A Pale View of Hills review: visually elegant but its emotional core remains out of reachKei Ishikawa’s film simultaneously demonstrates the plusses and pitfalls of tackling Kazuo Ishiguro’s workThu Mar 12 2026 - 05:08
Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man review – Cillian Murphy is magnetic, but this spin-off saga’s razor has dulledBarry Keoghan, as Duke Shelby, provides a volatility this offshoot of the TV series sorely needsThu Mar 05 2026 - 14:00
Sound of Falling director Mascha Schilinski: ‘We realised there were many repressed secrets’German film-maker on how her Cannes-winning second feature brings women’s voices out of the marginsWed Mar 04 2026 - 05:15
Báite: An absorbing, visually handsome murder mystery that never quite quickens the pulseRuán Magan’s Irish-language feature is adapted by Sheena Lambert from her own novel The LakeWed Mar 04 2026 - 05:06
Four new films to see this week: Scream 7, Sirat, All You Need Is Kill and AmplifiedNeve Campbell, Courteney Cox and Sergi López feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of February 27thSun Mar 01 2026 - 05:00
Amplified: The Exportation of the Culture Wars – disquieting study of weaponised rhetoricMike Sheridan’s first feature begins as study of toxic US discourse and expands into sobering excavation of Dublin unrestFri Feb 27 2026 - 05:08
All You Need Is Kill: Imaginative time-loop anime never leaves viewers feeling stuckKenichiro Akimoto’s film departs from Hollywood cousin Edge of Tomorrow with Skittle colours and shift in perspectiveThu Feb 26 2026 - 14:21
Oliver Laxe on the making of desert rave epic Sirat: ‘You jump into the abyss’‘Film-maker of the senses’ on his apocalyptic, Oscar-nominated sensation and being a ‘freak’ in SpainTue Feb 24 2026 - 05:15
Four new films to see this week: The Secret Agent, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, The Testament of Ann Lee and The MomentCharli XCX, Rose Byrne, Amanda Seyfried and Wagner Moura feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of February 20th, 2026Sun Feb 22 2026 - 05:00
Oscar nominee Rose Byrne: ‘When I go through passport control in Ireland they say welcome home’ The star on the ‘incendiary’ If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, her Australian identity and women in comedySat Feb 21 2026 - 05:21
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You: Maternal stress becomes searing, breathless psychodramaRose Byrne, Jessie Buckley’s biggest Oscar rival, is extraordinary in Mary Bronstein’s filmFri Feb 20 2026 - 05:08
The Secret Agent: Danger hums in nervy Brazilian thrillerLabyrinthine film set during military dictatorship evokes 1970s conspiracy chillersThu Feb 19 2026 - 17:00
Four new films to see this week, from Wuthering Heights to Crime 101Margot Robbie, Jacob Elordi, Chris Hemsworth and Mark Ruffalo feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of February 13th, 2026Sun Feb 15 2026 - 05:00
Little Amélie or the Character of Rain review: Playful, gorgeous and emotionally impactfulThis animation, set in 1960s Japan, reimagines an early colonial childhood as a period of intense metaphysical speculationThu Feb 12 2026 - 05:08
The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie revels in its cartoonish artifice Directed by Peter Browngardt, the film is steeped in the grammar of the Looney Tunes’ golden ageWed Feb 11 2026 - 05:06
Life under Saddam Hussein: ‘A child being asked to bake a cake without flour or sugar was not absurd’Hasan Hadi’s film The President’s Cake centres on a deceptively simple premise: every year, schoolchildren were selected to make offerings for Saddam’s birthday, an impossible burdenWed Feb 11 2026 - 05:06
Four new films to see this week: A Quiet Love, Send Help, My Father’s Shadow and TwinlessRachel McAdams, Sope Dirisu, Dylan O’Brien, James Sweeney and Aisling Franciosi feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of February 6th, 2026Mon Feb 09 2026 - 04:58
Twinless review: Grief is seldom this entertainingJames Sweeney turns what initially feels like a jolly, quirky bromance into something far darker, more complex and hilariousThu Feb 05 2026 - 05:06
My Father’s Shadow review: An intimate family portrait and a deceptively sprawling portrait of Lagos Akinola Davies jnr’s film quietly marries personal and national histories in NigeriaWed Feb 04 2026 - 05:08
Morfydd Clark: ‘Hamlet is about the suffering of many to make a few people very wealthy. That felt painfully relevant’The Welsh actor on playing Ophelia in a new modern-day take, how bilingualism has shaped her, and the evergreen relevance of ShakespeareTue Feb 03 2026 - 05:01
Four new films to see this week: Is This Thing On?, Nouvelle Vague, Primate and Rabbit TrapWill Arnett, Laura Dern, Zoey Deutch, Dev Patel and Rosy McEwen feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of January 30th, 2026Sun Feb 01 2026 - 04:48
Aisling Franciosi: ‘I’m doing exactly what I dreamed of doing when I was a kid’The Dublin-born actor adds warmth and understated comedic flair to her role in James Sweeney’s TwinlessFri Jan 30 2026 - 05:14
Rabbit Trap review: Folk horror that makes the ears twitch but raises few goosebumpsThough technically assured, this film set in the Welsh countryside in 1976 remains curiously hollow Thu Jan 29 2026 - 05:06
Primate review: Johannes Roberts creature feature offers joyfully disposable entertainmentNod to ethics gets left behind as rabid chimp runs riot among college kidsWed Jan 28 2026 - 05:08
Four new films to see this week: The History of Sound, Mercy, No Other Choice and H Is for HawkPaul Mescal, Chris Pratt, Lee Byung-hun, Claire Foy and Brendan Gleeson feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of January 23rd, 2026Sun Jan 25 2026 - 04:53
H Is for Hawk review: Sensitive, patient and exasperatingly stillClaire Foy and a bird of prey star in a study of grief stifled, displaced and occasionally stuffed in a woman-sized cardboard boxFri Jan 23 2026 - 05:08
No Other Choice review: Park Chan-wook leans hard into slapstick in savage satireKorean director remains ever the stylist but cartoonishness eclipses capitalist critique in this timely adaptationThu Jan 22 2026 - 05:06
No Other Choice director Park Chan-wook: ‘That is the challenge of cinema – how to communicate inner life without explaining it’In the Korean auteur’s new film, the Squid Game star Lee Byung-hun ends up doing what capitalism did to himMon Jan 19 2026 - 05:01
Four new films to see this week: Rental Family, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, The Voice of Hind Rajab, Megadeth: Behind the MaskBrendan Fraser, Ralph Fiennes, Jack O’Connell and Dave Mustaine feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of January 16th, 2026Sun Jan 18 2026 - 04:52
European Film Awards 2026: Sentimental Value big winner at politically charged ceremonyPalestine features in several categories, while Iranian film-maker Jafar Panahi speaks about oppression in his countrySat Jan 17 2026 - 22:39
Megadeth: Behind the Mask review – Dave Mustaine thrashes it out about cancer, Cliff Burton and MetallicaOne of the frankest frontmen in metal is in contemplative if occasionally irascible moodFri Jan 16 2026 - 05:08
The Voice of Hind Rajab review: A clear-headed chronicle of a Palestinian tragedyThe film’s spine is its use of the real audio recordings of the child of the title trapped in a car under Israeli fire in Gaza Thu Jan 15 2026 - 05:06
Four new films to see this week: Hamnet, Giant, Oh, Canada and People We Meet on VacationJessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Pierce Brosnan, Richard Gere and Jacob Elordi feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of January 9th, 2026Sun Jan 11 2026 - 04:46
50 films to see in 2026: Dune and Toy Story 5 among big releases Superheroes, prequels, sequels and myth: There’s something to suit everyone’s in cinemas next yearSat Jan 10 2026 - 05:28
People We Meet on Vacation review: A slight, light and unconvincing romcomSleek costumes and seasoned comedy are wasted in this sunny but saccharine film from Brett HaleyFri Jan 09 2026 - 11:00
Oh, Canada review: Richard Gere and director Paul Schrader reunite in poignant new filmJacob Elordi portrays a younger version of Gere’s character in a fragmented narrative exploring memory, desire and self-mythologyFri Jan 09 2026 - 05:08
‘Doing nothing is being complicit. This film is a way not to be complicit’Kaouther Ben Hania, director of The Voice of Hind Rajab, on the moral imperative to tell this tragic story from GazaTue Jan 06 2026 - 05:03
Four new films to see this week: Saipan, Menu-Plaisir: Les Troisgros, Peter Hujar’s Day and Song Sung Blue Steve Coogan, Éanna Hardwicke, Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of January 2nd, 2026Mon Jan 05 2026 - 09:09
Peter Hujar’s Day review: Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall give theatrical masterclassesNothing much happens, yet everything is revealed, in this portrait of Hujar, at the time a little-known photographerThu Jan 01 2026 - 05:06
Menu-Plaisir: Les Troisgros review – A Michelin-starred feast that will leave you ravenousThere are no talking heads, no narration and no explanatory subtitles in Frederick Wiseman’s fantastic four-hour documentaryWed Dec 31 2025 - 05:08
Four new films to see this week: Marty Supreme, Cover-Up, Sentimental Value and David Bowie: The Final ActTimothée Chalamet, Seymour Hersh, Stellan Skarsgard and Renate Reinsve in a quartet of movies released in the week of December 26th, 2025Tue Dec 30 2025 - 06:00
Bowie: The Final Act - fond requiem from fan 10 years after star’s deathJonathan Stiasny’s film offers overview of iconic singer’s career with emphasis on his final artistic statement, BlackstarFri Dec 26 2025 - 05:06
Cover-Up review: Outstanding portrait of Seymour Hersh’s half-century of investigative journalismWithout journalists of Hersh’s calibre, we would be none the wiser about incidents including the 1968 massacre of a Vietnamese village by US soldiersThu Dec 25 2025 - 05:08
Elle Fanning: ‘Someone called their dad for the first time in years after Sentimental Value’The actress stars in Joachim Trier’s acclaimed Sentimental Value, which is an awards-season favouriteTue Dec 23 2025 - 05:12
Four new films to see this week: The SpongeBob Movie, The Six Billion Dollar Man, Avatar: Fire and Ash and 1975: BreakdownJulian Assange, Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña and Martin Scorsese feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of December 19th, 2025Sun Dec 21 2025 - 04:54
The Six Billion Dollar Man: Julian Assange documentary is one of the most chilling films of 2025A key revelation concerns the Swedish rape allegations in 2010Thu Dec 18 2025 - 05:06
Dracula director Luc Besson: ‘If you want a traditional horror film, watch something else’ The film-maker returns to the swashbuckling, maximalist production values that made him, with features such as Léon: The Professional and The Fifth Element, an auteur superstarWed Dec 17 2025 - 05:16
The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants – Fresh and funny, with a neat line in world-buildingDirector Derek Drymon, who has been with the show for more than a quarter of a century, mounts fast and wacky oceanic chasesWed Dec 17 2025 - 05:08
Eleanor the Great review: Scarlett Johansson’s directorial debut serves its fine cast poorlyIt’s commendable that Johansson gave the lead role to nonagenarian June Squibb but too much feels unearned and wildly inappropriateThu Dec 11 2025 - 05:06
Ella McCay: Big-hearted political comic drama struggles to live up to its superb castJames L Brooks returns to film-making with an old-fashioned, heartfelt movie that feels radical in 2025Wed Dec 10 2025 - 17:00
