Four new films to see this weekSpiritual 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 MoonSun Dec 24 2023 - 05:00
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 photographerFri 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 yetTechnically, it’s a marvel: the cinematographer Pedro Luque finds variations in the snowbound predicamentFri Dec 22 2023 - 05:00
The Boy and the Heron: Studio Ghibli pioneer Hayao Miyazaki bids farewell with a masterpieceThe Japanese director has threatened to retire twice, most recently after the 2013 release of The Wind Rises, a film that felt like a definitive farewellWed 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’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 charactersWed Dec 20 2023 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekGodzilla Minus One, Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget, I Like Movies, In the Shadow of BeirutSun Dec 17 2023 - 05:00
I Like Movies: Teen film bro restores our faith in the teen comedyWarmth and goofiness of Isaiah Lehtinen’s performance harks back to Napoleon Dynamite, High Fidelity or ClerksFri Dec 15 2023 - 05:00
Godzilla Minus One: Up from the depths comes the best action film of 2023This commentary on American imperialism, postwar malaise, survivor guilt and weaponised atomic power has historical depth and exciting set piecesFri Dec 15 2023 - 05:00
The 10 worst films of 2023We’ve already told you our favourite movies released in Ireland this year. Here are the ones we hatedMon Dec 11 2023 - 05:30
‘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 centreMon Dec 11 2023 - 05:00
European Film Awards: Anatomy of a Fall dominates evening with landslide of winsPalme d’Or winner secures gongs for Best Actress, Best Screenplay, Best Director and Best Film at Berlin eventSun Dec 10 2023 - 09:00
The 50 best films of 2023 – in reverse order: 10 to 1We reach our top 10 favourite movies released in Ireland this yearSat Dec 09 2023 - 05:30
The best and worst films of 2023 – in reverse orderBarbenheimer of course features, but most of the year’s finest flicks did not exactly run box office attendants off their feetSat Dec 09 2023 - 05:30
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget - Behind the scenes at the long-awaited sequelAardman’s unassuming studio has painstakingly created follow-up to beloved classicSat Dec 09 2023 - 05:30
The 50 best films of 2023 – in reverse order: 50 to 31We start our countdown of our favourite movies released in Ireland this yearFri Dec 08 2023 - 08:14
The 50 best films of 2023 – in reverse order: 30 to 21We continue our countdown of our favourite movies released in Ireland this yearFri Dec 08 2023 - 08:13
The 50 best films of 2023 – in reverse order: 20 to 11We continue our countdown of our favourite movies released in Ireland this yearFri Dec 08 2023 - 08:12
Trenque Lauquen: This daring mystery is a much better use of your time than a certain historical epic on releaseDirector Laura Citarella cannily wields narrative like a magician might. misdirecting the audience or obfuscatingFri Dec 08 2023 - 05:00
The Peasants: This Polish yarn of haystack sex and cabbage parties is a waste of paintForty-thousand oil paintings were used to make the film, an astonishing, laborious feat akin to putting lipstick on a pigFri 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’Since her husband’s death, the Oscar-winning editor has been restoring the magnificent films he made with Emeric Pressburger, including The Red ShoesThu Dec 07 2023 - 05:00
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 motherWed Dec 06 2023 - 05:15
Fallen Leaves: Never mind Christmas reissues. This is the crowd-pleaser of the seasonIn keeping with Finnish film-maker Aki Kaurismäki’s sense of humour, this lovely romance is the fourth film in his proletariat trilogyFri Dec 01 2023 - 05:00
I Dream in Photos: An intimate portrait of the Pulitzer-winning Irish photographer Cathal McNaughtonMcNaughton is an amiable and thoughtful subject, and his testimony even as he recounts experiences in conflict zones is clear-headed and stoicalFri Dec 01 2023 - 05:00
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 notionsMon Nov 27 2023 - 10:27
‘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 daughtersSat Nov 25 2023 - 05:30
Girl: An unnerving Glasgow tale of repressed traumaWorking from Onashile’s slightly fantastic script, Tasha Back’s shimmering cinematography ensures that Girl never looks like a typically gritty Glasgow storyFri 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 follows film-maker Julie as she arrives at a remote and creaky hotel with RosalindThu Nov 23 2023 - 05:15
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 showWed 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’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 milieuSat Nov 18 2023 - 05:30
Daliland: An entertaining if disappointingly formulaic entry into the Harron canonSquabbling scenes between Kingsley and Sukowa make the enterprise worthwhileFri Nov 17 2023 - 05:00
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 2023Thu Nov 16 2023 - 05:00
The story of a 26-year-old evangelical Christian’s fatal trip to convert an ‘uncontacted’ tribeThe 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 deathTue Nov 14 2023 - 13:55
Emerald Fennell: We needed somebody as enigmatic and sexy as Barry KeoghanOscar winner’s new film stars Keoghan as a rough-hewn Oxford scholarship student who becomes an unlikely guest of a blue-blooded familySat Nov 11 2023 - 05:15
Ó Bhéal: A lovely documentary about the emergence of a truly indigenous subgenreCiara Nic Chormaic’s documentary traces a line between Irish oral tradition and contemporary rapFri Nov 10 2023 - 05:00
Anatomy of a Fall: An unlikable widow goes on trial in a fascinating, knotty courtroom thrillerIt 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 highThu 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 lifeThemes of monstrosity and creation continue to inspire movies such as Re-Animator and Birth/RebirthWed 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’The director of the remarkable Anatomy of a Fall likes to work on the boundary where fact and fiction blur into one anotherSat Nov 04 2023 - 05:15
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 ParisFri Nov 03 2023 - 05:15
How to Have Sex film review: The limitations of consent under a cascade of vodka and peer pressureMolly Manning Walker’s nail-biting debut feature was a deserving winner at CannesFri Nov 03 2023 - 05:00
The Royal Hotel: Outback holiday from hell makes for a tense watchFilm review: Kitty Green puts a feminist spin on the remote Aussie nightmare of Wake in FrightFri Nov 03 2023 - 05:00
‘We should all be talking about Annette Bening and Jodie Foster’s extraordinary performances’: Nyad director Elizabeth Chai VasarhelyiStarring Annette Bening as marathon swimmer Diana Nyad and Jodie Foster as her best friend and coach, Nyad is becoming an Oscars favouriteMon Oct 30 2023 - 05:00
The Killer: Michael Fassbender elevates David Fincher’s sleek, hollow entertainmentThe director leans into his chilly gifts for genre without too much exertionFri 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’The director of the Silver Bear-winning 20,000 Species of Bees was painstaking in her approach to telling the story of a transgender childFri Oct 27 2023 - 05:15
Pain Hustlers: Spitballing and shimmying through the US opioid crisisAlthough it’s mostly fun, the film is ultimately torn between raucous satire and social conscienceFri Oct 27 2023 - 05:00
‘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 HollywoodMon Oct 23 2023 - 05:15
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 cameraThu Oct 19 2023 - 05:00
Nyad: Punch-the-air marathon swimmer biopic from Free Solo’s Oscar-winnersAnnette Bening’s fierce performance is work that trumpets the arrival of awards seasonTue Oct 17 2023 - 16:23
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 NationSat Oct 14 2023 - 02:00
The Burial: Jamie Foxx and Tommy Lee Jones buddy up for a fun 1990s courtroom throwbackWatching this energetic drama, it is almost hard to believe this is inspired by a true storyFri Oct 13 2023 - 05:30
