Review: This impressive drama has the compact shape of an elegant short story

The film is aggresively apolitical but as romanticised reverie it could hardly be bettered

Scream, Memoria and Cow in cinemas, Killing Field on demand

The Monaghan star on modelling, motherhood – and becoming Kenneth Branagh’s ma

The Pope has launched a crusade against Squeaky the canary and Bowie the goldfish

Plus: Which ski resort is about to not-quite-host one of the year’s big film festivals?

Review: The Pulp Fiction star fails to add any value to this sub-Tarantino stinker

Andrea Arnold’s film shows how we have stripped the character away from animal lives

Some of Hollywood’s biggest names are among the nominees for the 28th SAG awards

Negga and Caitríona Balfe have consolidated their positions in the run-up to the Oscars

The Power of the Dog, West Side Story and Succession each scored three awards

Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog wins best drama, in a low-scoring night for the Irish

Boiling Point, A Hero, Munich: The Edge of War, The 355

Decade of brown carpets and complicated hair lives on in a long line of retro movies

Not even the Marvel Cinematic Universe attracts this degree of debate

Donald Clarke: The mellifluous Poitier didn’t just break down barriers, he was also of the great movie stars

Plus: If Rachel was once Natalie and Ansel was once Richard, then who was Rita?

One-shot drama pants grim picture of restaurant life

Diane Kruger is the one bright light in a movie that’s weighed down by clichés

People’s Republic released two highest-grossing films of 2021 after decade of growth

After the pandemic nudged back blockbusters, this year should see a wide range of releases

Benedict Cumberbatch plays yet another eccentric in this portrait of a Victorian artist

Review: Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film is enjoyable, chaotic and evocative

The future for the 007 brand is uncertain, but a full reboot is looking increasingly likely

The Tragedy of Macbeth, Lola and the Sea, The King’s Man, Being the Ricardos

Lana Wachowski fails to dream up any new moves for this tired and dated sequel

Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog dominated, scooping several awards

From a certain gabby partridge to a four hens on the batter to one genuine piper

Joel Coen delivers an expressionist version of the often-filmed drama

Push the barmy politics to one side and wallow in the imaginative absurdity

Spider-Man: No Way Home, Swan Song, The Lost Daughter, The Story of Film: A New Generation

Alternative reality is so wretched it’s a wonder anyone hangs around for the happy ending

Amid sequels and superhero flicks, there were films worth going back into theatres for

Plus: What was the supposed inspiration for Bazmark ‘Baz’ Luhrmann’s forename?

Mark Cousins offers an optimistic view of the contemporary cinema landscape

The latest outing is still lighter on its feet than most of the Marvel Comic Universe

Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast gets seven nods. Ruth Negga is also nominated for Passing

West Side Story, Don’t Look Up, Lamb, Clifford the Big Red Dog

Think the current notes are bland? The new ones will be the work of an ‘advisory group’

The performer and actor on playing the classic role of Anita in Steven Spielberg's remake

‘For all the joys of the virtual world ... there is still a special pleasure in opening up a big box full of goodies’

Plus: Whose eventful life did not generate an Oscar-winning performance?

There are decent jokes but Adam McKay’s comedy feels overstuffed

Review: Steven Spielberg revives Bernstein and Sondheim’s classic musical for the screen

Book review: Actor’s self-help memoir could make Napoleon feel unmotivated

Joaquin Phoenix in C’mon C’mon, The Hand of God, Final Account, Blue Bayou

Oscar-winning filmaker Adam McKay has a new film about the end of the world

Donald Clarke: Another season of Fairytale argy-bargy would be too much to bear

Plus: What year comes next: 1999, 2002, 2005, 1977, 1980, 1983?

Movie has tragedy at its heart but more than anything else it is one of the great ‘city films’

A worthwhile subject is undermined by everyone involved trying too hard

House of Gucci, Encanto and JFK Revisited in cinemas, Bruised on Netflix

The actor on filling Donal McCann's shoes in Faith Healer and staying off social media

Donald Clarke: Audiences have got out of the habit of seeing grown-up films in auditoriums

Plus: Translate a popular movie that was not directed by the great François Truffaut

Oliver Stone’s documentary unsurprisingly holds tight to conspiracy orthodoxy

The epic closing fight scene makes this Netflix film worth sticking with

The Power of the Dog, King Richard, Petite Maman, Drive My Car, Ghostbusters: Afterlife

The Hamilton creator reflects on his career and his debut film, Tick, Tick… Boom!

Donald Clarke: Four out of five young people say they regularly watch subtitled content

Plus: What was the notorious 2nd line in the ‘opening crawl’ of The Phantom Menace?

Film review: Jane Campion teases an impressive cast towards their best work yet

Film review: Will Smith works hard for the Oscar he will almost certainly win

The actor’s second memoir is neither tell-all nor reckoning. But it contains multitudes nonetheless

Clint Eastwood in Cry Macho, plus Tick, Tick...Boom! and Natural Light

A larg yellow bird's vaccination has been caught up in the culture wars – it’s mad, Ted

Plus: Who might belong with Charlie Parker, J Edgar Hoover and Frankie Valli?

Lin-Manuel Miranda’s first film as director requires certain leaps of faith

The 91-year-old's gift for expressing everything by doing almost nothing gets better with age

People Magazine named him ‘Sexiest Man Alive’. An Irish connection was swiftly unearthed

Spencer, The Card Counter, Love Yourself Today, Eternals

Researching this new cultural phenomenon causes only headaches

The artist on stubbornness, living in a changed Ireland and his new Abbey show

Review: The sluggishness and drabness of Marvel’s latest is unforgivable

She balances trepidation with determination in Pablo Larraín’s spaced-out fantasia

The Nomadland director on becoming Marvel’s latest prodigy, with its superhero film Eternals

Cork International Film Festival remains the best way of winding down the Irish cinematic year

Passing, Last Night in Soho, Azor, Antlers

The actor on her journey from Limerick to LA and her performance in Rebecca Hall’s Passing

Paid critics may be pompous blowhards, but at least we’ve seen the bleeding film

Just in time for Halloween, a chilling inquisition on all manner of cinematic horror

Review: Edgar Wright’s time-travel diversion explores the seedier side of the 1960s

This delicately observed portrait of racial dynamics is worth seeing in the cinema

The era’s buzziest young Irish actors have been confirmed as co-stars of Amazon’s sci-fi film

Set in London in the 60s, Edgar Wright’s film captures the seediness and grim glamour

Dune, The French Dispatch, Dear Evan Hansen, Boss Baby 2

His frank new memoir describes a difficult childhood and names Hollywood ‘a***holes’

A complex formula involving several variables dictates whether the word is appropriate

Plus: What, in Ireland, does the same job as the MPAA in the United States?

Film review: Baffling emoto-musical becomes exhausting all too quickly

Wes Anderson’s Gallic portmanteau is gorgeous but insubstantial

Dear Evan Hansen screen adaptation comes during a fraught period for the always imperilled genre

The Last Duel, Arracht, The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao, Venom: Let There Be Carnage

Timothée Chalamet’s Wonka is the latest example of trend that refuses to go away

Bond actor on shyness, Bond, and Truffaut and Godard’s influence on The French Dispatch

Plus: Add up all the Batman films with ‘Batman’ in the title since the 1989 smash