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Tish: Each photograph Tish Murphy took was an act of solidarity, the antithesis of ‘poverty porn’

Tish: Each photograph Tish Murphy took was an act of solidarity, the antithesis of ‘poverty porn’

Paul Sng’s exemplary documentary chronicles the life and work of the late photographer

Fri Dec 22 2023 - 05:00
Society of the Snow: A rugby team’s flight crashes in the Andes. The survivors are forced into cannibalism. This is the best screen account yet

Society of the Snow: A rugby team’s flight crashes in the Andes. The survivors are forced into cannibalism. This is the best screen account yet

Technically, it’s a marvel: the cinematographer Pedro Luque finds variations in the snowbound predicament

Fri Dec 22 2023 - 05:00
The Boy and the Heron: Studio Ghibli pioneer Hayao Miyazaki bids farewell with a masterpiece

The Boy and the Heron: Studio Ghibli pioneer Hayao Miyazaki bids farewell with a masterpiece

The Japanese director has threatened to retire twice, most recently after the 2013 release of The Wind Rises, a film that felt like a definitive farewell

Wed Dec 20 2023 - 05:00
‘People assume I was having play dates with Lily Allen and Peaches Geldof. We didn’t know anyone in show business’

‘People assume I was having play dates with Lily Allen and Peaches Geldof. We didn’t know anyone in show business’

Leo Leigh grew up in the film world. In Sweet Sue, his first feature, his approach to movie-making has produced one of the year’s most complex female characters

Wed Dec 20 2023 - 05:00
Four new films to see this week

Four new films to see this week

Godzilla Minus One, Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget, I Like Movies, In the Shadow of Beirut

Sun Dec 17 2023 - 05:00
I Like Movies: Teen film bro restores our faith in the teen comedy

I Like Movies: Teen film bro restores our faith in the teen comedy

Warmth and goofiness of Isaiah Lehtinen’s performance harks back to Napoleon Dynamite, High Fidelity or Clerks

Fri Dec 15 2023 - 05:00
Godzilla Minus One: Up from the depths comes the best action film of 2023

Godzilla Minus One: Up from the depths comes the best action film of 2023

This commentary on American imperialism, postwar malaise, survivor guilt and weaponised atomic power has historical depth and exciting set pieces

Fri Dec 15 2023 - 05:00
The 10 worst films of 2023

The 10 worst films of 2023

We’ve already told you our favourite movies released in Ireland this year. Here are the ones we hated

Mon Dec 11 2023 - 05:30
‘It’s more subversive to show tenderness between men than the hard sex or brutal sex we often see’

‘It’s more subversive to show tenderness between men than the hard sex or brutal sex we often see’

Zeno Graton’s new film, The Lost Boys, stars Julien De Saint Jean and Khalil Ben Gharbia as young men who meet in a youth detention centre

Mon Dec 11 2023 - 05:00
European Film Awards: Anatomy of a Fall dominates evening with landslide of wins

European Film Awards: Anatomy of a Fall dominates evening with landslide of wins

Palme d’Or winner secures gongs for Best Actress, Best Screenplay, Best Director and Best Film at Berlin event

Sun Dec 10 2023 - 09:00
Four new films to see this week

Four new films to see this week

Wonka, Anselm, Trenque Lauquen, The Peasants

Sun Dec 10 2023 - 05:00
The 50 best films of 2023 – in reverse order: 10 to 1

The 50 best films of 2023 – in reverse order: 10 to 1

We reach our top 10 favourite movies released in Ireland this year

Sat Dec 09 2023 - 05:30
The best and worst films of 2023 – in reverse order

The best and worst films of 2023 – in reverse order

Barbenheimer of course features, but most of the year’s finest flicks did not exactly run box office attendants off their feet

Sat Dec 09 2023 - 05:30
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget - Behind the scenes at the long-awaited sequel

Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget - Behind the scenes at the long-awaited sequel

Aardman’s unassuming studio has painstakingly created follow-up to beloved classic

Sat Dec 09 2023 - 05:30
The 50 best films of 2023 – in reverse order: 50 to 31

The 50 best films of 2023 – in reverse order: 50 to 31

We start our countdown of our favourite movies released in Ireland this year

Fri Dec 08 2023 - 08:14
The 50 best films of 2023 – in reverse order: 30 to 21

The 50 best films of 2023 – in reverse order: 30 to 21

We continue our countdown of our favourite movies released in Ireland this year

Fri Dec 08 2023 - 08:13
The 50 best films of 2023 – in reverse order: 20 to 11

The 50 best films of 2023 – in reverse order: 20 to 11

We continue our countdown of our favourite movies released in Ireland this year

Fri Dec 08 2023 - 08:12
Trenque Lauquen: This daring mystery is a much better use of your time than a certain historical epic on release

Trenque Lauquen: This daring mystery is a much better use of your time than a certain historical epic on release

Director Laura Citarella cannily wields narrative like a magician might. misdirecting the audience or obfuscating

Fri Dec 08 2023 - 05:00
The Peasants: This Polish yarn of haystack sex and cabbage parties is a waste of paint

The Peasants: This Polish yarn of haystack sex and cabbage parties is a waste of paint

Forty-thousand oil paintings were used to make the film, an astonishing, laborious feat akin to putting lipstick on a pig

Fri Dec 08 2023 - 05:00
Thelma Schoonmaker on Michael Powell: ‘He asked me to put ‘film director and optimist’ on his gravestone. Which I did’

Thelma Schoonmaker on Michael Powell: ‘He asked me to put ‘film director and optimist’ on his gravestone. Which I did’

Since her husband’s death, the Oscar-winning editor has been restoring the magnificent films he made with Emeric Pressburger, including The Red Shoes

Thu Dec 07 2023 - 05:00
Wonka director Paul King: ‘I only wanted to do something Roald Dahl would be proud of’

Wonka director Paul King: ‘I only wanted to do something Roald Dahl would be proud of’

The Paddington 2 maker’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory prequel stars Timothée Chalamet as the budding chocolatier – plus Sally Hawkins as his Irish mother

Wed Dec 06 2023 - 05:15
Fallen Leaves: Never mind Christmas reissues. This is the crowd-pleaser of the season

Fallen Leaves: Never mind Christmas reissues. This is the crowd-pleaser of the season

In keeping with Finnish film-maker Aki Kaurismäki’s sense of humour, this lovely romance is the fourth film in his proletariat trilogy

Fri Dec 01 2023 - 05:00
I Dream in Photos: An intimate portrait of the Pulitzer-winning Irish photographer Cathal McNaughton

I Dream in Photos: An intimate portrait of the Pulitzer-winning Irish photographer Cathal McNaughton

McNaughton is an amiable and thoughtful subject, and his testimony even as he recounts experiences in conflict zones is clear-headed and stoical

Fri Dec 01 2023 - 05:00
Marrakesh 2023: Jessica Chastain sparkles, Mads Mikkelson shows his class and Seydou Sarr confirms powerful new talent

Marrakesh 2023: Jessica Chastain sparkles, Mads Mikkelson shows his class and Seydou Sarr confirms powerful new talent

Marrakesh diary: Sumptuous opening ceremony makes Cannes and Venice look like jumble sales with notions

Mon Nov 27 2023 - 10:27
‘We thought, Oh wow, we hit the big time: they mentioned Dad on The Flintstones’

‘We thought, Oh wow, we hit the big time: they mentioned Dad on The Flintstones’

Maestro, Bradley Cooper’s film about the West Side Story composer Leonard Bernstein, has been an emotional experience for his daughters

Sat Nov 25 2023 - 05:30
Girl: An unnerving Glasgow tale of repressed trauma

Girl: An unnerving Glasgow tale of repressed trauma

Working from Onashile’s slightly fantastic script, Tasha Back’s shimmering cinematography ensures that Girl never looks like a typically gritty Glasgow story

Fri Nov 24 2023 - 05:00
The Eternal Daughter: Joanna Hogg’s vaporous new film lacks the punch of The Souvenir but casts its own spooky spell

The Eternal Daughter: Joanna Hogg’s vaporous new film lacks the punch of The Souvenir but casts its own spooky spell

The Eternal Daughter follows film-maker Julie as she arrives at a remote and creaky hotel with Rosalind

Thu Nov 23 2023 - 05:15
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: ‘For the Dublin production they said give us everything you have. And we did’

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: ‘For the Dublin production they said give us everything you have. And we did’

Broadway veterans Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman on the complex process of writing new songs for Bord Gáis Energy Theatre’s Christmas show

Wed Nov 22 2023 - 14:12
Joanna Hogg: ‘In some ways Martin Scorsese has a much greater insight into what I’m doing than I do’

Joanna Hogg: ‘In some ways Martin Scorsese has a much greater insight into what I’m doing than I do’

The great English film-maker on her most famous champion, her ‘joyful alliance’ with Tilda Swinton and her hopes that her films transcend their upper-middle-class milieu

Sat Nov 18 2023 - 05:30
Daliland: An entertaining if disappointingly formulaic entry into the Harron canon

Daliland: An entertaining if disappointingly formulaic entry into the Harron canon

Squabbling scenes between Kingsley and Sukowa make the enterprise worthwhile

Fri Nov 17 2023 - 05:00
May December: Todd Haynes’s new film is brilliant. But should you really be enjoying it?

May December: Todd Haynes’s new film is brilliant. But should you really be enjoying it?

Todd Haynes plays wicked games with our appetite for the tabloid cycle in one of the best films of 2023

Thu Nov 16 2023 - 05:00
The story of a 26-year-old evangelical Christian’s fatal trip to convert an ‘uncontacted’ tribe

The story of a 26-year-old evangelical Christian’s fatal trip to convert an ‘uncontacted’ tribe

The Mission: The film, which is tipped as an Oscars favourite, is a corrective to the cruel jokes that circulated in the weeks after John Chau’s death

Tue Nov 14 2023 - 13:55
Emerald Fennell: We needed somebody as enigmatic and sexy as Barry Keoghan

Emerald Fennell: We needed somebody as enigmatic and sexy as Barry Keoghan

Oscar winner’s new film stars Keoghan as a rough-hewn Oxford scholarship student who becomes an unlikely guest of a blue-blooded family

Sat Nov 11 2023 - 05:15
Ó Bhéal: A lovely documentary about the emergence of a truly indigenous subgenre

Ó Bhéal: A lovely documentary about the emergence of a truly indigenous subgenre

Ciara Nic Chormaic’s documentary traces a line between Irish oral tradition and contemporary rap

Fri Nov 10 2023 - 05:00
Anatomy of a Fall: An unlikable widow goes on trial in a fascinating, knotty courtroom thriller

Anatomy of a Fall: An unlikable widow goes on trial in a fascinating, knotty courtroom thriller

It is often observed that no one knows what a marriage is like except the two people in it, but in Justine Triet’s film that number may be too high

Thu Nov 09 2023 - 05:15
Laura Moss: I took a long time to realise my film was a mash-up of Frankenstein and Mary Shelley’s life

Laura Moss: I took a long time to realise my film was a mash-up of Frankenstein and Mary Shelley’s life

Themes of monstrosity and creation continue to inspire movies such as Re-Animator and Birth/Rebirth

Wed Nov 08 2023 - 05:00
Palme d’Or winner Justine Triet: ‘You could take my film, decide I’m obsessed with killing men and use it against me’

Palme d’Or winner Justine Triet: ‘You could take my film, decide I’m obsessed with killing men and use it against me’

The director of the remarkable Anatomy of a Fall likes to work on the boundary where fact and fiction blur into one another

Sat Nov 04 2023 - 05:15
Golden Bear-winner Nicolas Philibert: ‘My starting point is that I’m open to everything. Anything is possible’

Golden Bear-winner Nicolas Philibert: ‘My starting point is that I’m open to everything. Anything is possible’

For On the Adamant, the French documentarymaker spent months aboard a floating mental-heath day centre on the Seine in Paris

Fri Nov 03 2023 - 05:15
How to Have Sex film review: The limitations of consent under a cascade of vodka and peer pressure

How to Have Sex film review: The limitations of consent under a cascade of vodka and peer pressure

Molly Manning Walker’s nail-biting debut feature was a deserving winner at Cannes

Fri Nov 03 2023 - 05:00
The Royal Hotel: Outback holiday from hell makes for a tense watch

The Royal Hotel: Outback holiday from hell makes for a tense watch

Film review: Kitty Green puts a feminist spin on the remote Aussie nightmare of Wake in Fright

Fri Nov 03 2023 - 05:00
‘We should all be talking about Annette Bening and Jodie Foster’s extraordinary performances’: Nyad director Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

‘We should all be talking about Annette Bening and Jodie Foster’s extraordinary performances’: Nyad director Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

Starring Annette Bening as marathon swimmer Diana Nyad and Jodie Foster as her best friend and coach, Nyad is becoming an Oscars favourite

Mon Oct 30 2023 - 05:00
The Killer: Michael Fassbender elevates David Fincher’s sleek, hollow entertainment

The Killer: Michael Fassbender elevates David Fincher’s sleek, hollow entertainment

The director leans into his chilly gifts for genre without too much exertion

Fri Oct 27 2023 - 06:00
Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren on casting for a trans child role: ‘We looked all over... We met girls and trans girls’

Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren on casting for a trans child role: ‘We looked all over... We met girls and trans girls’

The director of the Silver Bear-winning 20,000 Species of Bees was painstaking in her approach to telling the story of a transgender child

Fri Oct 27 2023 - 05:15
Pain Hustlers: Spitballing and shimmying through the US opioid crisis

Pain Hustlers: Spitballing and shimmying through the US opioid crisis

Although it’s mostly fun, the film is ultimately torn between raucous satire and social conscience

Fri Oct 27 2023 - 05:00
‘Rock Hudson and James Dean were fighting over Elizabeth Taylor – who’s her best favourite gay boyfriend?’

‘Rock Hudson and James Dean were fighting over Elizabeth Taylor – who’s her best favourite gay boyfriend?’

A new documentary, Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed, explores the strange dynamics of Hudson’s closeted queerness in pre-Stonewall Hollywood

Mon Oct 23 2023 - 05:15
The Pigeon Tunnel: Seasoned interrogators John le Carré and Errol Morris lock horns, with fascinating results

The Pigeon Tunnel: Seasoned interrogators John le Carré and Errol Morris lock horns, with fascinating results

‘I’ve lived through a world of endless betrayal,’ the great spy writer tells the celebrated documentarian in his final testament on camera

Thu Oct 19 2023 - 05:00
Nyad: Punch-the-air marathon swimmer biopic from Free Solo’s Oscar-winners

Nyad: Punch-the-air marathon swimmer biopic from Free Solo’s Oscar-winners

Annette Bening’s fierce performance is work that trumpets the arrival of awards season

Tue Oct 17 2023 - 16:23
Martin Scorsese: ‘One has to take chances. At this age, what else can I do?’

Martin Scorsese: ‘One has to take chances. At this age, what else can I do?’

The veteran director wants Killers of the Flower Moon to show not just the trail of killings at the heart of its story but also the rich culture of the Osage Nation

Sat Oct 14 2023 - 02:00
The Burial: Jamie Foxx and Tommy Lee Jones buddy up for a fun 1990s courtroom throwback

The Burial: Jamie Foxx and Tommy Lee Jones buddy up for a fun 1990s courtroom throwback

Watching this energetic drama, it is almost hard to believe this is inspired by a true story

Fri Oct 13 2023 - 05:30
Smoke Sauna Sisterhood: Sweating out the pain in a safe, feminine space

Smoke Sauna Sisterhood: Sweating out the pain in a safe, feminine space

Shot over five years, Anna Hint’s film is an intangible marvel, punctuated by rituals

Fri Oct 13 2023 - 05:00
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