Io Capitano review: A swashbuckling, award-winning portrayal of the European migrant crisisMatteo Garrone’s follow-up to the exquisite Pinocchio is based on real-life testimonies and dramatised with youthful verveFri Apr 05 2024 - 05:00
Girls State review: It’s as if Tracy Flick, the striving high-school heroine of Election, has come to life‘Every election I’ve put myself in, I’ve won. Since fourth grade,’ says one proudly conservative teen with designs on the 2040 US presidencyWed Apr 03 2024 - 04:30
Io Capitano: Chronicling the perilous migrant trek from Senegal to Europe with Homeric flairOscar-nominated director Matteo Garrone says that at all times on set for this film he had someone present who had lived through torture in Libya or had made it through the SaharaTue Apr 02 2024 - 05:15
Four new films to see this weekAnne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain show their lacquered claws in Mothers’ Instinct, plus Bill Nighy in feel-good sports tale The Beautiful Game, Kung Fu Panda back for a fourth go, and arty Euro drama Disco BoySun Mar 31 2024 - 05:00
Kung Fu Panda 4: A weaker entry in the franchise that is still vastly superior to most mainstream animated featuresCaveats and niggles ultimately don’t dent the magnanimous-natured enjoymentFri Mar 29 2024 - 05:00
Disco Boy: Franz Rogowski is at his most haunted in this hypnotic, witchy brewDebut director Giacomo Abbruzzese merges disparate stories into a mysterious cinematic adventureFri Mar 29 2024 - 05:00
‘Independent movies are a strange combination of people with money and people with big egos’In The Sweet East, cinematographer Sean Price Williams has teamed up with critic Nick Pinkerton for a firecracker debutWed Mar 27 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this week: Conor McGregor in Road House, Sydney Sweeney in Immaculate, Late Night with the Devil and The DelinquentsGyllenhaal and McGregor brawl on Amazon in Road House, plus class horror films Immaculate and Late Night with the Devil, and epic Argentine crime drama The DelinquentsSun Mar 24 2024 - 05:00
The Delinquents review: Two boring jobsworths. A bank robbery plot. And a manic pixie dream girlRodrigo Moreno’s first feature for more than a decade is an entertaining epic with confounding twists and turnsFri Mar 22 2024 - 05:00
Late Night with the Devil review: Satan communes through a 1970s chatshow in Cairnes brothers’ fun, freaky horrorThe period TV set is so convincing that one expects the host to shout ‘Roll it there, Colette’Tue Mar 19 2024 - 11:48
Robot Dreams: How Pablo Berger created the most soulful tin man since The Wizard of OzDirector’s animated depiction of friendship between a robot and dog in 1980s New York is far more affecting than its expensive Oscar rivalsTue Mar 19 2024 - 05:00
Lindsay Lohan’s Irish Wish review: there’s a scandalous lack of begorrah, which may be a good thingAmerican star’s glossy movie has criminally little Irish involvementFri Mar 15 2024 - 08:00
Banel & Adama: Every frame of this mesmerising debut casts a spell The Senegalese Oscar pick concerns about two teenagers rebelling aginst expectationsFri Mar 15 2024 - 05:00
Monster director Hirokazu Kore-eda: ‘The eyes of children offer a clearer view of the world than the eyes of adults’Whether in Nobody Knows, Shoplifters or Like Father, Like Son, the Japanese auteur can dramatise children’s inner lives like no other film-makerWed Mar 13 2024 - 03:15
Four new films to see this weekDo Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World, Copa 71, Origin, High & Low: John GallianoSun Mar 10 2024 - 10:13
High & Low: John Galliano review – Designer documentary is no puff piece but it doesn’t quite elicit the answers it seeksIntriguing film about the British fashion icon ultimately fails to get to the bottom of racist and anti-Semitic remarks that got him firedFri Mar 08 2024 - 05:00
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World review: a mischievous, scathing, sprawling provocationDay-in-the-life portrait of an overworked production assistant has won an impressive haul of awardsThu Mar 07 2024 - 05:00
Copa 71: ‘These women were gaslit. Imagine playing a sport at the highest level and then being told, that didn’t exist’Two decades before the first Fifa Women’s World Cup, six teams competed in front of huge crowds in Mexico City in an almost-forgotten tournamentWed Mar 06 2024 - 05:15
Four new films to see this weekDune: Part Two, Lisa Frankenstein, Spaceman, Four DaughtersSun Mar 03 2024 - 05:00
Four Daughters review: Riveting Oscar-nominated documentary deconstructs a global news storyA Tunisian matriarch and her four daughters – two of them played by actors – delve into their troubled pastFri Mar 01 2024 - 05:00
Spaceman review: Adam Sandler journeys into a trippy interstellar cloud with a giant Nutella-loving alien spiderJohan Renck’s film turns out to ponderous, however, eschewing journey and destination in favour of the symbolicThu Feb 29 2024 - 05:00
Red Island director Robin Campillo: ‘In France we did not process the colonial experience of Madagascar so well. This was a forgotten story’The man behind 120 BPM has made a film about his experiences as the child of a ‘very right-wing’ French military father in the former colonyWed Feb 28 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekWim Wenders’s Tokyo-set Perfect Days, plus Memory, Wicked Little Letters and The Moon ThievesSun Feb 25 2024 - 05:00
Dune: Part 2 director Denis Villeneuve – ‘I loved the idea of divers in the desert’Second instalment zones in on the story of Paul, played by Timothée Chalamet, and ChaniSat Feb 24 2024 - 05:15
Memory review: Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard are outstanding in Michel Franco’s newest provocationFranco leaves several smoking guns to add to the ethical and narrative knottinessThu Feb 22 2024 - 05:00
The Moon Thieves review: Cantopop stars can look out of place in this chaotic horology heistMembers of the band Mirror make up youthful ensemble in this throwaway entertainmentThu Feb 22 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekBob Marley: One Life, Madame Web, The Promised Land, The Taste of ThingsSun Feb 18 2024 - 05:00
Jessica Chastain: ‘I like the unlikeable characters. The world is not black and white’‘With acting, if there’s nothing at stake, then is it worth doing?’ asks the Oscar winnerSat Feb 17 2024 - 05:30
The Promised Land: Nordic demi-western is powered along by Mads Mikkelsen’s rugged charisma Mads Mikkelsen is a formidable retired army captain of low birth seeking title and legitimacy by colonising the punishing, barren heath of JutlandThu Feb 15 2024 - 05:00
The Taste of Things: Gastroporn doesn’t come more XXX-rated than this insanely pretty, airily vacant French fancyComme ci, comme ça: why was this slight film with its ludicrously gleaming kitchen chosen ahead of Anatomy of a Fall for France’s predictably unsuccessful Oscar bid?Wed Feb 14 2024 - 05:00
Film-maker Guy Maddin: ‘My first feature probably had a walkout rate of 60%’The Canadian director, who is the subject of a retrospective at this month’s Dublin International Film Festival, on his experimental approach to moviesMon Feb 12 2024 - 05:15
‘The Irish were always playing Bob Marley’: One Love star Kingsley Ben-Adir on growing up with the reggae iconBob Marley’s music is ‘a spiritual thing’, says the actor, who took the lead role in Reinaldo Marcus Green’s biopic at the request of the Jamaican star’s familySun Feb 11 2024 - 05:15
Four new films to see this weekOccupied City, The Settlers, The Iron Claw, Double BlindSun Feb 11 2024 - 05:00
Mads Mikkelsen: ‘I try to jump into a character as fast as I can and leave as fast as I can’Danish actor on his latest film The Promised Land, Hollywood and perceptions of fame, shooting in cold weather, Nicolas Winding Refn, Bruce Lee and how he originally trained as a dancerSat Feb 10 2024 - 05:15
The Settlers: A masterfully staged film styles Chile’s genocidal past as a spaghetti western to chilling effectThere are no good guys in Felipe Gálvez Haberle’s directorial debut about a murderous colonial mission at the turn of the centuryFri Feb 09 2024 - 05:00
The Iron Claw: Wild true story makes for darkly tragic, completely gripping old-school TV movieTrue story of the Von Erich wrestling clan is a tale of corrosive masculinity and suffocating parental pressureThu Feb 08 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekFive stars for astonishing drama The Zone of Interest. Plus multi-Oscar-nominated American Fiction, Japanese anime Blue Giant, and silly but fun comedy-thriller ArgylleSun Feb 04 2024 - 05:00
American Fiction review: Jeffrey Wright gives a knockout performance in this edgy, Oscar-nominated comedyCord Jefferson marries broad humour with affecting familial dysfunction and biting observations on raceThu Feb 01 2024 - 05:10
Blue Giant: This big-screen experience is as improbably close to watching a live performance as animation can getCarefully calibrated soundtrack composed by celebrated jazz pianist Hiromi Uehara steals the showWed Jan 31 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekAll of Us Strangers, The Color Purple, Samsara, Padre PioSun Jan 28 2024 - 05:00
Padre Pio: A breathtakingly intense Shia LeBeouf lifts Abel Ferrara’s messy historyThe fiercely committed actor lived in a Capuchin monastery and reportedly converted to Catholicism during productionFri Jan 26 2024 - 05:00
The Color Purple: Polished musical looks pretty and sounds fabulous without ever blazing up the screenThis too often feels like a retread of the Spielberg film with occasional song interruptionsThu Jan 25 2024 - 05:00
Samsara director Lois Patiño: ‘I had this radical idea of watching a film with your eyes closed’The Spanish film-maker has come as close as anyone could to a movie adaptation of the Tibetan Book of the DeadMon Jan 22 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this week: Mean Girls, The Holdovers, The End We Start From, The KitchenFrom big-screen translation of the stage musical based on the 2004 high-school classic to a terrifying vision of neoliberal blighted London in the 2040sSun Jan 21 2024 - 05:00
American Fiction star Jeffrey Wright: ‘We are not good at conversations about race’ The Oscar-tipped star of American Fiction was steeped in storytelling as a child. But he also puts his success down to an Irish theatre directorSat Jan 20 2024 - 05:15
The Kitchen: Urban grit with spectacular sci-fi trimmings in Daniel Kaluuya’s directorial debutThis is a terrifying vision of neoliberal blighted London in the 2040sFri Jan 19 2024 - 05:00
The End We Start From review: Jodie Comer shines as a new mother surviving in apocalyptic circumstancesDirector Mahalia Belo’s savvy debut is enhanced by a gifted castThu Jan 18 2024 - 05:00
‘Werner Herzog lives every day like he wants his life to be an adventure’ Thomas von Steinaecker goes deep beneath the skin of the much-mythologised German film-maker in his documentary Radical DreamerTue Jan 16 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this week: Poor Things, The Beekeeper, Freaks vs the Reich, LiftPoor Things, The Beekeeper, Freaks vs the Reich, LiftSun Jan 14 2024 - 05:00
Freaks vs the Reich review: Superpowered circus acts take on the Nazis in this historical monster mashDespite its premise, this carnivalesque alternate history is closer in tone to Hellboy than throwaway Syfy-channel NaziploitationFri Jan 12 2024 - 04:57
