Downton Abbey sequel a litmus test for Irish cinemas after Covid
Owners of cinema groups keen to see audiences return to watch on the big screen
Downton Abbey: A New Era review – Both aristocrats and servants sound too middle class
Dominic West is superb in a strong cast battling valiantly with an overstuffed script
The Bruce Willis story: From ‘army brat’ to Hollywood royalty
In the News podcast: What is aphasia and why did it prompt Bruce Willis to stop acting?
The Bad Guys: Bad, but not in a good way
Pedestrian animation and ancient gags make this no fun for all the family
Oscars 2022: Irish contingent among pre-ceremony Covid outbreaks
Belfast’s Kenneth Branagh and Ciarán Hinds have been isolating in New York after testing positive
Deep Water: Neurotic, not very erotic and pretty pathetic return from Fatal Attraction director
Film review: Adrian Lyne’s ninth feature fails miserably to be any sort of good film
Red Rocket film review: Hilarious, unsettling portrait of a tarnished American dream
Frayed lives and unnerving relationships are vividly brought to life in Sean Baker’s latest
Nightride: One-last-job yarn set in Belfast splutters over the line
Moe Dunford impresses in a thriller that just manages to keep its real-time gimmick going
Belfast film review: Kenneth Branagh’s memoir is black-and-white and rose-tinted all over
The film is aggresively apolitical but as romanticised reverie it could hardly be bettered
Cow: Affecting but unsentimental portrait of animal life
Andrea Arnold’s film shows how we have stripped the character away from animal lives
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 Electrical Life of Louis Wain: Starry but misfiring biopic
Benedict Cumberbatch plays yet another eccentric in this portrait of a Victorian artist
Spider-Man No Way Home film review: Oh no, it’s for the fans
The latest outing is still lighter on its feet than most of the Marvel Comic Universe
Spencer: Kristen Stewart’s casting as a brittle Princess Diana is inspired
She balances trepidation with determination in Pablo Larraín’s spaced-out fantasia
Oliver Sacks: His Own Life – A remarkable documentary
Film review: It may not be innovative, but this biography is still extraordinary
Herself: Delayed portrayal of housing crisis loses none of its relevance
Writer-star Clare Dunne shines in this irresistible drama
I Never Cry: A Polish-Irish comedy of difference with a revelatory lead
Piotr Domalewski’s new film works best as a showcase for the terrific Zofia Stafiej
Deerskin: Jean Dujardin excels as a man in love with his jacket
Review: Clothes maketh the man in this perplexing and darkly funny film
Black Widow: Scarlett Johansson’s Marvel swansong is a cut above
Florence Pugh steals the show in the latest, mercifully fun superhero outing in the MCU
Gunda: The uncomfortable truth about how a sausage is made
Viktor Kossakovsky’s film raises profound questions about our dominion over animals
Army of the Dead: Inventive pulp on a massive scale
Review: Zack Snyder has a ball proving trash can triumph in this zombie horror heist flick
Cowboys: Questions of identity in macho America
Film review: Strong performances carry this good-hearted road movie
Two Ways Home: A drama about bipolar disorder that might do some good
Review: Tanna Frederick is terrific in a film about mental illness that avoids preachiness
Wild Mountain Thyme director says Irish accents are hard to understand
John Patrick Shanley defends accents of Emily Blunt, Christopher Walken and Jamie Dornan
Rialto: A searing Dublin movie that will stay in your brain
Film review: Tom Vaughan-Lawlor’s towering performance lifts the film above the misery
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Chemical Hearts: Following the teen angst formula with flair
Review: The film deals with the trials of Gen Z, but could apply to any generation
The Traitor: There’s a gripping Mafia story buried somewhere in here
Film review: This true-life mafioso-turned-snitch tale thinks it’s a documentary
Dating Amber: Agreeable comedy about a fake romance in 1990s Ireland
Review: Perfectly aligned performances from the young leads hold the film aloft
Lucy in the Sky: Terrible title, curiously earthbound tale
Review: Natalie Portman is hidebound as an astronaut heading for a nervous breakdown
The Perfect Candidate: Mila Al Zahrani’s acting rescues a film slight on plot
Review: Haifaa al-Mansour returns to Saudi Arabia for a study of the pressures put upon women
Fears Xi Jinping will use coronavirus crisis to tighten his grip on China
Death of whistleblowing doctor Li Wenliang sparked uproar on Chinese social media platforms
Jumanji: The Next Level – It’s ridiculous but never stops being good fun
Review: There’s killer apes and rogue Vikings, the Dannies DeVito and Glover and there’s The Rock
Motherless Brooklyn: Edward Norton’s overlong vanity project
Review: There is a fine noir here somewhere, busting to escape the Friends of Ed Norton Cabaret
Horror classics to screen at this year’s Cork Film Festival
Programme includes documentary on feisty New Yorker writer Pauline Kael
The Day Shall Come: Chris Morris’s film may be the year’s biggest disappointment to date
Review: Morris has turned fascinating stories into the first out-and-out dud of his career
Ready or Not is an absolute hoot of a bloody horror
Review: What this lacks in characterisation, it makes up in sheer, hurtling momentum
The Kitchen: Shallow comedy with nonsensical plot
Review: Film starring Melissa McCarthy in 1970s Manhattan splutters to weak ending
Does the auteur theory hold in the era of big television?
The reality of creative control is increasingly muddy in what is a large team sport
The Chambermaid: A perfect, cinematic sketch of a working life
Review: Gabriela Cartol plays a hardworking hotel worker in Mexico, striving for better
The Cold Blue: Stunning retelling of a second World War legend
Review: The testimony of the airmen is what lingers most strongly in this documentary
Vita & Virginia: A tale of literary lovers fails to make waves
Review: Gemma Arterton and Elizabeth Debicki struggle in a strait-jacket of a script
Kind Hearts and Coronets: one of the greatest comedies ever made
The 1949 Ealing classic starring nine Alec Guinnesses is getting a welcome reissue
Cannes 2019: Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite takes Palme d’Or
Antonio Banderas is among the other winners as contentious festival draws to a close
Birds of Passage: A new classic following the Colombian drug trade
Review: An epic work of folk, gangster and other-worldly cinema about a tribal family
John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum: Keanu Reeves kills a man with a book
Review: He kills everyone whose name you don’t know. It’s a masterpiece of martial choreography
Shazam! Enjoyable movie – shame they didn’t know when to stop
Review: Too many asides and extended punch-ups drag this past the two-hour mark
Minding the Gap: The full range of documentary skills are on display
Review: There’s something iffy about the way Bing Liu edited his Oscar-nominated film
An Engineer Imagines review: A fascinating study of an Irish pioneer
Documentary on Peter Rice offers a faultless account of ‘the Joyce of structural engineering’
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Vice: Christian Bale is nuance-free as Dick Cheney
Review: The movie is never boring, but too often treats the audience like morons
Mary Queen of Scots: Apart from Saoirse Ronan it's drab and pedestrian
Review: Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie keep us awake. The director doesn’t help
Canadian sentenced to death in China for drugs to appeal
Justin Trudeau says ‘arbitrary’ change in severity of sentence is of ‘extreme concern’
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