Oliver Sacks: His Own Life – A remarkable documentary

Film review: It may not be innovative, but this biography is still extraordinary

Herself: Delayed portrayal of housing crisis loses none of its relevance

Writer-star Clare Dunne shines in this irresistible drama

I Never Cry: A Polish-Irish comedy of difference with a revelatory lead

Piotr Domalewski’s new film works best as a showcase for the terrific Zofia Stafiej

Deerskin: Jean Dujardin excels as a man in love with his jacket

Review: Clothes maketh the man in this perplexing and darkly funny film

Black Widow: Scarlett Johansson’s Marvel swansong is a cut above

Florence Pugh steals the show in the latest, mercifully fun superhero outing in the MCU

Gunda: The uncomfortable truth about how a sausage is made

Viktor Kossakovsky’s film raises profound questions about our dominion over animals

Army of the Dead: Inventive pulp on a massive scale

Review: Zack Snyder has a ball proving trash can triumph in this zombie horror heist flick

Cowboys: Questions of identity in macho America

Film review: Strong performances carry this good-hearted road movie

Two Ways Home: A drama about bipolar disorder that might do some good

Review: Tanna Frederick is terrific in a film about mental illness that avoids preachiness

Wild Mountain Thyme director says Irish accents are hard to understand

John Patrick Shanley defends accents of Emily Blunt, Christopher Walken and Jamie Dornan

Rialto: A searing Dublin movie that will stay in your brain

Film review: Tom Vaughan-Lawlor’s towering performance lifts the film above the misery

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Chemical Hearts: Following the teen angst formula with flair

Review: The film deals with the trials of Gen Z, but could apply to any generation

The Traitor: There’s a gripping Mafia story buried somewhere in here

Film review: This true-life mafioso-turned-snitch tale thinks it’s a documentary

Dating Amber: Agreeable comedy about a fake romance in 1990s Ireland

Review: Perfectly aligned performances from the young leads hold the film aloft

Lucy in the Sky: Terrible title, curiously earthbound tale

Review: Natalie Portman is hidebound as an astronaut heading for a nervous breakdown

The Perfect Candidate: Mila Al Zahrani’s acting rescues a film slight on plot

Review: Haifaa al-Mansour returns to Saudi Arabia for a study of the pressures put upon women

Fears Xi Jinping will use coronavirus crisis to tighten his grip on China

Death of whistleblowing doctor Li Wenliang sparked uproar on Chinese social media platforms

Jumanji: The Next Level – It’s ridiculous but never stops being good fun

Review: There’s killer apes and rogue Vikings, the Dannies DeVito and Glover and there’s The Rock

Motherless Brooklyn: Edward Norton’s overlong vanity project

Review: There is a fine noir here somewhere, busting to escape the Friends of Ed Norton Cabaret

Horror classics to screen at this year’s Cork Film Festival

Programme includes documentary on feisty New Yorker writer Pauline Kael

The Day Shall Come: Chris Morris’s film may be the year’s biggest disappointment to date

Review: Morris has turned fascinating stories into the first out-and-out dud of his career

Ready or Not is an absolute hoot of a bloody horror

Review: What this lacks in characterisation, it makes up in sheer, hurtling momentum

The Kitchen: Shallow comedy with nonsensical plot

Review: Film starring Melissa McCarthy in 1970s Manhattan splutters to weak ending

Does the auteur theory hold in the era of big television?

The reality of creative control is increasingly muddy in what is a large team sport

The Chambermaid: A perfect, cinematic sketch of a working life

Review: Gabriela Cartol plays a hardworking hotel worker in Mexico, striving for better

The Cold Blue: Stunning retelling of a second World War legend

Review: The testimony of the airmen is what lingers most strongly in this documentary

Vita & Virginia: A tale of literary lovers fails to make waves

Review: Gemma Arterton and Elizabeth Debicki struggle in a strait-jacket of a script

Kind Hearts and Coronets: one of the greatest comedies ever made

The 1949 Ealing classic starring nine Alec Guinnesses is getting a welcome reissue

Cannes 2019: Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite takes Palme d’Or

Antonio Banderas is among the other winners as contentious festival draws to a close

Birds of Passage: A new classic following the Colombian drug trade

Review: An epic work of folk, gangster and other-worldly cinema about a tribal family

John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum: Keanu Reeves kills a man with a book

Review: He kills everyone whose name you don’t know. It’s a masterpiece of martial choreography

Shazam! Enjoyable movie – shame they didn’t know when to stop

Review: Too many asides and extended punch-ups drag this past the two-hour mark

Minding the Gap: The full range of documentary skills are on display

Review: There’s something iffy about the way Bing Liu edited his Oscar-nominated film

An Engineer Imagines review: A fascinating study of an Irish pioneer

Documentary on Peter Rice offers a faultless account of ‘the Joyce of structural engineering’

In a word ... laughter

My father and I were at war but peace broke out when Stan & Ollie came on TV

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Vice: Christian Bale is nuance-free as Dick Cheney

Review: The movie is never boring, but too often treats the audience like morons

Mary Queen of Scots: Apart from Saoirse Ronan it's drab and pedestrian

Review: Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie keep us awake. The director doesn’t help

Canadian sentenced to death in China for drugs to appeal

Justin Trudeau says ‘arbitrary’ change in severity of sentence is of ‘extreme concern’

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