The Girl with the Needle review: Splendid but sombre serial-killer-inspired fairy tale for grown-ups
By Tara Brady
The Damned review: Chilly horror powered along by suspicion, atmospherics and an unforgettable landscape
By Tara Brady
Maria review: Angelina Jolie captures the tragic glamour of Maria Callas in a masterly portrayal of the opera star
Babygirl review: Five stars for a fearless Nicole Kidman’s dive into a hot erotic mess. Bondage has seldom been as playful
By Tara Brady
A Real Pain review: Kieran Culkin could be on an unstoppable run to an Oscar for this touching, funny drama
Beezel review: This queasy horror set in an impressively creepy Massachusetts house is pulp as pulp should be
Nickel Boys review: You’ll never have seen anything like this daring, heartbreaking chronicle of abuse and inequality
By Tara Brady
We Live in Time review: Is there is a word for a manipulative drama that isn’t up to the task?
How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies review: Warm, witty tear-jerker about an improbable subject
By Tara Brady
Better Man review: Robbie Williams as a monkey is a surprising look at the ego-driven’s star’s life
The Six Triple Eight: Stirring tribute to the only black women’s unit to serve in Europe during the second World War
By Tara Brady
The Order review: This taut, gritty white-supremacist thriller could pass for a rediscovered early-1970s classic
By Tara Brady
Mufasa: The Lion King review – This follow-up has a hungry cash-box where its soul should be
Queer review: There’s not a trace of William S Burroughs in Luca Guadagnino’s hugely disappointing adaptation
By Tara Brady
Chasing the Light review: This agreeable Irish documentary is all peace and healing. Then something disturbing happens
The Bibi Files: Scathing portrait of Binyamin Netanyahu’s alleged history of backhanders
By Tara Brady
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim review – Enjoyably gory epic is a useful addition to Tolkien lore
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl: Rungano Nyoni’s darkly comic abuse-survival tale is a blistering original
By Tara Brady
Nightbitch: Amy Adams gives it her all, but the close of the film feels like a malign deception
Merchant Ivory: Stephen Soucy’s documentary lifts up the petticoats of the prestigious production house
By Tara Brady
All We Imagine as Light: Swooningly poetic film marks Payal Kapadia as a voice for the future
Conclave: Ralph Fiennes is flawless in Robert Harris’s preposterously gripping drama of papal electioneering
Moana 2: Entertaining Disney sequel has the best boat chases since Live and Let Die
By Tara Brady
Our Little Secret: Awkward! Lindsay Lohan’s Christmas flick may as well be AI generated
By Tara Brady
Joy: Thomasin McKenzie is luminous in a film about the journey towards test-tube babies that feels more like classy telly
By Tara Brady
Housewife of the Year: A wistful celebration of a generation of Irish women who competed for £300 and a gas stove
Wicked review: Yes, it’s a nightmare in digital wax, but you’ll leave the cinema in buoyant mood
Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point: Altmanesque seasonal comedy is a wistful riot of chatter and foods
By Tara Brady
Gladiator II review: Don’t blame Paul Mescal, but there’s no good reason for this jumbled sequel to exist
Blitz review: Saoirse Ronan has little to work with in Steve McQueen’s absorbing but crowded war-time drama
By Tara Brady
The Piano Lesson review: Denzel Washington’s project is admirable, but this film can’t shake off its stage origins
Small Things Like These: Cillian Murphy’s performance is fiercely internalised in a film emblematic of a changing Ireland
By Tara Brady
Anora: A stripper, Russian heavies and an oligarch’s son – what more do you need for a knockout comedy?
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story review - A perfectly decent doc lifted by throat-catching moments
Heretic review: Hugh Grant has a ball tormenting young Mormon doorsteppers in this gleeful horror thriller
By Tara Brady
Dahomey review: Mati Diop’s fascinating hybrid documentary lays out its argument in sharp fashion
The Room Next Door review: Almodóvar’s English-language debut is stuffed with good performances but sounds off-key
By Tara Brady
A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things review: A lovingly curated chronicle of the artist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham
By Tara Brady
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