Tara Brady

Tara Brady

Contributor

Tara Brady, a contributor to The Irish Times, is a writer and film critic.

Wim Wenders: Looking back through the rear-view mirror

The German film-maker on Paris, Texas; Bono; and a 50-year career as the IFI stages a retrospective

The Big Hit: Big-hearted Beckett production in a French prison

Film review: Prisoners wait for Godot in this irresistible yet undercooked film

The Black Phone: Spooky tale of child abduction and maligned spirits

Film Review: Ethan Hawke scares the kids in Blumhouse’s latest thriller

Daryl McCormack arrives as a leading man — in Good Luck to You, Leo Grande

In this sex-positive movie, McCormack plays a smooth-talking sex worker hired by Emma Thompson’s character

Pleasure: Hard-hitting drama about LA’s dark porn underbelly

Director Ninja Thyberg’s ironically titled film betrays a misogynistic and toxic industry

Lightyear: There’s no buzz to this Toy Story spin-off

A solid sci-fi concept gives way to bare adequacy and a perfunctory feel

Jacqueline Lentzou: ‘I could not find a producer because most producers here are men and they would look at me as if an alien’

The up-and-coming Greek film-maker talks about unspoken love, Tarot cards, and why she doesn’t subscribe to the so-called Weird Wave

Four new films to see in cinemas this week

Swan Song, All My Friends Hate Me, Earwig, Jurassic World Dominion

Elvis is back in the building

Baz Luhrmann on his very rhinestone, glitter-bomb version of The King

All My Friends Hate Me: A brilliant British horror-comedy of manners

When old college chums gather in a country house in Devon, there’s misunderstood jokes, inappropriate pranks and fear

Swan Song: Death has seldom been so much fun

Udo Kier puts in a career-best turn in director Todd Stephens’s impeccable odyssey

Four new films to see in cinemas this week

Men, I Am Zlatan, Olga, Bergman’s Island

Bergman Island: Despite the name, this is no masterpiece

Study of tensions among film-makers is a misfire

I am Zlatan: Engaging portrait of a true football superstar

This dramatisation of the Swedish footballer’s life will engage even non-fans

Lucile Hadzihalilovic: ‘I grew up in south Morocco ... there was not a lot of access to the cinema’

Filmmaker discusses her new, unusual, project Earwig and working with her partner