Kidnapped: The extraordinary story of the six-year-old abducted by the Catholic ChurchFilm director Marco Bellocchio on Edgardo Mortara, a ‘baptised’ Jewish boy taken from his family, and scandal that weakened power of popeFri Apr 26 2024 - 05:15
In the Land of Saints and Sinners: Liam Neeson is a gruff, gunslinging hero in this Donegal westernRobert Lorenz’s thriller, set in 1974, features Kerry Condon, Ciarán Hinds, Niamh Cusack and Colm Meaney in a parade of wasted ideas and charactersFri Apr 26 2024 - 05:00
That They May Face the Rising Sun: The best Irish film in a very long timeAn Cailín Ciúin fans should start queueing now. Pat Collins has made an exquisite adaptation of John McGahern’s final novelWed Apr 24 2024 - 05:00
Rebel Moon director Zack Snyder: ‘My obligation is to bring viewers the largest cinematic experience I can muster’Zack Snyder on his move to streaming, the critical panning of the first part of Rebel Moon and why he needs his family on boardMon Apr 22 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekThe Book of Clarence, All You Need Is Death, The Sweet East, AbigailSun Apr 21 2024 - 05:00
The Book of Clarence review: A wannabe messiah seeks disciples in an inventive parallel history to the New Testament Director Jeymes Samuel re-creates and repositions the tropes and spectacle of Hollywood’s sword-and-sandals epicsFri Apr 19 2024 - 15:13
Abigail: Ballet vampire horror-comedy turns every dial up to 11Outrageous reimagining of Dracula’s Daughter is fun for a while, but soon collapses under its own sillinessFri Apr 19 2024 - 05:00
Pete Waterman: ‘Rick Astley walked away with a cheque for £5m, which is pretty good for an apprentice’Musical I Should Be So Lucky celebrates the 1980s hits that Waterman and his colleagues Mike Stock and Matt Aitken made with Kylie Minogue, Bananarama, Mel & Kim and moreMon Apr 15 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekBack to Black, Civil War, The Teachers’ Lounge, Close Your EyesSun Apr 14 2024 - 05:00
Close Your Eyes: Spanish master Víctor Erice returns after a 31-year hiatusThe octogenarian auteur’s fourth feature is a languorous consideration of time, memory and cinemaFri Apr 12 2024 - 05:00
The Teachers’ Lounge review: Leonie Benesch is sensational in this unlikely white-knuckle thriller A teacher finds herself at centre of prejudice, complacency and institutional failings in this suspenseful German dramaThu Apr 11 2024 - 05:00
‘There are parallels between Britney, Diana and Amy Winehouse... women picked on at their most vulnerable’The film director Sam Taylor-Johnson talks about Back to Black, her new biopic about Amy WinehouseMon Apr 08 2024 - 05:15
Four new films to see this weekThe First Omen, Evil Does Not Exist, Girls State, Io CapitanoSun Apr 07 2024 - 05:00
Prince Andrew vs Emily Maitlis: Prepare to cringe as Rufus Sewell and Gillian Anderson re-create the car-crash interviewScoop, a dramatisation of the duke of York’s infamous BBC interview, re-enacts every bad decision behind those toe-curling Newsnight momentsSat Apr 06 2024 - 05:15
Io Capitano review: A swashbuckling, award-winning portrayal of the European migrant crisisMatteo Garrone’s follow-up to the exquisite Pinocchio is based on real-life testimonies and dramatised with youthful verveFri Apr 05 2024 - 05:00
Girls State review: It’s as if Tracy Flick, the striving high-school heroine of Election, has come to life‘Every election I’ve put myself in, I’ve won. Since fourth grade,’ says one proudly conservative teen with designs on the 2040 US presidencyWed Apr 03 2024 - 04:30
Io Capitano: Chronicling the perilous migrant trek from Senegal to Europe with Homeric flairOscar-nominated director Matteo Garrone says that at all times on set for this film he had someone present who had lived through torture in Libya or had made it through the SaharaTue Apr 02 2024 - 05:15
Four new films to see this weekAnne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain show their lacquered claws in Mothers’ Instinct, plus Bill Nighy in feel-good sports tale The Beautiful Game, Kung Fu Panda back for a fourth go, and arty Euro drama Disco BoySun Mar 31 2024 - 05:00
Kung Fu Panda 4: A weaker entry in the franchise that is still vastly superior to most mainstream animated featuresCaveats and niggles ultimately don’t dent the magnanimous-natured enjoymentFri Mar 29 2024 - 05:00
Disco Boy: Franz Rogowski is at his most haunted in this hypnotic, witchy brewDebut director Giacomo Abbruzzese merges disparate stories into a mysterious cinematic adventureFri Mar 29 2024 - 05:00
‘Independent movies are a strange combination of people with money and people with big egos’In The Sweet East, cinematographer Sean Price Williams has teamed up with critic Nick Pinkerton for a firecracker debutWed Mar 27 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this week: Conor McGregor in Road House, Sydney Sweeney in Immaculate, Late Night with the Devil and The DelinquentsGyllenhaal and McGregor brawl on Amazon in Road House, plus class horror films Immaculate and Late Night with the Devil, and epic Argentine crime drama The DelinquentsSun Mar 24 2024 - 05:00
The Delinquents review: Two boring jobsworths. A bank robbery plot. And a manic pixie dream girlRodrigo Moreno’s first feature for more than a decade is an entertaining epic with confounding twists and turnsFri Mar 22 2024 - 05:00
Late Night with the Devil review: Satan communes through a 1970s chatshow in Cairnes brothers’ fun, freaky horrorThe period TV set is so convincing that one expects the host to shout ‘Roll it there, Colette’Tue Mar 19 2024 - 11:48
Robot Dreams: How Pablo Berger created the most soulful tin man since The Wizard of OzDirector’s animated depiction of friendship between a robot and dog in 1980s New York is far more affecting than its expensive Oscar rivalsTue Mar 19 2024 - 05:00
Lindsay Lohan’s Irish Wish review: there’s a scandalous lack of begorrah, which may be a good thingAmerican star’s glossy movie has criminally little Irish involvementFri Mar 15 2024 - 08:00
Banel & Adama: Every frame of this mesmerising debut casts a spell The Senegalese Oscar pick concerns about two teenagers rebelling aginst expectationsFri Mar 15 2024 - 05:00
Monster director Hirokazu Kore-eda: ‘The eyes of children offer a clearer view of the world than the eyes of adults’Whether in Nobody Knows, Shoplifters or Like Father, Like Son, the Japanese auteur can dramatise children’s inner lives like no other film-makerWed Mar 13 2024 - 03:15
Four new films to see this weekDo Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World, Copa 71, Origin, High & Low: John GallianoSun Mar 10 2024 - 10:13
High & Low: John Galliano review – Designer documentary is no puff piece but it doesn’t quite elicit the answers it seeksIntriguing film about the British fashion icon ultimately fails to get to the bottom of racist and anti-Semitic remarks that got him firedFri Mar 08 2024 - 05:00
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World review: a mischievous, scathing, sprawling provocationDay-in-the-life portrait of an overworked production assistant has won an impressive haul of awardsThu Mar 07 2024 - 05:00
Copa 71: ‘These women were gaslit. Imagine playing a sport at the highest level and then being told, that didn’t exist’Two decades before the first Fifa Women’s World Cup, six teams competed in front of huge crowds in Mexico City in an almost-forgotten tournamentWed Mar 06 2024 - 05:15
Four new films to see this weekDune: Part Two, Lisa Frankenstein, Spaceman, Four DaughtersSun Mar 03 2024 - 05:00
Four Daughters review: Riveting Oscar-nominated documentary deconstructs a global news storyA Tunisian matriarch and her four daughters – two of them played by actors – delve into their troubled pastFri Mar 01 2024 - 05:00
Spaceman review: Adam Sandler journeys into a trippy interstellar cloud with a giant Nutella-loving alien spiderJohan Renck’s film turns out to ponderous, however, eschewing journey and destination in favour of the symbolicThu Feb 29 2024 - 05:00
Red Island director Robin Campillo: ‘In France we did not process the colonial experience of Madagascar so well. This was a forgotten story’The man behind 120 BPM has made a film about his experiences as the child of a ‘very right-wing’ French military father in the former colonyWed Feb 28 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekWim Wenders’s Tokyo-set Perfect Days, plus Memory, Wicked Little Letters and The Moon ThievesSun Feb 25 2024 - 05:00
Dune: Part 2 director Denis Villeneuve – ‘I loved the idea of divers in the desert’Second instalment zones in on the story of Paul, played by Timothée Chalamet, and ChaniSat Feb 24 2024 - 05:15
Memory review: Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard are outstanding in Michel Franco’s newest provocationFranco leaves several smoking guns to add to the ethical and narrative knottinessThu Feb 22 2024 - 05:00
The Moon Thieves review: Cantopop stars can look out of place in this chaotic horology heistMembers of the band Mirror make up youthful ensemble in this throwaway entertainmentThu Feb 22 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekBob Marley: One Life, Madame Web, The Promised Land, The Taste of ThingsSun Feb 18 2024 - 05:00
Jessica Chastain: ‘I like the unlikeable characters. The world is not black and white’‘With acting, if there’s nothing at stake, then is it worth doing?’ asks the Oscar winnerSat Feb 17 2024 - 05:30
The Promised Land: Nordic demi-western is powered along by Mads Mikkelsen’s rugged charisma Mads Mikkelsen is a formidable retired army captain of low birth seeking title and legitimacy by colonising the punishing, barren heath of JutlandThu Feb 15 2024 - 05:00
The Taste of Things: Gastroporn doesn’t come more XXX-rated than this insanely pretty, airily vacant French fancyComme ci, comme ça: why was this slight film with its ludicrously gleaming kitchen chosen ahead of Anatomy of a Fall for France’s predictably unsuccessful Oscar bid?Wed Feb 14 2024 - 05:00
Film-maker Guy Maddin: ‘My first feature probably had a walkout rate of 60%’The Canadian director, who is the subject of a retrospective at this month’s Dublin International Film Festival, on his experimental approach to moviesMon Feb 12 2024 - 05:15
‘The Irish were always playing Bob Marley’: One Love star Kingsley Ben-Adir on growing up with the reggae iconBob Marley’s music is ‘a spiritual thing’, says the actor, who took the lead role in Reinaldo Marcus Green’s biopic at the request of the Jamaican star’s familySun Feb 11 2024 - 05:15
Four new films to see this weekOccupied City, The Settlers, The Iron Claw, Double BlindSun Feb 11 2024 - 05:00
Mads Mikkelsen: ‘I try to jump into a character as fast as I can and leave as fast as I can’Danish actor on his latest film The Promised Land, Hollywood and perceptions of fame, shooting in cold weather, Nicolas Winding Refn, Bruce Lee and how he originally trained as a dancerSat Feb 10 2024 - 05:15
The Settlers: A masterfully staged film styles Chile’s genocidal past as a spaghetti western to chilling effectThere are no good guys in Felipe Gálvez Haberle’s directorial debut about a murderous colonial mission at the turn of the centuryFri Feb 09 2024 - 05:00
The Iron Claw: Wild true story makes for darkly tragic, completely gripping old-school TV movieTrue story of the Von Erich wrestling clan is a tale of corrosive masculinity and suffocating parental pressureThu Feb 08 2024 - 05:00
