The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo review: Sexual desire becomes contagion and curse in haunting debut
Writer-director doesn’t name the infection, but leaves little doubt that the spectre spooking the Chilean desert is the Aids crisis
Cannes film festival
The Cannes Movie Quiz: Which Irish actor is on this year’s jury?
Plus: What won last year’s Palme d’Or?
First Look review: Barry Keoghan gives a tense, psychologically uneasy performance in Butterfly Jam
Cannes 2026: Irish actor stars with Riley Keough in Kantemir Balagov’s singular family drama
Cannes 2026: Glamour, sheer excruciation and the vanishing Irish-shot film Bucking Fastard
The festival opened with a very French, very odd ceremony featuring Jane Fonda, Peter Jackson and bad impersonations of Robert De Niro and Julia Roberts
‘My father thought my grandfather died in the Holocaust. It was all a lie’
Director László Nemes’s traumatic family history has informed his twisty drama set in Budapest after the second World War
Cannes 2026: Which Irish stars will be there and what will win the Palme D’Or?
Distinguished line-up of auteurs grace festival as documentary on Traveller family flies green flag
Chris O’Dowd and Jane Fonda to play Niall O’Dowd and Jean Kennedy Smith in peace process drama
Ciarán Hinds and John C Reilly also to star in Ceasefire, from In the Name of the Father writer Terry George
Cannes 2026: Barry Keoghan, Daryl McCormack and Lola Petticrew films win prestige slots
Butterfly Jam and I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning to screen in Directors’ Fortnight. Alexander Murphy’s Tin Castle announced for Critics’ Week
Cannes 2026: John Travolta and Barbra Streisand set to walk red carpet as film festival announces official selection
Could Irish stars Anthony Boyle, Daryl McCormack and Lola Petticrew feature in Directors Fortnight?
Celebrity influencer initiates High Court damages claim against Web Summit company
Simonetta Lein is bringing case over breach of alleged agreement to participate in Web Summit in Doha
Two Prosecutors: depicting totalitarianism as a boringly efficient mechanism
Great Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa weaves absurd theatre with historical inspirations from Soviet purges of the 1930s
Ukrainian film-maker Sergei Loznitsa: ‘Once you understand the world exists in abstractions you can do whatever you want’
The Ukrainian director of Two Prosecutors, who studied maths and AI, says although a film may be about something tragic, ‘it is still a work of art, and its form has to be harmonious’
‘We said to Natalie Portman, we need you to protect the movie. And she did’
Ugo Bienvenu, director of the Oscar-nominated animated film Arco, on sticking with his creative vision
Pálmason: ‘I wasn’t interested in making a film if it wasn’t rooted in my children and surroundings’
The Love That Remains is a transportive comic crowd-pleaser about divorcing parents and their lively offspring and animals
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 margins
Sound of Falling: Forbidding film that richly rewards audiences
Mascha Schilinski’s second feature employs a comprehensive cinematic arsenal to tell a tale of abuse, unease and alienation
Sirat: This nomadic rave adventure is tense, original and extraordinary
Best enjoyed in the biggest cinema with the best audio system, it leans into ravers’ musical preference with relish
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 Spain
The Secret Agent director Kleber Mendonça Filho: ‘I love the title. It’s short and sexy’
After winning two Golden Globes, the proudly puzzling thriller is up for the best-picture Oscar. And now the Brazilian president is on the phone
The History of Sound review: Paul Mescal-led film struggles to strike an emotional chord
Despite fine performances from Mescal and Josh O’Connor, Oliver Hermanus’s period drama remains curiously inert
Sentimental Value review: The most civilised film of 2025
Beautifully played piece of highish-middle-brow filmmaking that makes the best of strategically staged confrontations
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 favourite
The 50 best films of 2025 – a full list in reverse order
There were hopeful signs that Hollywood could make money out of good films that did not spring from established franchises
The 10 worst films of 2025: ‘Cap’, you say? Crap, more like
We gave you the best films of the year, now here are the worst
The 50 best films of 2025: Top 10 movies of the year
Our critics have selected the standout movies released in Ireland this year
It Was Just an Accident review: Jafar Panahi has made one of the very best films of 2025
Iranian again flouts his movie-making ban in the most imaginative manner with darkly humorous political satire
The 50 best films of 2025: No 50 to No 31
Our list again leans strongly on the cultural cinema that emerged from big festivals such as Cannes and Venice
Pillion review: Think Norman Wisdom as a gay motorcyclist’s plaything and you’re halfway there
In Harry Lighton’s impressive debut feature, a very English class of reasonableness brushes against an equally English interest in hierarchical kink
A Mind of My Own by Kathy Burke: London-Irish performer’s extraordinary trajectory
Kathy Burke name-checks and settles scores but one gets the sense that she has much more to say
From Ground Zero review: 22 stories told by Gazans under siege
Collection of short films highlights miraculous act of carrying on amid obliteration of normal life
Young Mothers review: The Dardenne brothers bring empathy to interlocking stories of underage mothers in Liège
The Belgian film-makers’ 13th feature deftly weaves together the lives of five young women
Harvest star Harry Melling: ‘I was surrounded by titans like Fiona Shaw. I was starry-eyed as they told me stories about theatre work’
The Greek director Athina Rachel Tsangari is the latest auteur to take a shine to the former Harry Potter actor, who has earned the respect of everyone from the Coen brothers to Christian Bale
‘I couldn’t resist the fact that the sharks weren’t the monsters’: Sean Byrne on making the thriller Dangerous Animals
The cult Australian director’s latest movie pits the oceans’ apex predators against human savagery
Dangerous Animals review: Jaws meets Wolf Creek in this watery Ozploitation movie
Not especially gripping or intriguing, but it rattles along as effective B-movie gore
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