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Late Night with the Devil review: Satan communes through a 1970s chatshow in Cairnes brothers’ fun, freaky horror

Late Night with the Devil review: Satan communes through a 1970s chatshow in Cairnes brothers’ fun, freaky horror

The 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 Oz

Robot Dreams: How Pablo Berger created the most soulful tin man since The Wizard of Oz

Director’s animated depiction of friendship between a robot and dog in 1980s New York is far more affecting than its expensive Oscar rivals

Tue Mar 19 2024 - 05:00
Lindsay Lohan’s Irish Wish review:  there’s a scandalous lack of begorrah, which may be a good thing

Lindsay Lohan’s Irish Wish review: there’s a scandalous lack of begorrah, which may be a good thing

American star’s glossy movie has criminally little Irish involvement

Fri Mar 15 2024 - 08:00
Banel & Adama: Every frame of this mesmerising debut casts a spell

Banel & Adama: Every frame of this mesmerising debut casts a spell

The Senegalese Oscar pick concerns about two teenagers rebelling aginst expectations

Fri 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’

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-maker

Wed Mar 13 2024 - 03:15
Four new films to see this week

Four new films to see this week

Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World, Copa 71, Origin, High & Low: John Galliano

Sun 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 seeks

High & Low: John Galliano review – Designer documentary is no puff piece but it doesn’t quite elicit the answers it seeks

Intriguing film about the British fashion icon ultimately fails to get to the bottom of racist and anti-Semitic remarks that got him fired

Fri Mar 08 2024 - 05:00
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World review: a mischievous, scathing, sprawling provocation

Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World review: a mischievous, scathing, sprawling provocation

Day-in-the-life portrait of an overworked production assistant has won an impressive haul of awards

Thu 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’

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 tournament

Wed Mar 06 2024 - 05:15
Four new films to see this week

Four new films to see this week

Dune: Part Two, Lisa Frankenstein, Spaceman, Four Daughters

Sun Mar 03 2024 - 05:00
Four Daughters review: Riveting Oscar-nominated documentary deconstructs a global news story

Four Daughters review: Riveting Oscar-nominated documentary deconstructs a global news story

A Tunisian matriarch and her four daughters – two of them played by actors – delve into their troubled past

Fri Mar 01 2024 - 05:00
Spaceman review: Adam Sandler journeys into a trippy interstellar cloud with a giant Nutella-loving alien spider

Spaceman review: Adam Sandler journeys into a trippy interstellar cloud with a giant Nutella-loving alien spider

Johan Renck’s film turns out to ponderous, however, eschewing journey and destination in favour of the symbolic

Thu 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’

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 colony

Wed Feb 28 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this week

Four new films to see this week

Wim Wenders’s Tokyo-set Perfect Days, plus Memory, Wicked Little Letters and The Moon Thieves

Sun Feb 25 2024 - 05:00
Dune: Part 2 director Denis Villeneuve – ‘I loved the idea of divers in the desert’

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 Chani

Sat Feb 24 2024 - 05:15
The Moon Thieves review: Cantopop stars can look out of place in this chaotic horology heist

The Moon Thieves review: Cantopop stars can look out of place in this chaotic horology heist

Members of the band Mirror make up youthful ensemble in this throwaway entertainment

Thu Feb 22 2024 - 05:00
Memory review: Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard are outstanding in Michel Franco’s newest provocation

Memory review: Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard are outstanding in Michel Franco’s newest provocation

Franco leaves several smoking guns to add to the ethical and narrative knottiness

Thu Feb 22 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this week

Four new films to see this week

Bob Marley: One Life, Madame Web, The Promised Land, The Taste of Things

Sun Feb 18 2024 - 05:00
Jessica Chastain: ‘I like the unlikeable characters. The world is not black and white’

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 winner

Sat Feb 17 2024 - 05:30
The Promised Land: Nordic demi-western is powered along by Mads Mikkelsen’s rugged charisma

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 Jutland

Thu Feb 15 2024 - 05:00
The Taste of Things: Gastroporn doesn’t come more XXX-rated than this insanely pretty, airily vacant French fancy

The Taste of Things: Gastroporn doesn’t come more XXX-rated than this insanely pretty, airily vacant French fancy

Comme 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%’

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 movies

Mon Feb 12 2024 - 05:15
‘The Irish were always playing Bob Marley’: One Love star Kingsley Ben-Adir on growing up with the reggae icon

‘The Irish were always playing Bob Marley’: One Love star Kingsley Ben-Adir on growing up with the reggae icon

Bob 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 family

Sun Feb 11 2024 - 05:15
Four new films to see this week

Four new films to see this week

Occupied City, The Settlers, The Iron Claw, Double Blind

Sun 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’

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 dancer

Sat Feb 10 2024 - 05:15
The Settlers: A masterfully staged film styles Chile’s genocidal past as a spaghetti western to chilling effect

The Settlers: A masterfully staged film styles Chile’s genocidal past as a spaghetti western to chilling effect

There are no good guys in Felipe Gálvez Haberle’s directorial debut about a murderous colonial mission at the turn of the century

Fri Feb 09 2024 - 05:00
The Iron Claw: Wild true story makes for darkly tragic, completely gripping old-school TV movie

The Iron Claw: Wild true story makes for darkly tragic, completely gripping old-school TV movie

True story of the Von Erich wrestling clan is a tale of corrosive masculinity and suffocating parental pressure

Thu Feb 08 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this week

Four new films to see in cinemas this week

Five stars for astonishing drama The Zone of Interest. Plus multi-Oscar-nominated American Fiction, Japanese anime Blue Giant, and silly but fun comedy-thriller Argylle

Sun Feb 04 2024 - 05:00
American Fiction review: Jeffrey Wright gives a knockout performance in this edgy, Oscar-nominated comedy

American Fiction review: Jeffrey Wright gives a knockout performance in this edgy, Oscar-nominated comedy

Cord Jefferson marries broad humour with affecting familial dysfunction and biting observations on race

Thu Feb 01 2024 - 05:10
Blue Giant: This big-screen experience is as improbably close to watching a live performance as animation can get

Blue Giant: This big-screen experience is as improbably close to watching a live performance as animation can get

Carefully calibrated soundtrack composed by celebrated jazz pianist Hiromi Uehara steals the show

Wed Jan 31 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this week

Four new films to see this week

All of Us Strangers, The Color Purple, Samsara, Padre Pio

Sun Jan 28 2024 - 05:00
Padre Pio: A breathtakingly intense Shia LeBeouf lifts Abel Ferrara’s messy history

Padre Pio: A breathtakingly intense Shia LeBeouf lifts Abel Ferrara’s messy history

The fiercely committed actor lived in a Capuchin monastery and reportedly converted to Catholicism during production

Fri Jan 26 2024 - 05:00
The Color Purple: Polished musical looks pretty and sounds fabulous without ever blazing up the screen

The Color Purple: Polished musical looks pretty and sounds fabulous without ever blazing up the screen

This too often feels like a retread of the Spielberg film with occasional song interruptions

Thu Jan 25 2024 - 05:00
Samsara director Lois Patiño: ‘I had this radical idea of watching a film with your eyes closed’

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 Dead

Mon Jan 22 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this week: Mean Girls, The Holdovers, The End We Start From, The Kitchen

Four new films to see this week: Mean Girls, The Holdovers, The End We Start From, The Kitchen

From big-screen translation of the stage musical based on the 2004 high-school classic to a terrifying vision of neoliberal blighted London in the 2040s

Sun Jan 21 2024 - 05:00
American Fiction star Jeffrey Wright: ‘We are not good at conversations about race’

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 director

Sat Jan 20 2024 - 05:15
The Kitchen: Urban grit with spectacular sci-fi trimmings in Daniel Kaluuya’s directorial debut

The Kitchen: Urban grit with spectacular sci-fi trimmings in Daniel Kaluuya’s directorial debut

This is a terrifying vision of neoliberal blighted London in the 2040s

Fri Jan 19 2024 - 05:00
The End We Start From review: Jodie Comer shines as a new mother surviving in apocalyptic circumstances

The End We Start From review: Jodie Comer shines as a new mother surviving in apocalyptic circumstances

Director Mahalia Belo’s savvy debut is enhanced by a gifted cast

Thu Jan 18 2024 - 05:00
‘Werner Herzog lives every day like he wants his life to be an adventure’

‘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 Dreamer

Tue Jan 16 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this week: Poor Things, The Beekeeper, Freaks vs the Reich, Lift

Four new films to see this week: Poor Things, The Beekeeper, Freaks vs the Reich, Lift

Poor Things, The Beekeeper, Freaks vs the Reich, Lift

Sun Jan 14 2024 - 05:00
Freaks vs the Reich review: Superpowered circus acts take on the Nazis in this historical monster mash

Freaks vs the Reich review: Superpowered circus acts take on the Nazis in this historical monster mash

Despite its premise, this carnivalesque alternate history is closer in tone to Hellboy than throwaway Syfy-channel Naziploitation

Fri Jan 12 2024 - 04:57
The Beekeeper review: Jason Statham strolls into armies of enemies like an annoyed man taking out overflowing bins

The Beekeeper review: Jason Statham strolls into armies of enemies like an annoyed man taking out overflowing bins

A film about explosions and bad guys getting their comeuppance is a good fit for the action veteran, dodgy accent aside

Thu Jan 11 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this week

Four new films to see this week

Empathetic take on well-known Andean crash survivors story Society of the Snow, plus Anthony Hopkins in fine historical drama One Life, fun documentary Scala!!!, and uneven comedy-drama Good Grief

Sun Jan 07 2024 - 05:00
Good Grief: Dan Levy’s bereavement comedy doesn’t quite come together

Good Grief: Dan Levy’s bereavement comedy doesn’t quite come together

The script cannot quite reconcile grief with the film’s romcom ambitions, but a promising first film

Thu Jan 04 2024 - 05:00
‘The Scala made sleaze romantic. That cinema was a refuge from suburbia’

‘The Scala made sleaze romantic. That cinema was a refuge from suburbia’

Founded by Crying Game producer Stephen Woolley, the London club helped change attitudes to cinema

Wed Jan 03 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this week

Four new films to see this week

Five stars for Sofia Coppola’s perceptive Priscilla biopic but only two for Michael Mann’s plodding Ferrari. Plus: Ben Kingsley in a charming ET for geezers and John Cena in a rotten action comedy

Sun Dec 31 2023 - 05:00
50 films to see in 2024: From All of Us Strangers to Gladiator 2

50 films to see in 2024: From All of Us Strangers to Gladiator 2

Against all odds – and the best efforts of studio executives – 2024 is going to be a fantastic year for cinema

Sat Dec 30 2023 - 06:15
Jules: This sci-fi adventure feels like ET for older people

Jules: This sci-fi adventure feels like ET for older people

This pleasant dramedy is jollied along by its talented veteran ensemble and the odd narrative curveball

Fri Dec 29 2023 - 05:00
Ferrari: Even Adam Driver and Penélope Cruz can’t save this dull mech-bro biopic

Ferrari: Even Adam Driver and Penélope Cruz can’t save this dull mech-bro biopic

Ferrari, as adapted from Brock Yates’ 1991 biography, Enzo Ferrari: The Man, the Cars, the Races, the Machine, has been knocking around Hollywood for decades

Tue Dec 26 2023 - 05:00
Four new films to see this week

Four new films to see this week

Spiritual Japanese animation The Boy and the Heron and exemplary documentary on fearless photographer Trish Murtha. Plus: misfired sports biopic Next Goal Wins and dull Star Wars clone Rebel Moon

Sun Dec 24 2023 - 05:00
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