Heaven Adores You review: Needs 10 per cent less TLC and 90 per cent more TMZThis crowdfunded biopic of the late Elliott Smith veers a bit to much into hagiographyFri May 08 2015 - 15:29
Top Five review: Chris Rock is back, and he’s doing it with 10 per cent more stankBirdman meets 8 1/2 in Chris Rock’s spot-on satire of the Hollywood spin machine – with a nice romance to bootFri May 08 2015 - 09:13
The Canal review: Where has all the Bergman gone?Have you ever wondered: why has no cinematographer ever sought to capture the thousands of glorious greys that define Irish skies?Thu May 07 2015 - 20:00
Rosewater review: Jon Stewart’s prisoner showA worthy enough drama about journalist arrested in Iran after cracking a few jokes on The Daily ShowThu May 07 2015 - 19:00
Top 10 Movie Girl Gangs: From Black Widows to Pink LadiesAhead of the release of the much anticipated coming-of-age drama Girlhood, we take a look at some of cinema's greatest girl gangsWed May 06 2015 - 15:57
Girlhood: a rare close-up for young black actresses in French cinemaGirlhood, set in the Paris suburbs, will make a star of Karidja Touré and is a milestone for French cinemaMon May 04 2015 - 04:00
Matthias Schoenaerts: ‘I have a very interesting problem with authority’He hates being told what to do, but Carey Mulligan’s costar in ‘Far from the Madding Crowd’ joined the film world nevertheless – and is now Hollywood’s intense, go-to period hunkSat May 02 2015 - 01:00
Argerich/Bloody Daughter review: a temperament to match her talentThe daughter of Martha Argerich has fashioned a fond documentary portrait of her piano prodigy parentFri May 01 2015 - 07:00
Two by Two review: a bit of déjà vu but a pleasing family entertainment nonethelessWhen the evenings qualify as a grand stretch, you can be sure the season for opportunistic, cheap-as-chips animations is upon usFri May 01 2015 - 06:30
8½ review: the national anthem of FelliniHalf a century on, Fellini’s hallucinogenic masterpiece is the moviest of all moviesThu Apr 30 2015 - 17:00
A Pigeon Sat in a Branch Reflecting on Existence review: Deadpan surrealism – plus the kitchen sinkA Pigeon Sat in a Branch Reflecting on Existence is the final instalment of a trilogy that began in 2000 with Songs From the Second FloorFri Apr 24 2015 - 12:41
Roy Andersson: “You can look at us with humour or fear. But we are all vulnerable”With only five features in 45 years, this iconoclastic Swede director of ‘A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence’ is willing to wait to make movies his way – no matter whose feathers get ruffledFri Apr 24 2015 - 06:30
The Falling review: combining kitchen-sink grit and otherworldly mysteryMaisie Williams stars as a schoolgirl in a tragic, quasi-Sapphic relationshipThu Apr 23 2015 - 18:00
The Salvation review: king of the wild frontierFormer Manchester United striker Eric Cantona is the law enforcer in a good old-fashioned westernFri Apr 17 2015 - 09:30
Director Carol Morley: ‘It sounds a bit mad. But it’s the only way I know.’Director Carol Morley’s new film, ‘The Falling’, chronicles a fainting epidemic at an all-girls schoolFri Apr 17 2015 - 09:30
Cry of the City review: New York noir from Robert SiodmakDresden-born director’s lesser-known story is well worth rediscoveringFri Apr 17 2015 - 08:30
Dark Horse: The Incredible True Story of Dream Alliance reviewCrowd-pleasing documentary about a classic under-horse storyFri Apr 17 2015 - 07:30
A Little Chaos review: Portrait of a landscape in need of a good weedingA film that can’t decide if it’s a love story, a portrait of grief, a comedy of manners, or if it’s just happy doing chocolate-box historical postcardsThu Apr 16 2015 - 13:36
Hot Tub Time Machine 2 review: a terminally boring sequelThe franchise that never should produces a film that just can’tFri Apr 10 2015 - 15:52
Cobain: Montage of Heck review: a brilliant portrait of a brilliant artistWhat can be said that hasn’t already been explored by earlier documentaries? Plenty, apparentlyFri Apr 10 2015 - 13:40
Keanu Reeves: ‘Did you see my movie?’As Keanu returns to action-hero duty in ‘John Wick’, Tara Brady finds him as fantastically unassuming as everFri Apr 10 2015 - 06:00
Ethan Hawke: ‘I’ve always thought of having a lot of money as a bit embarrassing’From ‘Boyhood’ to turning down Batman, the actor’s is not a typical careerFri Apr 10 2015 - 05:30
Force Majeure review: a crowd-pleasing, chatter-generating thrillerForce Majeure displays the kind of bitter disputes that can only happen in close familiesThu Apr 09 2015 - 13:44
Something Must Break review: standard-issue non-standard romanceEven in its relative infancy, the trans spectrum LGBTQ sub-genre already seems to have congealed into a familiar series of tropesFri Apr 03 2015 - 08:00
The Duff review: not quite up to Mean Girls’ standardsThe ‘designated ugly fat friend’ just looks two per cent less like Keira Knightley than the rest of the castFri Apr 03 2015 - 07:00
Noah Baumbach: filmmaker in his ‘Ray of Light’ periodTwo strikingly sunny new films confirm the New York writer-director’s gift for reinventionThu Apr 02 2015 - 16:00
Fast and Furious 7 review: much too fast, all too futileThe tragic and sudden death of actor Paul Walker is the least of this bombastic, mutton-headed sequel’s many problemsThu Apr 02 2015 - 14:00
Kenneth Branagh: ‘They thought I was the Shakespeare guy... Thor changed everything’How on Earth did Kenneth Branagh, Shakespearean protectorate, suddenly become a director of Hollywood blockbusters?Fri Mar 27 2015 - 13:11
The Tale of Princess Kaguya: a masterly feast for the eyesIsao Takahata’s gorgeous film uses dusty stories to reveal timeless prejudices and foolishnessFri Mar 27 2015 - 11:02
Wild Tales review: Stories with lots of stingArthouse cinema doesn’t get more accessible than this zany anthology filmFri Mar 27 2015 - 10:00
Get Hard review: Plenty of stereotypes on show – but also some solid performancesLatest effort from Etan Cohen takes a while to warm upFri Mar 27 2015 - 09:00
The SpongeBob Movie review: Krabby Patties in danger!Absorbent and yellow and porous is he still, our hero returns to battle scurvy fast-food pirate Burger BeardThu Mar 26 2015 - 16:00
The Last Man on the Moon review: Quite a trip | JDiff 2015This documentary does a splendid job of recalling the celebrity and hullabaloo around the space programmeTue Mar 24 2015 - 16:14
Melbourne review: A thriller with a vice-like hold | JDiff 2015Nima Javidi’s debut feature is already being talked about as this year’s ‘A Separation’Tue Mar 24 2015 - 16:09
Sorrow and Joy review: A very personal tragedy | JDiff 2015Director Nils Malmros dramatises the darkest episode of his lifeTue Mar 24 2015 - 11:15
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night review: smouldering sensuality, achingly cool | JDiff2015Mon Mar 23 2015 - 01:00
The Voices review: Look Who’s Talking for Dexter fansIn a world where the term “black comedy” is promiscuously overused, The Voices is the real dealFri Mar 20 2015 - 13:00
A Second Chance review: brilliant performances can’t disguise the ludicrous plotQuality emoting and solid direction is drowned out by baffling melodramatic twistsFri Mar 20 2015 - 12:00
The Gunman review: no way to kill timeThe Gunman wants to be Taken with a brain and without Liam NeesonFri Mar 20 2015 - 11:00
Mark Rylance: 'I remember bringing food to trees. Like bowls of milk and other things'When Mark Rylance shows up on screen he tends to steal more than the scene, whether in ‘Wolf Hall’ or his few feature films. The current king of theatre talks to Tara BradyFri Mar 20 2015 - 06:30
Court JDiff review: Human rights are a luxury few in India can afford in this gripping debut featureThu Mar 19 2015 - 01:00
Kim Cattrall: ‘Women my age have something to say’We’ll always have New York, but the actor has gone light years beyond ‘Sex and the City’ with her acclaimed new series, ‘Sensitive Skin’Wed Mar 18 2015 - 10:00
Far From the Madding Crowd review: could it be any groovier?Made in the late 1960, the many psychedelic touches make John Schesinger’s take on Thomas Hardy one of the best English literary adaptations everFri Mar 13 2015 - 16:53
Suite Française review: the second World War has never looked lovelierTo describe the central romance as Mills and Boon cheapens that imprint’s worthFri Mar 13 2015 - 12:00
X+Y review: A formula without a proofMorgan Matthews’s film is life-affirming but never quite entices the viewer into mathematicsFri Mar 13 2015 - 11:00
Robert Sheehan: ’I was largely motivated by terror, the fear of getting it completely wrong’Shaking off ‘Misfits’, the role that made him, was still necessary, Robert Sheehan tells Tara BradyFri Mar 13 2015 - 09:15
Dev Patel puts the cheeky in ChappieThe 24-year-old technophobe says his work in Neill Blomkamp’s sci-fi film ‘is probably the best acting I’ve ever done’Mon Mar 09 2015 - 01:00
