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Tara Brady

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Primate (2025) 79% 3.5/5 EDIT “[Certain moments in the film] coalesce into amusing, tense and joyfully disposable entertainment carefully calibrated for audience shrieks and merriment.” – Irish Times Jan 28, 2026 Full Review H Is for Hawk (2025) 78% 3/5 EDIT “The goshawk reminds us how enthusiastically humans project themselves on to the animal kingdom. The film reminds us how limiting these analogies can be.” – Irish Times Jan 23, 2026 Full Review No Other Choice (2025) 97% 3/5 EDIT “...the mise-en-scene is meticulous, the violence intermittently darkly comic, but the effect is tonally various and curiously blunted.” – Irish Times Jan 22, 2026 Full Review Megadeth: Behind the Mask (2026) 4/5 EDIT “As ever, Mustaine is unmistakably himself. The tunes are good, too. Godspeed, Megadeth.” – Irish Times Jan 16, 2026 Full Review The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025) 95% 4/5 EDIT “[Kaouther Ben Hania] carefully sidesteps ethical questions about the use of performance alongside archival evidence with a clear-headed chronicle of a tragedy and of wider Palestinian suffering.” – Irish Times Jan 15, 2026 Full Review People We Meet on Vacation (2026) 75% 2/5 EDIT “The seasoned comic actors Alan Ruck, Jameela Jamil and Molly Shannon are criminally underused. Colin Wilkes’s sleek costumes can’t compensate for the lack of onscreen chemistry. They might as well be wearing hazmat suits.” – Irish Times Jan 9, 2026 Full Review Oh Canada (2024) 66% 3/5 EDIT “It lacks the wild provocations of Schrader’s scalding recent trilogy, but Oh, Canada pokes and probes in quieter, sneakier ways.” – Irish Times Jan 9, 2026 Full Review Peter Hujar's Day (2025) 92% 4/5 EDIT “Whishaw’s performance is a theatrical masterclass in controlled ramble; Hall’s is the art of listening, with responses that range from concern to a slightly cocked head. ” – Irish Times Jan 2, 2026 Full Review Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros (2023) 100% 4.5/5 EDIT “Wiseman has made films about bureaucracies, city halls and cabarets, but here the institution is pleasure itself. It’s a feast that will leave many viewers ravenous.” – Irish Times Jan 2, 2026 Full Review David Bowie: The Final Act (2025) 70% 3/5 EDIT “Embraced as a musical primer, Bowie: The Final Act offers an amiable if scattershot overview that hopscotches between early Glastonbury, Ziggy Stardust and Blackstar.” – Irish Times Dec 30, 2025 Full Review Cover-Up (2025) 98% 5/5 EDIT “At a moment when truth is increasingly relative, Cover-Up acknowledges the grim continuation of the state apparatus that Hersh first exposed in the aftermath of My Lai. Without journalists of his calibre, we’d be none the wiser.” – Irish Times Dec 27, 2025 Full Review The Six Billion Dollar Man (2025) 79% 4/5 EDIT “...The Six Billion Dollar Man may be the most chilling film of 2025, not simply because of the notoriety of Julian Assange, its subject, but also as a clinical exposé of the elaborate machinery of state power, media hostility and private opportunism.” – Irish Times Dec 18, 2025 Full Review The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants (2025) 81% 4/5 EDIT “The visual gags are fresh, the jokes are funny, the world-building is disarmingly buoyant, and the musical cues, from Holiday in Cambodia to Carmina Burana, are playful.” – Irish Times Dec 17, 2025 Full Review Eleanor the Great (2025) 67% 3/5 EDIT “Squibb injects enough energy, empathy and comic timing to make Eleanor watchable even when her choices strain credibility. ” – Irish Times Dec 11, 2025 Full Review Ella McCay (2025) 22% 3/5 EDIT “At 85, Brooks retains an instinct for human foibles and complex characters, even if on this occasion the material doesn’t always live up to his cast.” – Irish Times Dec 10, 2025 Full Review Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) 91% 4/5 EDIT “...older viewers will be glad to note that this beautifully scrubbed new [3D] edition has aged rather well. That is thanks largely to the film's reliance on Stan Winston and robotics, rather than CG.” – Irish Times Dec 8, 2025 Full Review Horseshoe (2025) 4/5 EDIT “The combustible set-up is familiar: a traumatised family, a contested inheritance and a house rattling with difficult history. But Horseshoe reinvents this dog-eared premise with dark humour...” – Irish Times Dec 4, 2025 Full Review Folktales (2025) 85% 4/5 EDIT “Sequences of dog-sledding across blue-tinged frozen fields; building campfires under the aurora borealis, snowfields framed by dark and ancient trees; and tending to the school’s boisterous animals offer both visual adventure and lots of feels.” – Irish Times Dec 3, 2025 Full Review The Ice Tower (2025) 80% 5/5 EDIT “This is a seductive hinterland of dark and projected desires, and mostly, of viewing from the darkness.” – Irish Times Dec 1, 2025 Full Review Blue Moon (2025) 90% 3/5 EDIT “Richard Linklater’s Blue Moon features a luminous ensemble and arguably a career-high performance from Ethan Hawke, yet it’s hobbled by an aesthetic gamble so distracting, so patently absurd, that it nearly sinks the enterprise.” – Irish Times Dec 1, 2025 Full Review The Thing with Feathers (2025) 46% 3/5 EDIT “It’s tricky material, but what the script loses by making an actual monster it gains in small, poignant details.” – Irish Times Nov 20, 2025 Full Review Jay Kelly (2025) 75% 2/5 EDIT “Baumbach’s characteristically barbed wit too often makes way for self-indulgence and sentimentality. Ruminations on fame as a hollow, unfulfilling enterprise have all the depth of a disposable contact lens.” – Irish Times Nov 19, 2025 Full Review Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution (2025) 71% 3.5/5 EDIT “For long-time fans it’s a kinetic, fantastically violent self-referential spectacle. ...For the uninitiated, the whiplash pacing may be exhilarating.” – Irish Times Nov 14, 2025 Full Review Nuremberg (2025) 72% 3.5/5 EDIT “When the polished dialogue and meticulous staging make way for real archive footage from the camps, it’s as wrenching as it ought to be.” – Irish Times Nov 11, 2025 Full Review Train Dreams (2025) 95% 4/5 EDIT “Train Dreams may mourn a disappearing US, but, more movingly, its muted reverence salutes those nation builders who were never visible to begin with.” – Irish Times Nov 7, 2025 Full Review
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