Four new films to see this weekProto-feminist western The Dead Don’t Hurt, plus witty true-life Hit Man, period French drama Rosalie, and another big-boom Bad Boys sequelSun Jun 09 2024 - 05:00
The Dead Don’t Hurt: Viggo Mortensen directs and stars in this thoughtful, melancholy westernThe script tussles between feminist revision and old-school male showdownsThu Jun 06 2024 - 05:00
‘I wanted it to feel like a kids’ movie made by kids’: Weston Razooli on his Cannes-wowing film Riddle of FireThe French press have found a new auteur hero in the American director of a 1980s-tinged film about a wilder kind of childhoodWed Jun 05 2024 - 05:00
Hit Man: Glen Powell steals this sexy Netflix caper based on a real-life philosophy professor who poses as a gun for hireThe actor, who will soon press pause on his Hollywood career, even manages to wring a moment of magnetism from iPhone notesWed Jun 05 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekRediscovered Irish folk horror The Outcasts, plus Sting, The Beast and Gasoline RainbowSun Jun 02 2024 - 05:00
The Outcasts: Lost Irish folk horror film is gloriously restoredFilm about a near-wordless young woman witch-hunted by a mob was worth waiting forFri May 31 2024 - 05:15
Gasoline Rainbow: A pleasantly meandering Gen Z road trip from upcoming auteur siblings the Ross brothersIts creators might be sick of the documentary-hybrid conversation, but it’s impossible to watch this without guessing about its nonfictional underpinningsFri May 31 2024 - 05:00
The Beast star George MacKay: ‘Léa Seydoux likes a laugh, so there was a lot of joy making this film about existential dread’Audiences have been watching the actor grow up on screen for two decades. Now he’s appearing with the Bond star in Bertrand Bonello’s multilayered art-house movieTue May 28 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekFerocious Furiosa is the craziest show on Earth. Plus Irish documentaries on Charlie Bird and Chinese music competitors, and an eerie Pakistani social horrorSun May 26 2024 - 05:00
Piano Dreams: An arresting chronicle of Chinese musical ambition from an Irish director The documentary by Gary Lennon follows three talented young piano players as they negotiate a fiercely competitive landscapeFri May 24 2024 - 05:00
Cannes 2024: Stars get shady on the carpet as the Nicolas Cage renaissance rages on with Irish director Lorcan FinneganReviewer Tara Brady has her pick for the Palme d’Or and Seán Baker miraculously resurrects the screwball comedyThu May 23 2024 - 11:02
In Flames: This supernatural horror, a remarkable debut film, will keep you hookedImpressive Ramesha Nawal plays Mariam, a medical student whose father mysteriously diedThu May 23 2024 - 05:15
Cannes 2024: The Apprentice review – Long shadow of Succession hangs over controversial Donald Trump biopicAli Abbasi film starring Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong zones in on a twisted early Trump mentorTue May 21 2024 - 08:55
Cannes 2024: Kevin Costner’s epic sprawl, Julianne Moore’s return and Kermit’s green coatCannes Diary: First three-hour instalment of Costner’s old-school western is confounding; Kinds of Kindness may be Yorgos Lanthimos’s weakest filmMon May 20 2024 - 15:10
Jennifer Lopez on fame: ‘I think one of the secrets about me is that I don’t ever think I have it really figured out’JLo’s new film is the $100m sci-fi thriller Atlas. It’s the latest chapter in a career that has spawned academic studies alongside global headlinesSat May 18 2024 - 05:30
Tiger Stripes review: Female puberty horror is a world away from Pixar’s Turning RedAmanda Nell Eu’s debut marries unwanted menstruation and cryptozoological mythology to spooky effectFri May 17 2024 - 05:00
Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg – Scarlett Johansson voices the evocative recollections of the Rolling Stones museThe actor, artist and model had three children with Keith Richards, and somehow survived the 1960sThu May 16 2024 - 05:00
Inside Ireland’s national cheerleading team: ‘Remember, ladies, the higher your hair is, the closer it is to God’For Eat/Sleep/Cheer/Repeat, the film-maker Tanya Doyle has followed Irish cheerleaders as they compete in the World ChampionshipsWed May 15 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekKingdom of the Planet of the Apes brings the simian cycle full circle back to the ’60s original. Plus outstanding documentaries Much Ado About Dying, Big Banana Feet and Made in England: The Films of Powell and PressburgerSun May 12 2024 - 05:00
Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger review – Martin Scorsese front and centre in a wonderful chronicle of influential duoScorsese’s rhapsodical memories match the romance of the subjects’ transportive storytelling and indelible imagesFri May 10 2024 - 05:00
Big Banana Feet: ‘Lost’ film of Billy Connolly’s 1973 tour of Ireland is a fine tribute to the fearless comedianThirty weapons were confiscated from the audience arriving for Connolly’s 1973 Belfast show, but you’d never know it from his joyful performanceThu May 09 2024 - 05:15
Alice Rohrwacher: ‘I want my films to feel like Pasolini’s, like they are parables’Josh O’Connor stars in the director’s new feature as an archaeologist who falls in with a band of tomb-raiding thievesWed May 08 2024 - 05:15
Four new films to see this weekLove Lies Bleeding, The Fall Guy, Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry, UnfrostedSun May 05 2024 - 05:00
Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry review: Elene Naveriani’s warm, wise dramedy makes merry with a midlife crisisGeorgian film about a fearless 48-year-old heroine who has never wanted a husband, preferring blackberry-picking, cake and solitudeThu May 02 2024 - 05:00
The Fall Guy review: Who ordered a half-baked revival of a Lee Majors TV show? Anyone?Not even Ryan Gosling in the stuntman role can save this unfunny, dreary nonsenseThu May 02 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekChallengers, That They May Face the Rising Sun, In the Land of Saints and Sinners, ISSSun Apr 28 2024 - 05:00
Kerry Condon: ‘Sometimes people look at me but they can’t place me. And that’s what I want to be – an actor’The intensely private star likes to stay out of the limelight, despite being the most successful Irish actress at the global box officeSat Apr 27 2024 - 05:30
Kidnapped: The extraordinary story of the six-year-old abducted by the Catholic ChurchFilm director Marco Bellocchio on Edgardo Mortara, a ‘baptised’ Jewish boy taken from his family, and scandal that weakened power of popeFri Apr 26 2024 - 05:15
In the Land of Saints and Sinners: Liam Neeson is a gruff, gunslinging hero in this Donegal westernRobert Lorenz’s thriller, set in 1974, features Kerry Condon, Ciarán Hinds, Niamh Cusack and Colm Meaney in a parade of wasted ideas and charactersFri Apr 26 2024 - 05:00
That They May Face the Rising Sun: The best Irish film in a very long timeAn Cailín Ciúin fans should start queueing now. Pat Collins has made an exquisite adaptation of John McGahern’s final novelWed Apr 24 2024 - 05:00
Rebel Moon director Zack Snyder: ‘My obligation is to bring viewers the largest cinematic experience I can muster’Zack Snyder on his move to streaming, the critical panning of the first part of Rebel Moon and why he needs his family on boardMon Apr 22 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekThe Book of Clarence, All You Need Is Death, The Sweet East, AbigailSun Apr 21 2024 - 05:00
The Book of Clarence review: A wannabe messiah seeks disciples in an inventive parallel history to the New Testament Director Jeymes Samuel re-creates and repositions the tropes and spectacle of Hollywood’s sword-and-sandals epicsFri Apr 19 2024 - 15:13
Abigail: Ballet vampire horror-comedy turns every dial up to 11Outrageous reimagining of Dracula’s Daughter is fun for a while, but soon collapses under its own sillinessFri Apr 19 2024 - 05:00
Pete Waterman: ‘Rick Astley walked away with a cheque for £5m, which is pretty good for an apprentice’Musical I Should Be So Lucky celebrates the 1980s hits that Waterman and his colleagues Mike Stock and Matt Aitken made with Kylie Minogue, Bananarama, Mel & Kim and moreMon Apr 15 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekBack to Black, Civil War, The Teachers’ Lounge, Close Your EyesSun Apr 14 2024 - 05:00
Close Your Eyes: Spanish master Víctor Erice returns after a 31-year hiatusThe octogenarian auteur’s fourth feature is a languorous consideration of time, memory and cinemaFri Apr 12 2024 - 05:00
The Teachers’ Lounge review: Leonie Benesch is sensational in this unlikely white-knuckle thriller A teacher finds herself at centre of prejudice, complacency and institutional failings in this suspenseful German dramaThu Apr 11 2024 - 05:00
‘There are parallels between Britney, Diana and Amy Winehouse... women picked on at their most vulnerable’The film director Sam Taylor-Johnson talks about Back to Black, her new biopic about Amy WinehouseMon Apr 08 2024 - 05:15
Four new films to see this weekThe First Omen, Evil Does Not Exist, Girls State, Io CapitanoSun Apr 07 2024 - 05:00
Prince Andrew vs Emily Maitlis: Prepare to cringe as Rufus Sewell and Gillian Anderson re-create the car-crash interviewScoop, a dramatisation of the duke of York’s infamous BBC interview, re-enacts every bad decision behind those toe-curling Newsnight momentsSat Apr 06 2024 - 05:15
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
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
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
‘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
