Die My Love review: Jennifer Lawrence’s new film could be the worst date movie ever madeUncompromising, hypnotic, brave and often indelible looking, even when the theatricality and fractured structure erode any emotional weightWed Nov 05 2025 - 05:06
Joel Edgerton: ‘I’ve always enjoyed playing and celebrating quieter characters’Australian actor has had a varied career, including roles in Bluey and Star Wars, before starring in Clint Bentley’s Train Dreams alongside Kerry CondonTue Nov 04 2025 - 05:14
Four new films to see this week: Kontinental 25, Kenny Dalglish, Bugonia and Palestine 36Hiam Abbass, Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons, and Eszter Tompa feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of October 31st, 2025Sun Nov 02 2025 - 04:54
Kontinental ’25 review: Five stars for this dark comedy of ethical heft and barbed witRadu Jude’s film takes a scattershot approach to antisemitism, capitalism, nationalism and religious hypocrisyFri Oct 31 2025 - 05:08
Kenny Dalglish: A warm, generous portrait and welcome antidote to Liverpool’s current woesAsif Kapadia’s signature technique allows the Anfield legend to tell his story, replete with compelling archive footage Wed Oct 29 2025 - 16:00
Four new films to see this week: The Mastermind, Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, Regretting You, and FrankensteinJosh O’Connor, Jeremy Allen White, Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of October 24th, 2025Sun Oct 26 2025 - 05:00
Jeremy Allen White on playing Bruce Springsteen: ‘Learning guitar was the hardest part’Preparing for his starring role in the biopic Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, the actor had a moment of panic when he realised his fingers wouldn’t co-operateSat Oct 25 2025 - 05:14
Frankenstein review: Jacob Elordi is a beautiful Creature, but the film feels sewn togetherDirector Guillermo del Toro’s innovations and invented characters feel crudely grafted on to the source materialFri Oct 24 2025 - 05:08
Bruce Springsteen biopic review: Jeremy Allen White broods beautifully in Deliver Me From NowhereDirector Scott Cooper’s reflective biopic captures The Boss at a creative crossroadsThu Oct 23 2025 - 11:00
Frankenstein director Guillermo del Toro: ‘Mary Shelley was a Protestant girl. I’m a Catholic boy. Big difference’ The director’s quest to adapt Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel has spanned more than 30 years, marked by false dawns and studio politicsTue Oct 21 2025 - 05:16
Four new films to see this week: After the Hunt, Ballad of a Small Player, Gerry Adams: A Ballymurphy Man, and Souleymane’s StoryJulia Roberts, Ayo Edebiri, Andrew Garfield and Colin Farrell feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of October 17th, 2025Sun Oct 19 2025 - 04:57
Gerry Adams: A Ballymurphy Man review – Compelling storytelling, elegant directionTrisha Ziff allows the former Sinn Féin president to reflect on his life and times in a documentary filmed over five yearsFri Oct 17 2025 - 04:59
Souleymane’s Story: A powerful and moving chronicle of life on the marginsBoris Lojkine’s much-decorated film follows a Guinean immigrant over three frantic days in ParisWed Oct 15 2025 - 05:05
The Leap, at Dublin Theatre Festival, is an imaginative dive into the emotional world of a preteenDublin Theatre Festival 2025: Gavin Kostick’s play is Fishamble’s first for young audiencesMon Oct 13 2025 - 10:52
Four new films to see this week: I Swear, Good Boy, A Want in Her and Tron: AresRobert Aramayo, Maxine Peake, Jared Leto and Greta Lee feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of October 10th, 2025Sun Oct 12 2025 - 05:03
A Want in Her review: Daring and provocative search for a missing motherMyrid Carten turns the camera to her own fractured family in this fascinating hybrid documentary featureThu Oct 09 2025 - 05:03
Tron Ares review: Great music, but it is deja vu all over again for sequel nobody wantsFabulous styling and camera work cannot save drama about AI program that wants to become human – just like Pinocchio didTue Oct 07 2025 - 17:00
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
