Film Reviews
Mufasa: The Lion King review – This follow-up has a hungry cash-box where its soul should be
Chasing the Light review: This agreeable Irish documentary is all peace and healing. Then something disturbing happens
Queer review: There’s not a trace of William S Burroughs in Luca Guadagnino’s hugely disappointing adaptation
By Tara Brady
The Bibi Files: Scathing portrait of Binyamin Netanyahu’s alleged history of backhanders
By Tara Brady
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim review – Enjoyably gory epic is a useful addition to Tolkien lore
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl: Rungano Nyoni’s darkly comic abuse-survival tale is a blistering original
By Tara Brady
Merchant Ivory: Stephen Soucy’s documentary lifts up the petticoats of the prestigious production house
By Tara Brady
Nightbitch: Amy Adams gives it her all, but the close of the film feels like a malign deception
Conclave: Ralph Fiennes is flawless in Robert Harris’s preposterously gripping drama of papal electioneering
All We Imagine as Light: Swooningly poetic film marks Payal Kapadia as a voice for the future
Moana 2: Entertaining Disney sequel has the best boat chases since Live and Let Die
By Tara Brady
Our Little Secret: Awkward! Lindsay Lohan’s Christmas flick may as well be AI generated
By Tara Brady
Joy: Thomasin McKenzie is luminous in a film about the journey towards test-tube babies that feels more like classy telly
By Tara Brady
Housewife of the Year: A wistful celebration of a generation of Irish women who competed for £300 and a gas stove
Wicked review: Yes, it’s a nightmare in digital wax, but you’ll leave the cinema in buoyant mood
Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point: Altmanesque seasonal comedy is a wistful riot of chatter and foods
By Tara Brady
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