Tara Brady

Tara Brady

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Tara Brady, a contributor to The Irish Times, is a writer and film critic.

A Pale View of Hills review: visually elegant but its emotional core remains out of reach

Kei Ishikawa’s film simultaneously demonstrates the plusses and pitfalls of tackling Kazuo Ishiguro’s work

Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man review – Cillian Murphy is magnetic, but this spin-off saga’s razor has dulled

Barry Keoghan, as Duke Shelby, provides a volatility this offshoot of the TV series sorely needs

Sound of Falling director Mascha Schilinski: ‘We realised there were many repressed secrets’

German film-maker on how her Cannes-winning second feature brings women’s voices out of the margins

BĂĄite: An absorbing, visually handsome murder mystery that never quite quickens the pulse

Ruán Magan’s Irish-language feature is adapted by Sheena Lambert from her own novel The Lake

Four new films to see this week: Scream 7, Sirat, All You Need Is Kill and Amplified

Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox and Sergi LĂłpez feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of February 27th

Amplified: The Exportation of the Culture Wars – disquieting study of weaponised rhetoric

Mike Sheridan’s first feature begins as study of toxic US discourse and expands into sobering excavation of Dublin unrest

All You Need Is Kill: Imaginative time-loop anime never leaves viewers feeling stuck

Kenichiro Akimoto’s film departs from Hollywood cousin Edge of Tomorrow with Skittle colours and shift in perspective

Oliver Laxe on the making of desert rave epic Sirat: ‘You jump into the abyss’

‘Film-maker of the senses’ on his apocalyptic, Oscar-nominated sensation and being a ‘freak’ in Spain

Four new films to see this week: The Secret Agent, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, The Testament of Ann Lee and The Moment

Charli XCX, Rose Byrne, Amanda Seyfried and Wagner Moura feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of February 20th, 2026

Oscar nominee Rose Byrne: ‘When I go through passport control in Ireland they say welcome home’

The star on the ‘incendiary’ If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, her Australian identity and women in comedy

If I Had Legs I’d Kick You: Maternal stress becomes searing, breathless psychodrama

Rose Byrne, Jessie Buckley’s biggest Oscar rival, is extraordinary in Mary Bronstein’s film

The Secret Agent: Danger hums in nervy Brazilian thriller

Labyrinthine film set during military dictatorship evokes 1970s conspiracy chillers

Four new films to see this week: ‘Wuthering Heights’, Crime 101, The Day the Earth Blew Up and Little AmĂ©lie or the Character of Rain

Margot Robbie, Jacob Elordi, Chris Hemsworth and Mark Ruffalo feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of February 13th, 2026

Little Amélie or the Character of Rain review: Playful, gorgeous and emotionally impactful

This animation, set in 1960s Japan, reimagines an early colonial childhood as a period of intense metaphysical speculation

The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie revels in its cartoonish artifice

Directed by Peter Browngardt, the film is steeped in the grammar of the Looney Tunes’ golden age

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