The 50 best films of 2024: No 50 to No 31
The 10 highest-grossing titles were all sequels – but none is in our 50-best list in a year audiences turned out in numbers for ‘cultural cinema’
Anne Hathaway
Mothers’ Instinct: Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain excel in psychodrama that’s either ludicrous on purpose or just by accident
If the costumes in this confusing film about two glamorous 1960s housewives were any more heightened, you’d demand a song and dance number
Screen Actors Guild Awards: the best looks from the red carpet
Hollywood stars embraced sparkles, classic silhouettes and new versions of black tie at Saturday’s ceremony
Eileen director William Oldroyd: ‘If you want to see something different this is the Christmas movie for you. Right?’
His adaptation of Ottessa Moshfegh’s dark novel takes place in a drab and snowy corner of New England. It might be the 1960s, but swinging it ain’t
Eileen: A film that grabs you by the collar and drags you into a hedge as you stroll uneasily down a lonely path
As Anne Hathaway and Thomasin McKenzie circle each other in a grimy dive bar, you can almost taste the stale nicotine
Cannes 2022: Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis and Top Gun: Maverick to be shown at film festival
Up to 35,000 accredited to attend the festival this year, the biggest showing since 2019
Patrick Freyne: Britain has four armed forces – army, navy, air force and Ross Kemp
Kemp is a celebrity vassal for Bridge of Lies, a whimsical TV entity that has needs
Fresh: Wildly entertaining horror on modern dating
Daisy Edgar-Jones shines in a clever film that contains the craziest reveal of the year
Amazon Prime Video: Five of the best new shows and films to watch in May
J Balvin and Pink documentaries and Underground Railroad series among highlights
Actor Paul Mescal among at least 10 Irish people on Forbes ‘30 under 30’ list
Individuals across arts, media, science, finance and industry on prestigious ranking
Anne Hathaway: ‘I took lockdown seriously. I gave myself a haircut’
The Locked Down star on filming during Covid-19 restrictions and accessing Harrods’ tunnels
Dark Waters: A solid, old-fashioned whistleblower drama
Review: This is the kind of issue-driven cinema that used to win Oscars
Ben Affleck: ‘It took me a long time to admit I am an alcoholic’
The Oscar-winning writer and Hollywood actor tried to drink away the pain. Now he’s trying honesty
Kirk Douglas obituary: Ragman’s son who became a Hollywood superstar
Actor known for celebrated films like Spartacus and Paths of Glory died aged 103
Film 2020: The 50 films to watch out for
The best biopics, documentaries, cartoons, features and award favourites of the year
Latest movies reviewed: All films in cinemas this week rated
The Irish Times what-to-see guide to the movies now in cinemas across Ireland
Rihanna named world’s richest female musician
Pop star’s fortune estimated to be $600m, according to Forbes
The Hustle: It’s got Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson, but it’s unfunny and inappropriate
Review: An incompetent remake of the charming, whimsical Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
As Notre Dame burned, so too did a part of us
Jennifer O’Connell: You don’t have to have lived in Paris to have had a visceral reaction to seeing Notre Dame gutted
Kenneth Branagh: ‘The life of an actor? Strange men phone and offer you money’
The actor and director talks Shakespeare ‘trutherism’ and his working-class upbringing
All is True: Kenneth Branagh’s salty take on Shakespeare
Review: An odd but charming film about the ageing playwright’s twilight years
The ‘angels’ helping migrants at US-Mexico border
San Diego-based group claims US officials are ‘dumping’ asylum seekers on the streets
Sky Cinema eyes piece of the action with movies of its own
Risky move comes as streaming TV services chase the holy grail of original content
Eye of the typist: The view from the corner of the Oval Office
Stenographer Beck Dorey-Stein on working for Barack Obama and Donald Trump in the Oval Office
Ocean’s 8: The acting’s formulaic. And then there’s Helena Bonham Carter’s Irish accent
Review: Apart from Anne Hathaway, the Ocean’s 8 cast barely qualify as characters at all
After Ocean’s 8, give Reservoir Dogs an all-female makeover
Donald Clarke: And then The Shawshank Redemption, The Sting and 12 Angry Women
Forty-two films to catch in the cinema this summer
Incredibles 2, Ocean’s 8, Jurassic World and Mamma Mia!: Here We Go Again
Oscars 2018: Who’ll win, who won’t and 10 other questions
Who is in the running to win the Oscars in every category?
‘I, Tonya’: Figure skating was out to get Tonya Harding way before ‘the incident’
Review: Margot Robbie chews up the role for all it’s worth and spits out the sequins
Is it possible for Hollywood to fix harassment problem while busy celebrating itself?
Each week allegations of sexual exploitation grow as the industry converts them to branding exercises
The best in film 2017, according to the Dublin Film Critics Circle
Dunkirk blows away the competition
Dakota Fanning: Women like to watch other women on screen
At just 23, Dakota Fanning is a Hollywood veteran - just don't expect her to go all Lindsay Lohan anytime soon
Tom Vaughan-Lawlor: ‘I fought my way up from the mean streets of Rathgar’
From Love/Hate to the Avengers: Infinity War, he does a fine line in onscreen menace
When to go for a pee during classic movies
An app that tells you when to nip out during the three-hour ‘The Godfather’? What a relief!
Doctor Who: Jodie Whittaker will be the first female Doctor
The actor will take over from Peter Capaldi as the 13th reincarnation of the Time Lord
Paris for kids: something for everyone in the city of love
The City of Light – and of love – isn’t just for couples – it’s for all the family
Adi Roche honoured for work with international award
Irishwoman honoured in New York for improving lives of children
Communication crucial for generation game
Age differences can be a positive if they are handled properly by management
Cathy Kelly on life, death, crying and pole-dancing
The best-selling novelist talks about the time she briefly outsold JK Rowling and Dan Brown, and how she nearly had her arm ripped off while ‘researching’
The chair force: an uneasy play about drone warfare
‘Grounded’, George Brant’s well-travelled play about a female drone pilot, puts words on a growing sense of moral anxiety
Hailee regarded
Only 16, Hailee Steinfeld’s CV already boasts an Oscar nod and roles alongside the likes of Bridges, Ford Streep and Kingsley. How did she find herself in such illustrious company? “I never really found something that I loved as much as I love acting,” she tells Tara Brady
O captain, my captain
Reprising his role as Captain James T Kirk in JJ Abrams’ Star Trek Into Darkness, Chris Pine is once again boldly going where just one man has gone before
The wonderful wizard of all trades
Poet, university man, star, James Franco on his many varied projects
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