Ryan Coogler on Sinners’ hit Celtic vampire dance: ‘Rocky Road to Dublin is an affirmation of humanity’
The director of one of 2025’s most talked-about films on the links between Irish and black communities
Song Sung Blue review: On the nose. Shamelessly manipulative. Quite charming
Kate Hudson and Hugh Jackman combine for genuinely stirring versions of the Neil Diamond oeuvre
Four new films to see this week: Marty Supreme, Cover-Up, Sentimental Value and David Bowie: The Final Act
Timothée Chalamet, Seymour Hersh, Stellan Skarsgard and Renate Reinsve in a quartet of movies released in the week of December 26th, 2025
Brigitte Bardot: The reluctant cinema icon who embodied France’s sexual revolution
A star who became a symbol of sexual freedom, artistic frustration and political controversy
Who’s to blame for the end of cinema? It’s not who you think
Talk around Netflix’s potential takeover of Warner Bros has accelerated fretting over cinema’s lifespan
The 2025 Movie Quiz: What Irish drinking song could you hear this year in Sinners?
Plus: Which director did not have a film released in Irish cinemas this year?
Saipan review: The likeability of Éanna Hardwicke’s Roy Keane makes the big meltdown all the more shocking
This is an entertaining ride even for those who don’t know one end of a football from another
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
Marty Supreme review: Timothée Chalamet is bravely abrasive in Josh Safdie’s stunning film
Study of an insufferable table-tennis prodigy is an intelligent entertainment as generously stuffed as the greatest 19th-century novel
How bad does a Christmas film have to be for it to disappear forever? Feast your eyes on these
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, anyone? What about Arnie in Jingle All the Way? It doesn’t matter: Christmas movies are the audiovisual equivalent of snow in a can
Four new films to see this week: The SpongeBob Movie, The Six Billion Dollar Man, Avatar: Fire and Ash and 1975: Breakdown
Julian Assange, Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña and Martin Scorsese feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of December 19th, 2025
Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley: ‘There was an undeniable energy and chemistry between us’
The stars of Hamnet, Chloé Zhao’s Oscar-tipped film, talk Shakespeare, acting and growing up in different Irelands
The 12 Days of Christmas Movie Quiz: Which film did not provide an I’m Alan Partridge episode title?
Plus: Who has never played a Swan (or a Swann)?
Dublin Film Critics Circle awards 2025: Sinners wins near unprecedented number of categories
Big winners among Irish productions were Sinéad O’Shea’s Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story and Brendan Canty’s Christy
The Great Gambon by Milly Ellis: A hilarious stocking filler about the Dublin-born actor
Among those contributing anecdoates are Charles Dance, Simon Russell Beale and Tom Hollander