Four new films to see this weekJames Cameron’s long-awaited Avatar sequel, plus indie thriller The Apology streaming and reissues of Fanny and Alexander and The Bishop’s WifeSun Dec 18 2022 - 05:00
Fanny and Alexander: The enduring power of Ingmar Bergman’s masterpieceThe sweeping grandeur of this 40th-anniversary reissue casts a spell for all of it’s three-hour runtimeFri Dec 16 2022 - 05:00
The Apology: A very female revenge thrillerA low-budget battle of wits that escalates in unexpected waysFri Dec 16 2022 - 05:00
European Film Awards: An Cailín Ciúin picks up award as Triangle of Sadness sweeps the boardDespite the best efforts of the academy, European audiences have stubbornly refused to embrace the EFAs as the movieverse’s answer to EurovisionSun Dec 11 2022 - 11:10
Four new films to see this weekA stop-motion version of Pinocchio by Guillermo del Toro, plus Don DeLillo’s famously ‘unfilmable’ White Noise, British drama The Silent Twins and, from China, controversial Return to DustSun Dec 11 2022 - 05:00
Pinocchio: Guillermo del Toro’s version is a beautiful puppet show, but who is it for?This brooding stop-motion musical is the third big-screen adaptation of 2022 for Carlo Collodi’s 140-year-old fableFri Dec 09 2022 - 05:00
Return to Dust: An equine turn for the ages – and the humans are pretty good tooQuiet and affecting rural Chinese drama tugs at the heart-stringsFri Dec 09 2022 - 05:00
Ghosts of Baggotonia: D4 as you have never seen it beforeFilm-maker Alan Gilsenan returns to childhood haunts in search of forgotten phantomsThu Dec 08 2022 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekViolent Night on wide release, Tori and Lokita and Three Minutes: A Lengthening in select cinemas, and Lady Chatterley’s Lover streamingSun Dec 04 2022 - 05:00
Lynch/Oz: Follow the Yellow Brick RoadChronicler of Star Wars, Alien and The Exorcist turns to David Lynch’s obsession with The Wizard of OzSat Dec 03 2022 - 11:14
The films of 2022: The good, the bad and the unexpectedThe medium still feels in queasy transition as this year presents a very mixed bag with a few surprisesSat Dec 03 2022 - 05:00
Three Minutes: A Lengthening – Snatches of home-movie footage, then a detective story unfoldsBianca Stigter’s film essay rediscovers the lost Jewish population of the Polish town of NasielskFri Dec 02 2022 - 05:00
Lady Chatterley’s Lover: Steamy? It’s not even NSFWNo viewer need fret for the morals of their servants or wives – it’s all sanitised sex and winsome romanceFri Dec 02 2022 - 05:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekBenoit Blanc returns in Glass Onion, plus muckraking Harvey Weinstein exposé She Said, YA cannibal romance Bones & All, and Roald Dahl’s Matilda the MusicalSun Nov 27 2022 - 05:00
Dardenne brothers: ‘We put people who are invisible at the heart of our story’Belgian film-making siblings and social realists return with a tale of two underage Benin immigrants drawn into the criminal underworldSat Nov 26 2022 - 05:00
Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical: Young Irish star Alisha Weir is a compelling, spirited heroineDirector Matthew Warchus has put the recording-breaking West End hit onscreen. But that doesn’t quite make it a screen musicalFri Nov 25 2022 - 05:15
Bones and All: Cannibalism has never looked prettierCannibalism has never looked prettierFri Nov 25 2022 - 05:00
‘I heard people are throwing up during my movie. I’m delighted’Bones and All director Luca Guadagnino on reuniting with Timothée Chalamet for a coming-of-age drama with a generous helping of cannibalismTue Nov 22 2022 - 05:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekPaul Mescal in Aftersun, plus Armageddon Time, Aisha and BardoSun Nov 20 2022 - 05:00
James Gray: ‘I’m hostile to the idea of whose story can I tell? It’s my right to put it out there’The New York auteur’s new film, his most personal to date, details that Trump’s father paid for his educationSat Nov 19 2022 - 05:00
Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths: even the tangents have tangentsReview: The title is as unwieldy as everything else in this muddled new film from Alejandro G IñárrituFri Nov 18 2022 - 05:00
Aisha: Letitia Wright and Josh O’Connor star in a portrait of dignity in the face of Irish crueltyFrank Berry’s quietly seething new drama dramatises the horrors of Ireland’s direct-provision system for asylum seekersFri Nov 18 2022 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekThe Black Panther sequel, plus No Bears from Iran and Irish documentaries of Doireann Ní Ghríofa and Richard HarrisSun Nov 13 2022 - 05:00
The Ghost of Richard Harris: Actor, rugby player, coke-snorting carouserReview: The late Limerick legend is a fascinating if elusive subject for the documentarymaker Adrian SibleyFri Nov 11 2022 - 05:00
No Bears review: Clever and gripping cinemaIranian master Jafar Panahi defies the odds with this blistering politically charged dramaFri Nov 11 2022 - 05:00
‘A remarkable woman artist looking at another woman artist looking at another woman artist’ An absorbing new documentary explores the literary detective work of award-winning author Doireann Ní GhríofaThu Nov 10 2022 - 05:00
Women with HIV: ‘A lot of people can’t tell their stories’How to Tell a Secret is a fascinating hybrid documentary about the experiences of women with the virusWed Nov 09 2022 - 05:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekMy Father’s Dragon, Lyra, Living, The Peculiar Sensation of Being Pat IngoldsbySun Nov 06 2022 - 05:00
The Peculiar Sensation of Being Pat Ingoldsby review: A portrait of the artist as an older gentlemanPleasing collaboration between Tom Burke and Seamus Murphy lets Ingoldsby’s witty poems do much of the talkingFri Nov 04 2022 - 05:00
Living review: Understated, perfectly pitched drama about terminal illnessCinema: Bill Nighy puts in a career-best turn as a civil servant with six months to liveFri Nov 04 2022 - 00:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekBarbarian, The Wonder, Bros, Triangle of SadnessSun Oct 30 2022 - 05:00
Pat Ingoldsby: ‘I didn’t want to be in anything that involved talking about myself’The poet and broadcaster has reluctantly re-emerged into public view with a new documentary about his lifeSat Oct 29 2022 - 05:00
Barbarian review: This entertaining, properly scary horror film is a flawless piece of movie-makingZach Creggar’s Halloween horror has deservedly become a seasonal US hit — and a terrific argument against rental propertiesFri Oct 28 2022 - 05:00
The Wonder review: Adaptation of Emma Donoghue’s novel falls flatFlorence Pugh is the standout in the well-cast film that really ought to pack a greater punchFri Oct 28 2022 - 03:00
‘I wanted to have the most vomiting that we have ever had on screen’Triangle of Sadness, the double Palme d’Or winner Ruben Östlund’s chunky new satire, takes aim at the fashion industry and the badly behaved super-richThu Oct 27 2022 - 05:00
Wendell & Wild review: Giggles from the graveCoraline director Henry Selick teams with Peele and Key for a Halloween treatFri Oct 21 2022 - 05:00
Decision to Leave review: A dazzling piece of cinemaFeverish, discombobulating South Korean riff on Hitchcock’s VertigoFri Oct 21 2022 - 05:00
Paul Feig: ‘I like the comedy of women. I’m not an aggressive guy’The amiable Bridesmaids director has high hopes for The School for Good and Evil, his teen fantasy with Michelle Yeoh, Kerry Washington and Charlize TheronTue Oct 18 2022 - 04:00
Four new films to see this weekAll Quiet on the Western Front, Emily and Holy Island in cinemas, Rosaline streamingSun Oct 16 2022 - 05:00
‘I want to be an open representative of my community’Actor Quintessa Swindell is breaking new ground in the DC Expanded UniverseSat Oct 15 2022 - 05:00
Rosaline review: Shakespeare-inspired romcom doesn’t quite workYoung Adult retelling of Romeo and Juliet undermines a great love story with its offhand frivolityFri Oct 14 2022 - 05:00
Emily review: Impressive origin story for Wuthering HeightsFirst-time director Frances O’Connor heads for the wild, windy moorsFri Oct 14 2022 - 05:00
Steve Coogan: ‘I’ve always wanted to tell an Irish story, to make a film about a nice priest’The creator of Alan Partridge on his new film on Richard III and preparing to play Jimmy SavileSun Oct 09 2022 - 05:39
Vicky: A steely portrait worthy of the fighter who took on CervicalCheck and the HSEReview: Sasha King’s unsentimental film about Vicky Phelan, the women’s health campaigner, chronicles a murky world of laboratory testing and tendersFri Oct 07 2022 - 05:00
Amsterdam: An exhausting, muddled plot worn very thinDavid O Russell’s comedy looks good but a star-studded cast can do little to rescue the wholly misconceived scriptFri Oct 07 2022 - 05:00
The enigma of Emily Brontë: ‘I think she suffered from social anxiety’How did the shy young daughter of an Irish clergyman come to write Wuthering Heights? A brilliant new biopic has a crack at the puzzleWed Oct 05 2022 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekFlux Gourmet, Pure Grit and Midwives on limited release, Hocus Pocus 2 streamingSun Oct 02 2022 - 05:00
Hocus Pocus 2: An unlovely, unwarranted sequelStartlingly magic-free belated sequel to witchy 1993 comedy wastefully reunites stars Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy NajimyFri Sept 30 2022 - 05:00
Midwives review: A compelling and hopeful insight into events leading up to Myanmar coupBurmese documentary film chronicles the friendship and conflicts between a Buddhist Bamar midwife and her Muslim Rohingya apprenticeFri Sept 30 2022 - 05:00
Peter Strickland: Cooking up a foodie horror concoction with relishBritain’s most daring director finds sonic inspiration in food in his new film, Flux GourmetWed Sept 28 2022 - 05:00
