The 50 best films of 2025: Top 10 movies of the year
Our critics have selected the standout movies released in Ireland this year
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The 50 best films of 2025: No 20 to No 11
We continue our countdown of our favourite movies released in Ireland this year
Urchin review: Harris Dickinson’s impressive directorial debut follows a homeless addict around London
There’s a deep empathy running through the film, which fervently resists sentimentality
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
Irish stars CMAT, Grian Chatten and Jordan Adetunji make Forbes 30 Under 30 list
Prestigious list which honours those under 30 ‘making waves’ in Europe also includes writer-director Ronan Corrigan
Nicole Kidman’s Babygirl isn’t the ‘hottest film this year’. It might be among the most depressing
How did we get here, where a successful woman’s deepest desire is to lick milk from a saucer on the floor under orders from her intern?
Babygirl review: Five stars for a fearless Nicole Kidman’s dive into a hot erotic mess. Bondage has seldom been as playful
Harris Dickinson may be the most versatile young star on the planet
Babygirl star Harris Dickinson: ‘There’s a really dangerous thing going on with lonely, angry young men’
Ambivalence is part of the allure when it comes to Dickinson, who stars opposite Nicole Kidman in Babygirl as an intern caught up in a risky affair
Babygirl director Halina Reijn: ‘Our film is very sexy. It’s important to bring sex back after #MeToo’
Reijn’s wild ride of a movie stars Nicole Kidman, in a wickedly funny turn, as a chief executive embroiled in a sexual power struggle with an underling
The Souvenir Part II: There is nothing else quite like this in cinema
Joanna Hogg’s quasi-autobiographical film may divide opinions, but that’s no bad thing
The Darkest Minds: Hopeless adaptation of a book you’ve never heard of
Review: This bewildering film feels mercilessly edited by a studio that lost interest
Beach Rats review: An uneasy tale of a young gay man’s self-discovery
Harris Dickinson swells with potential in Eliza Hittman’s gripping release
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