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Four new films to see this week

Four new films to see this week

Proto-feminist western The Dead Don’t Hurt, plus witty true-life Hit Man, period French drama Rosalie, and another big-boom Bad Boys sequel

Sun Jun 09 2024 - 05:00
The Dead Don’t Hurt: Viggo Mortensen directs and stars in this thoughtful, melancholy western

The Dead Don’t Hurt: Viggo Mortensen directs and stars in this thoughtful, melancholy western

The script tussles between feminist revision and old-school male showdowns

Thu 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 Fire

‘I wanted it to feel like a kids’ movie made by kids’: Weston Razooli on his Cannes-wowing film Riddle of Fire

The French press have found a new auteur hero in the American director of a 1980s-tinged film about a wilder kind of childhood

Wed 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 hire

Hit Man: Glen Powell steals this sexy Netflix caper based on a real-life philosophy professor who poses as a gun for hire

The actor, who will soon press pause on his Hollywood career, even manages to wring a moment of magnetism from iPhone notes

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

Four new films to see this week

Rediscovered Irish folk horror The Outcasts, plus Sting, The Beast and Gasoline Rainbow

Sun Jun 02 2024 - 05:00
The Outcasts: Lost Irish folk horror film is gloriously restored

The Outcasts: Lost Irish folk horror film is gloriously restored

Film about a near-wordless young woman witch-hunted by a mob was worth waiting for

Fri May 31 2024 - 05:15
Gasoline Rainbow: A pleasantly meandering Gen Z road trip from upcoming auteur siblings the Ross brothers

Gasoline Rainbow: A pleasantly meandering Gen Z road trip from upcoming auteur siblings the Ross brothers

Its creators might be sick of the documentary-hybrid conversation, but it’s impossible to watch this without guessing about its nonfictional underpinnings

Fri 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’

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 movie

Tue May 28 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this week

Four new films to see this week

Ferocious Furiosa is the craziest show on Earth. Plus Irish documentaries on Charlie Bird and Chinese music competitors, and an eerie Pakistani social horror

Sun May 26 2024 - 05:00
Piano Dreams: An arresting chronicle of Chinese musical ambition from an Irish director

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 landscape

Fri May 24 2024 - 05:00
Cannes 2024: Stars get shady on the carpet as the Nicolas Cage renaissance rages on with Irish director Lorcan Finnegan

Cannes 2024: Stars get shady on the carpet as the Nicolas Cage renaissance rages on with Irish director Lorcan Finnegan

Reviewer Tara Brady has her pick for the Palme d’Or and Seán Baker miraculously resurrects the screwball comedy

Thu May 23 2024 - 11:02
In Flames: This supernatural horror, a remarkable debut film, will keep you hooked

In Flames: This supernatural horror, a remarkable debut film, will keep you hooked

Impressive Ramesha Nawal plays Mariam, a medical student whose father mysteriously died

Thu May 23 2024 - 05:15
Cannes 2024: The Apprentice review – Long shadow of Succession hangs over controversial Donald Trump biopic

Cannes 2024: The Apprentice review – Long shadow of Succession hangs over controversial Donald Trump biopic

Ali Abbasi film starring Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong zones in on a twisted early Trump mentor

Tue May 21 2024 - 08:55
Cannes 2024: Kevin Costner’s epic sprawl, Julianne Moore’s return and Kermit’s green coat

Cannes 2024: Kevin Costner’s epic sprawl, Julianne Moore’s return and Kermit’s green coat

Cannes Diary: First three-hour instalment of Costner’s old-school western is confounding; Kinds of Kindness may be Yorgos Lanthimos’s weakest film

Mon 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’

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 headlines

Sat May 18 2024 - 05:30
Tiger Stripes review: Female puberty horror is a world away from Pixar’s Turning Red

Tiger Stripes review: Female puberty horror is a world away from Pixar’s Turning Red

Amanda Nell Eu’s debut marries unwanted menstruation and cryptozoological mythology to spooky effect

Fri May 17 2024 - 05:00
Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg – Scarlett Johansson voices the evocative recollections of the Rolling Stones muse

Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg – Scarlett Johansson voices the evocative recollections of the Rolling Stones muse

The actor, artist and model had three children with Keith Richards, and somehow survived the 1960s

Thu May 16 2024 - 05:00
Inside Ireland’s national cheerleading team: ‘Remember, ladies, the higher your hair is, the closer it is to God’

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 Championships

Wed May 15 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this week

Four new films to see this week

Kingdom 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 Pressburger

Sun 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 duo

Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger review – Martin Scorsese front and centre in a wonderful chronicle of influential duo

Scorsese’s rhapsodical memories match the romance of the subjects’ transportive storytelling and indelible images

Fri 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 comedian

Big Banana Feet: ‘Lost’ film of Billy Connolly’s 1973 tour of Ireland is a fine tribute to the fearless comedian

Thirty weapons were confiscated from the audience arriving for Connolly’s 1973 Belfast show, but you’d never know it from his joyful performance

Thu May 09 2024 - 05:15
Alice Rohrwacher: ‘I want my films to feel like Pasolini’s, like they are parables’

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 thieves

Wed May 08 2024 - 05:15
Four new films to see this week

Four new films to see this week

Love Lies Bleeding, The Fall Guy, Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry, Unfrosted

Sun May 05 2024 - 05:00
Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry review: Elene Naveriani’s warm, wise dramedy makes merry with a midlife crisis

Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry review: Elene Naveriani’s warm, wise dramedy makes merry with a midlife crisis

Georgian film about a fearless 48-year-old heroine who has never wanted a husband, preferring blackberry-picking, cake and solitude

Thu May 02 2024 - 05:00
The Fall Guy review: Who ordered a half-baked revival of a Lee Majors TV show? Anyone?

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 nonsense

Thu May 02 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this week

Four new films to see this week

Challengers, That They May Face the Rising Sun, In the Land of Saints and Sinners, ISS

Sun 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’

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 office

Sat Apr 27 2024 - 05:30
Kidnapped: The extraordinary story of the six-year-old abducted by the Catholic Church

Kidnapped: The extraordinary story of the six-year-old abducted by the Catholic Church

Film director Marco Bellocchio on Edgardo Mortara, a ‘baptised’ Jewish boy taken from his family, and scandal that weakened power of pope

Fri Apr 26 2024 - 05:15
In the Land of Saints and Sinners: Liam Neeson is a gruff, gunslinging hero in this Donegal western

In the Land of Saints and Sinners: Liam Neeson is a gruff, gunslinging hero in this Donegal western

Robert Lorenz’s thriller, set in 1974, features Kerry Condon, Ciarán Hinds, Niamh Cusack and Colm Meaney in a parade of wasted ideas and characters

Fri Apr 26 2024 - 05:00
That They May Face the Rising Sun: The best Irish film in a very long time

That They May Face the Rising Sun: The best Irish film in a very long time

An Cailín Ciúin fans should start queueing now. Pat Collins has made an exquisite adaptation of John McGahern’s final novel

Wed Apr 24 2024 - 05:00
Rebel Moon director Zack Snyder: ‘My obligation is to bring viewers the largest cinematic experience I can muster’

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 board

Mon Apr 22 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this week

Four new films to see this week

The Book of Clarence, All You Need Is Death, The Sweet East, Abigail

Sun Apr 21 2024 - 05:00
The Book of Clarence review: A wannabe messiah seeks disciples in an inventive parallel history to the New Testament

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 epics

Fri Apr 19 2024 - 15:13
Abigail: Ballet vampire horror-comedy turns every dial up to 11

Abigail: Ballet vampire horror-comedy turns every dial up to 11

Outrageous reimagining of Dracula’s Daughter is fun for a while, but soon collapses under its own silliness

Fri Apr 19 2024 - 05:00
Pete Waterman: ‘Rick Astley walked away with a cheque for £5m, which is pretty good for an apprentice’

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 more

Mon Apr 15 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this week

Four new films to see this week

Back to Black, Civil War, The Teachers’ Lounge, Close Your Eyes

Sun Apr 14 2024 - 05:00
Close Your Eyes: Spanish master Víctor Erice returns after a 31-year hiatus

Close Your Eyes: Spanish master Víctor Erice returns after a 31-year hiatus

The octogenarian auteur’s fourth feature is a languorous consideration of time, memory and cinema

Fri Apr 12 2024 - 05:00
The Teachers’ Lounge review: Leonie Benesch is sensational in this unlikely white-knuckle thriller

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 drama

Thu Apr 11 2024 - 05:00
‘There are parallels between Britney, Diana and Amy Winehouse... women picked on at their most vulnerable’

‘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 Winehouse

Mon Apr 08 2024 - 05:15
Four new films to see this week

Four new films to see this week

The First Omen, Evil Does Not Exist, Girls State, Io Capitano

Sun Apr 07 2024 - 05:00
Prince Andrew vs Emily Maitlis: Prepare to cringe as Rufus Sewell and Gillian Anderson re-create the car-crash interview

Prince Andrew vs Emily Maitlis: Prepare to cringe as Rufus Sewell and Gillian Anderson re-create the car-crash interview

Scoop, a dramatisation of the duke of York’s infamous BBC interview, re-enacts every bad decision behind those toe-curling Newsnight moments

Sat Apr 06 2024 - 05:15
Io Capitano review: A swashbuckling, award-winning portrayal of the European migrant crisis

Io Capitano review: A swashbuckling, award-winning portrayal of the European migrant crisis

Matteo Garrone’s follow-up to the exquisite Pinocchio is based on real-life testimonies and dramatised with youthful verve

Fri 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

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 presidency

Wed Apr 03 2024 - 04:30
Io Capitano: Chronicling the perilous migrant trek from Senegal to Europe with Homeric flair

Io Capitano: Chronicling the perilous migrant trek from Senegal to Europe with Homeric flair

Oscar-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 Sahara

Tue Apr 02 2024 - 05:15
Four new films to see this week

Four new films to see this week

Anne 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 Boy

Sun Mar 31 2024 - 05:00
Disco Boy: Franz Rogowski is at his most haunted in this hypnotic, witchy brew

Disco Boy: Franz Rogowski is at his most haunted in this hypnotic, witchy brew

Debut director Giacomo Abbruzzese merges disparate stories into a mysterious cinematic adventure

Fri Mar 29 2024 - 05:00
Kung Fu Panda 4: A weaker entry in the franchise that is still vastly superior to most mainstream animated features

Kung Fu Panda 4: A weaker entry in the franchise that is still vastly superior to most mainstream animated features

Caveats and niggles ultimately don’t dent the magnanimous-natured enjoyment

Fri Mar 29 2024 - 05:00
‘Independent movies are a strange combination of people with money and people with big egos’

‘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 debut

Wed 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 Delinquents

Four new films to see this week: Conor McGregor in Road House, Sydney Sweeney in Immaculate, Late Night with the Devil and The Delinquents

Gyllenhaal 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 Delinquents

Sun Mar 24 2024 - 05:00
The Delinquents review: Two boring jobsworths. A bank robbery plot. And a manic pixie dream girl

The Delinquents review: Two boring jobsworths. A bank robbery plot. And a manic pixie dream girl

Rodrigo Moreno’s first feature for more than a decade is an entertaining epic with confounding twists and turns

Fri Mar 22 2024 - 05:00
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