Tara Brady

Tara Brady

Film Critic

Tara Brady is film critic and features writer at The Irish Times

Four new films to see this week: Sense and Sensibility, The Lost Children of Tuam, Her Private Hell, Stupid August

Daisy Edgar-Jones, Caitríona Balfe, Monica Dolan and Andrew Bennett feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of September 25th, 2026

Daisy Edgar-Jones: ‘It was great practice for Sense and Sensibility, all that time in Fermanagh fields with cows’

The actor’s Irish childhood holidays helped make her a breakout star of Normal People – a happy memory as her new film, Sense and Sensibility, arrives

Stupid August review: Irish film marries Charlie Chaplin with an analysis of nefarious alliances

Pádraig Trehy’s latest feature marries silent cinema, expressionism and surrealism to create a historical fantasy

The Lost Children of Tuam review: Historical evils lurk beneath a muted surface

Frank Berry’s film reconstructs Catherine Corless’s meticulous investigation into the Bon Secours mother and baby home in the Co Galway town

Four new films to see this week: Bad Apples, Resident Evil, Pulp: What Do You Do for an Encore? and The Degenerate

Saoirse Ronan, Austin Abrams, Jarvis Cocker and Andy Milligan feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of September 18th, 2026

The Degenerate: The Life and Films of Andy Milligan review – below the bottom of the barrel

Raucous doc about Irish-American Z-movie master and his misanthropic milieu is wildly entertaining

Pulp - What Do You Do for an Encore? review: Alchemy of such a band cannot be replicated

Cultural trove charts outfit’s improbable passage from woodchip wallpaper to Britpop royalty

‘Juliette Binoche brings a tour de force of emotional energy. You have to get out of its way and let it happen’

The director Lance Hammer on making Queen at Sea, his new film, with the French actor, Tom Courtenay and Anna Calder-Marshall

Saoirse Ronan walks red carpet in Venice for premiere of her directorial debut

Venice film festival 2026: Ronan’s film Paper Plane is competing for the Orizzonti Award for best short film

Fall 2: Deadpoint review – Sequel to a pleasingly silly survivalist horror is thin gruel

The actors work hard to enliven pastily written characters with insane motivations

Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger – Tears, tantrums and Gallagher kids getting spangled every night

Oasis rockumentary features a stirring Auld Triangle at Croke Park. But it could do with more of the Gallagher brothers being themselves

First Look review: Wild Horse Nine – Martin McDonagh’s film is powered by bromantic barbs and imperialist skulduggery

Venice film festival 2026: John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell star as US agents in Chile as the CIA works to undermine Salvador Allende’s government

Director Susanne Bier on Practical Magic 2: ‘I thoroughly enjoyed being invited into the sisterhood’

The Oscar-winning film-maker on the weird thing about Hollywood and the ‘vivid’ experience of working with Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock

Four new films to see this week: The Death of Robin Hood, The Incomer, Super Nature, Leviticus

Hugh Jackman, Jodie Comer, Domhnall Gleeson and Joe Bird feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of September 4th, 2026

Willem Dafoe: ‘I wasn’t a man about town. I was a kid trying to make theatre in a tiny company’

The veteran actor on the real-life parallels with new film Late Fame, working with much younger actors, and his acting philosophy

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