First Look: Barry Keoghan’s new film, the sometimes sickeningly extreme Bring Them Down, is a hard movie to likeChristopher Andrews’s gory new rural revenge drama features scenes of animal mutilation that quickly outstay their welcomeMon Oct 07 2024 - 11:34
Four new films to see this weekTurgid Joker: Folie à Deux falls flat, despite Phoenix and Gaga. Plus singular dark comedy A Different Man, West Bank-set drama The Teacher, and deadpan horror comedy Humanist Vampire...Sun Oct 06 2024 - 05:00
Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person: Like a very French Edward ScissorhandsRising Québécoise star Sara Montpetit channels a young Winona Ryder as a reluctant vampire who feels compassion for her family’s victimsFri Oct 04 2024 - 05:00
Agreement: No play about the Good Friday negotiations has the right to be this much funDublin Theatre Festival 2024: Owen McCafferty’s writing cuts through the Belfast peace talks’ seriousness to find levity in personal stakes and political blusterWed Oct 02 2024 - 09:33
The Teacher: Farah Nabulsi’s Palestinian drama is powered along by terrific performances and palpable furyThe director’s compelling first feature takes cues from hostage negotiations but is more interested in common trauma than in fraught West Bank politicsTue Oct 01 2024 - 12:17
Tim Roth: ‘Gary Oldman was going to Hollywood. He wanted that. I didn’t’The British actor on Quentin Tarantino, coping with grief and working with female talent like Dutch director Désirée Nosbusch and her debut film PoisonMon Sept 30 2024 - 05:00
Starjazzer: Affecting, innovative Anu adaptation marries a put-upon O’Casey heroine with her equally abused granddaughterDublin Theatre Festival 2024: Louise Lowe’s socially conscious production tells two stories at once, putting an unusual theatrical space to creative useSun Sept 29 2024 - 12:22
Four new films to see this weekSaoirse Ronan shows new strengths as a recovering alcoholic in The Outrun. Plus sweet and sensitive My Old Ass, kindly road movie Will & Harper, and Francis Coppola’s ambitious folly MegalopolisSun Sept 29 2024 - 05:00
Megalopolis or Megaflopolis? Francis Ford Coppola took 40 years to make this sci-fi epic but it misfires on the grandest scaleAdam Driver looks as if he doesn’t know whether to laugh or cry. We know exactly how he feelsThu Sept 26 2024 - 05:00
My Old Ass: Aubrey Plaza deadpans as this charming low-fi sci-fi puts a fun spin on coming of ageMegan Park takes a wistful and sensitive angle on the letters-to-my-younger-self theme in this sassy comedyWed Sept 25 2024 - 05:00
Irish Hellboy star Leah McNamara: ‘At horror films I’m always the person watching between my fingers’The actor knew nothing about the series before she was cast in Hellboy: The Crooked Man. It triggered a deep dive into witchcraftMon Sept 23 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekBad dream horrors The Substance and Strange Darling are instant cult classics. Plus ‘tragically familiar’ Canadian abuse documentary Sugarcane and tense French drama The Goldman CaseSun Sept 22 2024 - 05:00
Strange Darling: How weird is this cult sensation? There’ll never be another movie quite like itJT Mollner’s fever-pitch dream of serial killers and Americana aims to mess with your head – and succeedsFri Sept 20 2024 - 05:00
Sugarcane: Gripping story of abuse in Catholic schools in Canada is an early Oscar favouriteDocumentary details horrific cruelty towards and abuse of First Nations children in residential schools and discovery of unmarked gravesThu Sept 19 2024 - 05:15
Sketcherella: This must be Dublin Fringe Festival’s funniest showDublin Fringe Festival 2024: Erin McGathy delivers a quadruple threat of singing, wicked comic chops, costume changes and interpretive writhingTue Sept 17 2024 - 10:06
The Goldman Case: A French intellectual’s double murder trial is sensationally re-created in a thrilling courtroom drama‘Grey areas make for great cinema,’ director Cédric Kahn says about the Pierre Goldman caseMon Sept 16 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekSpeak No Evil, The Critic, My Favourite Cake, LeeSun Sept 15 2024 - 12:14
My Favourite Cake: A septuagenarian Brief Encounter jollied along by quiet political fury A lonely retired nurse goes out on the prowl in Iran where she meets an unmarried taxi driverThu Sept 12 2024 - 05:00
War photographer Lee Miller finds a champion in Kate Winslet, but this long-delayed biopic isn’t worth the waitDespite the starry cast and Winslet’s dogged commitment, Lee is a very ordinary film about an extraordinary womanWed Sept 11 2024 - 05:00
Malignant Humour review: This one-woman wonder is far funnier than a cancer-inspired circus act has any right to beDublin Fringe Festival 2024: Hannah Gumbrielle’s storytelling is acrobatic as she is in this show about her lymphoma diagnosis and treatmentTue Sept 10 2024 - 09:48
Jared Harris: ‘It’s much harder now for films without people who wear their underwear outside their clothes’The Reawakening star talks about his famous Irish father, being his own harshest critic and how big stars have not been good for small moviesMon Sept 09 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekTim Burton’s chaotic Beetlejuice sequel feels desperate, plus slow-burn folkie horror Starve Acre, superior Netflix drama Rebel Ridge, and striking Alzheimer’s doc Don’t Forget to RememberSun Sept 08 2024 - 05:00
Starve Acre: Hare-raising horror about ancient dark things in the unnerving Yorkshire Dales Daniel Kokotajlo’s adaptation deftly embellishes domestic backstory into grander, grimmer mythologyThu Sept 05 2024 - 05:00
First Look at Joker: Folie à Deux – Part musical, part prison movie, mostly plodding courtroom dramaVenice International Film Festival 2024: Any more songs and Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga would be starring in an operettaWed Sept 04 2024 - 18:00
Rebel Ridge: John Boyega quit Jeremy Saulnier’s long-delayed thriller. It’s actually pretty goodThe American auteur’s effective thriller arrives four years and two shutdowns after the cameras started rollingWed Sept 04 2024 - 17:00
Four new films to see this weekHaunting, old-school Irish horror Oddity, plus prison-set biopic Sing Sing starring Colman Domingo, transitioned Elliot Page in tailor-made Close to You, and social-realist Swedish drama Paradise Is BurningSun Sept 01 2024 - 05:00
Close to You review: Elliot Page brings a fascinating biographical dimension to this intimate dramaStar of Juno and Whip It plays a trans man returning to the family homeThu Aug 29 2024 - 05:00
Oddity: Nifty old-school horror from one of Ireland’s most exciting film-makersDamian McCarthy’s directorial precision is complemented by wit and an imaginative backstory that deserves an expanded universeWed Aug 28 2024 - 05:00
Black Dog star Eddie Peng: ‘After 20 days I was thinking, come on, you can do this. I didn’t know if I was acting any more’The former pop star has a hugely demanding role in his irresistible new film: almost wordless, physically demanding and requiring motorbike stuntsTue Aug 27 2024 - 05:15
Cuckoo: Spooky sanatorium thriller is a flamboyantly unhinged tribute to EurohorrorTilman Singer goes big – maybe too big – with this wild and unsettlingly ambiguous follow-up to LuzThu Aug 22 2024 - 05:00
Between the Temples: Anxious Jewish comedy strikes gold with Carol Kane and Jason Schwartzman It’s not quite the May-December romance of Harold and Maude, but Schwartzman and Kane waltz impeccably through this arrestingly unpredictable filmWed Aug 21 2024 - 05:00
Carol Kane: ‘Making The Princess Bride, there was something a little bit otherworldly about that experience’The star of Between the Temples on learning Hebrew, working with her idol Bill Murray, and a dangerously funny take on mutton sandwichesMon Aug 19 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekAlien: Romulus has strong action, the same old plot. Plus atmospheric Chinese noir Only the River Flows, absorbing Canadian ballet doc Swan Song, and bland Netflix thriller The UnionSun Aug 18 2024 - 05:00
Only the River Flows: Wei Shujun’s hit noir will keep you guessing after the final creditsAll is not as it seems in this evocatively shot thriller improbably adapted from an experimental postmodern novelThu Aug 15 2024 - 05:00
Swan Song: Ballet goes punk rock in absorbing behind-the-scenes documentaryChelsea McMullan’s immersive, tactile portrait captures the small dramas, jangling nerves and stoicism in a production of Tchaikovsky’s Swan LakeThu Aug 15 2024 - 05:00
‘We cried the whole way through’: Colleen Hoover on watching It Ends With Us with her mother Bestselling author talks about BookTok, superfans and the domestic abuse that informed her book which has been released now as a filmSat Aug 10 2024 - 05:15
Hollywoodgate: The Taliban, US military and $7bn of abandoned equipment Director Ibrahim Nash’at and producer Odessa Rae on their nerve-racking journey to film inside the glamorously named former American baseSat Aug 10 2024 - 05:15
Tuesday review: Julia Louis-Dreyfus is tremendous in magic-realist tale about deathCroatian writer-director Daina Oniunas-Pusić fashions a timeless, visually arresting fableFri Aug 09 2024 - 05:00
It Ends with Us review: Plenty of meet-cute romance, but don’t mistake this Colleen Hoover adaptation for a romcomDespite the seductively glamorous trappings, this is a drama about the intergenerational nature of domestic violenceWed Aug 07 2024 - 15:00
The 50 best films on Netflix, plus gems from Disney+, Apple TV+, Prime Video and Paramount+From Arrival to The Zone of Interest, our picks also take in everything from Halloween and Lost in Translation to Lawrence of Arabia and PinocchioMon Aug 05 2024 - 06:00
Four new films to see this weekBeautifully animated and told adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s Kensuke’s Kingdom, plus excellent indie dramas Janet Planet and Shayda, and blandly unimaginative Harold and the Purple CrayonSun Aug 04 2024 - 05:00
Shayda: Realism and deft timing power this gripping domestic thriller alongZar Amir Ebrahimi is tremendous as a young mother who has taken refuge from her abusive husband in director Noora Niasari’s semi-autobiographical debut featureThu Aug 01 2024 - 05:00
Kensuke’s Kingdom: Delightful family entertainment featuring Cillian Murphy in Michael Morpurgo’s swashbuckling adventureThis animated film touches lightly on environmental themes, loss and historyThu Aug 01 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekDeadpool & Wolverine, I Saw the TV Glow, About Dry Grasses, Notes from SheeplandSun Jul 28 2024 - 05:00
Peaches: ‘F**k the Pain Away has resonated with people so deeply. It has continued to grow’Gaze film festival 2024: The electropunk pioneer broke through with her album The Teaches of Peaches, now the subject of an absorbing documentarySat Jul 27 2024 - 06:00
About Dry Grasses: You won’t want Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s epic film to endThis portrait of an art teacher whose aesthetic sensibilities are at odds with his thrillingly awful personality feels like a great lost work of Russian literatureThu Jul 25 2024 - 05:00
I Saw the TV Glow: Jane Schoenbrun’s haunting cult sensation will leave you reelingThe trans community has embraced the film as an analogy for transitionWed Jul 24 2024 - 05:00
Artist and shepherd Orla Barry: ‘Breeding animals is like making an artwork. You’re putting certain animals together’Orla Barry took up farming as a more financially secure sideline to her art. As the new film Notes from Sheepland shows, it has proved equally precariousTue Jul 23 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekSleeper geezer pleaser Thelma, plus bombastic big-boom Twisters, Istanbul-set drama Crossing, and heightened Netflix documentary SkywalkersSun Jul 21 2024 - 05:00
