Sofia Coppola: ‘Colin Farrell is the thinking woman's hunk’Coppola's latest film ‘The Beguiled’ sees Dublin actor Colin Farrell stirring passions in an all-girls school during the US Civil WarFri Jul 07 2017 - 06:30
The Midwife: an uneven odd-couple dramaActing powerhouses Catherine Frot and Catherine Deneuve are wasted in Martin Provost’s fitful dramaThu Jul 06 2017 - 09:15
Sanctuary: a forbidden tryst with a twist in the tailLen Collin’s feature debut is a must-see knockabout comedy that takes a serious look at the rights of the intellectually disabledThu Jul 06 2017 - 07:30
'My stepfather always told me you can’t trust anyone but family'Trey Edward Shults has a gift for imagining the worst and his latest film is a horror in tune with these dystopian timesThu Jul 06 2017 - 06:22
Cars, Dunkirk, Spider-Man and more: the summer movie guideFrom blockbusters to indie flicks, here are the best releases from now until autumnSat Jul 01 2017 - 05:00
All Eyez on Me: Tupac biopic fails to live up to the hip-hop legendEdges are duly smoothly and tricky questions are never posedFri Jun 30 2017 - 12:51
Alone in Berlin: Emma Thompson and Brendan Gleeson offer a timely blueprint for dissentSolid performances help save Vincent Pérez’s anti-Nazi war drama from its low-budget stodginessFri Jun 30 2017 - 11:28
Steve Carell: Some people sprint to the top. For me it happened over years. I didn’t noticeThe actor on hitting every rung on the Hollywood ladderFri Jun 30 2017 - 06:30
The most enjoyable summer blockbuster has arrivedDespicable Me 3 review: Minions, manic laughs and Pharrell Williams chimes in with his boppiest soundtrack to dateThu Jun 29 2017 - 16:00
Kedi review: Truly, moggy, deeply in cat-crazy IstanbulA wonderful tribute to the Turkish port city’s love of its lucky feline inhabitantsThu Jun 29 2017 - 14:00
How the street cats of Istanbul landed on their feetIn Turkey, stray cats and humans coexist peacefully – why can’t we do the same here?Thu Jun 29 2017 - 06:00
Revolutions: a hip, lively, amiable brusier of a filmFilmed over five years, Laura McGann’s film follows the Irish women’s roller derby team from first shove to final whistleWed Jun 28 2017 - 07:30
Colin Trevorrow: ‘Be proud of everything you paint, even if Mom doesn’t put it on the fridge’Director Colin Trevorrow made the jump from micro-budget films to blockbusters. But for his latest, he’s gone back to his indie roots, and the critics aren’t pleasedFri Jun 23 2017 - 06:15
Once upon a pair of wheels: Edgar Wright on Baby Driver‘Closest thing to a British Quentin Tarantino’ on his movie about a getaway driver who loves tunesFri Jun 23 2017 - 06:00
The Book of Henry review: makes Jurassic Park seem plausibleA dying boy genius leaves instructions to catch a sexual predator – then it gets sillyThu Jun 22 2017 - 17:00
Slack Bay (Ma Loute) review: flesh-eating French class comedy is an acquired tasteJuliette Binoche heads a bizarre cast of characters in this deeply odd lampoonThu Jun 22 2017 - 13:24
Twice Shy review: walking softly on a well-trodden roadThis tale of a young Irish couple travelling to England for an abortion avoids rhetoricThu Jun 22 2017 - 07:00
The Irish movie set to spark a measured conversation about abortionYoung Irish film-maker Tom Ryan knew he was opening a can of worms with ‘Twice Shy’, which features a couple put to the test by an unplanned pregnancyThu Jun 22 2017 - 05:15
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekendFrom Whitney Houston to Dublin gangsters, here are the best of this week’s releasesFri Jun 16 2017 - 05:00
Nails review: And you thought Irish hospitals were bad ...The monster in this hospital-set horror film needs to be dischargedThu Jun 15 2017 - 16:00
The sad story of Whitney Houston's bisexual love triangleWhitney: Can I Be Me? Nick Broomfield’s devastating portrait of a fatally conflicted existenceThu Jun 15 2017 - 13:58
Churchill review: Winston at his most shambolicBrian Cox does excellent work in the title role – unfortunately, often against the scriptThu Jun 15 2017 - 12:30
By the Time It Gets Dark review: The perils of putting history on filmA dark Thai event that claimed many lives is given a shape-shifting treatmentThu Jun 15 2017 - 07:00
The sad, secret life of Whitney HoustonArchive: From a secret lesbian relationship to a decades-long struggle with drugs, five years after singer’s death, a new film ‘Whitney: Can I Be Me’ examines what caused her tragic downfallSat Jun 10 2017 - 06:11
Six of the best films to see this weekendQuality blasts from the past include Wonder Woman and a Fritz Lang classicFri Jun 09 2017 - 12:07
The Shack review: A vision of heaven that feels like purgatoryNot even Octavia Spencer as God can save this Oprahfied version of paradiseThu Jun 08 2017 - 12:30
Destiny: an eye-popping restoration of Fritz Lang’s classicThe film that inspired may of cinema’s greatest auteurs returns to the big screenThu Jun 08 2017 - 07:00
Teresa Palmer: ‘I got kung-fu kicked in the back’The actor has a thing about going method, whether fooling Christian Bale as a stripper, playing a kidnap victim in a tiny basement, or working inside a giant head in a supermarketThu Jun 08 2017 - 06:05
Dublin Boyz n the Hood and gruesome gangland consequence‘Cardboard Gangsters’ is a ’hood film, not a gangster film, says director Mark O’ConnorMon Jun 05 2017 - 06:00
Is Wonder Woman a feminist in hot pants?Like Princess Leia or Miss Piggy, Wonder Woman is the token girl on a boy’s adventureSat Jun 03 2017 - 05:00
Six of the best movies to see on the big screen this weekendThe best film of the week is an Oscar-nominated animation that's basically social realism for kidsFri Jun 02 2017 - 05:59
Daughters of the Dust: the film that inspired Beyoncé’s LemonadeJulie Dash’s lavish, poetic film gets a welcome restoration and re-releaseThu Jun 01 2017 - 11:30
After the Storm: lightly comic with a sting in the tailA typically nuanced film from Hirokazu Koreeda about a deadbeat dad doing his bestThu Jun 01 2017 - 07:00
Baywatch: A hunk of junk that not even The Rock can rescueThis reboot of the 1990s TV show is so poor, it even messes up the David Hasselhoff cameoMon May 29 2017 - 14:05
Closeness: No film will top this drama for walkouts and jeeringAn ethically questionable scene had Cannes viewers shouting as they left the premiereSat May 27 2017 - 15:44
Bushwick review: out of step with contemporary Trumpian politicsBushwick envisages a second American Civil War in a New York boroughSat May 27 2017 - 15:33
Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts: rape-revenge, motherhood and ravishing beautyCannes 2017: If you only see one feminist Indonesian Spaghetti Western this year, this should be itFri May 26 2017 - 16:18
Good Time: Robert Pattinson’s latest gets a six-minute standing ovation at CannesPattinson robs a bank for all the right reasons, but things go horribly wrong in his completely whacko new filmFri May 26 2017 - 14:29
How Nicole Kidman became the enviable queen of coolThe versatile, talented actor is blessed with impressive range and unafraid of taking risksFri May 26 2017 - 07:00
Zoe Kavanagh on the battle to bring ‘Demon Hunter’ to screenThe Irish director's determination has paid off, with accolades and a big-screen release for her feature debutFri May 26 2017 - 06:30
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul review - the wheels have come off entirelyThe film series started out just as charming as Jeff Kinney’s books, but this fourth instalment is running on emptyThu May 25 2017 - 17:00
I Am Not Madame Bovary: Gorgeous, stylised example of Chinese box-office goldDirector Feng Xiaogang is a master of observational comedy in his native land, and his humour travels with some successThu May 25 2017 - 12:30
The Other Side of Hope: a Finnish refugee crisis of conscienceFinnish auteur Aki Kaurismäki’s film is filled with curious oddballs, but there are also many ethical connundrums to contend withThu May 25 2017 - 11:00
Johnny Depp’s panto drunk pirate is worse than everThe billion-dollar franchise plumbs new depths of awfulness with Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar’s RevengeWed May 24 2017 - 09:39
Spark: A Space Tail review - a disaster of cosmic proportionsThe animation is ugly and basic, the plot is lazy, and the voice talents of Jessica Biel, Patrick Stewart and others are completely wastedTue May 23 2017 - 17:39
Charlie Hunnam: The geezer who would be kingThe King Arthur actor discusses why he won't be making a claim to be king of the Geordies any time soon, and how his bromance with Guy Ritchie set the pace for the ‘Lads of the Round Table’Fri May 19 2017 - 06:00
Inversion review: a nuanced approach to a culture rife with indignant misogynyFor the the heroine of Behnam Behzadi’s latest, the predicament is clear - no husband, no agencyThu May 18 2017 - 10:58
Colossal: Anne Hathaway returns in a dazzlingly original, and dark, fantasyHathaway plays an alcoholic loser with a strange connection to a monster levelling SeoulThu May 18 2017 - 06:15
Fellini’s ‘La Strada’ - one of the greatest weepies ever madeThe Italian director’s Oscar-winning tale remains as moving and tragic as on its first releaseWed May 17 2017 - 10:30
Jessica Chastain: ‘It was a very difficult upbringing’The star of ‘The Help’ and now ‘Miss Sloane’ is taking on inequality in Hollywood and beyondSat May 13 2017 - 05:00
