Dolphin Boy review: What in the name of bejaysus are we looking at here?
The animation is horrible. The voice work is annoying. The plot can be hard to follow
The Movie Quiz: What is the name of everyone’s second-favourite Christmas film?
Plus: Who has the very first line in holiday classic It’s a Wonderful Life?
Dublin Film Critics Circle awards 2024: The Zone of Interest and Kneecap big winners
Critics also favoured Ralph Fiennes in Conclave and Mikey Madison in Palme d’Or-winning Anora
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 review: A hunk of good honest rubbish for the festive season
Jim Carrey’s antic madness is just what the Sonic films needed. He hardly seemed more committed in his give-me-an-Oscar period
Oscars 2025: Kneecap shortlisted for best international feature film and best original song
Two Irish films, TJ O’Grady-Peyton’s Room Taken and Portia A Buckley’s Clodagh, land spots in the shortlist for best live-action short
Mufasa: The Lion King review – This follow-up has a hungry cash-box where its soul should be
Never mind Disney’s classic cartoons. Its dull origin story of Simba’s father is closer to those pseudo-storytelling live-action TV shows from the 1960s
Mufasa director Barry Jenkins: I’ll say, ‘I was at the Oscars when they read out the wrong name.’ They’ll say, ‘Oh, you’re that guy!’
The film-maker’s big moment was almost eclipsed when La La Land, not Moonlight, was announced as best picture. Now his Lion King prequel is about to occupy Christmas
Ralph Fiennes at the Abbey Theatre: An electrifying, moving reading of TS Eliot’s Four Quartets
The likely triple Oscar nominee, star of Conclave, is in fluent form at the national theatre’s TS Eliot Lecture for 2024
What kind of Christmas songs are Jingle Bells and Winter Wonderland? Funny you should ask
It’s a swizz: both belong to a large class of winter songs that have been shuffled cynically on to the Christmas playlist
Four new films to see this week
Lord of the Rings anime prequel is violent fun for fans, but Luca Guadagnino’s Queer is a vacuous disappointment. Plus documentaries The Bibi Files and Chasing the Light
Dear Orson Welles & Other Essays by Mark Cousins: A generous, playful and unpretentious collection
The self-confessed ‘altar boy in the church of cinema’ propels the reader comfortably from one argument to the next
The Movie Quiz: Hackman, Spacey, Eisenberg: Who has played Lex Luthor the most often?
Plus: Which is the only Bond film to feature the singer of the theme song in an acting role?
Chasing the Light review: This agreeable Irish documentary is all peace and healing. Then something disturbing happens
Receiving a limited theatrical release, Chasing the Light is worth seeing on the big screen to savour breathtaking vistas of the Atlantic coast
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim review – Enjoyably gory epic is a useful addition to Tolkien lore
Quibbles aside, Kenji Kamiyama’s prequel is better than a place-holding animation needed to be
Daily Mail vs Kneecap: Belfast rap trio’s ‘anti-British’ film has the newspaper up in arms again
Daily Mail article headlined ‘Anti-British Irish-language movie funded by UK public money wins Best British Film gong’ is the latest salvo in the war of words with Kneecap