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The Glass Castle review: Misery porn at its most dishonest

The Glass Castle review: Misery porn at its most dishonest

Woody Harrelson, Brie Larson and the talented child stars make it soapishly watchable

Thu Oct 05 2017 - 05:00
The strange, true story of Ghana's modern-day camps for witches

The strange, true story of Ghana's modern-day camps for witches

For her new film, Rungano Nyoni spent more than a month in a real-life witch camp, that works as a tourist attraction, labour camp and women’s refuge

Thu Oct 05 2017 - 05:00
The Night Is Short, Walk on Girl review:  A blistering night of partying and drinking

The Night Is Short, Walk on Girl review: A blistering night of partying and drinking

By the final act in this film, the randomness coalesces into something philosophical

Wed Oct 04 2017 - 16:31
Domhnall Gleeson: How is he using his ‘Star Wars’ success?

Domhnall Gleeson: How is he using his ‘Star Wars’ success?

He’s writing a bawdy comedy with his brother and Michael McElhatton. Who wouldn’t? he asks

Sat Sept 30 2017 - 05:00
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekend

Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekend

New this week: Winnie the Pooh – the origin story, the devil’s own spaghetti western, and a Bridget Jones for the fleabag generation

Fri Sept 29 2017 - 07:00
Dakota Fanning: Women like to watch other women on screen

Dakota Fanning: Women like to watch other women on screen

At just 23, Dakota Fanning is a Hollywood veteran - just don't expect her to go all Lindsay Lohan anytime soon

Thu Sept 28 2017 - 05:00
Daphne review: an anti-Bridget Jones for the Fleabag generation

Daphne review: an anti-Bridget Jones for the Fleabag generation

Emily Beecham is an appealing mess of uncertainties in this strong debut feature

Wed Sept 27 2017 - 08:00
Will this film finally put the rom-com out of its misery?

Will this film finally put the rom-com out of its misery?

The format has been on the wane for years. Home Again could be its nadir

Tue Sept 26 2017 - 10:27
A lone voice in the forest at a time of climate change denial

A lone voice in the forest at a time of climate change denial

Tribe’s Bruce Parry heads back to the Bornean jungle in Tawai: A Voice from the Forest

Tue Sept 26 2017 - 05:35
Tom Vaughan-Lawlor: ‘I fought my way up from the mean streets of Rathgar’

Tom Vaughan-Lawlor: ‘I fought my way up from the mean streets of Rathgar’

From Love/Hate to the Avengers: Infinity War, he does a fine line in onscreen menace

Sat Sept 23 2017 - 00:00
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekend

Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekend

New this week: The 1983 breakout from The Maze and Shi LaBeouf remarkably channels tennis brat John McEnroe

Fri Sept 22 2017 - 06:00
The best offbeat romcom of the year?

The best offbeat romcom of the year?

Writer-director Ildikó Enyedi mines female aloofness for both comedy and sadness in On Body and Soul

Thu Sept 21 2017 - 12:35
Borg Vs McEnroe: a smashing match made in heaven

Borg Vs McEnroe: a smashing match made in heaven

This dramatisation cleverly demonstrates that the two weren’t so different after all

Thu Sept 21 2017 - 09:15
First They Killed My Father: Angelina Jolie does it again

First They Killed My Father: Angelina Jolie does it again

This Cambodian tale shows Jolie is perfectly capable of tackling geopolitical complexities

Thu Sept 21 2017 - 08:00
American Assassin review: an utterly brainless espionage caper

American Assassin review: an utterly brainless espionage caper

Dylan O’Brien and Michael Keaton exact vigilante brutality on a global scale

Mon Sept 18 2017 - 18:02
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekend

Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekend

New this week: J-Law in the mother of all weird-outs and an unhinged Asian Extreme

Fri Sept 15 2017 - 06:00
Jungle Bunch review: Interspecies love and terror among the trees

Jungle Bunch review: Interspecies love and terror among the trees

This weird animation, adapted from a French TV series, needs English lessons

Thu Sept 14 2017 - 08:00
Darren Aronofsky: ‘My ego finds its way into all the films’

Darren Aronofsky: ‘My ego finds its way into all the films’

`Everything I do is autobiographical,' says the film-maker, so what are we to make of 'mother!', the maddest movie of the year, which stars his psychologically tortured real-life girlfriend Jennifer Lawrence

Thu Sept 14 2017 - 05:00
Here's 2017’s most breathtakingly unhinged action film

Here's 2017’s most breathtakingly unhinged action film

Sit down, Wonder Woman. Here’s how avenging angels should roll

Wed Sept 13 2017 - 10:20
No laughing matter: why are we so terrified of clowns?

No laughing matter: why are we so terrified of clowns?

Real-life clowns are protesting that Stephen King’s ‘It’ is killing their business. So why are they so often seen as evil?

Sat Sept 09 2017 - 05:00
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekend

Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekend

'It' efficiently delivers the jolts, while mystery 'Wind River' provides more thoughtful fare

Fri Sept 08 2017 - 05:00
Insyriated review: War-torn quandaries in Syria

Insyriated review: War-torn quandaries in Syria

A fascinating ethical conundrum fails to fully ignite a drama that feels a little too contrived

Thu Sept 07 2017 - 09:15
Wind River: Snowy noir on a Native American reservation

Wind River: Snowy noir on a Native American reservation

A strong sense of place elevates this procedural above the norm

Thu Sept 07 2017 - 08:00
What happens when civilians join a therapy group in Folsom Prison

What happens when civilians join a therapy group in Folsom Prison

The Inside Circle is an intensive four-day therapy programme mixing civilians and prisoners

Wed Sept 06 2017 - 06:35
Slipknot: Day of the Gusano – an auditorium-shaking live experience

Slipknot: Day of the Gusano – an auditorium-shaking live experience

The nu-metal elder statesmen celebrate 20 years at the top with a 360-degree Mexico City concert film

Mon Sept 04 2017 - 15:53
Rooney Mara: ‘Doing the Irish accent was terrifying’

Rooney Mara: ‘Doing the Irish accent was terrifying’

The star of ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ on Jim Sheridan's ‘The Secret Scripture’ and how her friend Cate Blanchett helped her get cast in sexual abuse drama ‘Una’

Fri Sept 01 2017 - 00:00
Dark Night review: anatomy of a mass shooting

Dark Night review: anatomy of a mass shooting

Based on the Colorado cineplex shooting, this is an unsensational portrait of alienation

Thu Aug 31 2017 - 12:35
Grand old feminist potboiler from the murky streets of London

Grand old feminist potboiler from the murky streets of London

The Limehouse Golem review: Wonderful cast make themselves at home in the streets of 1880s London

Thu Aug 31 2017 - 10:38
Tara Lee: a raw talent cooking up a music and acting career

Tara Lee: a raw talent cooking up a music and acting career

She’s been in ‘Raw’, ‘The Fall’, ‘A Date for Mad Mary’ and stars in newfilm ‘Moon Dogs’, but the 22-year-old singer-songwriter from Donard didn’t always see herself as an actor

Thu Aug 31 2017 - 05:00
God’s Own Country review: love on a farmboy’s wages

God’s Own Country review: love on a farmboy’s wages

The ‘English Brokeback Mountain’ is a gritty, muddy, magical tale of love and livestock

Wed Aug 30 2017 - 18:01
Rough Night review: dead on arrival

Rough Night review: dead on arrival

This ladies night out comedy plays like a feminised version of the appalling Very Bad Things

Mon Aug 28 2017 - 13:01
‘There’s no way they’re going to let me take Tom Cruise camping in the jungle’

‘There’s no way they’re going to let me take Tom Cruise camping in the jungle’

Doug Liman on his guerilla filmmaking techniques in American Made

Sat Aug 26 2017 - 05:00
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekend

Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekend

Cruise flies high, Soderbergh & co get lucky, and the big man’s back in a retooled T2

Fri Aug 25 2017 - 10:00
Detroit review: The victims get lost in the roar of the riot

Detroit review: The victims get lost in the roar of the riot

The riot is as virtuoso as any recent action sequence but this film’s problems run deep

Thu Aug 24 2017 - 05:00
Terminator 2 3D review: He's come back

Terminator 2 3D review: He's come back

This is a beautifully scrubbed new edition of James Cameron’s gargantuan 1984 hit

Wed Aug 23 2017 - 05:00
Al Gore interview: ‘We’ll show you, Donald Trump’

Al Gore interview: ‘We’ll show you, Donald Trump’

The Nobel-prizewinning, vegan politician on America’s inconvenient president

Sun Aug 20 2017 - 05:00
3DT2: James Cameron on tinkering with the Terminator

3DT2: James Cameron on tinkering with the Terminator

The ‘Avatar’ and ‘Titanic’ director seeks to make epic but intimate movies – so why does one of sci fi's finest really need a 3D reboot?

Fri Aug 18 2017 - 05:00
The Odyssey review – exploring Jacques Cousteau’s life aquatic

The Odyssey review – exploring Jacques Cousteau’s life aquatic

This biopic of the French oceanographer is beautifully filmed, but sometimes flounders

Thu Aug 17 2017 - 06:00
The superhero film of the year: Al Gore saves the world again

The superhero film of the year: Al Gore saves the world again

A decade after ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ comes ‘An Inconvenient Sequel’

Wed Aug 16 2017 - 16:42
Napping Princess review: the saddest, loveliest romance since Pixar’s Up

Napping Princess review: the saddest, loveliest romance since Pixar’s Up

Sci-fi and parallel universe gets a little cluttered, but be sure to stay for the credits

Wed Aug 16 2017 - 08:07
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekend

Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekend

‘A Ghost Story’ is a heartbreaking haunting while an award-winning Godzilla returns to stomp Tokyo

Fri Aug 11 2017 - 06:00
The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature review: Call pest control

The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature review: Call pest control

Will Arnett, Katherine Heigl and Jackie Chan are wasted in this superfluous sequel

Fri Aug 11 2017 - 05:20
So what is the meaning of Lowery’s existential fable ‘A Ghost Story’?

So what is the meaning of Lowery’s existential fable ‘A Ghost Story’?

Writer-director thinks there may be a Catholic sensibility underscoring his new film

Fri Aug 11 2017 - 05:00
Shin Godzilla review: Heavyweight monster mash packs punch

Shin Godzilla review: Heavyweight monster mash packs punch

Japan’s iconic giant lizard is back, and badder than ever, in this fast-moving reboot

Thu Aug 10 2017 - 08:00
Tom of Finland review – tasteful biopic of a homoerotic artist

Tom of Finland review – tasteful biopic of a homoerotic artist

Touko Laaksonen’s drawings of giant phalluses are glossed over in this engaging drama

Thu Aug 10 2017 - 05:00
Annabelle: Creation review – conjuring up a doll’s house of horrors

Annabelle: Creation review – conjuring up a doll’s house of horrors

Director David F Sandberg creates a spooky sense of dread, but the CGI monster is dull

Wed Aug 09 2017 - 00:00
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekend

Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekend

Maudie finds humanity in unlikely places, Williams profiles an icon for whom racing is life

Fri Aug 04 2017 - 06:00
James McAvoy: ‘I knew I had to make my character filthy’

James McAvoy: ‘I knew I had to make my character filthy’

‘Like he hasn’t changed his knickers in weeks. Not like the spy world in Bourne’

Fri Aug 04 2017 - 05:49
Williams review: Hard man with a hard-on for racing

Williams review: Hard man with a hard-on for racing

This fascinating documentary about Formula 1 fanatic Frank Williams delivers both track action and familial dysfunction

Thu Aug 03 2017 - 10:20
Morrissey as a miserable young man: ‘entirely asexual and a bit of an arse’

Morrissey as a miserable young man: ‘entirely asexual and a bit of an arse’

England is Mine review: Unauthorised biopic of the singer is a little lopsided but there’s plenty for Smiths fans to pore over

Thu Aug 03 2017 - 09:46
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