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À L'abordage: part road movie, part Rohmer-esque account of youthful amours

À L'abordage and young love's sweet song of the South

Felix, a young nurse, falls in love with a girl named Alma at an open-air party by the Seine and follows her, though uninvited, to ...

Movies • 13 Nov 20

Irish actress Lauren Coe plays the beleagured young teenager Laurie in Nocturnal

Nocturnal upends the cliche about fatherhood and flight

Bleak and intense, Nocturnal is mildly creepy but curiously credible, upending the lazy cliche viz a viz so-called irresponsible fathers who, it is believed, scarper ...

Movie Review • 18 Sep 20

Ingvar Sigurdsson and Ída Mekkín Hlynsdóttir in A White, White Day

A White, White Day's slow-burn revenge drama

The tormented policeman Ingimundir tries to hold things together in a starkly remote Icelandic outpost before the desire for revenge takes over in Hlynur Palmason's ...

Movie Review • 04 Sep 20

Max Richter performs SLEEP
(Photo Rahi Rezvani)

Wide awake in America with Max Richter's SLEEP

The film Max Richter's SLEEP introduces composer and musician Max Richter and his creative partner Yulia Mahr as a performance of his celebrated eight-hour opus ...

Movie Review • 04 Sep 20

Pink-cropped Freddy is stalled at a half-way stage as he dreams of becoming a genuine, fully-grown wolf

100% Wolf and Freddy's dream of being all grown-up

Freddy Lupin is the young werewolf desperate to become 100% Wolf, or, if you like an awkward young teenager anxious to be fully grown in ...

Entertainment • 31 Jul 20

Broken Law's Cain & Abel conflicted brothers theme

Broken Law is a strikingly engaging movie with an interesting premise and a compelling story of two brothers trying to stay on the right side ...

Movie Review • 29 Jul 20

Six people walk into a lift and mayhem ensues

The bleakly humorous Lift is an elevating experience

Smart and hard-edged and set in centre-city Dublin, Lift elicits to full effect the black humour involved when six people get stuck in a lift ...

Film Reviews • 14 Jul 20

When All is Ruin Once Again: poignant admonitory note about the Earth and its ecology

When All is Ruin Once Again: A poignant warning note

When All is Ruin Again draws near to poet WB Yeats' tower at Thoorballylee, cleaving close to a poetic vision of destiny, of generations passing, ...

Reviews • 18 Apr 20

You want it darker? Then you got Downhill

Will Ferrell plays it dark in Downhill

This thought-provoking remake of Ruben Östlund's 2014 Swedish-language film Force Majeure deftly juggles dark passages with oddly comic counterbalance

Movies • 25 Feb 20

Harrison Ford as John Thornton and his beloved dog Buck in The Call of the Wild

The Call of the Wild is doggone good

This fascinating adaptation of Jack London's classic 1903 novel, set in Canadian Yukon territory in the 1890s is a must-see.

Movies • 19 Feb 20

Jihad Jane aka Colleen R LaRose following her release from prison as she appears in Ciaran Cassidy's documentary

Jihad Jane and the Waterford link in new documentary

Ciaran Cassidy's fascinating documentary, Jihad Jane, hears the stories of two American women who were imprisoned following charges related to terrorist conspiracy in 2010.

Movies • 17 Feb 20

It's a risky climb but they're upwardly mobile: the Kim family in Parasite

Parasite: worth seeing if only for after-screen debate

Winner of four Oscars, Palme d'Or 2019 and Best Foreign Motion Picture at the Golden Globes, Parasite boldly attempts satire about Seoul's haves and have-nots.

Movie Review • 17 Feb 20

Blake Lively and Jude Law in The Rhythm Section

The Rhythm Section is Bond-lite and little else

Replace Liam Neeson with Blake Lively and what you have in The Rhythm Section is essentially another Taken movie. The film wants to be both ...

Movie Review • 29 Jan 20

Film review: The Personal History of David Copperfield

Everyone is on top form in Armando Iannucci's joyous adaptation of the Dickens' classic.

Movies • 23 Jan 20

Kristen Stewart plays the actress Jean Seberg in this tasteful recreation of her tragic Hollywood years

Seberg: a brilliant tour de force from Kristen Stewart

Seberg is a thoughtfully intelligent film, dealing with American actress Jean Seberg's tragic Hollywood years, 1968 to 1971, following her reinvention as a Parisian star ...

Movie Review • 10 Jan 20

Vincent Lacoste and Isaure Multrier in Amanda

Amanda and a Parisian idyll shattered

Amanda has that pressing, anticipatory feel of a Michael Haneke movie, an air of slightly smug urban contentment about to be shattered.

Movie Review • 02 Jan 20

Long Day's Journey Into Night

Dense and layered, inscrutable and withholding of its essence, Long Day's Journey into Night (not to be confused with the Eugene O'Neill play of the ...

Movie Review • 28 Dec 19

Imelda Marcos - in Lauren Greenfield's film, she is 86, and engineering a return to power for the Marcos dynasty

The Kingmaker - Imelda and the 'conjugal dictatorship'

Lauren Greenfield's latest film shows how the Marcos legacy endures and is linked with current President Duterte's regime as family scion Ferdinand 'Bong Bong' Marcos ...

Movie Reviews • 19 Dec 19

Viktoria Miroshnichenko as Iya in Beanpole

Beanpole's relentless bleakness fails to grasp

Beanpole should in theory work as a cinematic enterprise and its intense performances will certainly move those who without effort directly engage with its trauma, ...

Movies • 08 Jan 20

So Long, My Son - The pain imposed by China's One-Child Policy explored in Wang Xiaoshuai's masterpiece

So Long, My Son: a deeply moving Chinese drama

So Long, My Son, whose original title in Mandarin is Di Jiu Tian Chang, is an easily accessible, beautifully-wrought work of cinema whose universal human ...

Movie Review • 12 Dec 19

Knives Out: infantile slapstick in Agatha Christie mode

Knives Out is a trite, pale comedy that tries to be as infantile as it can be within the bounds of adult entertainment.

Movie Review • 27 Nov 19

Like Spotlight, The Report is solid but not exceptional

Hot on the heels of the engaging satire, The Laundromat, comes The Report, another Steven Soderbergh/Scott Z Burns collaboration. However, both films could not be ...

Movies • 22 Nov 19

Head to Head: The great German film director Werner Herzog in one of the interviews for Meeting Gorbachev

Herzog's Meeting Gorbachev - the triumph of failure

The German film-maker Werner Herzog met Mikhail Gorbachev on three occasions to speak to him about his life, notably the period when he was General ...

Movies • 06 Nov 19

By the Grace of God: disquieting drama from France

By the Grace of God: a French clerical sex scandal

Disquieting to watch, and based on real events, By the Grace of God recreates the explosive fallout in France in 2015 and 2016 when abusers ...

Film Review • 24 Oct 19

Roger Doyle performs Adolf Gebler, in St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, the final sequence in Brian Lally's absorbing film

The Curious Works of Roger Doyle: moving and brilliant

Composer Roger Doyle has always been a maverick of musical sonorities in this country and he is more than content to be doing his own ...

Movies • 24 Oct 19

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