The Irish Times what-to-see guide to the movies now in cinemas across Ireland

Why does a bodice ripper about Nicholas II have Russians setting fire to the director’s office?

To eat at Jeong Kwan’s, one must have embarked fully on the road to spiritual enlightenment – which makes it an easier booking than Noma

An economically suffering Britain falls under the influence of fascist rule. Thankfully nothing as unsettling as the BBC’s gripping alternative history could happen in reality. Wait a minute . . .

The Cannes crowd react to a ghost story with no scares and a psychological drama with no grip

The festival opens with the Schaubuhne’s riveting and dangerous production of Hamlet. Though this be madness, yet there’s method in it

A thrillingly raw production of ‘Hamlet’ from Berlin’s Schaubühne theatre gives Shakespeare’s famously unstable character a licence to improvise. Is its famously iconoclastic director in complete control?