29 2017 - 06:00
Revolutions: a hip, lively, amiable brusier of a filmFilmed over five years, Laura McGann’s film follows the Irish women’s roller derby team from first shove to final whistleWed Jun 28 2017 - 07:30
Colin Trevorrow: ‘Be proud of everything you paint, even if Mom doesn’t put it on the fridge’Director Colin Trevorrow made the jump from micro-budget films to blockbusters. But for his latest, he’s gone back to his indie roots, and the critics aren’t pleasedFri Jun 23 2017 - 06:15
Once upon a pair of wheels: Edgar Wright on Baby Driver‘Closest thing to a British Quentin Tarantino’ on his movie about a getaway driver who loves tunesFri Jun 23 2017 - 06:00
The Book of Henry review: makes Jurassic Park seem plausibleA dying boy genius leaves instructions to catch a sexual predator – then it gets sillyThu Jun 22 2017 - 17:00
Slack Bay (Ma Loute) review: flesh-eating French class comedy is an acquired tasteJuliette Binoche heads a bizarre cast of characters in this deeply odd lampoonThu Jun 22 2017 - 13:24
Twice Shy review: walking softly on a well-trodden roadThis tale of a young Irish couple travelling to England for an abortion avoids rhetoricThu Jun 22 2017 - 07:00
The Irish movie set to spark a measured conversation about abortionYoung Irish film-maker Tom Ryan knew he was opening a can of worms with ‘Twice Shy’, which features a couple put to the test by an unplanned pregnancyThu Jun 22 2017 - 05:15
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekendFrom Whitney Houston to Dublin gangsters, here are the best of this week’s releasesFri Jun 16 2017 - 05:00
Nails review: And you thought Irish hospitals were bad ...The monster in this hospital-set horror film needs to be dischargedThu Jun 15 2017 - 16:00
The sad story of Whitney Houston's bisexual love triangleWhitney: Can I Be Me? Nick Broomfield’s devastating portrait of a fatally conflicted existenceThu Jun 15 2017 - 13:58
Churchill review: Winston at his most shambolicBrian Cox does excellent work in the title role – unfortunately, often against the scriptThu Jun 15 2017 - 12:30
By the Time It Gets Dark review: The perils of putting history on filmA dark Thai event that claimed many lives is given a shape-shifting treatmentThu Jun 15 2017 - 07:00
The sad, secret life of Whitney HoustonArchive: From a secret lesbian relationship to a decades-long struggle with drugs, five years after singer’s death, a new film ‘Whitney: Can I Be Me’ examines what caused her tragic downfallSat Jun 10 2017 - 06:11
Six of the best films to see this weekendQuality blasts from the past include Wonder Woman and a Fritz Lang classicFri Jun 09 2017 - 12:07
The Shack review: A vision of heaven that feels like purgatoryNot even Octavia Spencer as God can save this Oprahfied version of paradiseThu Jun 08 2017 - 12:30
Destiny: an eye-popping restoration of Fritz Lang’s classicThe film that inspired may of cinema’s greatest auteurs returns to the big screenThu Jun 08 2017 - 07:00
Teresa Palmer: ‘I got kung-fu kicked in the back’The actor has a thing about going method, whether fooling Christian Bale as a stripper, playing a kidnap victim in a tiny basement, or working inside a giant head in a supermarketThu Jun 08 2017 - 06:05
Dublin Boyz n the Hood and gruesome gangland consequence‘Cardboard Gangsters’ is a ’hood film, not a gangster film, says director Mark O’ConnorMon Jun 05 2017 - 06:00
Is Wonder Woman a feminist in hot pants?Like Princess Leia or Miss Piggy, Wonder Woman is the token girl on a boy’s adventureSat Jun 03 2017 - 05:00
Six of the best movies to see on the big screen this weekendThe best film of the week is an Oscar-nominated animation that's basically social realism for kidsFri Jun 02 2017 - 05:59
Daughters of the Dust: the film that inspired Beyoncé’s LemonadeJulie Dash’s lavish, poetic film gets a welcome restoration and re-releaseThu Jun 01 2017 - 11:30
After the Storm: lightly comic with a sting in the tailA typically nuanced film from Hirokazu Koreeda about a deadbeat dad doing his bestThu Jun 01 2017 - 07:00
Baywatch: A hunk of junk that not even The Rock can rescueThis reboot of the 1990s TV show is so poor, it even messes up the David Hasselhoff cameoMon May 29 2017 - 14:05
Closeness: No film will top this drama for walkouts and jeeringAn ethically questionable scene had Cannes viewers shouting as they left the premiereSat May 27 2017 - 15:44
Bushwick review: out of step with contemporary Trumpian politicsBushwick envisages a second American Civil War in a New York boroughSat May 27 2017 - 15:33
Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts: rape-revenge, motherhood and ravishing beautyCannes 2017: If you only see one feminist Indonesian Spaghetti Western this year, this should be itFri May 26 2017 - 16:18
Good Time: Robert Pattinson’s latest gets a six-minute standing ovation at CannesPattinson robs a bank for all the right reasons, but things go horribly wrong in his completely whacko new filmFri May 26 2017 - 14:29
How Nicole Kidman became the enviable queen of coolThe versatile, talented actor is blessed with impressive range and unafraid of taking risksFri May 26 2017 - 07:00
Zoe Kavanagh on the battle to bring ‘Demon Hunter’ to screenThe Irish director's determination has paid off, with accolades and a big-screen release for her feature debutFri May 26 2017 - 06:30
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul review - the wheels have come off entirelyThe film series started out just as charming as Jeff Kinney’s books, but this fourth instalment is running on emptyThu May 25 2017 - 17:00
I Am Not Madame Bovary: Gorgeous, stylised example of Chinese box-office goldDirector Feng Xiaogang is a master of observational comedy in his native land, and his humour travels with some successThu May 25 2017 - 12:30
