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Ghosthunters review: Boo – and not in a spooky, good way

Ghosthunters review: Boo – and not in a spooky, good way

Tobi Baumann’s film may appeal to kids who enjoy shoving crayons up their own noses

Thu Oct 01 2015 - 20:00
Fidelio, Alice’s Journey review: On a voyage with nowhere to go

Fidelio, Alice’s Journey review: On a voyage with nowhere to go

Alice is a sailor with a nice land-lubbing chap at home and a boy in every port

Thu Oct 01 2015 - 19:00
Robert Pattinson: 'I feel I've had a minor stroke and all I can watch is reality TV'

Robert Pattinson: 'I feel I've had a minor stroke and all I can watch is reality TV'

Once best known as the undead teen Edward in the Twilight series, Robert Pattinson is slowly but surely reinventing himself – from broody cutie-pie to go-to leading man

Fri Sept 25 2015 - 13:28
Mia Madre review: wavers between the disparate tones of comedy and tragedy

Mia Madre review: wavers between the disparate tones of comedy and tragedy

Nanni Moretti’s meta-drama is warm and poignant, but often finds itself stranded between competing narrative threads

Fri Sept 25 2015 - 05:00
Captive review: bounces the baloneyometer spectacularly into the red

Captive review: bounces the baloneyometer spectacularly into the red

This combo true crime/faith film is never remotely believable, despite a credibly menacing performance from David Oyelowo

Fri Sept 25 2015 - 00:00
A Girl at My Door review: Secrets and lies and a tangle of gender politics

A Girl at My Door review: Secrets and lies and a tangle of gender politics

This impressive South Korean drama sees Wachowskis’ favourite Bae Doona flex all of her acting muscles with considerable skill

Thu Sept 24 2015 - 17:54
Fast, furious, female: Meet the all-women Palestinian racing team bringing the speed to the IFI docfest

Fast, furious, female: Meet the all-women Palestinian racing team bringing the speed to the IFI docfest

Amber Fares went to the West Bank to work with the UN and ended up making a film about an all-female racing team

Wed Sept 23 2015 - 14:23
Horse Money review: a Horse with no narrative

Horse Money review: a Horse with no narrative

This Portugese oddity represents arthouse film-making taken to insanely inscrutable heights

Fri Sept 18 2015 - 19:00
Bill Bryson’s chequered path into the movie business

Bill Bryson’s chequered path into the movie business

So what happens when Bryson's work gets the Hollywood treatment? Whatever the outcome, it’s got nothing to do with him, he says – you can blame Robert Redford

Fri Sept 18 2015 - 13:30
Tangerines review: sweet smell of war

Tangerines review: sweet smell of war

Estonia received its first-ever Oscar nominations for this superb and moving antiwar drama, set in Abkhazia in 1992

Thu Sept 17 2015 - 21:00
The Second Mother review: good help is hard to share

The Second Mother review: good help is hard to share

This Brazilian comic drama is a superior take on the plight of mothers who must look after other people’s children

Thu Sept 17 2015 - 18:00
Reissue of the Week: Buster Keaton’s Steamboat Bill, Jr (1928)

Reissue of the Week: Buster Keaton’s Steamboat Bill, Jr (1928)

Keaton’s final film for United Artists features one of cinema’s finest acts of lunacy, and so much more besides

Thu Sept 17 2015 - 15:24
What’s up with Gran? Hansel and Gretel gets the M Night Shyamalan treatment

What’s up with Gran? Hansel and Gretel gets the M Night Shyamalan treatment

Fresh from watching his first GAA game, the director talks about The Visit, a fiendishly clever reworking of the Grimm fairy tale

Mon Sept 14 2015 - 03:00
Reissue of the week: Richard Brooks’ In Cold Blood (1967)

Reissue of the week: Richard Brooks’ In Cold Blood (1967)

Stunning cinematography and chilling performances mark out Brooks’ adaptation of Truman Capote’s chronicle of greed murder and retribution

Fri Sept 11 2015 - 16:01
'Me & Earl & the Dying Girl' was a script like no other for Thomas Mann

'Me & Earl & the Dying Girl' was a script like no other for Thomas Mann

As the star of ‘Project X’, Thomas Mann knows his teen zeitgeist, but when he first read ‘Me & Earl & the Dying Girl’, he knew it was a script like no other

Fri Sept 11 2015 - 05:00
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials review: sequel running in the right direction

Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials review: sequel running in the right direction

All the muddled exposition from The Maze Runner allows for The Scorch Trials to be far more entertaining

Fri Sept 11 2015 - 00:00
Legend Review: solid, if not exactly thrilling entertainment

Legend Review: solid, if not exactly thrilling entertainment

Brian Helgeland’s far-too-glamorous Kray Twins biopic starts well, then grinds into inertia, while Tom Hardy manages to give both the movie's best and worst performances

Fri Sept 11 2015 - 00:00
Cartel Land review: on the border of beastly behaviour

Cartel Land review: on the border of beastly behaviour

For this chilling documentary, director Matthew Heineman was given unprecedented access to ruthless anti-cartel vigilantes on both sides of the Mexican border

Fri Sept 04 2015 - 12:45
Thomas Mann: “Me & Earl  was the best role I had ever read”

Thomas Mann: “Me & Earl was the best role I had ever read”

The star of such teen flicks as Project X and Beautiful Creatures knows his teen zeitgeist, and when he read it, Thomas Mann knew Me & Earl & the Dying Girl was a script like no other

Fri Sept 04 2015 - 07:05
Ricki and the Flash review: Meryl gets her rock on

Ricki and the Flash review: Meryl gets her rock on

A failed rock’n’roller is given a second chance with her family in this enjoyable but uneven dramedy written by Diablo Cody

Thu Sept 03 2015 - 21:00
Dope review: Straight into Inglewood for some smart teen moves

Dope review: Straight into Inglewood for some smart teen moves

Rick Famuyiwa directs this excellent teen caper which never slips into laddish farce

Thu Sept 03 2015 - 20:00
Buttercup Bill review: a messed-up, highly erotically-charged two-step

Buttercup Bill review: a messed-up, highly erotically-charged two-step

A bafflingly fragmented, if beautifully rendered series of shots of parties and random images

Thu Sept 03 2015 - 17:00
O’Shea Jackson Jr: a chip off the old Cube

O’Shea Jackson Jr: a chip off the old Cube

Playing his own father in the smash NWA biopic ‘Straight Outta Compton’, 24-year-old O’Shea Jackson Jr offers far more than just a surly imitation

Fri Aug 28 2015 - 06:00
Miss Julie review: Irish take on Swedish romance lacks warmth

Miss Julie review: Irish take on Swedish romance lacks warmth

The film based on August Strindberg’s play tells of a romance between the classes

Thu Aug 27 2015 - 20:00
45 Years review: When two become undone

45 Years review: When two become undone

Andrew Haigh’s beautifully acted drama examines the slow unstitching of a relationship with thrilling intensity, writes Tara Brady

Thu Aug 27 2015 - 17:00
L’Eclisse review: a classic of its time, but perhaps not for all time

L’Eclisse review: a classic of its time, but perhaps not for all time

Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1962 film is so rooted in 1960s post-war malaise that it cannot truly exist outside of it

Thu Aug 27 2015 - 15:15
The Wolfpack: Six brothers who never went outside

The Wolfpack: Six brothers who never went outside

Crystal Moselle’s documentary The Wolfpack tells the extraordinary story of a family raised in complete isolation in Manhattan

Mon Aug 24 2015 - 06:00
Reeling in the years: how the past comes back to haunt us

Reeling in the years: how the past comes back to haunt us

In new film ‘45 Years’, Andrew Haigh focuses on the daily struggles of ordinary people

Fri Aug 21 2015 - 05:00
The Treatment review: Sick, sad, vile and utterly effective

The Treatment review: Sick, sad, vile and utterly effective

This film adaptation of a Mo Hayder thriller pulls no punches about incest, paedophilia and abduction

Thu Aug 20 2015 - 22:00
Theeb review: Western under the heat of the desert sun

Theeb review: Western under the heat of the desert sun

A fine coming-of-age tale set in 1916 in the Ottoman Empire is no ‘Lawrence of Arabia’

Thu Aug 20 2015 - 21:00
Gemma Bovery review: An affair to forget as new version never takes off

Gemma Bovery review: An affair to forget as new version never takes off

Modern take on Gustave Flaubert’s ‘Madame Bovary’ looks pretty but lacks substance

Thu Aug 20 2015 - 19:00
The Great Wall review: A beautiful tour of Europe’s divisions

The Great Wall review: A beautiful tour of Europe’s divisions

O’Sullivan’s camera takes us from the borders of Bulgaria to the City of London and on to the disturbances in Greece

Thu Aug 20 2015 - 17:00
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. review: Sixties spy-caper style over substance

The Man from U.N.C.L.E. review: Sixties spy-caper style over substance

Henry Cavill and Armie Hammer turn on the hunk, Guy Ritchie turns on the style in this mindless but diverting take on the vintage spy show

Fri Aug 14 2015 - 11:07
Greta Gerwig: “People aren’t all one thing, so characters shouldn’t be one thing.”

Greta Gerwig: “People aren’t all one thing, so characters shouldn’t be one thing.”

Mumblecore maven Greta Gerwig has moved on and up. In her third gig with director/main squeeze Noah Baumbach, she channels her inner uptown wild thing

Fri Aug 14 2015 - 06:00
Pixels review: They made this film . . . for some reason

Pixels review: They made this film . . . for some reason

It’s not a bad idea for a movie but underwritten characters and bad dialogue dominate

Thu Aug 13 2015 - 21:00
Precinct Seven Five review: the baddest cop on the block

Precinct Seven Five review: the baddest cop on the block

Michael Dowd tells all in this thrilling documentary about his own corruption

Thu Aug 13 2015 - 19:00
Manglehorn review: an extremely odd film that's not quite mysterious enough

Manglehorn review: an extremely odd film that's not quite mysterious enough

Al Pacino displays nuance (really) as a grizzled malcontent stranded in a Texan backwater, but there are hints of something else underpinning the enigmatic screenplay

Fri Aug 07 2015 - 15:17
Hard to Be a God review: a sprawling, epic, exhausting, disgusting masterpiece

Hard to Be a God review: a sprawling, epic, exhausting, disgusting masterpiece

This fetid, oblique Russian epic took forever to make, and the result is a powerful argument for the vitality of civilisation

Thu Aug 06 2015 - 22:00
A Doctor’s Sword review: Secrets of an extraordinary life

A Doctor’s Sword review: Secrets of an extraordinary life

Gripping documentary about Corkman’s war experiences uses his own voice as narration

Thu Aug 06 2015 - 19:00
Alberto Rodríguez’ Marshland: True Detective, paella style

Alberto Rodríguez’ Marshland: True Detective, paella style

HBO’s cult series has much in common with the hit Spanish thriller ‘Marshland’. That’s no bother, says Alberto Rodríguez, director of this incendiary police drama set in the bad old post-dictatorship days

Thu Aug 06 2015 - 16:00
Beyond the Reach review: death-defyingly daft, eye-rubbingly stupid

Beyond the Reach review: death-defyingly daft, eye-rubbingly stupid

Michael Douglas finds more than enough scenery to chew in the Mojave Desert in this ludicrous remake of The Road Runner Show

Tue Aug 04 2015 - 17:30
Iris review: smart, funny and commendably anti-fashion

Iris review: smart, funny and commendably anti-fashion

For all the frivolity of her business (fashion), Iris Apfel is smart and sassy enough for us to see past a life of privilege and walk-in wardrobes

Fri Jul 31 2015 - 11:13
Man with a Movie Camera review: power to The People

Man with a Movie Camera review: power to The People

Dziga Vertov’s 1929 documentary is rightly considered one of the best films ever made

Thu Jul 30 2015 - 21:00
Cub review: bleeder of the pack

Cub review: bleeder of the pack

Hellishly unhappy campers versus whatever it is that’s stalking them in this nifty, efficient horror film from Belgium

Thu Jul 30 2015 - 20:00
Oliver Hirschbiegel: from Hitler to Princess Diana and back again

Oliver Hirschbiegel: from Hitler to Princess Diana and back again

The ‘Downfall’ director is back with another incendiary look at Deutsches Reich, this time about one lone oddball who decided to strike back

Thu Jul 30 2015 - 16:08
The Legend of Barney Thompson review: mother cuts to the quick

The Legend of Barney Thompson review: mother cuts to the quick

Robert Carlyle’s pitch-black murder comedy is a triumph for a deglamourised Emma Thompson, as the ultimate parent from hell

Sun Jul 26 2015 - 09:34
‘The Legend of Barney Thompson’: Robert Carlyle throws a curveball

‘The Legend of Barney Thompson’: Robert Carlyle throws a curveball

The ‘Trainspotting’ star’s debut as a director is not a predictable low-key indie film but a riotous comedy starring Ray Winstone and Emma Thompson

Sun Jul 26 2015 - 08:00
You’re Ugly Too review: two pains in the asses

You’re Ugly Too review: two pains in the asses

Mark Noonan’s debut Irish drama is problematic but impressive, backed up by the stars’ winning two-step

Fri Jul 24 2015 - 06:00
Eden review: dancing into paradise

Eden review: dancing into paradise

Despite cameos from the likes of Daft Punk, this drama about French Touch music never loses sight of the genre’s garage origins

Fri Jul 24 2015 - 03:30
The true story that made Rupert Goold jump from stage to screen

The true story that made Rupert Goold jump from stage to screen

The director’s first film explores the dynamic between a murderer and a journalist

Tue Jul 21 2015 - 01:00
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