The End review: Don’t be put off. This powerful, beautiful film could become a cult classicJoshua Oppenheimer’s singular musical about the end of the world is a melodic warning from beneath the earthWed Mar 26 2025 - 05:10
Four new films to see this weekRachel Zegler the best thing in misfire updating of Snow White. Plus an Oscar-winning Latvian animation, a compelling Chinese domestic drama, and Robert De Niro in a superfluous sub-Goodfellas mob taleSun Mar 23 2025 - 05:00
The digital haters are out again. Look at what they’ve done to Millie Bobby Brown and Rachel ZeglerIt’s a tragedy of modern communication that bullies can gather online to torment any young woman foolish enough to achieve even a sliver of fameSun Mar 23 2025 - 05:00
Joshua Oppenheimer on shooting his postapocalyptic film The End in Ireland: ‘How would you tell your story to your grandchildren?’The End, starring Bronagh Gallagher, was shot in Wicklow and seems about as far as you can get from the director’s disturbing documentariesSat Mar 22 2025 - 05:16
The Movie Quiz: How many Shakespeare adaptations has Kenneth Branagh directed?Plus: Who are the stars of Disney’s live-action update of Snow White?Fri Mar 21 2025 - 05:00
Flow review: Children will rewatch this piece of outsider art until the pixels wear outThis tiny Latvian film hammered the giant studios in the race for animated feature at the OscarsFri Mar 21 2025 - 05:00
Brief History of a Family review: Startlingly eerie debut finds new angles to a familiar genreIn this excellent Chinese drama, a mildly troubled son to a well-off couple brings the bright child of an abusive father home Thu Mar 20 2025 - 05:00
Ludivine Sagnier: ‘This sexy bombshell had nothing to do with who I was. I felt confused’Hollywood came calling after she starred in Swimming Pool but the actor had other ideas Mon Mar 17 2025 - 05:04
Four new films to see this week: Black Bag, Sister Midnight, Opus, The Electric StateSteven Sodergergh’s starry espionage caper is sleek and stylish. Plus an inventive Indian caper, an oddball popstar horror, and a blandly expensive sci-fi bust on NetflixSun Mar 16 2025 - 05:00
Van Morrison’s Madame George remains a work of great poignancyWhat did the old grump mean in Madame George about pitching pennies into the Boyne? We’re one step closer to reconnecting with his great artworkSun Mar 16 2025 - 04:03
The Movie Quiz: For what did Anora’s Sean Baker not win a gong at the Oscars?Plus: Spot the film without a credit for BonoFri Mar 14 2025 - 05:00
Sister Midnight review: An endlessly inventive marriage of perfectly pitched comedy and deranged ambienceRadhika Apte plays an irrepressible oddball driven to the edge of sanity (and maybe beyond)Thu Mar 13 2025 - 05:04
Black Bag review: Soderbergh’s spy flick starring Blanchett and Fassbender beats streaming rivals hands downThose going in expectation of action will meet disappointment, while the rest of us will be clamouring for a sequelWed Mar 12 2025 - 05:10
The Russo brothers: ‘We made a movie for nothing and got discovered by a giant film-maker’Joe and Anthony Russo on The Electric State, their new Netflix film; and their return to the Marvel Cinematic UniverseTue Mar 11 2025 - 05:00
What follows the best-picture Oscar? Fame, fortune and perhaps even a Baggot Street nightclubThe Academy Award can help move a director to the top of the heap – or make everyone involved lose the run of themselves and deliver a catastrophic flopSat Mar 08 2025 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: Where does Scarlett O’Hara live?The upcoming Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning may be the last in the series. How many will that make?Fri Mar 07 2025 - 08:00
Mickey 17 review: Bong Joon Ho’s fitful sci-fi satire is a rickety follow-up to the Oscar-winning Parasite Robert Pattinson and the rest of the strong cast manage to make something fleetingly diverting of this jumbled concoctionThu Mar 06 2025 - 05:08
On Falling review: This superb debut about a lonely warehouse picker is an astonishing fable of hidden miseriesDirector Laura Carreira’s research into online retail fed into this deeply sinister but plausible world with whispers of sci-fi dystopiaWed Mar 05 2025 - 05:00
Oscars 2026: Will Hamnet with Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley get a best picture nomination?It might be early, but we’re betting on these 10 movies getting the all-important Oscars nod next yearTue Mar 04 2025 - 05:33
Oscars 2025: Was Adrien Brody’s speech the longest ever, was Conan O’Brien funny and eight other key questionsHow did the drama over best international picture end up? And who was left off the in memoriam tribute section this year?Mon Mar 03 2025 - 18:32
Oscars 2025: Full list of winners as wild screwball comedy Anora takes five Academy AwardsMikey Madison beats Demi Moore for best actress prize as Adrien Brody is best actor, and Kieran Culkin and Zoë Saldaña get best supporting actor OscarsMon Mar 03 2025 - 05:47
Dublin International Film Festival 2025: Winners announced of Dublin Film Critics Circle AwardsKey prizes include best film, for On Falling, best Irish film, for Beat the Lotto, and Michael Dwyer discovery award, for Ready or Not starsSun Mar 02 2025 - 12:30
Hugh Grant and Danny Dyer: Why these two treasures of contemporary culture were born to be on screen togetherThe actors have taken very different routes to the top of the hill, yet they are elegantly complementarySun Mar 02 2025 - 05:00
Oscars 2025: Who will win and who should win? Ireland has just one chanceWill 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
Film-maker Laura Carreira: ‘It is a universal sentiment, not feeling correctly rewarded for your hard work’The film-maker Laura Carreira talks about On Falling, her unnerving portrayal of a picker for an online retailerSat Mar 01 2025 - 05:19
The Oscars Movie Quiz: How many Irish citizens have been nominated for best actress?Plus: Whom did Adrien Brody controversially kiss when he accepted his best actor gong?Fri Feb 28 2025 - 05:00
Gene Hackman: Ageless, everyman actor who never gave a bad performanceHackman was among actors most responsible for changing Hollywood in 1970s, becoming a generation-defining performerThu Feb 27 2025 - 12:27
King Lear at the Gate review: Propulsive production doesn’t quite solve this tragedy’s age-old problemsAs Shakespeare’s king, Conleth Hill is at his best when the storm is up and the brain befuddled. But this staging is short on big ideasThu Feb 27 2025 - 08:38
Fight or Flight review: Snapped arms, splattered brains, a surprise chainsaw – this is good, honest pulpJosh Hartnett stars as a loose-cannon agent tasked with tracking down a terroristThu Feb 27 2025 - 05:02
The Last Showgirl review: Pamela Anderson has found the right role at the right timeGia Coppola’s film, lament for an era as lost as the old west, works its grand elegiac tone to ruthless deathWed Feb 26 2025 - 05:04
SAG awards 2025: Colin Farrell wins for The Penguin as Demi Moore, Timothée Chalamet and Conclave take big prizesColin Farrell pays moving tribute to sons James and Henry ‘who have made my life so much more special than I ever truly thought possible’Mon Feb 24 2025 - 06:29
The 25 greatest upsets in Oscar history It’s almost Academy Award weekend. From an inappropriate smooch to Envelopegate, here are the biggest limelight-stealing Academy Award momentsMon Feb 24 2025 - 05:16
Four new films to see this weekMulti-Oscar-nominated I’m Still Here. Plus bloody good Stephen King horror, doc on Man U’s Peter Schmeichel, and a weirdly misshapen Irish(ish) dramaSun Feb 23 2025 - 07:55
The White Lotus effect: Who’d associate themselves with such sickening decadence? Almost anyone who can afford to, it seems‘These people are awful. Oh, I so want to be them’ has always been a key component of the American dreamSun Feb 23 2025 - 05:00
Dublin International Film Festival 2025: 10 films you should catchThe festival runs until March 2nd, with a huge variety of features on offer – we’ve whittled them downFri Feb 21 2025 - 18:30
What next for James Bond under Amazon? Marvel-style TV spinoffs on Prime or Miss Moneypenny specials?Jeff Bezos-controlled Amazon has taken creative control of the James Bond franchise under a deal with Barbara Broccoli and Michael G WilsonFri Feb 21 2025 - 08:52
The Movie Quiz: How many actors have received Oscar nominations for Star Wars films? How many actors have received Oscar nominations for Star Wars films?Fri Feb 21 2025 - 05:00
The Monkey review: Good old-fashioned disgusting fun. You’ll have a blastBased on the Stephen King story, Osgood Perkins’s new film delivers spectacularly gruesome beheadings, eviscerations and disembowelmentThu Feb 20 2025 - 11:12
I’m Still Here: This tale of survival is doing Barbie business in Irish cinemasWalter Salles’ Oscar-nominated film chronicles the abduction of Rubens Paiva and its aftermath during Brazil’s dictatorshipTue Feb 18 2025 - 14:01
What Baftas 2025 tell us about the Oscars: Emilia Pérez is still in the race, Anora is back as a front-runner, and moreAs the British and US film academies share many voters, the Baftas are a good indicator of what to expect at the Academy AwardsSun Feb 16 2025 - 22:13
The Irish Sea is to be renamed the British Sea – and from now on underwear will be worn on the outsideA few years ago this would have seemed no more absurd than a US president renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of AmericaSun Feb 16 2025 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekLatest Bridget Jones is both properly funny and unexpectedly poignant. Plus: drama of rootless Palestinians in Greece, eccentric adults-only Aussie animation, and Fugazi crowd-sourced concert docSun Feb 16 2025 - 05:00
Twiggy looks back: ‘You’ve got to remember I was 16. It was bloomin’ exciting. I was travelling the world. I was getting paid’Twiggy arrived like a pocket cyclone in 1966. A charming new documentary by Sadie Frost charts the rise, success and fears that came with such attentionSat Feb 15 2025 - 05:27
Iftas: Small Things Like These beats Kneecap to win best film awardCillian Murphy wins award for best actor for second year in a row while Saoirse Ronan picks up two gongsFri Feb 14 2025 - 22:24
The Movie Quiz: Which is the only Bridget Jones film not based on a Helen Fielding novel?Plus: From Which romcom is Get Him to the Greek a spinoff?Fri Feb 14 2025 - 05:00
To a Land Unknown review: This uncomfortable film about Palestinian refugees adrift in Athens sweeps you along in its momentumThe two leads invite great empathy for characters too often forced into desperate decisionsThu Feb 13 2025 - 05:00
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy review – Lifestyle porn? Check. Cackling friends? Check. Easily the best film in the series? CheckThe latest episode is connected to the greater sadnesses of life, not to mention properly funnyWed Feb 12 2025 - 09:00
More sex, please: Bridget Jones, Colin Firth and the astonishing rebranding of Jane AustenThirty years ago, one event made Austen more popular than almost any other contemporary or close successorSun Feb 09 2025 - 05:30
Four new films to see this weekEngrossing drama about Munich Olympics hostage crisis. Plus long but twist Iranian thriller, Barry Keoghan in ersatz Irish western, and acceptable female boxing biopicSun Feb 09 2025 - 05:00
Harrison Ford interview: ‘I always want to be involved with people who are ambitious’‘I always want to be involved with people who are ambitious,’ says veteran actorSat Feb 08 2025 - 05:20
