Pain Hustlers: Spitballing and shimmying through the US opioid crisisAlthough it’s mostly fun, the film is ultimately torn between raucous satire and social conscienceFri Oct 27 2023 - 05:00
‘Rock Hudson and James Dean were fighting over Elizabeth Taylor – who’s her best favourite gay boyfriend?’ A new documentary, Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed, explores the strange dynamics of Hudson’s closeted queerness in pre-Stonewall HollywoodMon Oct 23 2023 - 05:15
The Pigeon Tunnel: Seasoned interrogators John le Carré and Errol Morris lock horns, with fascinating results‘I’ve lived through a world of endless betrayal,’ the great spy writer tells the celebrated documentarian in his final testament on cameraThu Oct 19 2023 - 05:00
Nyad: Punch-the-air marathon swimmer biopic from Free Solo’s Oscar-winnersAnnette Bening’s fierce performance is work that trumpets the arrival of awards seasonTue Oct 17 2023 - 16:23
Martin Scorsese: ‘One has to take chances. At this age, what else can I do?’The veteran director wants Killers of the Flower Moon to show not just the trail of killings at the heart of its story but also the rich culture of the Osage NationSat Oct 14 2023 - 02:00
The Burial: Jamie Foxx and Tommy Lee Jones buddy up for a fun 1990s courtroom throwbackWatching this energetic drama, it is almost hard to believe this is inspired by a true storyFri Oct 13 2023 - 05:30
Smoke Sauna Sisterhood: Sweating out the pain in a safe, feminine spaceShot over five years, Anna Hint’s film is an intangible marvel, punctuated by ritualsFri Oct 13 2023 - 05:00
BlackBerry: A tech tale heading from 50m units a year via betrayal to zero market share Cult director Matt Johnson recreates the Crackberry days with this compelling tale of tech hubrisFri Oct 06 2023 - 12:03
Fair Play: Slinky corporate thriller is brimming with toxic masculinityChloe Domont’s debut feature stars Bridgerton’s Phoebe DynevorFri Oct 06 2023 - 05:00
BlackBerry director Matt Johnson: ‘We had to shoot secretly as we were making the film without the company’s participation’Canadian filmmaker’s new movie is a brilliant tech saga about the smartphone that fuelled the CrackBerry crazeThu Oct 05 2023 - 05:00
Warrior review: A heartfelt, poignant Star Trek-tinted cancer-survivor musicalDublin Theatre Festival 2023: Karen Egan’s experiences, which form the spine of the show, are relayed to poignant effectWed Oct 04 2023 - 10:04
Shoshana first-look review: Michael Winterbottom’s new film offers a warning from history as it evokes a frenzied eraDinard Film Festival 2023: David Holmes’s score is emblematic of a film that is trying to do too muchSun Oct 01 2023 - 13:57
The Old Oak: Ken Loach’s last orders deliver a generous roundA little solidarity goes a long way in the great film-maker’s final offeringFri Sept 29 2023 - 05:00
Other People’s Children: A very French marriage of realism and eroticaRebecca Zlotowski’s heartfelt drama is powered by Virginie Efira’s performanceFri Sept 29 2023 - 05:00
Rothar review: A playful show that transcends language and nationalityDublin Theatre Festival 2023: Both actors are equally impressive in this all-ages offering from Galway’s BranarThu Sept 28 2023 - 13:52
Film-maker Carol Morley: ‘Manchester was terrible for women... it was a working-class, white, boys’ town’The director on her native city, ‘invisible women’, and her fifth feature, Typist Artist Pirate King, about the late outsider artist Audrey AmissWed Sept 27 2023 - 05:00
The Dan Daw Show review: A miraculous piece of theatreDublin Fringe Festival 2023: The ‘crip kink’ billing promises the transgressive. The performance is much moreSat Sept 23 2023 - 12:45
Wes Anderson on his new Roald Dahl film: ‘No one who is not the author should be modifying somebody else’s book’Benedict Cumberbatch, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes and Dev Patel star in the director’s faithfully scripted new film of The Wonderful Story of Henry SugarSat Sept 23 2023 - 05:30
Ballywalter review: Painfully honest drama sees Patrick Kielty perform the worst stand-up routinesSeána Kerslake brings an edge and unpredictability that animates a carefully shaded storyFri Sept 22 2023 - 05:30
RMN: Urgent, fiercely intelligent migration drama from a modern masterRomanian filmmaker Cristian Mungiu dissects European hypocrisies and contradictions in this film based on a real-life xenophobic eventFri Sept 22 2023 - 05:15
RMN: Palme d’Or winner Cristian Mungiu on his powerful Transylvanian tale of migrants and bears‘Nobody really knows how life is here in Romania, and especially cultural life. There are still people believing that we speak Russian or that it’s very cold’Thu Sept 21 2023 - 05:00
Ken Loach: ‘Ireland has always been wonderful... even though the police in the North chased us out’The director on his new film, The Old Oak, set in a ravaged mining community in northeast England, and why he may wrap up the film-making at 87Sun Sept 17 2023 - 05:15
Cassandro: An impressive cast leaves the impression of being part of a celebrationThe flamboyant Mexican luchador gets the fabulous biopic he deservesFri Sept 15 2023 - 05:00
‘I don’t think the role of movies is to punish people. A movie isn’t a court’Japan’s master of outrageous tragedy on incorporating sign language into new film Love Life, complicated humans and his goal of depicting life as it isWed Sept 13 2023 - 05:00
El Conde: The ghosts of fascism past are back in their very own Gothic horrorA deserving winner of the Best Screenplay at the Venice Film FestivalTue Sept 12 2023 - 21:03
A Symbiotic Symphonic Movement review: A triptych of experimental compositions casts a spellDublin Fringe Festival 2023: Inside Teak House, some attendees bow their heads in a liminal trance. Others lie down and absorb the noiseSun Sept 10 2023 - 10:17
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3: The mounting Hellenic horrors include a flabby story, damp jokes and an occasional goatThe Vardalos family are back for a messy, pointless second sequel to the cheery originalFri Sept 08 2023 - 00:01
Angelheaded Hipster: This Marc Bolan documentary is at its best when it lets the T Rex frontman do the talkingDespite pedestrian contributions by the likes of U2, Lucinda Williams, Joan Jett and others, Bolan’s electric warrior spirit shines throughThu Sept 07 2023 - 05:00
A Life on the Farm: ‘Getting Koo Stark in the film was the weirdest conversation ever’ Prince Andrew’s former girlfriend is an unexpected contributor to Oscar Harding’s quirky film about outsider artist Charles CarsonTue Sept 05 2023 - 05:00
Bobi Wine: The People’s President – Uganda’s charismatic ‘president of the ghetto’ under pressureThe former pop star’s professional swerve into politics has come at great personal costFri Sept 01 2023 - 05:00
Sound of Freedom: Ignore the huffing and puffing about this film. It’s not such a holy show after allJim Caziezel puts in his fiercest turn since The Passion of the ChristWed Aug 30 2023 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekThe charming, hilarious send-up Theater Camp, the entertaining The Blackening, Christian Petzold’s singular Afire, and the knockabout ScrapperSun Aug 27 2023 - 05:00
‘We didn’t have an intimacy co-ordinator. We decided to build this thing together and trust one another’Passages actor Franz Rogowski on charming psychopathy and creating convincing relationships with Adèle Exarchopoulos and Ben WhishawSat Aug 26 2023 - 05:00
Afire: This entertaining, masterly, genre-defying comedy rightly took home Berlin’s Silver Bear German master Christian Petzold deftly weaves ecological catastrophe, sexual capering and a portrait of beta masculinity into something extraordinaryFri Aug 25 2023 - 05:00
Scrapper: Charlotte Regan’s surefooted debut is as plucky as its title suggestsThe tricky father-daughter relationship at this film’s heart makes it a poppier, knockabout cousin of AftersunFri Aug 25 2023 - 05:00
Afire: Germany’s most admired contemporary film-maker didn’t realise how funny – and revealing – his new movie isChristian Petzold, Germany’s most admired contemporary film-maker, didn’t realise how funny – and possibly revealing – his new movie isTue Aug 22 2023 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekLatino culture celebrated in enjoyable DC yarn Blue Beetle, plus chilly AI drama T.I.M., unfunny adult doggy tale Strays, and Desperate Optimists in thoughtful The Future TenseSun Aug 20 2023 - 05:00
The Future Tense: Desperate Optimists take a pleasingly meandering look at relations between Ireland and its nearest neighbourAlthough not everything in their documentary comes off, artists Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor make for great companyThu Aug 17 2023 - 05:00
Victor Belmondo: ‘At the end of the movie my grandfather is shot. I was a kid and I was crying’It’s hard to follow in the footsteps of an icon, but Jean-Paul Belmondo’s grandson is quietly becoming a screen star in his own rightWed Aug 16 2023 - 05:00
Tim: What happens when a creepy robot assistant takes over your home? Here’s a cautionary taleA couple move into a high-tech home with a machine manservant, and you don’t need AI to tell you how that all works outWed Aug 16 2023 - 05:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekA fun cast can’t save Disney’s limp Haunted Mansion. Plus sensitive Trouble documentary Face Down, true-life video game tale Gran Turismo, and Penélope Cruz in Italian transgender drama L’immensitàSun Aug 13 2023 - 05:00
Craig Revel Horwood: ‘My life was better before Strictly Come Dancing’The director, choreographer and Strictly star returns to Dublin with an electrifying turn as Miss Hannigan in AnnieSun Aug 13 2023 - 05:00
A charismatic Penélope Cruz anchors this charming transgender coming-of-age drama in L’ImmensitàImmensity of film’s title refers to the complications of growing up, compounded by gender identity, precarious mental health and the disintegration of a marriageFri Aug 11 2023 - 05:00
Gran Turismo: The real-life story of Jann Mardenborough has heart and speedArchie Madekwe is hugely likable as the Cardiff bedroom gamer who makes it big on the racetrackWed Aug 09 2023 - 05:00
Gran Turismo’s Jann Mardenborough: ‘It was the darkest moment of my personal and professional life’The racing driver was keen for the tragedy of a crash that killed a spectator to be included in the exhilarating new film based on his careerWed Aug 09 2023 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekInclusive new TMNT animation is excellent family fun. Plus vital transgender doc Kokomo City, French Bataclan drama Paris Memories, and weakly whimsical murder mystery Maggie Moore(s)Sun Aug 06 2023 - 05:00
Paris Memories: Delicate, affecting drama explores life after a terrorist attackDrawing from her brother’s experiences at the Bataclan in 2015, director Alice Winocour brings nuanced performances from her stars Virginie Efira and Benoît MagimelFri Aug 04 2023 - 05:00
Maggie Moore(s): What are Jon Hamm and Tina Fey doing in this ill-advised murder comedy?Director John Slattery cannot reconcile the cacophony of incongruous tones in this tale of two namesake murder victimsThu Aug 03 2023 - 05:00
Kokomo City is a landmark in trans representation on screenKokomo City, the former music producer’s Sundance-winning film, is a landmark in trans representation on screenMon Jul 31 2023 - 05:00
Everybody Loves Jeanne: Tart romcom with a revelatory turn from stand-up comic Blanche GardinThis charming film is a great debut for film-maker Céline DevauxFri Jul 28 2023 - 05:00
