Dad’s Army review: perpetrating a bit of a phoney warWhen the film sticks to old jokes, it serves some purpose. But too often we’re stuck in tea shops on dates with Catherine Zeta-JonesThu Feb 04 2016 - 16:40
Point Break review: Adrenaline flunkies defying gravity and logicRelentless action cannot dispel the toxic levels of claptrap that stink up this po-faced, slow-witted remakeThu Feb 04 2016 - 15:13
Michael Keaton: Ireland ahead of the curve on abuse issueKeaton returns to cinemas in Spotlight. He is an Oscar frontrunner, but has a keen eye on BrooklynFri Jan 29 2016 - 06:00
Youth review: a vague, beautiful-looking meditation on . . . well, what exactly?Michael Caine. Harvey Keitel. Jane Fonda. Rachel Weisz. Paul Dano - the great cast ultimately becomes marginalised by the busyness of Paolo Sorrentino’s latest filmThu Jan 28 2016 - 19:10
13 Hours review: Michael Bay shoots first, doesn’t ask questions laterThe director turns to the political sphere with this mindless actioner about Benghazi - he should stick to the giant robotsThu Jan 28 2016 - 15:56
Capture the flag review: take a trip to the dull side of the moonThis colourful animation tries a little too hard to get down with the kidsThu Jan 28 2016 - 15:25
The Big Short review: nailing the crux of the crashBrilliantly accessible, scathing account of the financial crisis based on the bestselling bookFri Jan 22 2016 - 11:13
Harvey Keitel: from the marines to the screen, from Scorsese to TarantinoThe actor with a five-decade mean streak of a career shows little signs of mellowing. 'I took on the ups and downs," he says. 'Sometimes they won. Sometimes I won'Fri Jan 22 2016 - 06:00
The 5th Wave review: Some decent action between the YA longing and the clichésThink Twilight with aliens. Or Ender’s Game with a girl in the lead. Or Divergent without the non-stopping trains... you get the pointThu Jan 21 2016 - 17:00
Our Brand is Crisis review: Just about makes a drama out of a crisisA constellation of likeable actors is on the case - including Sandra Bullock and Billy Bob Thornton - but the dramedy just doesn’t quite come together as it shouldThu Jan 21 2016 - 16:04
Ryan Coogler: ‘Apollo Creed meant everything to African-Americans’In the Rocky offshoot Creed, Ryan Coogler has made a rare boxing film with a black actor as star. The director talks about how he won over Sly, and the cultural importance of Apollo CreedSun Jan 17 2016 - 06:00
Adam McKay: ‘I just wanted people to understand that nothing has changed'The man behind such comedies as Anchorman and Step Brothers has toned down the farce for his latest film, the star-studded multi-Oscar-nominated The Big ShortFri Jan 15 2016 - 09:00
Creed review: a fresh glint in the eye of the tigerCreed firmly overthrows any notions that the Rocky films are trading on an elaborate Great White Hope mythologyThu Jan 14 2016 - 14:00
Lenny Abrahamson: ‘I couldn’t bear the idea that I wasn’t the smartest’The brain-box Irish film-maker suddenly finds himself a hot Oscar prospect with his acclaimed fifth feature, which is tearing up the awards trailFri Jan 08 2016 - 06:00
Last Hijack review: A Somali pirate’s tale that gets a little bit lost at seaTommy Pallotta’s documentary is nicely presented but lacks a coherent narrativeThu Jan 07 2016 - 11:00
Bolshoi Babylon Review: A visceral look inside the famous ballet company“The world of theatre is cruel . . . It looks beautiful from the outside, but inside it's boiling”Wed Jan 06 2016 - 17:02
Alejandro González Iñárritu: survival of the fittest - on set and in HollywoodThere ain’t no mountain tough enough for the Oscar-winning director of wilderness epic The Revenant. ‘I’m just somebody whose vision is clear and I work my ass off to realise it’Fri Jan 01 2016 - 10:10
The Danish Girl review: a marriage in transformationEddie Redmayne plays the pioneering transgender painter Einar ‘Lili’ Wegener in this interesting if overly tame biopic from the director of ‘The King’s Speech’Thu Dec 31 2015 - 07:00
Reissue of the week: Le Mépris - Godard’s grand allusionsHere’s one ‘Contempt’ that has stood the test of time: sex bomb Brigitte Bardot and Hollywood hard man Jack Palance star in this 1963 Italian drama about marriage, the movies and selling outWed Dec 30 2015 - 11:00
In the Heart of the Sea review: they messed with the wrong whaleAmid all the swashbuckling, derring-do and mild ecological messages, Ron Howard delivers a delightfully old-fashioned high-seas adventureThu Dec 24 2015 - 07:00
The Danish Girl: ‘It’s only now that the world has embraced the trans cause’Tom Hooper’s film about a transgender woman born in 1882 has hit the zeitgeistMon Dec 21 2015 - 06:00
Snoopy and Charlie Brown: The Peanuts Move review: Gets the flavour just rightWe’re delighted to report that: you’re a good movie, Charlie BrownFri Dec 18 2015 - 14:09
Cillian Murphy: ‘I like going to extremes’Cillian Murphy’s latest film In the Heart of the Sea finds him shipping pounds of weight while shooting far out on the ocean - and he relishes the challenges of difficult workFri Dec 18 2015 - 07:26
The Forbidden Room review: All the phantasmagoria you can handleThe Forbidden Room began life as a wildly ambitious and proudly cuckoo project at the Centre Georges Pompidou in ParisThu Dec 17 2015 - 17:00
There’s no one quite like grandma: Lily Tomlin speaks her mindLily Tomlin is great in Grandma as a foul-mouthed lesbian poet, a part that was written for her. She talks about abortion, feminism and why Jane Fonda owes herMon Dec 14 2015 - 17:00
Grandma review: clever, consistently funny, surprisingly affectingLily Tomlin turns in one of the year’s best performances in this bittersweet crisis-pregnancy comedyFri Dec 11 2015 - 10:10
Sisters review: Tina Fey and Amy Poehler get caught up in some risky businessSparks fly between longtime sparring partners Fey and Poehler in this otherwise predictable comedyFri Dec 11 2015 - 06:10
Young, gifted and black: the new acting force behind The Force AwakensReboot king JJ Abrams is diversifying the Star Wars universe... Gwendoline Christie, Daisy Ridley and John Boyega on finding new hope in a galaxy far, far awayThu Dec 10 2015 - 05:45
Bargaintown review: a loving snapshot of a Dublin long since disappearedDavid Jazay and Judith Klinger’s restored 1988 documentary is a fascinating record of the capital in the years before the Celtic TigerFri Dec 04 2015 - 11:22
Agyness Deyn: “I never intended to be a model. I didn’t have a clue about it"As her new movie Sunset Song opens in cinemas, the accidental-model-turned-actress explains her journey from fish-and-chip shops to the catwalk to the big screenFri Dec 04 2015 - 06:00
The Ticket Awards 2015: FilmFranchises were creaky (though a certain space opera has yet to land); the best films were strange beasts; and the locals came good. Donald Clarke and Tara Brady on the best and worst of film in 2015Fri Dec 04 2015 - 06:00
Krampus review: This is what happens to naughty kids at ChristmasTrick ’r Treat director Mike Dougherty’s seasonal horror is fun, and with a super cast, but gets bogged down in family pyscho-dramaThu Dec 03 2015 - 23:59
The Lesson review: Debt-related stress has seldom seemed so entertainingSteely heroine takes on Kafkaesque bank bureaucracy in attempt to save her homeThu Dec 03 2015 - 19:00
Christmas with the Coopers review: A starry cast can’t save this seasonal storyMake way for a blitzkreig of Christmasiness – and a terrible waste of a talented ensembleMon Nov 30 2015 - 11:00
AP McCoy: 'I’d love to be out there... I miss torturing myself'In a stellar career, Tony McCoy never relinquished his grip on the jockeys’ championship. So how will he cope with being out of the saddle?Fri Nov 27 2015 - 06:00
The Good Dinosaur review: Yabba-dabba-do time? Not quiteThe premise – What if dinosaurs were dirt-farmers? – doesn’t have quite the appealing ring as Toy Story’s what if toys were alive?Thu Nov 26 2015 - 17:01
Hand Gestures review: slow cinema set brilliantly in bronzeThere are layers of craft in evidence in Francesco Clerici’s detailed study of an historic Italian bronze foundryMon Nov 23 2015 - 16:09
Being AP review: Thrills, spills and dry dour witBeing AP has more in common with a rehab movie than it does with the average sports docMon Nov 23 2015 - 11:00
Gaspar Noé: bringing carnal knowledge into the third dimensionFrench cinema’s baddest bad boy makes really explicit movies about sex and sexuality. ‘Why is male nudity a problem when female nudity is everywhere?’ he wondersFri Nov 20 2015 - 05:00
Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans review: lessons about the blinding power of fameHaving heard that Garner had beaten him to making a film about car racing McQueen apparently pulled out little Steve and urinated on Jim’s flower pots. This is one of the more flattering stories in The Man & Le MansThu Nov 19 2015 - 19:00
Reissue of the Week: True Romance - Still a firecracker of a film after all these yearsTwo decades after it flopped at the box-office, Tony Scott take on Quentin Tarantino’s trope-filled screenplay plays like a classic of anti-canonical canonical cinemaThu Nov 19 2015 - 14:13
A very Panti Christmas: Rory O’Neill makes merry with family, Roses and a good filmSurely nobody deserves Christmas more than Rory O’Neill, the man behind Panti Bliss, this country’s undisputed Woman of the YearThu Nov 19 2015 - 06:00
A Christmas Star review: a charming Irish Yuletide movie made by kids for kidsA few twinkling stars – including Kylie, Pierce Brosnan and Liam Neeson – ramp up the seasonal spirit of this above-average yarnFri Nov 13 2015 - 10:38
Tangerine: How to make an award-winning movie with an iPhoneDirector Sean Baker on his zingy new movie about transgender sex workers in LAFri Nov 13 2015 - 05:30
Fathers and Daughters review: a good ol’ melodramatic thesp-festThere’s something too old-fashioned and wilfully anachronistic about the entire enterpriseThu Nov 12 2015 - 20:00
The Hallow review: from zero to cuckoo bananas in less than a minuteA creature feature can’t survive on creatures alone: one can’t execute a jump scare when the jumps just keep on comingThu Nov 12 2015 - 18:00
He Named Me Malala: a portrait of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning teenage campaignerWhile filming ‘He Named Me Malala’, director Davis Guggenheim had an audience in mind: his own teenage daughtersFri Nov 06 2015 - 06:00
He Named Me Malala review: the private life of a public heroineMalala Yousafzai, the girl who took on the Taliban, is given a poignantly intimate portrayal in Davis Guggenheim’s affecting documentaryThu Nov 05 2015 - 17:00
Scout’s Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse review: even grosser than you'd imagineRisky Business meets Evil Dead 2 in this low-grade teen horror comedyThu Nov 05 2015 - 15:00
Fresh Dressed review: a most excellent history of hip-hop styleSacha Jenkins documentary expertly traces the fashion line from from classic B-Boys and B-Girls to P Diddy and beyondSat Oct 31 2015 - 08:35
