Dublin Film Critics Circle awards 2025: Sinners wins near unprecedented number of categoriesBig winners among Irish productions were Sinéad O’Shea’s Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story and Brendan Canty’s ChristyThu Dec 18 2025 - 11:00
The Great Gambon by Milly Ellis: A hilarious stocking filler about the Dublin-born actorAmong those contributing anecdoates are Charles Dance, Simon Russell Beale and Tom HollanderWed Dec 17 2025 - 15:15
Breakdown: 1975 review – Documentary goes big on entertainment as it pursues a serious endMorgan Neville unlocks the solipsism at the centre of the decade in a sharp analysis of a body politic apparently unaware of its own psychological instabilityWed Dec 17 2025 - 05:10
Avatar: Fire and Ash review – All the breakneck oomph of an Antiques RoadshowIf the first instalment of the franchise was a version of Dances with Wolves, this one owes a debt to The Jungle Book. It will make a squidillion dollarsTue Dec 16 2025 - 14:00
Ten great Rob Reiner movie moments: From Co Clare’s ‘Cliffs of Insanity’ to Kathy Bates’s sledge-hammer performanceReiner had a gift for delivering standout lines and moments in his movies that stayed with audiences long after final credits had rolledMon Dec 15 2025 - 20:14
Rob Reiner: Spinal Tap and When Harry Met Sally director had unparalleled run of hit movies From 1984 to 1992, the unclassifiable film-maker delivered one of the most extraordinary directorial runs in Hollywood historyMon Dec 15 2025 - 13:32
Sigourney Weaver interview: ‘I had no illusions about the showbiz world. My father called it the racket’ The Avatar, Alien and Ice Storm actor never had any illusions about show business. That may have helped her become an old-school Hollywood starSun Dec 14 2025 - 05:29
Sydney Sweeney looked unstoppable. But she leaves 2025 a divisive figureYoung, talented and good-looking? Then prepare for an online onslaughtSun Dec 14 2025 - 05:13
Éanna Hardwicke: ‘I don’t feel any kind of security. I enjoy the feeling of each job being the one and only’The Cork actor is having quite the year, with Saipan en route to cinemas and his London role in The Playboy of the Western WorldSat Dec 13 2025 - 06:00
Knives Out director Rian Johnson: ‘Daniel Craig never requires encouragement to go big’Rian Johnson, director of Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, on Agatha Christie, religion and ColumboSat Dec 13 2025 - 05:11
Goodbye June review: Kate Winslet’s directorial debut is shamelessly sentimental – but it could run and runThe bar for ‘Christmas classic’ has fallen so low that this could be a contender. It’s not the worst example actuallyThu Dec 11 2025 - 17:00
Hamnet review: Five stars for Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal’s devastating filmIn Chloé Zhao’s beautifully shot, cruelly raw feature, the Irish actors play the grieving ShakespearesWed Dec 10 2025 - 12:00
Wake Up Dead Man review: Another cosy murder mystery for Daniel Craig’s Poirot send-upThis huge-budget variation on Sunday-evening mystery telly will entertain Netflix viewers over ChristmasWed Dec 10 2025 - 05:12
Golden Globes 2026: Hamnet stars Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal now seem certain to receive Oscar nodsPaul Thomas Anderson’s rambunctious One Battle After Another topped the charts with nine nominationsMon Dec 08 2025 - 16:35
The 10 worst films of 2025: ‘Cap’, you say? Crap, more likeWe gave you the best films of the year, now here are the worstSun Dec 07 2025 - 05:35
The 50 best films of 2025 – a full list in reverse orderThere were hopeful signs that Hollywood could make money out of good films that did not spring from established franchisesSun Dec 07 2025 - 05:35
No generation is the best. None is the worst. We are all great. We are all appallingAlpha, beta, boomers, Joneses: confusion reigns about the ‘gen’ paramaters, never mind which is the greatestSun Dec 07 2025 - 05:09
Four new films to see this week: Eternity, It Was Just an Accident, Folktales and HorseshoeElizabeth Olsen, Miles Teller, Callum Turner and Lalor Roddy feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of December 5th, 2025Sun Dec 07 2025 - 04:53
The 50 best films of 2025: Top 10 movies of the year Our critics have selected the standout movies released in Ireland this yearSat Dec 06 2025 - 06:02
The 50 best films of 2025: No 20 to No 11We continue our countdown of our favourite movies released in Ireland this yearFri Dec 05 2025 - 06:02
The Movie Quiz: Which film does not feature a Friend?Plus: Which is not a Rock Hudson and Doris Day film?Fri Dec 05 2025 - 04:57
The 50 best films of 2025: Materialists, Bridget Jones and Alpha make the list of numbers 30 to 21We continue the countdown of our top-rated movies released in Ireland this yearThu Dec 04 2025 - 06:02
Elizabeth Olsen: ‘I’ve always wanted to be involved with an Irish mafia’The actor discusses Marvel, shunning social media, and her role in David Freyne’s new romantic comedy, EternityThu Dec 04 2025 - 06:00
It Was Just an Accident review: Jafar Panahi has made one of the very best films of 2025Iranian again flouts his movie-making ban in the most imaginative manner with darkly humorous political satireThu Dec 04 2025 - 05:12
I spend the first 150 pages of Anthony Hopkins’ memoir wondering why he is so angryThere are occasional reminders that the bellicose Hopkins still lurks within the reformed manThu Dec 04 2025 - 04:54
The 50 best films of 2025: No 50 to No 31Our list again leans strongly on the cultural cinema that emerged from big festivals such as Cannes and VeniceWed Dec 03 2025 - 05:35
Eternity review: This charming comedy is Irish director David Freyne’s best film yetElizabeth Olsen, Miles Teller and Callum Turner star as a recently deceased trio who must decide how to spend the rest of timeWed Dec 03 2025 - 05:10
Wham! and the hell of the modern Christmas number oneLast Christmas is odd-on favourite to top the charts again this festive season. It would be a hollow victorySun Nov 30 2025 - 05:12
Four new films to see this week: Blue Moon, Christy, Pillion and The Ice TowerEthan Hawke, Andrew Scott, Margaret Qualley, Marion Cotillard and Sydney Sweeney feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of November 28th, 2025Sun Nov 30 2025 - 05:01
The Movie Quiz: Who was the last character to speak in a James Bond film?Plus: Which beer were they drinking at the end of Ice Cold in Alex?Fri Nov 28 2025 - 04:58
Pillion review: Think Norman Wisdom as a gay motorcyclist’s plaything and you’re halfway thereIn Harry Lighton’s impressive debut feature, a very English class of reasonableness brushes against an equally English interest in hierarchical kinkThu Nov 27 2025 - 05:12
Christy review: Sydney Sweeney packs a punch as seminal figure in women’s boxingBegrudgers have made much of the film’s underperformance at the box office, but few could find realistic fault in Sydney Sweeney’s performanceWed Nov 26 2025 - 05:10
The Kate Clanchy affair: Was the ‘posh do-gooder’ ever really cancelled?The still-bubbling controversy around Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me is the subject of a fine BBC podcastSun Nov 23 2025 - 05:15
Four new films to see this week: Wicked – For Good, Testimony, Jay Kelly, The Thing With FeathersAriana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, George Clooney, Adam Sandler and Benedict Cumberbatch feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of November 21st, 2025Sun Nov 23 2025 - 04:59
A Christmas Carol review: Gate’s imaginative, deeply spooky take works new magic on Dickens classicIs this Christmas Carol suitable for smaller children? The tiny me would have savoured the horror as much as the joyful denouementSat Nov 22 2025 - 09:34
‘I knew she was going to pull this off’: Sean Baker takes a back seat to Shih-Ching Tsou for Left-Handed GirlThe long-time collaborators join up again for a frenetic, characterful, lovely tale set in the night markets of TaipeiSat Nov 22 2025 - 05:15
The Movie Quiz: How many Rocky franchise films did Sylvester Stallone direct?Plus: Who is the only person to have directed sequels to two best picture winners?Fri Nov 21 2025 - 05:02
Testimony: Aoife Kelleher persuasively makes case for further airing of Magdalene injusticesGardaí often returned escapees to the laundries as if the women, who had committed no offence, were on the runThu Nov 20 2025 - 05:10
Wicked: For Good review – Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo almost save this deflated prequelWith weak songs and uninvolving storytelling, there’s no way to reinvigorate the Wicked story a full year after part oneTue Nov 18 2025 - 18:09
Shining scars: The 10 best Stephen King movies, in reverse orderWith four new King adaptations released this year alone, it’s a good time to chart the best from the past 50 yearsMon Nov 17 2025 - 05:22
Hi-yah! Miss Piggy was one of my most hostile interviewees. Now she’s in line for the Barbie treatmentJennifer Lawrence and Emma Stone are joining forces on a porcine production. Expect a postmodern jamboree peopled by the industry’s slickest and shiniestSun Nov 16 2025 - 05:15
Four new films to see this week: Nuremberg, Born That Way, Alpha and Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution Russell Crowe, Remi Malek and Patrick and Gladys Lydon feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of November 14th, 2025Sun Nov 16 2025 - 04:57
The Movie Quiz: Which is not an early Francis Ford Coppola film?Plus: Do you know which character actor is Tom Cruise’s cousin?Fri Nov 14 2025 - 05:01
Alpha review: Ignore the sniffy reception at Cannes. This is awesomeFew will endure Julia Ducournau’s follow-up to Titane without admitting they’ve sat through something out of the ordinaryThu Nov 13 2025 - 05:12
Born That Way review: A moving, beautiful documentary about a gentle Irish heroPatrick Lydon moved from Massachusetts to Ireland in the 1970s and established a unique communityWed Nov 12 2025 - 05:10
Congrats to Cillian Murphy but there’s no way of turning this into a good look The male-female split among the star’s rivals for a gender-neutral acting award is the sort of result sceptics fearedSun Nov 09 2025 - 05:15
Four new films to see this week: Anemone, Abode, Die My Love and Train DreamsDaniel Day-Lewis, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattinson, Joel Edgerton and Kerry Condon feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of November 7thSun Nov 09 2025 - 04:55
Pauline Collins: The actor whose most celebrated roles held a sense of sly intelligenceCollins was part of Killarney’s New Irish Players in the 1960s before going on to earn her Oscar nominationFri Nov 07 2025 - 14:15
The Movie Quiz: How many films have featured Hannibal Lecter?Plus: Who was the last person to direct a Die Hard film?Fri Nov 07 2025 - 04:58
Abode review: A sincere Irish Christmas movie about home and the absence of itLiam O Mochain’s film is alert to tragedies of being unhoused but remains open to reassuring sentimentalityThu Nov 06 2025 - 05:11
