Film

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

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

Plus: How was Lauren Bacall best known to her friends?

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

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

The director and subject try to make sense of mortality, creative responsibility and the place of Germany in a changed world

In this decent origin story, the young actor betrays no hint of the sly psychopath he would become in the form of Gene Wilder

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

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

The former French emperor continues to fascinate because he is such a contrary character being neither wholly good or bad