Shazam! Fury of the Gods: Slumming A-list actors, dreary world-building and eye-watering CGIThis underwhelming sequel has no sense of jeopardy, and is unlikely to revive the ailing DC Extended UniverseFri Mar 17 2023 - 05:00
Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom – ‘I felt like if we went through hardship, it could translate into the film’Pawo Choyning Dorji and his crew had a mountain to climb to shoot their Oscar-nominated movie set in a remote school in BhutanFri Mar 10 2023 - 11:02
Meet Me in the Bathroom: Pleasing, rough-hewn chronicle of New York music scene of early 2000sArchive footage does the talking for LCD Soundsystem, The Strokes, Karen O and The Moldy Peaches in Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace’s filmFri Mar 10 2023 - 05:00
Bríd Brennan: ‘From childhood you’re trying to tell the story of who you are’A fan of quietly passionate roles, the actor has just made My Sailor, My Love, a romance that grapples with the way our lives are now structuredThu Mar 09 2023 - 06:00
Luther: The Fallen Sun – The best James Bond we never had just about holds your attentionIdris Elba’s detective arrives at Netflix in a film about a global serial killer that is as distasteful as it is sillyWed Mar 08 2023 - 05:00
Lukas Dhont on the difficulties of teenage friendship: ‘I pushed people away, although I didn’t really want to’: Lukas Dhont has crafted an extraordinary drama from the expectations and prejudices experienced by young menSat Mar 04 2023 - 00:00
Close: Five stars for Lukas Dhont’s powerful coming-of-age filmYou can predict where the Belgian director’s tragedy is headed, but this Cannes Grand Prix winner still makes an indelible emotional impactFri Mar 03 2023 - 05:00
I’m Fine (Thanks for Asking): A film as scrappy as its rollerskating, job-juggling heroineKelley Kali attempts to hustle her way out of homelessness in this raw South by Southwest jury-prize winnerFri Mar 03 2023 - 04:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekHigh concept horror-comedy Cocaine Bear and Lily James in romcom What’s Love Got to Do with It?, plus Joyland from Pakistan and Broker from South KoreaSun Feb 26 2023 - 05:00
Joyland: Extraordinary, unmissable tale of unexpected attraction Pakistani director Saim Sadiq’s Cannes-winning debut has huge heart and beautifully drawn charactersFri Feb 24 2023 - 05:00
Broker: A sweet-natured drama about babies for saleJapanese master Hirokazu Koreeda turns in his latest humanist crowd-pleaserFri Feb 24 2023 - 05:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekTiny titan Paul Rudd returns in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, plus Hugh Jackman in tough drama The Son, charming animated Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, and provocative pro-nuclear doc Atomic HopeSun Feb 19 2023 - 05:00
The Son: Hugh Jackman shines in devastating drama that probes depression, guilt, and dutyFlorian Zeller’s grown-up drama should have been an Oscar contenderFri Feb 17 2023 - 05:05
Atomic Hope: Swimming against the tide in nuclear power debateFor the general public, atomic energy is an image of Homer Simpson asleep at his workstation. It’s Chernobyl. It’s FukushimaFri Feb 17 2023 - 04:55
Asif Kapadia’s Creature: ‘All of the crew were into dance. Even our electricians went to the ballet’The Oscar-winning director of Amy and Senna is reinventing filmed performance with an electrifying version of Akram Khan’s celebrated modern balletWed Feb 15 2023 - 05:00
‘There are all types of queer people, and they deserve to have their stories told’Georgia Oakley was inspired to make Blue Jean when lesbian protesters abseiled into the House of Lords to protest Section 28Mon Feb 13 2023 - 00:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekOscar-nominated Women Talking, plus Channing Tatum takes another twirl as Magic Mike, gritty British drama Blue Jean, and French kids animation Epic TailsSun Feb 12 2023 - 05:00
Siân Phillips on marriage to Peter O’Toole: ‘It was like holding sand in my hand’Peter O’Toole’s former wife is central to a new documentary portrait of the Lawrence of Arabia starSat Feb 11 2023 - 05:00
Dublin International Film Festival line-up features big names and fresh talentA guest appearance from Oscar nominee Paul Mescal and an array of new Irish and international productions make for a lively 21st edition of the festivalSat Feb 11 2023 - 05:00
Epic Tails: Cheers for Greek mythology references; jeers for everything elseOlympians depicted in this new family comedy start off as jerks, behave abominably, and emerge, well, as jerksFri Feb 10 2023 - 05:00
Blue Jean: An elegantly structured film composed of clever, delicate movementsGeorgia Oakley’s debut feature is as restrained as Rosy McEwen’s excellent performanceFri Feb 10 2023 - 05:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekPuss in Boots: The Last Wish, EO, Saint Omer, The WhaleSun Feb 05 2023 - 05:00
‘I felt so guilty for perpetuating fake news’: Former journalist sets the record straight on Paris ‘suicide bomber’In 2015, Dina Amer reported - inaccurately - on ‘Europe’s first female suicide bomber’. A biopic aims to make amendsSat Feb 04 2023 - 05:00
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish - This film is the absolute cat’s whiskersAntonio Banderas saves the day in this appealing animation from the Shrek franchiseFri Feb 03 2023 - 05:00
Saint Omer: An electrifying dramatisation of a mother’s trial for leaving her baby to drownAlice Diop’s Venice-winning first feature sticks to the facts of Fabienne Kabou’s prosecution for an unspeakable crime against her daughterFri Feb 03 2023 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekSteven Spielberg’s seven Oscars-nominated The Fabelman, plus brawny Gerard Butler in Plane, documentary All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, and dark Bulgarian drama JanuarySun Jan 29 2023 - 05:00
‘If human beings keep mistreating nature and animals, we will be left with robots’ Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski on his latest film featuring a donkey in the lead roleSat Jan 28 2023 - 05:00
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed: Holding philanthropists to accountAfter Oscar-winning biopic of Edward Snowden, Laura Poitras turns to campaigning artist Nan GoldinFri Jan 27 2023 - 05:00
Plane: The set-up is so silly you wonder why they didn’t parachute in a dinosaur Who would win? Gerard Butler or an island of jihadi pirates? Plane has the answerThu Jan 26 2023 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekMargot Robbie and Brad Pitt in Hollywood epic Babylon, plus Iranian serial killer drama Holy Spider, Irish horror comedy Let the Wrong One In, and documentary on the legendary Chelsea HotelSun Jan 22 2023 - 05:00
Tony Kushner on The Fabelmans: ‘There’s no alien showing up. It’s not World War II. It’s a very naked film’Acclaimed playwright and longtime Steven Spielberg collaborator Tony Kushner on working on the director’s most personal film to dateSat Jan 21 2023 - 05:00
Holy Spider: A cracking, effective thriller powered by uneasinessAli Abbasi’s film about a real life sexually motivated murderer takes aim at theocracy and misogynyFri Jan 20 2023 - 05:00
Dreaming Walls: A missed opportunity to portray the legendary Chelsea HotelDocumentary about a long-term home for many famous artists is dreamy but short on historical contextFri Jan 20 2023 - 05:00
Holy Spider: How the appalling story of a self-styled ‘Islamic Travis Bickle’ was brought to the screenDirector Ali Abbasi on his new film about the serial killer Saeed Hanaei and its vivid relevance after recent events in IranWed Jan 18 2023 - 05:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekCate Blanchett is grandstandingly brilliant in Tár, plus frightful folkie Enys Men, creepy doll M3GAN, and Sam Mendes’ Empire of LightSun Jan 15 2023 - 05:00
Sam Mendes: ‘If I made American Beauty now it would be for a streamer’Following Bond and the epic 1917, the Oscar-winner returns with his most personal feature to date, Empire of Light.Sat Jan 14 2023 - 05:00
Enys Men: Spellbound in CornwallMark Jenkin’s second feature is a mesmerising and worthy successor to the award-winning BaitFri Jan 13 2023 - 05:00
Film-maker Mark Jenkin: ‘We’re Cornish. We can just have our own culture’Quentin Tarantino is a fan, Mark Kermode a champion. How Cornwall’s best-kept secret became the toast of Cannes and the BerlinaleFri Jan 13 2023 - 05:00
Empire of Light: Sam Mendes’s beautifully made new film doesn’t quite hang togetherThe film has some memorable scenes but tries to do too much, taking on racial and sexual inequality, mental health issues and moreMon Jan 09 2023 - 12:22
Four new films to see this week A Man Called Otto with Tom Hanks, Till starring Danielle Deadwyler, Catalan-language film Alcarràs, and avenger thriller The EnforcerSun Jan 08 2023 - 05:29
‘I don’t worry about awards. It is a bigger thing to combat racism, right?’The Harder They Fall star Danielle Deadwyler on her extraordinary performance as Mamie Till-Mobley in TillSat Jan 07 2023 - 05:00
Till: Grief rings from every corner in Oscar favouriteDanielle Deadwyler is phenomenal as a grieving mother turned civil rights activistFri Jan 06 2023 - 05:04
Alcarràs: Small farmers take on environmentally themed capitalist greedTraditional peach-farmers in Catalonia come under threat from big ‘green’ businessFri Jan 06 2023 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekEmpress Elizabeth Austrian drama Corsage, Lars Von Trier’s The Kingdom: Exodus, Léa Seydoux in France, and odd beast nature documentary WildcatSun Jan 01 2023 - 05:00
She chronicles boat migrants from the safety of a yacht. Mostly, she’s in it for the selfies France: Léa Seydoux has never been better than in Bruno Dumont’s madcap satireThu Dec 29 2022 - 05:00
Corsage: Vicky Krieps is getting laced into rigid leather corsets. It’s not what you thinkIn Marie Kreutzer’s innovative historical drama, the Phantom Thread star plays the beloved Empress Elisabeth of AustriaTue Dec 27 2022 - 09:08
Four new films to see this weekWhitney Houston biopic I Wanna Dance with Somebody, plus Ozon upturns Fassbinder with Peter von Kant, Christian Bale streaming in The Pale Blue Eye, and classic British gothic The Queen of SpadesSun Dec 25 2022 - 05:00
The Pale Blue Eye: Christian Bale leads a starry cast in a beautifully shot, absurdly plotted movieScott Cooper’s silly if entertaining detective story is perfect Christmas fodderThu Dec 22 2022 - 05:00
Peter von Kant: Magnificent glass-throwing, door-slamming romantic agonyNo piece of furniture is safe in this terrifically overheated tribute to Rainer Werner FassbinderThu Dec 22 2022 - 05:00
Clerks director Kevin Smith: ‘My stuff’s approachable. It makes you feel sorry for it’The film-maker struck gold with his no-budget hit. He talks about its second sequel, health issues and ‘not knowing how to direct’Wed Dec 21 2022 - 05:00
