The Adam Project: Effective retro entertainment that comes back from the futureFilm review: Ryan Reynolds time-travel adventure gives all the good lines to the boysFri Mar 11 2022 - 05:00
Foscadh: Get ready for the new wave as GaeilgeDónall O Héalai shines in this ambiguous, compelling dramaFri Mar 11 2022 - 05:00
Sean Baker: ‘Suitcase pimps live off female talent in the adult film world’The American director’s latest film, Red Rocket, is a ‘roller-coaster of tones and ethics’Wed Mar 09 2022 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekThe Batman, Ali & Ava, and Irish-themed You Are Not My Mother and NightrideSun Mar 06 2022 - 06:00
Ali & Ava: Mature romance with emotional punchThis Yorkshire-set drama about a quietly magnetic couple is strangely joyfulFri Mar 04 2022 - 05:00
You Are Not My Mother: An unholy marriage of Irish folklore and familial dysfunctionFilm review: Impressive debut blurs line between friction, bipolar disorder and the supernaturalFri Mar 04 2022 - 05:00
Dónall Ó Héalai on his new role: ‘A few people have remarked on the haircut’The first bona fide Irish-language movie star on Arracht and his latest film, FoscadhWed Mar 02 2022 - 05:00
‘Cannon Arm’ and his quest to play an arcade game for 100 hoursDirector of extraordinary documentary talks about eccentric obsessives who inspired itMon Feb 28 2022 - 05:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekCyrano, The Duke, Foo Fighters’ Studio 666, RurangiSun Feb 27 2022 - 06:00
The Batman reinvented, with Robert Pattinson, Zoe Kravitz, and Colin Farrell as The PenguinDirector Matt Reeves on his lifelong preparation for the latest Batman filmSat Feb 26 2022 - 05:00
The Duke: Buoyant Brit-com keeps things fluffy and funFilm review: Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren deliver in this cosy comedyFri Feb 25 2022 - 05:00
Cyrano: A classic successfully rebornFilm review: Dinklage deserves Oscar recognition for this fine musical reworkingFri Feb 25 2022 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekHere Before, The Beatles and Charlie Chaplin in cinemas, Texas Chainsaw streamingSun Feb 20 2022 - 06:00
Dublin International Film Festival: What to see at the 2022 eventThis year’s festival is looking back at past glories while screening future classicsSat Feb 19 2022 - 05:00
Here Before: A creeping sense of dreadReview: Stacey Gregg’s spooky Belfast-set psychodrama pushes all the right buttonsFri Feb 18 2022 - 05:00
The Real Charlie Chaplin: Unravelling the little TrampBetween the myths and the mysteries, Chaplin remains hard to graspFri Feb 18 2022 - 05:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekKenneth Branagh’s Death on the Nile, Oscar nominee Flee, Irish documentary The Dance, and Drive My Car director’s Wheel of Fortune and FantasySun Feb 13 2022 - 06:00
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy: Middle-class people have feelings tooRyusuke Hamaguchi’s second release in three months is a triptych of shortish storiesFri Feb 11 2022 - 05:00
Flee: Oscar-tipped portrait of an Afghan refugee’s lifeReview: Animated documentary tells story of long trek from Afghanistan to DenmarkFri Feb 11 2022 - 05:00
Pat Collins captures the magic of creativity in The DanceDocumentary achieves the near impossible: capturing transience of the medium it observesMon Feb 07 2022 - 05:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekBelle, The Souvenir Part II, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, JockeySun Feb 06 2022 - 06:00
Honor Swinton Byrne: ‘I’m from the Highlands. So I’m a wee bit rough’Star of The Souvenir sequel on improvised drama, her mother Tilda and loving cinemaSat Feb 05 2022 - 05:00
The Eyes of Tammy Faye: Biopic is too forgiving of its televangelist subjectThe film feels too generous to the female half of a controversial 1980s TV coupleFri Feb 04 2022 - 05:00
Belle: Beauty and the Beast meet the metaverseJapanese fable marries dazzling spectacle, action and social commentaryFri Feb 04 2022 - 05:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekParallel Mothers, Amulet, Doineann, Sing 2Sun Jan 30 2022 - 06:00
Parallel Mothers: Only Almodóvar could tell such stories with wit, warmth and colourReview: The Spanish director's new film wears its heart on its beautifully styled sleeveFri Jan 28 2022 - 05:00
Amulet: When a house is not a homeReview: A happy ending is unlikely in this revenge horror from debut writer-director Romola GaraiFri Jan 28 2022 - 05:00
Romola Garai: ‘Horror films are often incredibly moving’The actor on being exploited in Hollywood, and ‘icky’ directorial feature debut AmuletMon Jan 24 2022 - 05:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekKenneth Branagh's Belfast and Bradley Cooper in Nightmare Alley, plus Mass and CicadaSun Jan 23 2022 - 06:00
The 50 best films on Netflix right now: From classics to new Oscar contendersComedies, sci-fi, kids’ movies, documentaries ... Catch them before they disappearSat Jan 22 2022 - 05:00
Pedro Almodóvar: ‘I always come back to the characters of mothers’The Spanish director on how family and political history come together in his latest filmSat Jan 22 2022 - 05:00
Mass review: Grieving parents deal with the aftermath of a school shootingReview: The parents of a teen shooter meet the parents of a victim in this rousing dramaFri Jan 21 2022 - 05:00
Nightmare Alley: Bradley Cooper in the best scene of his career, but not the best filmReview: Guillermo del Toro’s film misses the post-war cynicism of the 1947 versionWed Jan 19 2022 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekScream, Memoria and Cow in cinemas, Killing Field on demandSun Jan 16 2022 - 06:00
Memoria: A sonic mystery that will resonate deeplyTilda Swinton hears a strange sound in Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s hypnotic filmFri Jan 14 2022 - 05:00
Scream: The thrill is gone from this lacklustre ‘requel’Review: Courteney Cox returns to replay the hits to no great effectFri Jan 14 2022 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekBoiling Point, A Hero, Munich: The Edge of War, The 355Sun Jan 09 2022 - 06:00
Peter Dinklage: ‘Belfast was my home away from home. I miss it terribly’The Game of Thrones actor on choosing roles, avoiding social media and his new film, CyranoSat Jan 08 2022 - 05:00
Munich: The Edge of War – This Netflix adaptation will appease youJeremy Irons is a nuanced Neville Chamberlain in this worthwhile historical dramaFri Jan 07 2022 - 05:00
A Hero: A white lie snowballs into catastropheMoral quandaries abound in Asghar Farhadi’s bustling Iranian dramaFri Jan 07 2022 - 05:00
Film-maker Jamila Wignot on Alvin Ailey: ‘He was a dance evangelist’For all the sensual plié and arabesque, Ailey remains a profoundly sad documentaryTue Jan 04 2022 - 05:00
The Humans: The nightmare before ThanksgivingReview: Family tensions and financial pressures in a claustrophobic New York apartmentFri Dec 31 2021 - 05:00
Titane: A wild and crazy tripPalme d’Or winner is a transgressive, delirious rompFri Dec 31 2021 - 05:00
Titane director Julia Ducournau: ‘I thought the film was going to be way more controversial’The French director’s new film won the Palme d’Or at CannesWed Dec 29 2021 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekThe Tragedy of Macbeth, Lola and the Sea, The King’s Man, Being the RicardosMon Dec 27 2021 - 06:00
Being the Ricardos: A sticky situation but not much comedyAaron Sorkin’s behind-the-scenes take on a classic sitcom offers little insightTue Dec 21 2021 - 05:00
Lola and the Sea: Taking a road trip towards understandingMya Bollaers is wonderful as a high-spirited young trans womanTue Dec 21 2021 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekSpider-Man: No Way Home, Swan Song, The Lost Daughter, The Story of Film: A New GenerationSun Dec 19 2021 - 06:00
The 50 best films of 2021 – in reverse orderAmid sequels and superhero flicks, there were films worth going back into theatres forSat Dec 18 2021 - 05:00
The Lost Daughter: Olivia Colman, Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal find trouble in paradiseMaggie Gyllenhaal maintains a constant air of dread in her first film as a writer-directorFri Dec 17 2021 - 05:00
