Ralph Fiennes

Letters to the Editor, August 5th: On loving Dublin, men reading books, Gaza, and a radical approach to the nation’s health

‘I witnessed the most beautiful outpouring of love for our capital city’

Tue Aug 05 2025 - 05:30

Attention, men: Books are sexy, but staring into a phone is not

Men are reading less these days, proving that what is rare is wonderful

Sun Aug 03 2025 - 19:00

Four new films to see this week: 28 Years Later, Elio, Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story, and S/He Is Still Her/e

Jodie Comer, Ralph Fiennes, Liza Minnelli and Genesis P-Orridge feature in these movies released in the week of June 20th, 2025

Sun Jun 22 2025 - 05:00

28 Years Later review: Danny Boyle’s rattling zombie epic never lets up in pace or invention

Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Ralph Fiennes star in a quest narrative that, amid its grade-A gore, has bleak fun with the state of Britain

Wed Jun 18 2025 - 22:00

The Return: In Ralph Fiennes’s new film, a minimalist take on The Odyssey, even the loincloths are skimpy

Uberto Pasolini’s adaptation of the gory closing chapters of Homer’s epic poem eschews witches, monsters and goddesses in favour of PTSD

Wed Apr 09 2025 - 04:59

Ralph Fiennes: ‘I don’t feel any need to slow down. Opportunities come my way – and I can’t say no’

The actor, who recently starred in the Oscar-winning Conclave, arrives to Uberto Pasolini’s The Return as a known property – but is still also a bit of a mystery

Sat Apr 05 2025 - 05:31

Oscars 2025: Full list of winners as wild screwball comedy Anora takes five Academy Awards

Mikey Madison beats Demi Moore for best actress prize as Adrien Brody is best actor, and Kieran Culkin and Zoë Saldaña get best supporting actor Oscars

Mon Mar 03 2025 - 05:47

Oscars 2025: Who will win and who should win? Ireland has just one chance

Will Anora nab the Academy Award for best picture? Can Demi Moore edge out Mikey Madison for best actress? And how many awards might the troubled Emilia Pérez pick up?

Sat Mar 01 2025 - 05:22

Dublin International Film Festival 2025: 10 films you should catch

The festival runs until March 2nd, with a huge variety of features on offer – we’ve whittled them down

Fri Feb 21 2025 - 18:30

What Baftas 2025 tell us about the Oscars: Emilia Pérez is still in the race, Anora is back as a front-runner, and more

As the British and US film academies share many voters, the Baftas are a good indicator of what to expect at the Academy Awards

Sun Feb 16 2025 - 22:13

Baftas 2025: the full list of winners

From Conclave's and The Brutalist's four gongs each to Kneecap's one, every prize at the British Academy Film awards

Sun Feb 16 2025 - 20:33

The Guide: Alison Moyet, King Lear, Dublin film festival and other events to see, shows to book and ones to catch before they end

February 15th-21st, 2025: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week

Sat Feb 15 2025 - 05:00

Oscars 2025: Kneecap’s failure to get a nomination is a genuine upset

Biopic of the West Belfast rap trio lost out on Oscar nomination for best international picture and best original song

Thu Jan 23 2025 - 16:58

Oscar nominations 2025: The full list

From The Brutalist to Wicked, to Emilia Pérez and Conclave, all the contenders, for the 97th Academy Awards

Thu Jan 23 2025 - 15:17

‘Ireland taking British awards is f**king hilarious’: Kneecap’s six Bafta nominations a leap forward for Irish-language film

Baftas 2025: Rich Peppiatt’s raucous film about the Belfast trio has got into every category where it had even a reasonable chance

Wed Jan 15 2025 - 15:30

Bafta nominations 2025: Full list of nominees

Kneecap gets seven nods as Saoirse Ronan is listed for best actress for performance in The Outrun

Wed Jan 15 2025 - 13:15

Megyn Kelly’s rant about Conclave being ‘the most disgusting anti-Catholic film I’ve seen’ is big win for the church

The conservative US journalist’s diatribe might reek of woke-gone-mad overreach, but no, she does indeed describe the twist ending accurately

Sun Jan 12 2025 - 05:00

Golden Globes 2025: full list of winners

The Brutalist, Emilia Pérez and Shōgun triumph at the Golden Globes as Colin Farrell wins third award

Mon Jan 06 2025 - 05:22

Dublin Film Critics Circle awards 2024: The Zone of Interest and Kneecap big winners

Critics also favoured Ralph Fiennes in Conclave and Mikey Madison in Palme d’Or-winning Anora

Thu Dec 19 2024 - 15:08

Ralph Fiennes at the Abbey Theatre: An electrifying, moving reading of TS Eliot’s Four Quartets

The likely triple Oscar nominee, star of Conclave, is in fluent form at the national theatre’s TS Eliot Lecture for 2024

Sun Dec 15 2024 - 21:34

Golden Globes 2025: full list of nominations

Musical thriller Emilia Pérez and historical epic The Brutalist led the pack of films nominated, with Emilia Pérez earning 10 nods and The Brutalist gaining seven

Mon Dec 09 2024 - 16:07

The 50 best films of 2024: No 50 to No 31

The 10 highest-grossing titles were all sequels – but none is in our 50-best list in a year audiences turned out in numbers for ‘cultural cinema’

Wed Dec 04 2024 - 05:30

Conclave: Ralph Fiennes is flawless in Robert Harris’s preposterously gripping drama of papal electioneering

This heavily plotted adaptation moves at a dizzying clatter as revelation upends revelation

Thu Nov 28 2024 - 05:00

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar: A delightful amuse-bouche that reunites Wes Anderson and Roald Dahl

Three more adaptations featuring the same team will arrive on Netflix in coming days

Fri Sept 29 2023 - 05:00

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 Sugar

Sat Sept 23 2023 - 05:30