Four new films to see this weekBeautifully animated and told adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s Kensuke’s Kingdom, plus excellent indie dramas Janet Planet and Shayda, and blandly unimaginative Harold and the Purple CrayonSun Aug 04 2024 - 05:00
Kensuke’s Kingdom: Delightful family entertainment featuring Cillian Murphy in Michael Morpurgo’s swashbuckling adventureThis animated film touches lightly on environmental themes, loss and historyThu Aug 01 2024 - 05:00
Shayda: Realism and deft timing power this gripping domestic thriller alongZar Amir Ebrahimi is tremendous as a young mother who has taken refuge from her abusive husband in director Noora Niasari’s semi-autobiographical debut featureThu Aug 01 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekDeadpool & Wolverine, I Saw the TV Glow, About Dry Grasses, Notes from SheeplandSun Jul 28 2024 - 05:00
Peaches: ‘F**k the Pain Away has resonated with people so deeply. It has continued to grow’Gaze film festival 2024: The electropunk pioneer broke through with her album The Teaches of Peaches, now the subject of an absorbing documentarySat Jul 27 2024 - 06:00
About Dry Grasses: You won’t want Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s epic film to endThis portrait of an art teacher whose aesthetic sensibilities are at odds with his thrillingly awful personality feels like a great lost work of Russian literatureThu Jul 25 2024 - 05:00
I Saw the TV Glow: Jane Schoenbrun’s haunting cult sensation will leave you reelingThe trans community has embraced the film as an analogy for transitionWed Jul 24 2024 - 05:00
Artist and shepherd Orla Barry: ‘Breeding animals is like making an artwork. You’re putting certain animals together’Orla Barry took up farming as a more financially secure sideline to her art. As the new film Notes from Sheepland shows, it has proved equally precariousTue Jul 23 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekSleeper geezer pleaser Thelma, plus bombastic big-boom Twisters, Istanbul-set drama Crossing, and heightened Netflix documentary SkywalkersSun Jul 21 2024 - 05:00
Crossing: Sublime adventure as a haughty aunt searches for her estranged trans nieceWith tremendous aplomb, Mzia Arabuli plays Lia, the second essential Georgian screen heroine of 2024Fri Jul 19 2024 - 05:00
Thelma: 94-year-old June Squibb has a ball with her first action heroine. She’s an early Oscar favouriteCrowdpleaser about nonagenarian who sets out to recover money after being scammed is never patronisingWed Jul 17 2024 - 05:00
‘Age is being put in its place’: Actor June Squibb on becoming an action hero at 94The star of Thelma, about a scammed woman who embarks on a revenge mission, on an ageing world, landing her first lead role and working with ShaftTue Jul 16 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekEerie serial killer thriller Longlegs, plus Auschwitz documentary The Commandant’s Shadow, spooky Korean drama Sleep, and low star wattage in romcom Fly Me to the MoonSun Jul 14 2024 - 05:00
Fly Me to the Moon review: Lunar romcom starring Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum fails to achieve lift-offUnderpowered screwball take on Apollo moon landing was intended for streaming – and it showsFri Jul 12 2024 - 05:15
The Commandant’s Shadow review: The fascinating real-life story behind The Zone of InterestThere is no sense of catharsis in documentary featuring son of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf HössFri Jul 12 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekGripping Irish drama The Sparrow, plus 1980s retread Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, 1980s-set slasher MaXXXine, and strange Japanese anime Blue Lock the Movie: Episode NagiSun Jul 07 2024 - 05:00
Ti West on MaXXXine: ‘Horror was one step above porn for a very long time’The third part of the American film-maker’s X trilogy catches up with Mia Goth’s protagonist in 1980s New YorkSat Jul 06 2024 - 05:15
MaXXXine review: third instalment in stylish slasher trilogy with Mia Goth is lacking in sleazeThe third instalment in the slasher trilogy is stylish, but lacking in substance and sleazeFri Jul 05 2024 - 05:00
The Sparrow review: An exquisitely crafted, expertly performed Irish murder balladNewcomer Ollie West impresses in Michael Kinirons’s debut featureFri Jul 05 2024 - 05:00
Paul B Preciado has crossed continents and genders. With Orlando he redefines documentary filmIn his hybrid feature, the director invites nonbinary and trans people to audition for and play Virginia Woolf’s protagonist, with astonishingly rich resultsWed Jul 03 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekA Quiet Place: Day One, A Greyhound of a Girl, Kinds of Kindness, Eternal YouSun Jun 30 2024 - 05:00
Lily Gladstone: ‘We are done with being told our stories won’t resonate. That’s been proven wrong so often’The Native American Oscar nominee broke new ground in Killers of the Flower Moon. Her new film, Fancy Dance, picks up the same issues 100 years laterSat Jun 29 2024 - 05:30
Eternal You: Documentary portrait about the rush to digitally resurrect dead loved ones is scarier than any AI fictionAn unexpectedly profound reckoning with our increasingly queasy relationship with the virtual worldFri Jun 28 2024 - 05:08
A Greyhound of a Girl: Terrific Irish ensemble enlivens charming tale that makes weighty themes feel feather-lightAnimation of Roddy Doyle’s children’s book of same name leans into writer’s reliable ear for the vernacularThu Jun 27 2024 - 05:00
Kevin Bacon: ‘A lot of actors say they’re really shy. That’s bullsh*t. You want people to look at you’It’s 40 years since the actor starred in Footloose. In Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, he joins Eddie Murphy in a franchise that also dates back to 1984Sun Jun 23 2024 - 05:15
Four new films to see this weekThe Bikeriders, The Exorcism, Green Border, Something in the WaterSun Jun 23 2024 - 05:00
Green Border review: muscular, urgent dramatisation of the refugee crisisAgnieszka Holland’s powerful depiction of border-crossing has angered Polish authorities and refugee agencies in equal measureThu Jun 20 2024 - 05:00
The Exorcism: Russell Crowe has seldom been better than in this superior supernatural horrorJoshua John Miller’s imaginative film makes makes the inferior Exorcist: Believer reboot feel genuinely cursedWed Jun 19 2024 - 05:10
Jeff Nichols on his film The Bikeriders: ‘For me it’s a combination of two things – Danny Lyon’s book and GoodFellas’Director on getting out of his southern US comfort zone and his plans to adapt Cormac McCarthy’s final two novelsWed Jun 19 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekThe onset of puberty sends Riley around the bend in excellent sequel Inside Out 2, plus offbeat Bigfoot dramedy Sasquatch Sunset, Ama Gloria from France and Hounds from MoroccoSun Jun 16 2024 - 05:00
Ama Gloria: A six-year-old clings to her departing nanny in Marie Amachoukeli-Barsacq’s affecting dramaLouise Mauroy-Panzani’s uncanny performance keeps us fixated on the child’s psychodramaFri Jun 14 2024 - 05:00
Sasquatch Sunset: Controversial Bigfoot movie is rewardingly novel, touchingly human and agreeably nuttyThe Zellner brothers inject genuine pathos to elevate what could otherwise have ended up as an extended skitThu Jun 13 2024 - 05:00
Sasquatch Sunset: ‘We’ve talked to a lot of Bigfoot experts ... it’s fascinating how it feeds the mythology’In Zellner brothers’ Bigfoot film, Riley Keough and Jesse Eisenberg lead cast that grunts, screams, masturbates and defecatesTue Jun 11 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekProto-feminist western The Dead Don’t Hurt, plus witty true-life Hit Man, period French drama Rosalie, and another big-boom Bad Boys sequelSun Jun 09 2024 - 05:00
The Dead Don’t Hurt: Viggo Mortensen directs and stars in this thoughtful, melancholy westernThe script tussles between feminist revision and old-school male showdownsThu Jun 06 2024 - 05:00
‘I wanted it to feel like a kids’ movie made by kids’: Weston Razooli on his Cannes-wowing film Riddle of FireThe French press have found a new auteur hero in the American director of a 1980s-tinged film about a wilder kind of childhoodWed Jun 05 2024 - 05:00
Hit Man: Glen Powell steals this sexy Netflix caper based on a real-life philosophy professor who poses as a gun for hireThe actor, who will soon press pause on his Hollywood career, even manages to wring a moment of magnetism from iPhone notesWed Jun 05 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekRediscovered Irish folk horror The Outcasts, plus Sting, The Beast and Gasoline RainbowSun Jun 02 2024 - 05:00
The Outcasts: Lost Irish folk horror film is gloriously restoredFilm about a near-wordless young woman witch-hunted by a mob was worth waiting forFri May 31 2024 - 05:15
Gasoline Rainbow: A pleasantly meandering Gen Z road trip from upcoming auteur siblings the Ross brothersIts creators might be sick of the documentary-hybrid conversation, but it’s impossible to watch this without guessing about its nonfictional underpinningsFri May 31 2024 - 05:00
The Beast star George MacKay: ‘Léa Seydoux likes a laugh, so there was a lot of joy making this film about existential dread’Audiences have been watching the actor grow up on screen for two decades. Now he’s appearing with the Bond star in Bertrand Bonello’s multilayered art-house movieTue May 28 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekFerocious Furiosa is the craziest show on Earth. Plus Irish documentaries on Charlie Bird and Chinese music competitors, and an eerie Pakistani social horrorSun May 26 2024 - 05:00
Piano Dreams: An arresting chronicle of Chinese musical ambition from an Irish director The documentary by Gary Lennon follows three talented young piano players as they negotiate a fiercely competitive landscapeFri May 24 2024 - 05:00
Cannes 2024: Stars get shady on the carpet as the Nicolas Cage renaissance rages on with Irish director Lorcan FinneganReviewer Tara Brady has her pick for the Palme d’Or and Seán Baker miraculously resurrects the screwball comedyThu May 23 2024 - 11:02
In Flames: This supernatural horror, a remarkable debut film, will keep you hookedImpressive Ramesha Nawal plays Mariam, a medical student whose father mysteriously diedThu May 23 2024 - 05:15
Cannes 2024: The Apprentice review – Long shadow of Succession hangs over controversial Donald Trump biopicAli Abbasi film starring Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong zones in on a twisted early Trump mentorTue May 21 2024 - 08:55
Cannes 2024: Kevin Costner’s epic sprawl, Julianne Moore’s return and Kermit’s green coatCannes Diary: First three-hour instalment of Costner’s old-school western is confounding; Kinds of Kindness may be Yorgos Lanthimos’s weakest filmMon May 20 2024 - 15:10
Jennifer Lopez on fame: ‘I think one of the secrets about me is that I don’t ever think I have it really figured out’JLo’s new film is the $100m sci-fi thriller Atlas. It’s the latest chapter in a career that has spawned academic studies alongside global headlinesSat May 18 2024 - 05:30
Tiger Stripes review: Female puberty horror is a world away from Pixar’s Turning RedAmanda Nell Eu’s debut marries unwanted menstruation and cryptozoological mythology to spooky effectFri May 17 2024 - 05:00
Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg – Scarlett Johansson voices the evocative recollections of the Rolling Stones museThe actor, artist and model had three children with Keith Richards, and somehow survived the 1960sThu May 16 2024 - 05:00
