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The Cut review: A boxing film with more vomiting, weeing and, umm, self-pleasuring than actual fighting
This weight-loss picture, simultaneously weird and hackneyed, stars Orlando Bloom as an ageing slugger
At Venice film festival, it can be worth getting soaked to the underwear for a not very good movie
Jay Kelly, starring George Clooney, and After the Hunt, featuring Julia Roberts, were, respectively, pedestrian and dizzyingly incoherent
First Look: Amanda Seyfried is electrifying in Mona Fastvold’s masterly Testament of Ann Lee
The feature has premiered at Venice International Film Festival without a distributor. That deserves to be rectified
The Movie Quiz: Which Irishman has not won an acting prize at Venice?
Test your knowledge on all thing Venice International Film Festival with these 10 questions
Donald Clarke: Why it matters who wins what at the Venice International Film Festival
Donald Clarke: Why it matters who wins what at the Venice International Film Festival
Darren Aronofsky: ‘What happened over Covid was the streaming war. That’s what killed cinema’
The director’s latest film, Caught Stealing, keeps more within genre lines (this time, crime caper) than many of his other, less categorisable works such as Requiem for a Dream and Mother!
Four new films to see this week: Caught Stealing, Christy, Young Mothers and Little Trouble Girls
Austin Butler, Zoë Kravitz, Danny Power and Diarmuid Noyes feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of August 29th, 2025
First Look: Watch out for Eve Hewson in George Clooney’s cameo-stuffed new satire on stardom
Venice International Film Festival 2025: With Jay Kelly, a satire on stardom, Noah Baumbach just about gets back on track
Christy: Clattering, noisy, joyful portrait of life in a troubled north Cork suburb
Film-maker Brendan Canty’s debut feature finds the sweet spot between geezer romp and gritty social realism
The ultimate in movie-star glamour: Emma Stone, Julia Roberts and George Clooney get their speedboats ready
Venice International Film Festival 2025 is getting under way – and for Hollywood stars nothing tops arriving on a glossy motor launch
Caught Stealing review: Darren Aronofsky’s crime caper is good fun but tonally chaotic
Something happens a third of the way in that should change everything, but doesn’t
A biopic of Sinéad O’Connor? There are reasons to want what we haven’t yet got
A film about Sinéad O’Connor could prove welcome
Four new films to see this week: Sorry, Baby, The Life of Chuck, Eddington and Oslo Stories: Sex
Eva Victor, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Karen Gillan, Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal star in a quartet of movies released in the week of August 23rd, 2025
Everything and the Kitchen Sink by Simon Matthews: A survey of entertainment in pre-Beatles Britain
Though not a history of gritty realism in film and beyond, kitchen sink is certainly the prevailing mood
Pierce Brosnan interview: ‘John Huston said I was too handsome. It can get in the way’
The Irish actor, star of The Thursday Murder Club, on losing a John Huston role because of his face, the James Bond years and the state of the US
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