Tara Brady

Tara Brady

Film Critic

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

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

Leviticus review: Puppy love has seldom been so terrifying in this zeitgeisty horror

Writer-director Adrian Chiarella’s debut teams forbidden sexual awakening with Christian morality

Super Nature review: A natural world documentary shot against the grain

A film curated entirely from vintage Super 8 footage creates an episodic, arresting portrait of the natural world

Four new films to see this week: Bitter Christmas, The Dog Stars, Guggi and Colony

Bárbara Lennie, Jacob Elordi, Margaret Qualley, Derek Rowen and Jun Ji-hyun feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of August 28th, 2026

Colony review: Who says zombies never learn?

Kinetic sequences featuring evolving, fleet-footed creatures brings an appealing twist to Yeon Sang-ho’s distinctive vision

Guggi review: No doubting sincerity of Bono’s feelings for artist friend

Guggi makes for decent company in doc by Ian Thuillier, who also profiled Gavin Friday and Rory Gallagher

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, Coyote vs Acme, Spa Weekend and Stop! That! Train!: Four new films to see this week

Hannah Einbinder, Gillian Anderson, Isla Fisher, RuPaul and Ginger Minj feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of August 21st, 2026

Stop! That! Train! review: RuPaul disaster-movie comedy is flimsy but far from a drag

The material works best when it leans into deadpan and visual incongruity

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma review: Jane Schoenbrun’s maximalism fascinates and frustrates

This may be the film-maker’s narratively least satisfying film, but their imagination remains exhilarating

Four new films to see this week: The End of Oak Street, Lady, The Mahabharata and Tony

Anne Hathaway, Sian Clifford, Vittorio Mezzogiorno and Dominic Sessa feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of August 14th, 2026

Tony review: Dominic Sessa captures the contradictions of Anthony Bourdain in fond biopic

Actor brilliantly essays the future celebrity chef in Matt Johnson’s film, set during a formative summer in the early 1970s

The Mahabharata review: A far deeper epic than The Odyssey

Storytelling and imagination trumps CGI and spectacle in this five-hour, 32-minute version of the 1989 film

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