Alex Ross Perry

Pavements review: Brilliantly unclassifiable salute to the 1990s indie-rock legends Pavement

Alex Ross Perry’s film is framed around Pavement’s 2022 reunion tour, but it quickly spirals outwards into giddy metafiction

Wed Jul 09 2025 - 05:01

Alex Ross Perry on his Pavement documentary: ‘The concept was an absurd notion that this band would ever go gold or platinum’

Stephen Malkmus, the frontman of indie rock’s least-bothered legacy act, had just one stipulation for the film: that it be ‘confusing and weird’. The result is indeed slanted and enchanted

Mon Jul 07 2025 - 05:03

The best 50 films of 2019: Odd, rich, startlingly varied. And brilliant

We start with Monos, Marriage Story and Midsommar. Find out what else makes the cut

Sun Dec 08 2019 - 06:00

Jessie Buckley and Hugh O’Conor scoop Dublin film festival prizes

Critics’ circle awards wrap up Dublin International Film Festival 2019

Mon Mar 04 2019 - 10:57

As KLF they burned £1m. Now they’re firing bricks of human ashes

Dublin International Film Festival: Paul Duane’s What Time Is Death? charts Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty’s latest singular project

Wed Feb 27 2019 - 17:00

Dublin film festival: Matt Bomer loves the ‘Irish spirit’

John Butler’s ‘Papi Chulo’, with stars Alejandro Patiño and Bomer, opened the Dublin International Film Festival in style

Thu Feb 21 2019 - 13:30

Christopher Robin: An exercise in existential dread. For children

Review: Sadness pervades this adaptation. What’s going on? Is there honey still for tea?

Wed Aug 15 2018 - 11:15

Forty-two films to catch in the cinema this summer

Incredibles 2, Ocean’s 8, Jurassic World and Mamma Mia!: Here We Go Again

Sat May 26 2018 - 05:00

So what is the meaning of Lowery’s existential fable ‘A Ghost Story’?

Writer-director thinks there may be a Catholic sensibility underscoring his new film

Fri Aug 11 2017 - 05:00

Good Time: Robert Pattinson’s latest gets a six-minute standing ovation at Cannes

Pattinson robs a bank for all the right reasons, but things go horribly wrong in his completely whacko new film

Fri May 26 2017 - 14:29

Five star review: Queen of Earth is incandescently brilliant

Director Alex Ross Perry weaves in sly references to Polanski, but this is a psychological drama like no other

Thu Jun 30 2016 - 11:29

Jack Reynor back on home turf for Dublin film festival launch

Kenneth Branagh, Julie Andrews and Russell Crowe lined up as part of festival bill

Wed Feb 25 2015 - 20:09