The Movie Quiz: Which of these four films doesn’t quote its title in the last scripted line?Plus: What is getting us all throwing popcorn?Fri Apr 18 2025 - 05:00
Sinners review: The best film of 2025 so far, right down to the Celtic vampires singing Rocky Road to DublinPart period bloodsucker flick, part blues-heavy musical, with not one but two Michael B Jordans and an insanely violent denouementThu Apr 17 2025 - 05:00
Warfare review: Few US war films have come this close to acknowledging the true suffering of combatAlex Garland and Ray Mendoza bring us within the US combatants’ claustrophobic bubble during the Iraq WarWed Apr 16 2025 - 05:01
Grand Tour star Crista Alfaiate: ‘Portuguese cinema has this beautiful heritage – the sense of freedom’Miguel Gomes won the best director award at Cannes for a film that is properly strange, in a way you don’t get from the mainstreamSun Apr 13 2025 - 05:08
Four new films to see this weekEngrossing Lennon/Ono doc is a fascinating time capsule. Plus an amusing Irish spin-off, a gritty, austere take on The Odyssey, and an exuberant, smash-hit French comedy Sun Apr 13 2025 - 05:00
Distressing news about Elton John and Madonna. We don’t get too many cask-strength feuds any moreThe spitting match between the biggest pop stars of the 1970s and 1980s had all the elements for recreational savourSun Apr 13 2025 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: Which icon is ‘lousy with virginity’?Plus: What is the only film in Universal’s doomed Dark Universe ‘series’?Fri Apr 11 2025 - 05:00
Cannes film festival 2025: Bono, Paul Mescal and Element Pictures to fly flag for Ireland Documentary based on U2 frontman’s memoir will premiere in Cannes, while Paul Mescal will attend for The History of SoundThu Apr 10 2025 - 13:15
Fran the Man review: Irish TV comedy’s big-screen upgrade floods the zone with classy comic actorsIt wouldn’t do to overanalyse this film set in and about the characterful suburbs of Dublin, but the script never lets up on worthwhile one-linersThu Apr 10 2025 - 05:03
One to One: John & Yoko review – Watch this film at a good cinema to really appreciate its seat-juddering soundThere’s always room for a post-Beatles doc if it’s as good and original as this one from Kevin MacdonaldWed Apr 09 2025 - 05:07
Four new films to see this weekPleasant Irish comedy Four Mothers, plus Richard Burton’s origin story, a cracking British thriller, and a slacker vibe video game adaptationSun Apr 06 2025 - 05:00
Hey, tourists: fondling the Molly Malone statue is not a Dublin tradition. And it probably won’t bring you any luckSince word got around that rubbing Molly Malone's bronze bazongas brings good fortune, they’ve become shiny enough for Bavarians and Bostonians to redo their eye make-up in them post-frottage. Fondling the statue is not a Dublin tradition. And it probably won’t bring you any luck, writes Donald ClarkeSun Apr 06 2025 - 05:00
Ralph Fiennes: ‘I don’t feel any need to slow down. Opportunities come my way – and I can’t say no’The actor, who recently starred in the Oscar-winning Conclave, arrives to Uberto Pasolini’s The Return as a known property – but is still also a bit of a mysterySat Apr 05 2025 - 05:31
The Movie Quiz: Who has not played Elle Fanning’s dad?Plus: Who said `Who am I? Are you sure you want to know’?Fri Apr 04 2025 - 05:00
Restless review: Perfectly pitched thriller makes an everyday irritation impressively stressful A woman is pushed to the edge when noisy neighbours move in next doorThu Apr 03 2025 - 05:02
Val Kilmer: Avatar of American swagger who only occasionally got the roles he deservedSymbolising a brash period in pop culture, the handsome Californian had an up-and-down professional journeyWed Apr 02 2025 - 12:15
Four Mothers review: Fionnula Flanagan excels as one of four Dublin partying matriarchs on a road tripA gay man saddled with four Dublin matriarchs decides to take a road tripWed Apr 02 2025 - 05:07
George Clooney is giving up romance at 63. Don’t people of his age deserve love?The star says he’s too old to play any more romantic leads. But something odd has happened: that kind of big film has almost vanished Sun Mar 30 2025 - 05:00
Fionnula Flanagan: I remember the ‘No Irish or dogs’ signs. I didn’t want to live in a country that took that attitude towards mePut off London, the actor went instead to the US, where she spent 50 years as one of Ireland’s most prominent screen presencesSat Mar 29 2025 - 05:33
The Movie Quiz: Which hit romcom couple reunited at the Oscars?Plus: How many Star Trek features are there?Fri Mar 28 2025 - 05:00
An Taibhse review: Queasy atmosphere and good performances drive this taut Irish-language horrorAt a taut, busy 92 minutes, John Farrelly’s film works itself into a symphony of niggling submelodies: blood, religion, familial abuseThu Mar 27 2025 - 05:05
The End review: Don’t be put off. This powerful, beautiful film could become a cult classicJoshua Oppenheimer’s singular musical about the end of the world is a melodic warning from beneath the earthWed Mar 26 2025 - 05:10
Four new films to see this weekRachel Zegler the best thing in misfire updating of Snow White. Plus an Oscar-winning Latvian animation, a compelling Chinese domestic drama, and Robert De Niro in a superfluous sub-Goodfellas mob taleSun Mar 23 2025 - 05:00
The digital haters are out again. Look at what they’ve done to Millie Bobby Brown and Rachel ZeglerIt’s a tragedy of modern communication that bullies can gather online to torment any young woman foolish enough to achieve even a sliver of fameSun Mar 23 2025 - 05:00
Joshua Oppenheimer on shooting his postapocalyptic film The End in Ireland: ‘How would you tell your story to your grandchildren?’The End, starring Bronagh Gallagher, was shot in Wicklow and seems about as far as you can get from the director’s disturbing documentariesSat Mar 22 2025 - 05:16
The Movie Quiz: How many Shakespeare adaptations has Kenneth Branagh directed?Plus: Who are the stars of Disney’s live-action update of Snow White?Fri Mar 21 2025 - 05:00
Flow review: Children will rewatch this piece of outsider art until the pixels wear outThis tiny Latvian film hammered the giant studios in the race for animated feature at the OscarsFri Mar 21 2025 - 05:00
Brief History of a Family review: Startlingly eerie debut finds new angles to a familiar genreIn this excellent Chinese drama, a mildly troubled son to a well-off couple brings the bright child of an abusive father home Thu Mar 20 2025 - 05:00
Ludivine Sagnier: ‘This sexy bombshell had nothing to do with who I was. I felt confused’Hollywood came calling after she starred in Swimming Pool but the actor had other ideas Mon Mar 17 2025 - 05:04
Four new films to see this week: Black Bag, Sister Midnight, Opus, The Electric StateSteven Sodergergh’s starry espionage caper is sleek and stylish. Plus an inventive Indian caper, an oddball popstar horror, and a blandly expensive sci-fi bust on NetflixSun Mar 16 2025 - 05:00
Van Morrison’s Madame George remains a work of great poignancyWhat did the old grump mean in Madame George about pitching pennies into the Boyne? We’re one step closer to reconnecting with his great artworkSun Mar 16 2025 - 04:03
The Movie Quiz: For what did Anora’s Sean Baker not win a gong at the Oscars?Plus: Spot the film without a credit for BonoFri Mar 14 2025 - 05:00
Sister Midnight review: An endlessly inventive marriage of perfectly pitched comedy and deranged ambienceRadhika Apte plays an irrepressible oddball driven to the edge of sanity (and maybe beyond)Thu Mar 13 2025 - 05:04
Black Bag review: Soderbergh’s spy flick starring Blanchett and Fassbender beats streaming rivals hands downThose going in expectation of action will meet disappointment, while the rest of us will be clamouring for a sequelWed Mar 12 2025 - 05:10
The Russo brothers: ‘We made a movie for nothing and got discovered by a giant film-maker’Joe and Anthony Russo on The Electric State, their new Netflix film; and their return to the Marvel Cinematic UniverseTue Mar 11 2025 - 05:00
What follows the best-picture Oscar? Fame, fortune and perhaps even a Baggot Street nightclubThe Academy Award can help move a director to the top of the heap – or make everyone involved lose the run of themselves and deliver a catastrophic flopSat Mar 08 2025 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: Where does Scarlett O’Hara live?The upcoming Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning may be the last in the series. How many will that make?Fri Mar 07 2025 - 08:00
Mickey 17 review: Bong Joon Ho’s fitful sci-fi satire is a rickety follow-up to the Oscar-winning Parasite Robert Pattinson and the rest of the strong cast manage to make something fleetingly diverting of this jumbled concoctionThu Mar 06 2025 - 05:08
On Falling review: This superb debut about a lonely warehouse picker is an astonishing fable of hidden miseriesDirector Laura Carreira’s research into online retail fed into this deeply sinister but plausible world with whispers of sci-fi dystopiaWed Mar 05 2025 - 05:00
Oscars 2026: Will Hamnet with Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley get a best picture nomination?It might be early, but we’re betting on these 10 movies getting the all-important Oscars nod next yearTue Mar 04 2025 - 05:33
Oscars 2025: Was Adrien Brody’s speech the longest ever, was Conan O’Brien funny and eight other key questionsHow did the drama over best international picture end up? And who was left off the in memoriam tribute section this year?Mon Mar 03 2025 - 18:32
Oscars 2025: Full list of winners as wild screwball comedy Anora takes five Academy AwardsMikey Madison beats Demi Moore for best actress prize as Adrien Brody is best actor, and Kieran Culkin and Zoë Saldaña get best supporting actor OscarsMon Mar 03 2025 - 05:47
Dublin International Film Festival 2025: Winners announced of Dublin Film Critics Circle AwardsKey prizes include best film, for On Falling, best Irish film, for Beat the Lotto, and Michael Dwyer discovery award, for Ready or Not starsSun Mar 02 2025 - 12:30
Hugh Grant and Danny Dyer: Why these two treasures of contemporary culture were born to be on screen togetherThe actors have taken very different routes to the top of the hill, yet they are elegantly complementarySun Mar 02 2025 - 05:00
Oscars 2025: Who will win and who should win? Ireland has just one chanceWill Anora nab the Academy Award for best picture? Can Demi Moore edge out Mikey Madison for best actress? And how many awards might the troubled Emilia Pérez pick up?Sat Mar 01 2025 - 05:22
Film-maker Laura Carreira: ‘It is a universal sentiment, not feeling correctly rewarded for your hard work’The film-maker Laura Carreira talks about On Falling, her unnerving portrayal of a picker for an online retailerSat Mar 01 2025 - 05:19
The Oscars Movie Quiz: How many Irish citizens have been nominated for best actress?Plus: Whom did Adrien Brody controversially kiss when he accepted his best actor gong?Fri Feb 28 2025 - 05:00
Gene Hackman: Ageless, everyman actor who never gave a bad performanceHackman was among actors most responsible for changing Hollywood in 1970s, becoming a generation-defining performerThu Feb 27 2025 - 12:27
King Lear at the Gate review: Propulsive production doesn’t quite solve this tragedy’s age-old problemsAs Shakespeare’s king, Conleth Hill is at his best when the storm is up and the brain befuddled. But this staging is short on big ideasThu Feb 27 2025 - 08:38
Fight or Flight review: Snapped arms, splattered brains, a surprise chainsaw – this is good, honest pulpJosh Hartnett stars as a loose-cannon agent tasked with tracking down a terroristThu Feb 27 2025 - 05:02
