Merchant Ivory: Stephen Soucy’s documentary lifts up the petticoats of the prestigious production house
By Tara Brady
All We Imagine as Light: Swooningly poetic film marks Payal Kapadia as a voice for the future
Conclave: Ralph Fiennes is flawless in Robert Harris’s preposterously gripping drama of papal electioneering
Moana 2: Entertaining Disney sequel has the best boat chases since Live and Let Die
By Tara Brady
Our Little Secret: Awkward! Lindsay Lohan’s Christmas flick may as well be AI generated
By Tara Brady
Housewife of the Year: A wistful celebration of a generation of Irish women who competed for £300 and a gas stove
Joy: Thomasin McKenzie is luminous in a film about the journey towards test-tube babies that feels more like classy telly
By Tara Brady
Wicked review: Yes, it’s a nightmare in digital wax, but you’ll leave the cinema in buoyant mood
Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point: Altmanesque seasonal comedy is a wistful riot of chatter and foods
By Tara Brady
Gladiator II review: Don’t blame Paul Mescal, but there’s no good reason for this jumbled sequel to exist
Blitz review: Saoirse Ronan has little to work with in Steve McQueen’s absorbing but crowded war-time drama
By Tara Brady
The Piano Lesson review: Denzel Washington’s project is admirable, but this film can’t shake off its stage origins
Small Things Like These: Cillian Murphy’s performance is fiercely internalised in a film emblematic of a changing Ireland
By Tara Brady
Anora: A stripper, Russian heavies and an oligarch’s son – what more do you need for a knockout comedy?
Heretic review: Hugh Grant has a ball tormenting young Mormon doorsteppers in this gleeful horror thriller
By Tara Brady
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story review - A perfectly decent doc lifted by throat-catching moments
Dahomey review: Mati Diop’s fascinating hybrid documentary lays out its argument in sharp fashion
The Room Next Door review: Almodóvar’s English-language debut is stuffed with good performances but sounds off-key
By Tara Brady
A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things review: A lovingly curated chronicle of the artist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham
By Tara Brady
Every Little Thing: A gorgeous, life-affirming portrait of a hummingbird healer
By Tara Brady
The Apprentice film review: Ivana Trump taunts Donald for his orangeness. Then this drama’s most disturbing moment happens
Woman of the Hour: Anna Kendrick’s chilling directorial debut gives voice to the victims of the serial killer Rodney Alcala
By Tara Brady
Stuntman: This retro Hong Kong action film is the movie The Fall Guy wanted to be
By Tara Brady
King Frankie: An intriguing reminder of the Celtic Tiger delusions that hung around Ireland for decades
Blitz first look: Could Saoirse Ronan be on track for a double Oscar nomination with her new film?
’Salem’s Lot: An ominous foreboding precedes this Stephen King adaptation – for all the wrong reasons
First Look: Barry Keoghan’s new film, the sometimes sickeningly extreme Bring Them Down, is a hard movie to like
By Tara Brady
Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person: Like a very French Edward Scissorhands
By Tara Brady
A Different Man: Impressively original comedy that turns ideas of beauty and ugliness on their heads
Joker: Folie à Deux review – a drab affair that never quite gets started, but it’s probably still worth it
The Teacher: Farah Nabulsi’s Palestinian drama is powered along by terrific performances and palpable fury
By Tara Brady
Megalopolis or Megaflopolis? Francis Ford Coppola took 40 years to make this sci-fi epic but it misfires on the grandest scale
By Tara Brady
The Outrun: Saoirse Ronan gives a forceful performance as an alcoholic in white-knuckle recovery
My Old Ass: Aubrey Plaza deadpans as this charming low-fi sci-fi puts a fun spin on coming of age
By Tara Brady
Strange Darling: How weird is this cult sensation? There’ll never be another movie quite like it
By Tara Brady
Sugarcane: Gripping story of abuse in Catholic schools in Canada is an early Oscar favourite
By Tara Brady
The Substance: Demi Moore’s spectacularly disgusting body horror is a two-finger rebuke to the beauty industry
My Favourite Cake: A septuagenarian Brief Encounter jollied along by quiet political fury
By Tara Brady
The Critic: Only Ian McKellen could roll these insults around his tongue with such after-dinner relish
War photographer Lee Miller finds a champion in Kate Winslet, but this long-delayed biopic isn’t worth the wait
By Tara Brady
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