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4/5
La Grazia (2025) Hilary A White Rarely do filmmaker and lead feel so mutually entwined, and while it could be argued there’s only so many times Servillo can essay a tormented Sorrentino statesman, it’s a dance that’s ­always worth turning up for.
Posted Mar 19, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
One Last Deal (2026) Chris Wasser Distasteful plot twists pile up, and Jimmy is a very difficult geezer to root for. But Dyer – an actor in the midst of a well-deserved career renaissance – embraces the chaos and plays a strong solo game. Nice dancing, too.
Posted Mar 13, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
The Love That Remains (2025) Hilary A White Godland writer-director ­Hlynur Palmason is never afraid to momentarily turn his screenplay into an art installation, meaning that while absurdist and filled with novel characterisation, he doesn’t half shy away from self-indulgence.
Posted Mar 12, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
How to Make a Killing (2026) Chris Wasser Margaret Qualley and Topher Grace lend a hand – but it’s the Powell Show, all the way, and our charming Texan friend elevates another ordinary big-screen diversion. Imagine what he could do with a real hit.
Posted Mar 12, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
Project Hail Mary (2026) Hilary A White And given that this is “hard ­sci-fi”...there’s something especially apt about how this new film aligns inspiration and formula, brains and fun, humour and high stakes in exacting ratios so that big-screen gold is alchemised before us.
Posted Mar 12, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Hoppers (2026) Hilary A White Flying sharks, multi-­species councils and maniacal caterpillars – it all gets just a bit too hare-brained, and that’s even within the parameters of its sci-fi flourishes. Big and fun, perhaps, but unusually dumb for Pixar.
Posted Mar 09, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Báite (2025) Hilary A White While guilty of slipping into melodrama in its final passages, Báite is serviceable genre fare with a committed cast ably led by O’Brien and the ever-dextrous Dunford.
Posted Mar 09, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man (2026) Chris Wasser Trim, accessible and refreshingly coherent, the film accomplishes what the final two seasons could not: it tells a proper story, it follows a straight line and it gives its cranky, chain-smoking lead a genuinely thrilling send-off.
Posted Mar 05, 2026  Edit critic review
Dog Day Afternoon (1975) Mary MacGoris It's based, by the way, on a real life episode. Which is possibly another reason why it's so dull.
Posted Mar 05, 2026  Edit critic review
Nashville (1975) Mary MacGoris We've had all the phoniness of American elections before, better done, and if we don't know all about the hollow glamour of stardom, achieved or aspiring, it's not for want of telling.
Posted Mar 05, 2026  Edit critic review
Mr. Quilp (1975) Mary MacGoris There is a considerable difference between fairy tales with magic and monsters -- usually good as well as bad -- and a set of inhuman humans.
Posted Mar 05, 2026  Edit critic review
Jaws (1975) Mary MacGoris Well, it may put you off swimming for life but it's worth it. Despite all the build-up, often suspicious, it's a very good film indeed, with director Steven Spielberg playing not only on shock value but also on an interest in character.
Posted Mar 05, 2026  Edit critic review
Barry Lyndon (1975) Mary MacGoris A good deal of the laughter comes from the director's pictures with their majestically paced evocation of the stilted artificiality of the period -- the whole film is a visual delight, in camera work, costumes, scenery, colour.
Posted Mar 05, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
The Dunblane Tapes (2026) Pat Stacey Will Stone’s deeply moving documentary, which features the testimonies of many other bereaved parents, does just enough to remind us of the horror of that day, without dwelling on it.
Posted Mar 04, 2026  Edit critic review
1/5
THE BRIDE! (2026) Chris Wasser It’s an ugly, irritating film, the kind that makes good performers look bad. Buckley, a victim of shoddy writing and toneless direction, deserves better.
Posted Mar 04, 2026  Edit critic review
Braveheart (1995) Philip Molloy The battle scenes, which are among the best ever seen on film, are absolutely crucial to the success of the movie. Braveheart truly deserves the description 'epic.'
Posted Feb 27, 2026  Edit critic review
The Quick and the Dead (1995) Philip Molloy No matter how many fancy ways Raimi invents to stage the shootouts, the tedium is quick in coming and there is nothing else going on between times to build suspense or interest in the characters.
Posted Feb 26, 2026  Edit critic review
Apollo 13 (1995) Philip Molloy Amazingly, for someone who has shown such a recurring interest in the state of the American family, [Ron Howard] has had very little of significance to say about it.
Posted Feb 26, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Sirāt (2025) Hilary A White Sirat is visually and aurally striking and wields a remarkably heightened mythological waft somewhere between Sorcerer and Fury Road.
Posted Feb 26, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert (2025) Hilary A White Luhrmann’s film is a jamboree that succeeds in ways that his 2022 biopic couldn’t, harmonising the director’s customary flourish with that of his subject.
Posted Feb 26, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Scream 7 (2026) Chris Wasser Dull for the first half and confusing in the second, Scream 7 is utterly preposterous and entirely inconsequential; a horror without brains, wit and imagination.
Posted Feb 26, 2026  Edit critic review
Sense and Sensibility (1995) Philip Molloy The most striking aspect of this film is its poise. Thompson, who has spent five years adapting the book, has posited the regular Austen dilemmas of head and heart exquisitely between comedy and melodrama.
Posted Feb 25, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
Paul McCartney: Man on the Run (2025) Chris Wasser McCartney’s golden commentary anchors and enriches this riveting and rewarding project.
Posted Feb 25, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
Cecil: The Lion and the Dentist (2026) Pat Stacey Safari tourists are sold an illusion of the real Africa, while trophy hunting feeds the macho delusions of the Palmers of this world, who imagine they’re going head-to-head with wild beasts.
Posted Feb 24, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
The Secret Agent (2025) Hilary A White Filho gives every dotty fringe character or setup all the time they need, and the effect, while a lengthy 160 minutes, is one of deep and heady immersion, like walking through a collective memory.
Posted Feb 19, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Cold Storage (2026) Chris Wasser Goofy, scrappy and unforgivably chatty, Cold Storage could do with some sharper jokes and bigger scares.
Posted Feb 19, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) Chris Wasser It’s all close-ups and close calls, arguments and tantrums, and this stressful, feverish film will have you sweating.
Posted Feb 19, 2026  Edit critic review
Chocolat (2000) Philip Molloy You will get the point of Chocolat early on -- the character which are introduced signpost exactly how Hallström will go about making it -- but you have to admire the restraint with which he sets about it.
Posted Feb 17, 2026  Edit critic review
Pretty in Pink (1986) Mary MacGoris A pretty gruesome film.
Posted Feb 14, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Crime 101 (2026) Hilary A White The car chases are a little undercooked and the payoff in the finale might not be quite worth the ticket fare, but that all-star cast as well as some flavoursome LA-noir tension is where ground is made up.
Posted Feb 12, 2026  Edit critic review
1/5
Whistle (2025) Chris Wasser Janky visual effects lower the tone and there is a sense throughout of Hardy and Egerton making up the rules – and the dialogue – as they go along. Do ­yourself a favour and rewatch Final ­Destination instead.
Posted Feb 12, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley (2025) Hilary A White Rather than reams of talking heads giving their two cents, Amy Berg wisely frames her gilded documentary scrapbook around the women in [Jeff Buckley's] life, from mother Mary Guibert to Buckley’s ­romantic partners.
Posted Feb 12, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Wuthering Heights (2026) Chris Wasser You don’t make a film this showy, this unapologetically raunchy without hoping for a big reaction. It’s on the way, I’d bet. Just don’t go taking any of it too seriously.
Posted Feb 09, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
A Quiet Love (2025) Chris Wasser Big topics – too big for a shared space, perhaps – and this eager, heartfelt documentary sometimes gets in its own way. But you’ll be glad you watched it.
Posted Feb 06, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
The Muppet Show (2026) Pat Stacey This is the Muppet show, just as we remember it from the old days.
Posted Feb 06, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
My Father's Shadow (2025) Hilary A White In his Cannes-winning feature debut, [Akinola Davies] has crafted something quite special, and nails that elusive trick of finding the universal in the particular.
Posted Feb 06, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
Twinless (2025) Chris Wasser The less you know about this one, the better. Intelligent and inventive, Sweeney’s unconventional grief comedy is full of surprises and is next-to-impossible to discuss without spoiling.
Posted Feb 06, 2026  Edit critic review
A Face in the Crowd (1957) Irish Independent Staff Kazan's aim is to show how a gullible public can be tricked by such a person and the tactics that slick advertisers and politicians use to exploit him for their own corrupt ends.
Posted Feb 05, 2026  Edit critic review
Send Help (2026) Hilary A White This corporate take on Lord of the Flies (blatantly foreshadowed by the discovery of a conch shell early on) is unlikely to surge Raimi back to the top tier, but he and writers Damian Shannon and Mark Swift have terrific fun where the premise allows.
Posted Feb 04, 2026  Edit critic review
Camille (1936) Irish Independent Staff On the stage it has been illuminated by the genius of Bernhardt and Eleanora Duse: now the screen's greatest actress [Greta Garbo] has crowned her acting career by a really worthy interpretation of this exalting and difficult part in the film Camille.
Posted Feb 04, 2026  Edit critic review
Misery (1990) Mary MacGoris The whole piece, adroitly directed by Rob Reiner, grips like super-glue in a measured accumulation of tongue-in-cheek tension.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
Babe (1995) Philip Molloy The Australian cinema has thrown up its share of oddities over the years, none more so than the likeable comedy Babe.
Posted Jan 20, 2026  Edit critic review
The American President (1995) Philip Molloy The American President does work. If Reiner brings anything to his movies it is a refined sense of what will play.
Posted Jan 20, 2026  Edit critic review
The Secret of Me (2025) Pat Stacey Depressingly, so-called corrective surgeries for intersex children still occur in most countries, and Money’s theories still appear in medical textbooks.
Posted Jan 20, 2026  Edit critic review
The Rip (2026) Ann Marie Hourihane The Rip is so bad that it is tempting to say that no one will watch it.
Posted Jan 16, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Rental Family (2025) Chris Wasser It shouldn’t work, but there isn’t another actor in the world who could take such a sappy and implausible premise and turn it into something genuinely uplifting.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) Pat Stacey The magnitude of what Jackson and everyone else involved in The Lord of the Rings have accomplished can't be overstated. It's the trilogy to rule them all.
Posted Jan 14, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) Chris Wasser Instead, screenwriter Garland and DaCosta (hired to direct a zombie film with very few zombies) prioritise this icky Jimmy nonsense. It’s an unfortunate misstep, nasty and mean-spirited, and there isn’t much O’Connell can do to help.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) Pat Stacey It comprehensively blows away any lingering doubts about whether Jackson could equal the achievement of "Fellowship". He hasn't just equalled it, he's surpassed it.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) Philip Molloy [Peter Jackson] has pulled it off. While the movie honours the text, you don't feel that it has been enslaved by it. The Fellowship of the Ring has the pace and dramatic balance and visual flair of a movie.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
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