Four new films to see this week: A House of Dynamite, Re-Creation, The Smashing Machine and UrchinIdris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson, Vicky Krieps, Aidan Gillen and Emily Blunt feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of October 3rd, 2025Sun Oct 05 2025 - 04:54
‘An illusion of safety’: Kathryn Bigelow and Idris Elba on nuclear-attack thriller House of DynamiteDialogue about nuclear weapons has been nonexistent for years, says Oscar-winning directorSat Oct 04 2025 - 05:19
The God and His Daughter, at Dublin Theatre Festival, has plenty of classical lamentation but not enough Marina CarrDublin Theatre Festival 2025: Second part of Marina Carr’s reworking of Sophocles’ Theban plays has plenty of lamentation but not enough CarrThu Oct 02 2025 - 11:39
Marina Carr’s The Boy, at Dublin Theatre Festival, asks us to look unflinchingly at the world we have madeDublin Theatre Festival 2025: Version of the Oedipal myth distinguishes itself with unique Irish sense of fatalism and witThu Oct 02 2025 - 11:05
Urchin review: Harris Dickinson’s impressive directorial debut follows a homeless addict around LondonThere’s a deep empathy running through the film, which fervently resists sentimentalityThu Oct 02 2025 - 05:05
Him star Julia Fox: ‘I don’t enjoy adrenaline any more. I just want everything to be calm and soft’Having endured trauma and instability in her youth, the New York-Italian artist and actor has since had ‘a huge revelation’Wed Oct 01 2025 - 05:10
The Smashing Machine review: Dwayne Johnson rocks in bruising biopic of MMA pioneerContemplative, careful performance in ‘anti-sports movie’ could land punch in awards seasonWed Oct 01 2025 - 05:07
Four new films to see this week: One Battle After Another, Sunphlowers, The Lost Bus and Brides Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Matthew McConaughey and America Ferrera feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of September 26th, 2025Sun Sept 28 2025 - 04:53
Brides review: Raw, compassionate chronicle of two teenage girls on a journey into extremismNadia Fall’s film is inspired by London schoolgirl Shamima Begum, who left home to join Islamic StateThu Sept 25 2025 - 05:09
Sunphlowers review: Quietly powerful Irish drama of grief and renewalAnne McCrudden gives performance of subtlety and strength in director Dave Byrne’s solid debutWed Sept 24 2025 - 05:04
Four new films to see this week: The Swallow, Steve, Girls & Boys, A Big Bold Beautiful JourneyBrenda Fricker, Cillian Murphy, Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of September 19th, 2025Sun Sept 21 2025 - 05:00
Paul Thomas Anderson: ‘Leonardo DiCaprio talks endlessly during prep, but once shooting starts he’s all in’The director’s latest film, One Battle After Another, features three Oscar-winning actors and the impressive newcomer Chase InfinitiSat Sept 20 2025 - 05:17
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey review: Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell go nowhere slowlyKogonada’s messy phantasmagoria is a hinterland for no one: a musical without musical numbers, a romcom without comedyThu Sept 18 2025 - 05:06
Girls & Boys review: Wildly impressive Irish debut features tremendous performances and a magical soundtrackDonncha Gilmore allows the film to wander romantically yet never lets the pace slackWed Sept 17 2025 - 05:08
Four new films to see this week: Spinal Tap II – The End Continues, Downton Abbey – The Grand Finale, The Long Walk, and From Ground ZeroChristopher Guest, Harry Shearer, Michelle Dockery and Elizabeth McGovern feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of September 12th, 2025Sun Sept 14 2025 - 05:01
Deaf director Eva Libertad: ‘My parents found it really hard to watch. They never knew my sister suffered like this’The Spaniard’s film is informed by the real-life experiences of her sister, Miriam Garlo, who plays the lead role, with the aim of starting a larger conversation Sat Sept 13 2025 - 05:09
Seón Simpson’s on a Tangent, at Dublin Fringe, is a touching, hilarious monologueDublin Fringe Festival 2025: An audacious navigation of the intersection of form, comic provocation and mental healthFri Sept 12 2025 - 11:31
From Ground Zero review: 22 stories told by Gazans under siegeCollection of short films highlights miraculous act of carrying on amid obliteration of normal lifeThu Sept 11 2025 - 05:08
Testo, at Dublin Fringe, is a kinetic, noisy, thrilling adventure into genderpunk and transmascDublin Fringe Festival 2025: Discombobulated by the idea of a breaststroke through a butter orgy? Buckle up for Wet Mess’s showWed Sept 10 2025 - 10:28
Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale could turn an ardent monarchist into a Kneecap fanFor anyone except diehard fans, the third film from the hit TV show will feel like midseason fillerWed Sept 10 2025 - 05:06
Robert Sheehan: ‘Living in Ireland helps with everything. Everyone feels like they’ve known you forever’The actor discusses his craft, fame and cutting down forests as a ruthless emperor in Marvel Comics’ Red SonjaTue Sept 09 2025 - 05:02
Four new films to see this week: Highest 2 Lowest, The Cut, Sanatorium and Honey Don’t!Denzel Washington, Orlando Bloom, Caitríona Balfe and Margaret Qualley feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of September 5th, 2025Sun Sept 07 2025 - 05:01
Honey Don’t! review: This queered-up take on noir cliches amounts to nothingNothing lands in the second instalment of Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke’s unwanted lesbian B-movie trilogyThu Sept 04 2025 - 05:10
Sanatorium review: Irish film-maker’s impressive documentary about an old Soviet retreat in UkraineThe contemporary conflict wisely remains off-screen as visitors seek treatment for everything from fertility issues to psoriasisThu Sept 04 2025 - 05:06
First Look: A House of Dynamite, Kathryn Bigelow’s rattling nuclear potboiler, feels agonisingly realVenice International Film Festival 2025: Oscarologists are already alive to the Academy Award possibilities for the director’s first film for eight yearsWed Sept 03 2025 - 14:20
Barbie Ferreira: ‘Even when I don’t feel confident I feign it, to control the space I’m in’The actor’s career trajectory offers the perfect blueprint for the polymath, many-platformed nature of modern youthful stardomTue Sept 02 2025 - 05:16
First Look: Julia Roberts does her best, but After the Hunt feels like a pointless provocationVenice International Film Festival 2025: Luca Guadagnino’s film is a dull retread of the PC-gone-mad arguments of the past quarter-centuryMon Sept 01 2025 - 18:54
Four new films to see this week: Caught Stealing, Christy, Young Mothers and Little Trouble GirlsAustin Butler, Zoë Kravitz, Danny Power and Diarmuid Noyes feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of August 29th, 2025Sun Aug 31 2025 - 05:03
Little Trouble Girls: Lush, haunting story of a repressed teen’s sexual awakeningNamed for a Sonic Youth song, Urska Djukic’s film captures the tension between virginal purity and messy adolescence Thu Aug 28 2025 - 05:03
Young Mothers review: The Dardenne brothers bring empathy to interlocking stories of underage mothers in LiègeThe Belgian film-makers’ 13th feature deftly weaves together the lives of five young womenWed Aug 27 2025 - 05:08
Four new films to see this week: Sorry, Baby, The Life of Chuck, Eddington and Oslo Stories: SexEva Victor, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Karen Gillan, Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal star in a quartet of movies released in the week of August 23rd, 2025Sun Aug 24 2025 - 05:01
Eva Victor on pitching their debut film, Sorry, Baby: ‘It felt so personal I thought rejection might kill me’Odd as it might sound, Victor’s note-perfect script, drawn from personal experience of sexual assault, is a trauma comedySat Aug 23 2025 - 05:18
Oslo Stories: Sex review – A fitting climax to this appealing trilogyThis gentle exploration of masculinity, marriage and sexual orientation unfolds mostly through conversations between two chimney sweepsThu Aug 21 2025 - 05:03
Eddington review: Pandemic psychodrama starring Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal is a fascinating experimentAri Aster’s political satire is full of sound and fury, signifying something. If only we knew what that wasWed Aug 20 2025 - 05:06
Four new films to see this week: Materialists, Together, Night Always Comes and Oslo Stories: LoveDave Franco, Alison Brie, Pedro Pascal, Dakota Johnson and Vanessa Kirby star in a quartet of movies released in the week of July 15th, 2025Sun Aug 17 2025 - 05:00
Materialists director Celine Song: ‘How are we supposed to find love when dating is reduced to a numbers game?’Materialists, Celine Song’s new romcom, is inspired by the film-maker’s time working for an elite New York matchmaking agencySat Aug 16 2025 - 05:32
Night Always Comes review: Vanessa Kirby gives it her all, but this poverty theme park isn’t worth the entrance feeWilly Vlautin adaptation soon abandons its promising real-world dilemma as it swerves into unconvincing low-life criminalityFri Aug 15 2025 - 00:00
Oslo Stories: Love review. An understated, patient and disarming filmIn the second instalment of Dag Johan Haugerud’s Oslo trilogy, changing a catheter proves just as intimate as spontaneous sexThu Aug 14 2025 - 05:00
Jamie Lee Curtis: ‘Once you mess with your face you can’t get it back’Freakier Friday, which reunites the Oscar-winner with Lindsay Lohan, is good clean fun. But its themes mean a lot to an actor who has had her share of personal trialsSun Aug 10 2025 - 07:11
Four new films to see this week: Weapons, Freakier Friday, The Kingdom and Conor Walsh: Selected Piano WorksA quartet of movies released in the week of August 8th, 2025Sun Aug 10 2025 - 05:00
The Kingdom review: Riveting, quietly devastating crime saga reinvigorates the Mafia movieThe tragic cycle is composed of the same beats that defined such superior films as The Godfather and Animal KingdomThu Aug 07 2025 - 05:00
Freakier Friday review: Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan’s old-school confection delights in every silly sceneNisha Ganatra’s zinger-laden sequel smartly reunites the original stars as body-swapping mother and daughterTue Aug 05 2025 - 19:52
Four new films to see this week: The Naked Gun, Bring Her Back, Late Shift and Oslo Stories: Dreams (Sex Love)A quartet of movies released in the week of August 1st, 2025Sun Aug 03 2025 - 05:00
Bring Her Back review: Sally Hawkins weaponises her Paddington-mom screen persona in this gorily audacious horrorLatest iteration of A24’s ‘grief is the real horror’ subgenre leans heavily on body horror to drive emotionThu Jul 31 2025 - 05:06
Oslo Stories: Dreams (Sex Love) review – The first part of Dag Johan Haugerud’s trilogy is intimate, ambiguous and lingeringAt its best, the Danish drama thrives in the fuzzy intersection of memory, identity and making stuff upWed Jul 30 2025 - 05:04
Late Shift star Leonie Benesch: ‘The biggest shock was realising how broken health systems are globally’For her role in Petra Volpe’s feature the German actor shadowed nurses in Zurich but found even in wealthy Switzerland working conditions are toughMon Jul 28 2025 - 05:03
Four new films to see this week: The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Gazer, Dying/Sterben and The Bad Guys 2A quartet of movies released in the week of July 25th, 2025Sun Jul 27 2025 - 05:00
Gazer review: An impressive, lo-fi and disarmingly intense debutAriella Mastroianni is mesmerising as woman struggling with fractured family and fragmented psycheFri Jul 25 2025 - 05:08
Dying review: Dark family saga shows living, like dying, is a messy businessSweeping intergenerational study of a fractured German family somehow finds a rhythmThu Jul 24 2025 - 11:50
Linus O’Brien on The Rocky Horror Film Show: ‘Rocky has tangibly saved lives. It created a real sense of community’ The son of Richard O’Brien has made a documentary about his father’s camp musical creation that became a monster cult hit Mon Jul 21 2025 - 05:00
