The Future Tense: Desperate Optimists take a pleasingly meandering look at relations between Ireland and its nearest neighbourAlthough not everything in their documentary comes off, artists Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor make for great companyThu Aug 17 2023 - 05:00
Tim: What happens when a creepy robot assistant takes over your home? Here’s a cautionary taleA couple move into a high-tech home with a machine manservant, and you don’t need AI to tell you how that all works outWed Aug 16 2023 - 05:00
Victor Belmondo: ‘At the end of the movie my grandfather is shot. I was a kid and I was crying’It’s hard to follow in the footsteps of an icon, but Jean-Paul Belmondo’s grandson is quietly becoming a screen star in his own rightWed Aug 16 2023 - 05:00
Craig Revel Horwood: ‘My life was better before Strictly Come Dancing’The director, choreographer and Strictly star returns to Dublin with an electrifying turn as Miss Hannigan in AnnieSun Aug 13 2023 - 05:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekA fun cast can’t save Disney’s limp Haunted Mansion. Plus sensitive Trouble documentary Face Down, true-life video game tale Gran Turismo, and Penélope Cruz in Italian transgender drama L’immensitàSun Aug 13 2023 - 05:00
A charismatic Penélope Cruz anchors this charming transgender coming-of-age drama in L’ImmensitàImmensity of film’s title refers to the complications of growing up, compounded by gender identity, precarious mental health and the disintegration of a marriageFri Aug 11 2023 - 05:00
Gran Turismo’s Jann Mardenborough: ‘It was the darkest moment of my personal and professional life’The racing driver was keen for the tragedy of a crash that killed a spectator to be included in the exhilarating new film based on his careerWed Aug 09 2023 - 05:00
Gran Turismo: The real-life story of Jann Mardenborough has heart and speedArchie Madekwe is hugely likable as the Cardiff bedroom gamer who makes it big on the racetrackWed Aug 09 2023 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekInclusive new TMNT animation is excellent family fun. Plus vital transgender doc Kokomo City, French Bataclan drama Paris Memories, and weakly whimsical murder mystery Maggie Moore(s)Sun Aug 06 2023 - 05:00
Paris Memories: Delicate, affecting drama explores life after a terrorist attackDrawing from her brother’s experiences at the Bataclan in 2015, director Alice Winocour brings nuanced performances from her stars Virginie Efira and Benoît MagimelFri Aug 04 2023 - 05:00
Maggie Moore(s): What are Jon Hamm and Tina Fey doing in this ill-advised murder comedy?Director John Slattery cannot reconcile the cacophony of incongruous tones in this tale of two namesake murder victimsThu Aug 03 2023 - 05:00
Kokomo City is a landmark in trans representation on screenKokomo City, the former music producer’s Sundance-winning film, is a landmark in trans representation on screenMon Jul 31 2023 - 05:00
Everybody Loves Jeanne: Tart romcom with a revelatory turn from stand-up comic Blanche GardinThis charming film is a great debut for film-maker Céline DevauxFri Jul 28 2023 - 05:00
The Beanie Bubble review: Creepy-cute Zach Galifianakis is brilliant as the elusive Beanie Babies billionaireThe cuddliest critique of capitalist greed and workplace sexism of the yearThu Jul 27 2023 - 04:00
A secret gay history of UK espionage: ‘The skill-set of homosexuals and spies overlapped’Huw Lemmey, a novelist and host of the Bad Gays podcast, has made the intriguing spy film UngentleMon Jul 24 2023 - 06:05
Nicole Holofcener: ‘It’s shocking the way money is thrown around on a big-budget movie’ Director will continue making films about shrinks, television producers and theatre practitioners who remain poignantly and amusingly human, even when they do awful thingsSat Jul 22 2023 - 06:15
They Cloned Tyrone: Squint and this sci-fi comedy satire could be a blaxploitation classicDirector Juel Taylor channels 1974′s Foxy Brown and 2017 horror hit Get Out in this race-conscious story of a two-bit drug dealer who is shot dead and brought back to lifeFri Jul 21 2023 - 05:00
Oppenheimer review: Cillian Murphy gives a commanding turn. But why is Florence Pugh reduced to Crazy Naked Chick?Not unlike its subject, the father of the atomic bomb, Christopher Nolan’s 12th feature is deeply flawed but brilliantWed Jul 19 2023 - 18:23
How exactly did Barbie get her groove back?: ‘Anything and everything you wanted her to be’Inspired by a German ‘exhibitionist and floozy’ and reviled by generations of feminists, Barbie now synonymises more than a child’s dollSat Jul 15 2023 - 06:00
Puffin Rock and the New Friends: Chris O’Dowd at his charming best in a world-conquering Irish animationThere’s enough jeopardy to keep small humans riveted in this first big-screen outing, but nothing too scaryFri Jul 14 2023 - 07:00
Medusa: Consistently trippy satirical art-house horror takes aim at Brazil’s evangelical cultsThe film’s ideas about women as religious enforcers, complicit in their own subjugation, are fascinatingFri Jul 14 2023 - 05:00
‘Freediving was like nothing I’d ever seen’: breathtaking Irish film about a deeply dangerous sport garners early awards buzzKildare filmmaker Laura McGann’s documentary The Deepest Breath centres on the mysterious bond between an Italian competitor and her Irish safety diverMon Jul 10 2023 - 05:30
Simon Pegg: ‘We’re at a tipping point, and people are getting upset because so and so isn’t playing Spider-Man’The nerdy obsessive behind Shaun of the Dead and Spaced has come such a long way that Tom Cruise even has a nickname for himSun Jul 09 2023 - 06:30
Four new films to see this weekCruise & co firing on all cylinders in latest Mission: Impossible, plus Pierce Brosnan in fun caper comedy The Out-Laws, French satire Smoking Causes Coughing, and Morocco-set drama The Damned Don’t CrySun Jul 09 2023 - 05:00
The Damned Don’t Cry: ‘After a few days of being shy, the cast was like: my character would never, ever say that’Fyzal Boulifa on learning to trust the non-professional cast of his Morocco-set second feature, The Damned Don’t CrySat Jul 08 2023 - 05:15
Smoking Causes Coughing: Vive les super-herosSpider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse has a worthy rival in this French Power Rangers spoofFri Jul 07 2023 - 05:00
The Damned Don’t Cry: Brilliant Moroccan melodrama offsets tragedy with beautyFyzal Boulifa’s muscular second feature is about a mother and son’s achingly human need for security and belongingThu Jul 06 2023 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekHarrison Ford does his gruffly charming best in frenetic but underwhelming Indiana Jones 5, plus enjoyable animation Ruby Gilman, Teenage Kraken, amiable doc Hello, Bookstore, and Succession’s Sarah Snook in eerie Run Rabbit RunSun Jul 02 2023 - 05:00
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken: starry cast fails to save an amiable but busy yarnAnimated film can’t decide if it’s a menstrual metaphor, generational conflict story, Nickelodeon sitcom or underwater Harry PotterFri Jun 30 2023 - 05:15
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny: Not even Harrison Ford’s gruff charm can save this phoney adventureTo damn this (hopefully) final instalment with the faintest praise, it’s not as bad as Kingdom of the Crystal SkullWed Jun 28 2023 - 20:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekWe Anderson’s exquisitely crafted but twee and exhausting Asteroid City, plus Jennifer Lawrence’s cringy, atrocious romcom No Hard Feelings and superior documentaries The Last Rider and The Super 8 YearsSun Jun 25 2023 - 05:00
Hello, Bookstore: A fond reminder that being in a bookshop can feel like a reunion with old friendsMove over, Tom Cruise; the jaunty owner of a US bookstore is this summer’s most compelling movie heroSat Jun 24 2023 - 05:00
The Last Rider: This Greg LeMond film is an antidote to the scandals that have rocked cyclingLeMond and his wife, Kathy, are the primary contributors to this engaging account of his second Tour de France winThu Jun 22 2023 - 05:00
No Hard Feelings review: Jennifer Lawrence may need to have a word with her agentWhat exactly is this supposed to be? The crummiest beta AI could produce a funnier movie than this oneWed Jun 21 2023 - 13:00
Four new films to see this weekHigh-energy superheroics in The Flash, plus the human body close up in De Humani Corporis Fabrica, gay religious drama You Can Live Forever, and trashily kinetic Extraction 2 on NetflixSun Jun 18 2023 - 05:00
Alexandra Burke on her screen debut in Pretty Red Dress: ‘I was beside myself when I got the part’Fifteen years after her X Factor success, this star retains the enthusiasm evident in that winning run of performancesSat Jun 17 2023 - 05:00
You Can Live Forever: Teen romance versus religious dogma in a gentle LGBTQ dramaPuppy love between a grungy teenager and a minister’s daughter in a Jehovah’s Witness community in 1990s QuebecFri Jun 16 2023 - 05:00
De Humani Corporis Fabrica: The faint of heart should look away nowThis French surgery documentary is cinema at its most visceralFri Jun 16 2023 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekHard-hitting Native American drama War Pony and Ukrainian crime thriller Panfir, plus so-so Flamin’ Hot streaming on Disney — and yet another noisy TransformersSun Jun 11 2023 - 05:00
Riley Keough: ‘People wanted a white person they could identify with. That was a weird note we got a lot’The actor turned director talks about the love that went into bringing reservation drama War Pony to the big screenSat Jun 10 2023 - 05:00
War Pony: Riley Keough’s directorial debut is a respectful portrayal of a Native American community under pressureThe compelling star of Daisy Jones & the Six successfully transitions to the other side of the cameraFri Jun 09 2023 - 05:00
Pamfir: Masculinity has seldom been more cartoonishly toxicA feral presence and carnivalesque showdown bring colour and Sturm und Drang to the grimmest localesFri Jun 09 2023 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekSpider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Paul Mescal in Carmen, Amanda and RealitySun Jun 04 2023 - 05:00
Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City: ‘Every scene and every sentence will have three or four hidden things’The Wes Anderson ensemble on how they made the Amerindie’s 11th feature.Sat Jun 03 2023 - 05:00
Amanda: Fleabag looks like a girlboss next to the heroine of this riotous Gen Z comedyThere’s something of the Greek weird wave or Wes Anderson in Carolina Cavalli’s deadpan humour, offset by Benedetta Porcaroli’s wildly energetic central turnFri Jun 02 2023 - 05:00
Reality: Sydney Sweeney shines as a whistleblower under FBI interrogation in this nail-biting thrillerTina Satter’s film adaptation of the case is inventive, but the film is ultimately a showcase for SweeneyFri Jun 02 2023 - 05:00
Sydney Sweeney on the demands of making Reality: ‘Once we got into that room there was no way out’The Euphoria star plays jailed US intelligence contractor Reality Winner in her new film. Her acting chops eclipse the scurrilous rumours, the memes and the nudityWed May 31 2023 - 18:38
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekPlus: The Little Mermaid, Disney’s latest live-action cash grab, is nicely sung. Plus Paul Schrader’s masterly Master Gardener, Irish documentary 406 Days, and Finland’s Ramboesque SisuSun May 28 2023 - 05:00
Paul Schrader: ‘I thought, you know what would really f*** with people’s heads? Let’s cast Kevin Spacey. The producer said no’The director is still hell-bent on provocation as his latest film, Master Gardener, portrays an interracial romance between a former Proud Boy and his young chargeSat May 27 2023 - 05:00
Master Gardener: a five-star masterclass from director Paul SchraderSchrader’s new film explores a provocative mix of racial tensions, class struggle and age-gap relationshipsFri May 26 2023 - 05:00
