Tara Brady

Tara Brady

Film Critic

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

Time and Water review: An arresting documentary about Iceland’s disappearing glaciers

Sara Dosa resists catastrophising, allowing cracking ice to shoulder the film’s emotional heft

The Fall of Sir Douglas Weatherford review: Peter Mullan tremendous in ambitious if uneven satire

Sean Dunn’s debut feature brings to mind Game of Thrones after-effects in North

Four new films to see this week: Savage House, Masters of the Universe, Afternoons of Solitude, Erupcja

Richard E Grant, Claire Foy, Nicholas Galitzine, Andrés Roca Rey and Charli XCX feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of June 5th, 2026

Afternoons of Solitude review: The bull seems to sense it’s about to die in the ring

With no narration or commentary, this bullfighting documentary is a powerful condemnation

Erupcja review: Charli XCX has real screen clout in this appealing romantic drama

The pop star brings quiet charisma to Pete Ohs's slight but affecting tale of rekindled feelings

‘I told Keith Jarrett, If you don’t play I’m going to be f**ked. And you will be f**ked, too’

In 1975 Vera Brandes set up the jazz pianist’s legendary Köln Concert. It’s now the subject of an award-winning film

Four new films to see this week: Power Ballad, Tuner, Backrooms and Fairyland

Paul Rudd, Dustin Hoffman, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve and Emilia Jones feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of May 29th, 2026

Fairyland review: A fond, wise chronicle of parenthood through turbulent decades

The emotional force of Andrew Durham’s film is found in the two-step between parent and child as the sweep of LGBTQ+ history catches up

Backrooms review: Kane Parsons’s exquisite direction brings web’s scariest creepypasta to the big screen

Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve star as damaged souls noclipping through a liminal purgatory of never-ending office space

‘When Laurent became ill I said I would stay beside him. We never imagined he would die so quickly’

Robin Campillo on directing Enzo, which he wrote with his friend the late film-maker Laurent Cantet

Four new films to see this week: The Mandalorian and Grogu, Finding Emily, Hen and Tom & Jerry: Forbidden Compass

Pedro Pascal, Sigourney Weaver, Angourie Rice and Spike Fearn feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of May 22nd, 2026

Cannes First Look review: Lola Petticrew shines in I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning’s Irish line-up

Daryl McCormack and Anthony Boyle join the actor in Clio Barnard’s portrait of friends confronting stalled lives and dashed hopes

Paul Rudd on filming in Dublin: ‘The people here are so hilarious. It was kind of a hoot’

The Ant-Man of the last decade says he’s a big fan of Ireland - ‘The people here are so hilarious and down to earth’

Cannes First Look review: Minotaur – grim chronicle of a selfish, privileged class willing to look the other way

Andrey Zvyagintsev delivers a chilling thriller set in provincial Russia during the Ukraine war, but the political allegory can feel overdone

Cannes First Look review: Fjord - Nail-biting drama exploring European culture and tolerance

Cristian Mungiu’s tale confirms him as one of cinema’s sharpest moral observers

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