Four new films to see this week
Turgid Joker: Folie à Deux falls flat, despite Phoenix and Gaga. Plus singular dark comedy A Different Man, West Bank-set drama The Teacher, and deadpan horror comedy Humanist Vampire...
Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person: Like a very French Edward Scissorhands
Rising Québécoise star Sara Montpetit channels a young Winona Ryder as a reluctant vampire who feels compassion for her family’s victims
Agreement: No play about the Good Friday negotiations has the right to be this much fun
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Owen McCafferty’s writing cuts through the Belfast peace talks’ seriousness to find levity in personal stakes and political bluster
The Teacher: Farah Nabulsi’s Palestinian drama is powered along by terrific performances and palpable fury
The director’s compelling first feature takes cues from hostage negotiations but is more interested in common trauma than in fraught West Bank politics
Tim Roth: ‘Gary Oldman was going to Hollywood. He wanted that. I didn’t’
The British actor on Quentin Tarantino, coping with grief and working with female talent like Dutch director Désirée Nosbusch and her debut film Poison
Starjazzer: Affecting, innovative Anu adaptation marries a put-upon O’Casey heroine with her equally abused granddaughter
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Louise Lowe’s socially conscious production tells two stories at once, putting an unusual theatrical space to creative use
Four new films to see this week
Saoirse Ronan shows new strengths as a recovering alcoholic in The Outrun. Plus sweet and sensitive My Old Ass, kindly road movie Will & Harper, and Francis Coppola’s ambitious folly Megalopolis
Megalopolis or Megaflopolis? Francis Ford Coppola took 40 years to make this sci-fi epic but it misfires on the grandest scale
Adam Driver looks as if he doesn’t know whether to laugh or cry. We know exactly how he feels
My Old Ass: Aubrey Plaza deadpans as this charming low-fi sci-fi puts a fun spin on coming of age
Megan Park takes a wistful and sensitive angle on the letters-to-my-younger-self theme in this sassy comedy
Irish Hellboy star Leah McNamara: ‘At horror films I’m always the person watching between my fingers’
The actor knew nothing about the series before she was cast in Hellboy: The Crooked Man. It triggered a deep dive into witchcraft
Four new films to see this week
Bad dream horrors The Substance and Strange Darling are instant cult classics. Plus ‘tragically familiar’ Canadian abuse documentary Sugarcane and tense French drama The Goldman Case
Strange Darling: How weird is this cult sensation? There’ll never be another movie quite like it
JT Mollner’s fever-pitch dream of serial killers and Americana aims to mess with your head – and succeeds
Sugarcane: Gripping story of abuse in Catholic schools in Canada is an early Oscar favourite
Documentary details horrific cruelty towards and abuse of First Nations children in residential schools and discovery of unmarked graves
Sketcherella: This must be Dublin Fringe Festival’s funniest show
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: Erin McGathy delivers a quadruple threat of singing, wicked comic chops, costume changes and interpretive writhing
The Goldman Case: A French intellectual’s double murder trial is sensationally re-created in a thrilling courtroom drama
‘Grey areas make for great cinema,’ director Cédric Kahn says about the Pierre Goldman case