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Ari Aster’s political satire is full of sound and fury, signifying something. If only we knew what that was
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Cannes 2025: Clapologists get it wrong, an acidic Israeli satire is too hot to handle, and Scarlett Johansson serves up schmaltz
The French film festival’s 78th edition was strong if rarely spectacular – but still threw up a few surprises
Cannes 2025: Will Paul Mescal scoop an award, how will Bono’s film go down, and 10 other questions
The Cannes film festival is back at the centre of the movie world thanks to recent Oscars success
50 films to see in 2025, from Babygirl to You’re Cordially Invited
Nicole Kidman stars in a kinky office romance, Reese Witherspoon and Will Ferrell play wedding planners, and Éanna Hardwicke and Steve Coogan replay Saipan
Joker: Folie à Deux - Why has it been such a catastrophic box-office failure?
The film’s nosedive will have repercussions for the still-floundering DC and beyond
Joker: Folie à Deux review – a drab affair that never quite gets started, but it’s probably still worth it
Even if this proposition didn’t work out, it would be the right sort of failure
First Look at Joker: Folie à Deux – Part musical, part prison movie, mostly plodding courtroom drama
Venice International Film Festival 2024: Any more songs and Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga would be starring in an operetta
Why George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Lady Gaga and Joaquin Phoenix will be at Venice film festival
Among the highlights at this year’s beano are the Joker sequel, Angelina Jolie as Maria Callas, and Pedro Almodóvar’s first English-language film
Venice film festival 2024: Angelina Jolie, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Nicole Kidman and Lady Gaga among stellar line-up
Todd Phillips’s Joker: Folie à Deux, starring Joaquin Phoenix, lands as the flashiest film in competition
Napoleon is riddled with historical howlers say academics; so what?
In the News podcast: Ridley Scott brushes off critics of his blockbuster biopic
Napoleon review: A hugely entertaining portrait that leaves history in the past
Joaquin Phoenix and Vanessa Kirby shine in Ridley Scott’s breathless rollick
Napoleon director Ridley Scott: ‘I do 120 hours a week. I think I’m working class, right?’
At 85, the film-maker has been making almost a movie a year for two decades – and there’s still something of an old-school showman about him
The 10 best films of 2023 so far – in reverse order
Box office is booming, powered by a handful of smash hits. But look around, especially in art houses and on streamers, and you’ll find plenty of great movies
Beau Is Afraid: Joaquin Phoenix bosses this vast, hilarious film. But you may well hate it
Ari Aster adeptly juggles the sort of laughs you get from Samuel Beckett with the sort you encounter in Mel Brooks
‘You embrace the idea of people being alienated’: Ari Aster on his divisive comedy Beau Is Afraid
The director of Midsommar and Hereditary has taken a left turn with his new film starring Joaquin Phoenix
Oscars 2023: My predictions for next year’s best-picture nominees
Donald Clarke forecasts how the category will shape up at the next Academy Awards
Mandy Patinkin: ‘Ukraine needs people to pay attention. I’m finished being afraid’
The Homeland star talks about writing music, praying with his dog and acting at 69
Spoiler alert: The Batman contains an Irish-related secret
A rumour did surface in November, but was shut down quickly. Now there’s little doubt
Donald Clarke: Not every villain needs a harrowing origin story
Timothée Chalamet’s Wonka is the latest example of trend that refuses to go away
Gunda: The uncomfortable truth about how a sausage is made
Viktor Kossakovsky’s film raises profound questions about our dominion over animals
Oscars 2021 will be remembered as the one where Frances McDormand howled like a wolf
It was also the one where Chadwick Boseman didn’t win. The one with the miscalculated finale
Saoirse Ronan and Daniel Day-Lewis on ‘greatest 21st-century actors’ list
But hang on: what’s Keanu Reeves doing here? And really hang on: where’s Meryl Streep?
Netflix: The best 50 films to watch right now
There’s been another major turnover but catch the classics while you can
Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara name their baby son River
River Phoenix, Joaquin Phoenix’s brother, died aged 23 of a drug overdose in 1993
Connie Nielsen on Sea Fever: ‘Right now the film has taken on a whole new depth’
The actor on her salty turn in Neasa Hardiman’s contagion-themed debut feature
Comedy and mental health: ‘It’s like low calorie therapy’
Some stand-ups believe finding humour in dark places can be good for well being
Oscars 2020: Parasite triggers great upset as cult Korean film wins best picture
Saoirse Ronan misses out; Brad Pitt and Renée Zellweger take home Academy Awards
Brad Pitt and the god-bod prob: Stop drooling and give him another Oscar
The star’s looks make us dismiss his talent. After his Bafta, he deserves the Academy Award
Baftas 2020: full list of winners
A big night for Sam Mendes and 1917 as Renée Zellweger and Joaquin Phoenix win best acting awards
Bafta awards: Two Irish stars lose out to Renée Zellweger for best actress
Saoirse Ronan in running for Little Women, while Jessie Buckley competed for Wild Rose
Screen Actors Guild awards 2020: Parasite scores historic upset
Joaquin Phoenix, Renee Zellweger take lead acting prizes as Jennifer Aniston wins for The Morning Show
Netflix: The best 101 films to watch right now
Half our favourite movies have vanished. But there’s still plenty of great stuff to search for
Oscars 2020: Joker is a well made film but does it deserve 11 Academy Award nominations?
How did film about a comic book idiot get more nominations than The Irishman?
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