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, 2025
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Highest 2 Lowest review: Spike Lee’s film about an old-school music mogul is never boring but lacks cohesion
Getting on board with the later stages of this film requires an almighty leap of faith
Cannes 2025: Clapologists get it wrong, an acidic Israeli satire is too hot to handle, and Scarlett Johansson serves up schmaltz
The French film festival’s 78th edition was strong if rarely spectacular – but still threw up a few surprises
Cannes 2025: Will Paul Mescal scoop an award, how will Bono’s film go down, and 10 other questions
The Cannes film festival is back at the centre of the movie world thanks to recent Oscars success
Joe Biden may be best to let sleeping dogs lie as new books lifts lid on his final days in office
With the former president said to be working on a memoir, two new books offer damning details of the fragmentation of faith in him before last November’s US election
Oscars 2025 nominations today: What are the chances for Kneecap, Saoirse Ronan and Cillian Murphy?
Saoirse Ronan, Cillian Murphy and Paul Mescal have struggled this awards season. Only a miracle will see an Irish actor get an Oscar nod
‘Ireland taking British awards is f**king hilarious’: Kneecap’s six Bafta nominations a leap forward for Irish-language film
Baftas 2025: Rich Peppiatt’s raucous film about the Belfast trio has got into every category where it had even a reasonable chance
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor: ‘One of the references I have when I talk about Nickel Boys is the Magadelene laundry mothers in Ireland’
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor missed out on an Oscar for her role in King Richard. It will be no surprise if she’s nominated again for RaMell Ross’s acclaimed new film
Paul Mescal’s response to meeting King Charles was a masterclass in diplomacy
Gladiator II star said meeting the English king at the film’s British premiere was ‘not on the list of priorities’
Paul Mescal: ‘My favourite actors are Irish. There’s a wildness. We do our own thing’
Gladiator II proves another showcase for Mescal’s tough and tender masculinity, giving rein to his natural instinct as an actor
Gladiator II: What the critics say about Paul Mescal’s performance
The word on the Irish actor’s performance was consistently positive, not so much for the film itself
Gladiator II review: Don’t blame Paul Mescal, but there’s no good reason for this jumbled sequel to exist
Ridley Scott’s sequel to his own historical epic fails to rise above second-hand status, despite valiant efforts from a fine cast
‘This feels categorically mental’: Paul Mescal stunned by celebrations at Gladiator II premiere
Actor attends Irish premiere of Ridley Scott film at Light House Cinema in Dublin
The Piano Lesson review: Denzel Washington’s project is admirable, but this film can’t shake off its stage origins
Danielle Deadwyler and Samuel L Jackson are outstanding in the third instalment of the star’s effort to bring August Wilson’s Pittsburgh cycle to the screen
Saoirse Ronan delivers a stone-cold truth about women’s safety that stuns Paul Mescal and fellow actors
Graham Norton’s male guests found self-defence hilarious. Of course it was all just a joke, but this tiny little sofa vignette reflects women’s reality
Paul Mescal battles savage monkeys and a stampeding rhino in new trailer for Gladiator sequel
Irish actor plays Lucius, son of Lucilla from the original Gladiator, in sequel set years after 2000 epic
Gladiator II trailer: Paul Mescal muscles his way in with biff, bang and ouch
Irish actor Paul Mescal is all muscle amid the sieges, riots and killer rhinos as he channels Russell Crowe in Ridley Scott’s epic sequel
‘When Denzel Washington is on the screen he’s giving his all. That’s what people love’
Star has been a constant force in Antoine Fuqua’s film-directing career. The Equalizer 3 is their fifth collaboration in 22 years
Will Smith apologises to Chris Rock after on stage Oscars slap
The Academy denounced Smith’s actions and opened an inquiry into the incident
Oscars 2022: Who should win, and who will win?
Ireland has its biggest haul of nominations since 2016, but has won few awards so far
Oscars 2022: This best picture list is even better than the real thing
Here are 10 films that could have been nominated for best picture, but weren’t
Will Smith: ‘I’ve only lost an Oscar to other black actors’
After his nomination for best actor in King Richard, the actor reflects on his career
Golden Globes 2022: What’s happening with the ceremony you can’t watch?
After a year of scandals, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association is under pressure
Sidney Poitier, who has died aged 94, was one of cinema’s most beautiful giants
Donald Clarke: The mellifluous Poitier didn’t just break down barriers, he was also of the great movie stars
The Tragedy of Macbeth: Lean, efficient take on the Scottish Play
Joel Coen delivers an expressionist version of the often-filmed drama
West Side Story: Sondheim’s lyrics still crackle in Spielberg’s movie
Review: Steven Spielberg revives Bernstein and Sondheim’s classic musical for the screen
Paul Rudd is the world’s sexiest not-very-Irish man
People Magazine named him ‘Sexiest Man Alive’. An Irish connection was swiftly unearthed
Ruth Negga: ‘I found London quite limiting to be honest’
The actor on her journey from Limerick to LA and her performance in Rebecca Hall’s Passing
Scarlett Johansson’s suing Disney. Welcome to the great 21st-century streaming wars
The Black Widow star and her lawyers are riding a wave that has been swelling for some time
Ian McKellen as Hamlet: Is ageism the last great barrier in the arts industry?
Will the critics let them be sexagenarian murderers in peace? I wouldn’t count on it
He Got Game: ‘I pray that you understand why I pushed you so hard’
You need dark forces behind you to make it as a basketball star – in this case an obsessive dad
Four new films to stream this weekend
Judas and the Black Messiah, Coming 2 America, The Little Things, Cherry
From Saoirse Ronan’s Ammonite to Spielberg’s West Side Story, 50 films to watch in 2021 (we hope)
The Covid-19 pandemic has caused a traffic jam of anticipated films for this year
Viola Davis: ‘My father was just one generation removed from slavery’
The Oscar-winner on playing Ma Rainey, working with Chadwick Boseman and race in Hollywood
Saoirse Ronan and Daniel Day-Lewis on ‘greatest 21st-century actors’ list
But hang on: what’s Keanu Reeves doing here? And really hang on: where’s Meryl Streep?
Leave the World Behind: Gripped by everyday dread
Book Review: Timely novel about a sudden, cataclysmic event that shocks the world
Matthew McConaughey: ‘I wouldn’t give back one ass-whupping for the values that are ingrained in me’
The actor on his life philosophies, securing roles, and his new memoir Greenlights
Film 2020: The 50 films to watch out for
The best biopics, documentaries, cartoons, features and award favourites of the year
Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand to star in Joel Coen’s Macbeth
Oscar winners to take lead roles in Coen’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy based on his own script
Oscars 2019: Olivia Colman and Green Book triumph in a night of shocks
Green Book is best film, Bohemian Rhapsody wins most. Glenn Close overlooked for 7th time
Kenneth Branagh: ‘The life of an actor? Strange men phone and offer you money’
The actor and director talks Shakespeare ‘trutherism’ and his working-class upbringing
High-flying Antoine Fuqua at home making films that are grounded
US director says his heart lies with action movies like The Equalizer 2
The Equalizer 2: Agreeably cheesy sequel with Denzel Washington
Review: It’s pulpy, it’s not deep but this sequel is certainly the equal of ‘The Equalizer’
Forty-two films to catch in the cinema this summer
Incredibles 2, Ocean’s 8, Jurassic World and Mamma Mia!: Here We Go Again
Weinstein sex claims overshadow Cannes as Japanese drama wins
Asia Argento stuns audience with Weinstein allegation: ‘festival was his hunting ground’
Oscars 2018: Who’ll win, who won’t and 10 other questions
Who is in the running to win the Oscars in every category?
Roman J Israel, Esq: Colin Farrell is fine. The film is a total mess
Review: This Oscar-nominated film starring Farrell and Denzel Washington just doesn’t feel ready for release.
Oscars 2018: 10 talking points from the nominations
Netflix has its first nod, Cinematography has its first woman, ‘Three Billboards’ could struggle
Oscars 2018: full list of nominations
Saoirse Ronan and Daniel Day-Lewis, Martin McDonagh’s ‘Three Billboards’ and Kilkenny’s Cartoon Saloon nominated
The best in film 2017, according to the Dublin Film Critics Circle
Dunkirk blows away the competition
Golden Globes: Saoirse Ronan, Daniel Day-Lewis, Martin McDonagh and Caitriona Balfe up for awards
‘The Breadwinner’, by Kilkenny’s Cartoon Saloon, nominated for best animated feature
Gregory Porter: I recorded my album on a phone. Then I lost the phone
US singer on his favourite film, the one gadget he can never be without and more
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
Oscars 2017: how did I fare with my predictions?
A diligent Oscars observer should be happy with nothing less than 70 per cent in the prediction stakes – which means I’m not happy with my forecasting
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