Garth Davis

Foe review: Saoirse Ronan is gimlet-eyed in her realism. Paul Mescal is stratospherically anguished

Intermittently engaging sci-fi abounds with ideas but feels stagey

Thu Oct 19 2023 - 05:00

Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal, together at last! They’ve collided, anyhow

Ireland’s two most celebrated young actors appear on film together for the first time in Foe, Garth Davis’s cerebral sci-fi drama

Mon Oct 16 2023 - 05:30

‘I had a lot of offers to play a terrorist or the French boyfriend’

Tahar Rahim talks about his latest role as a detainee in Guantánamo Bay in Kevin Macdonald’s The Mauritanian

Tue Mar 30 2021 - 05:00

Mary Magdalene: Who are you calling a prostitute?

Review: Rooney Mara is as focused as ever in Garth Davis’s mildly revisionist biblical drama

Fri Mar 16 2018 - 05:00

Joaquin Phoenix: The man who wasn’t really here? He’s still here

He plays Jesus Christ in ‘Mary Magdalene’, in an echo of his own childhood as part of a cult religion. But the eccentric actor says his unconventional family kept him grounded

Sat Mar 10 2018 - 05:00

Ten more films worth seeing at Dublin International Film Festival

It’s already at the half-way mark, but don’t miss the chance to see these excellent films before closing night on Sunday

Tue Feb 27 2018 - 05:00

Who will scavenge the flotsam from the Weinstein wreck?

Streaming services are eyeing the disgraced Weinstein Company’s valuable back catalogue

Tue Oct 24 2017 - 12:36

Rooney Mara: ‘Doing the Irish accent was terrifying’

The star of ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ on Jim Sheridan's ‘The Secret Scripture’ and how her friend Cate Blanchett helped her get cast in sexual abuse drama ‘Una’

Fri Sept 01 2017 - 00:00