Amongst the Wolves review: This Irish drug dealer is in debt to a villain played by Aidan Gillen. That never bodes well
Luke McQuillan makes the most of a breakthrough lead in this grim survey of stubborn urban discontents
Thunderbolts* review: Florence Pugh stars in the least bad of Marvel’s trilogy of obscure team-up flicks
Florence Pugh and David Harbour star in jokey romp at home to tolerable quips amid mounting chaos
Magic movies: The 25 best comedies of the past 25 years – in reverse order
From Borat to Banshees of Inisherin, here’s the best comedies from the last 25 years
John Murry on being abused: ‘Those experiences as a teenager made me angry and they made me write. They gave me a lot of rage’
Singular US musician and former resident of Ireland is the subject of a fine documentary, The Graceless Age: The Ballad of John Murry
No, I didn’t watch Sinners all the way through before giving it five stars
Ryan Coogler’s terrific film has a post-credits sequence that adds important plot points. What the hell’s going on?
Four new films to see this week
Fréwaka is an eerie, subtle delve into Celtic mythology. Plus a gruesome Norwegian reworking of Cinderella, Naomi Watts and Bill Murray in a gentle story of friendship, and a thoroughly original drama from Georgia
The Movie Quiz: How many times have DiCaprio and Scorsese worked together?
Plus: Who’s playing Ringo in the upcoming Beatles tetralogy?
‘I couldn’t sit through it’: New Oscars rule requires members to watch all films before voting
Donald Clarke: There has been speculation that this is good news for low-budget titles, but expect no seismic shift
April review: This five-star film is difficult and abrasive, but it’s also cinematic poetry
Dea Kulumbegashvili’s sprawling meditation on gynaecological morality is unlike anything else in cinemas
The Friend review: Bill Murray and Naomi Watts are genuinely touching in this lovely New York fantasy
The newcomer Bing is full of charm as the dog whose presence causes Watts’s character to confront what’s missing in her life
Havoc director Gareth Evans: ‘I’ve always been a disciple of the John Woo school of film-making’
Tom Hardy is top-notch, but what sets this film apart is the poetic mayhem of a creator raised on Asian greats
If Warfare’s not an anti-war film, what is? Apocalypse Now? Don’t make me laugh
Most sensible people might be anti-war, but just as many are in favour of certain wars. And pacifism just doesn’t make for good cinema
The Movie Quiz: Which of these four films doesn’t quote its title in the last scripted line?
Plus: What is getting us all throwing popcorn?
Sinners review: The best film of 2025 so far, right down to the Celtic vampires singing Rocky Road to Dublin
Part period bloodsucker flick, part blues-heavy musical, with not one but two Michael B Jordans and an insanely violent denouement