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3/5
Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D) (2026) Chris Wasser It’s an extraordinary turn, ­immersive and spectacular, and Eilish delivers a five-star performance for the folks in attendance. If only the film around her was as good as the gig.
Posted May 07, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Trad (2025) Chris Wasser Films about teenagers finding their voice through song will never get old – and this one might be the first to channel a sweet, crowd-pleasing narrative through the lively, powerful draw of traditional Irish music.
Posted May 07, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
The Sheep Detectives (2026) Hilary A White With so many moving parts, it’s a credit to Mazin and Balda that it all stays intact, with the inter-species narrative a smooth and hearty one.
Posted May 07, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Romería (2025) Hilary A White This is a finely hewn family drama full of brittle nostalgia, where the sound of walking on eggshells becomes deafening.
Posted May 07, 2026  Edit critic review
Re-Animator (1985) Mary MacGoris The thing is ludidrous but repellant, and I regret to say that the end keeps options open for a sequel.
Posted May 04, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Once Upon a Time in a Cinema (2026) Chris Wasser ...Once Upon a Time in a Cinema is intentionally broad and undeniably cartoonish, the kind of film they used to make all the time in this country. Familiar and old-fashioned, you’ll know exactly where this thing is headed.
Posted May 02, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Hokum (2026) Chris Wasser Every great ghost story requires a pitch-black sense of humour, and Hokum is as funny as it is freaky. Scott, a pro in every department, aces the assignment.
Posted Apr 30, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
The Devil Wears Prada 2 (2026) Hilary A White Watching this new instalment, it becomes quickly apparent that that cohort will be amply catered for. It is, first and foremost, a movie for them, the true believers who have waited all this time.
Posted Apr 29, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Apex (2026) Hilary A White Take the human-quarry thrills of Deliverance or Predator and strain it through Wolf Creek’s outback dread, and you get this gory ­actioner that has “mid-tier Netflix” written all over it.
Posted Apr 23, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Exit 8 (2025) Chris Wasser Some patience is required, ­obviously. But director and co-writer Genki Kawamura crafts a compelling puzzle, and Exit 8 is the real deal, a brainy psychological frightener...
Posted Apr 23, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Rose of Nevada (2025) Hilary A White Jenkins leaves plenty of space between story and audience, compiling a tale that feels cobbled together from stained Polaroids, dream snatches and fleeting glimpses.
Posted Apr 23, 2026  Edit critic review
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) Kieran Fagan This enjoyable teen movie has wide appeal.
Posted Apr 22, 2026  Edit critic review
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) Mary MacGoris It's a very boring and distasteful day.
Posted Apr 21, 2026  Edit critic review
1/5
Michael (2026) Chris Wasser Dumb as a rock and as deep as a puddle, "Michael" is big on fantasy but short on humanity.
Posted Apr 21, 2026  Edit critic review
The Sixth Sense (1999) Philip Molloy It is difficult to understand why it should have become so much of a phenomenon in the United States.
Posted Apr 21, 2026  Edit critic review
Fight Club (1999) Philip Molloy It may seem perverse to claim that a David Fincher film, somehow, lacks visual interest but the bare-knuckle boxing scenes in Fight Club don't gain metaphorical flight.
Posted Apr 21, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
A Gorilla Story: Told by David Attenborough (2026) Pat Stacey A Gorilla Story may not be the great man’s most spectacular film. It’s certainly one of the loveliest, though.
Posted Apr 17, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Kiss of the Spider Woman (2025) Chris Wasser Here is a film that tries everything and commits to nothing. Condon and his cast give it loads, but the finished product is slow, watery and tonally uneven.
Posted Apr 16, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
The Blue Trail (2025) Hilary A White Filled with strange, tropical wonder and beguilement, The Blue Trail is one of the more unique film outings you’ll be ­gifted with this year. ­
Posted Apr 16, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Blades of the Guardians (2026) Hilary A White A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms in the Far East? Not quite, but Wuxia fans will not for a moment be left wanting.
Posted Apr 16, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Lee Cronin's The Mummy (2026) Chris Wasser Another dull Mummy flick? I’m afraid so. Cronin will have better days.
Posted Apr 16, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
undertone (2025) Chris Wasser This film feels like something of a choppy companion piece to that renowned 2007 crowd-pleaser. It’s nicely shot with excellent sound design. But a few original ideas and a tidier third act wouldn’t have hurt.
Posted Apr 10, 2026  Edit critic review
Jerry Maguire (1996) Philip Molloy Jerry Maguire cleaves into this people-selling industry with pulsating energy and sardonic wit.
Posted Apr 10, 2026  Edit critic review
James and the Giant Peach (1996) Philip Molloy It always makes the technology subservient to the story, the characters and their meaning, and it is all the better for it.
Posted Apr 10, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
The Stranger (2025) Hilary A White By provoking us to peer at these dark borders of guilt and absolution, Ozon delivers the perfect Camus adaptation.
Posted Apr 09, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
California Schemin' (2025) Hilary A White While charting a predictable course, the story about ambitious upstarts gaming the system is a timely one, with a fine little motor provided by its hard-working co-stars.
Posted Apr 09, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Father Mother Sister Brother (2025) Chris Wasser Sweet, sincere and refreshingly straightforward, Father Mother Sister Brother keeps things tidy and compassionate, and is quite unlike anything else you’ll see at the pictures this year.
Posted Apr 08, 2026  Edit critic review
The Mouthpiece (1932) Irish Independent Staff The leaders fit in admirably to the scheme of things and carry along the story with great success. Warren William is outstanding and with him are artists who work excellently individually and as a team.
Posted Apr 06, 2026  Edit critic review
The Muppet Movie (1979) Tony Hennigan If you don't like "The Muppet Movie"...then you didn't like "Gone with the Wind," "The Blue Angel," "High Noon" and any other great classic you care to name. It is a film for special animal lovers only.
Posted Apr 06, 2026  Edit critic review
The Towering Inferno (1974) Mary MacGoris The cast-list of "superstars," as they insist on calling them, looks a bit ominous but in fact the film is good. So long as you can take two-and-three-quarters hours of suspense punctuated with sudden shocks.
Posted Apr 06, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
Two Prosecutors (2025) Hilary A White [Two Prosecutors] is the work of someone dissatisfied with tired old lines in history books and adamant to dig deeper to a truth only half revealed.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026) Hilary A White ...everything is pinging and popping and smashing like some fizzed-up computer-animated dopamine delivery device. Exhausting and hollow. Mario deserves better.
Posted Apr 01, 2026  Edit critic review
Splitsville (2025) Hilary A White Splitsville can be daft and slapstick, sure, but oddly grown-up about the subject matter, as well as the art of filmmaking itself. The situations these characters are chucked into are carefully selected.
Posted Mar 27, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5 (2025) Hilary A White The effect is a lively collage of past and present, as foresight and eventuality converse and cautionary words go ignored.
Posted Mar 26, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Spilt Milk (2024) Hilary A White Brian Durnin’s debut morphs at this point from a Roddy Doyle-ish sweet-and-salty setup, to a ­grittier loss-of-innocence drama... it just about holds things in place during this tonal shift, largely thanks to anchoring in the cast...
Posted Mar 24, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Billy Idol Should Be Dead (2025) Pat Stacey That [Billy Idol is] alive and well and the subject of musician/director Jonas Åkerlund’s fantastically entertaining and sometimes quietly moving two-hour documentary is a reason to be happy.
Posted Mar 24, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
La Grazia (2025) Hilary A White Rarely do filmmaker and lead feel so mutually entwined, and while it could be argued there’s only so many times Servillo can essay a tormented Sorrentino statesman, it’s a dance that’s ­always worth turning up for.
Posted Mar 19, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
One Last Deal (2026) Chris Wasser Distasteful plot twists pile up, and Jimmy is a very difficult geezer to root for. But Dyer – an actor in the midst of a well-deserved career renaissance – embraces the chaos and plays a strong solo game. Nice dancing, too.
Posted Mar 13, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
The Love That Remains (2025) Hilary A White Godland writer-director ­Hlynur Palmason is never afraid to momentarily turn his screenplay into an art installation, meaning that while absurdist and filled with novel characterisation, he doesn’t half shy away from self-indulgence.
Posted Mar 12, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
How to Make a Killing (2026) Chris Wasser Margaret Qualley and Topher Grace lend a hand – but it’s the Powell Show, all the way, and our charming Texan friend elevates another ordinary big-screen diversion. Imagine what he could do with a real hit.
Posted Mar 12, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
Project Hail Mary (2026) Hilary A White And given that this is “hard ­sci-fi”...there’s something especially apt about how this new film aligns inspiration and formula, brains and fun, humour and high stakes in exacting ratios so that big-screen gold is alchemised before us.
Posted Mar 12, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Hoppers (2026) Hilary A White Flying sharks, multi-­species councils and maniacal caterpillars – it all gets just a bit too hare-brained, and that’s even within the parameters of its sci-fi flourishes. Big and fun, perhaps, but unusually dumb for Pixar.
Posted Mar 09, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Báite (2025) Hilary A White While guilty of slipping into melodrama in its final passages, Báite is serviceable genre fare with a committed cast ably led by O’Brien and the ever-dextrous Dunford.
Posted Mar 09, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man (2026) Chris Wasser Trim, accessible and refreshingly coherent, the film accomplishes what the final two seasons could not: it tells a proper story, it follows a straight line and it gives its cranky, chain-smoking lead a genuinely thrilling send-off.
Posted Mar 05, 2026  Edit critic review
Dog Day Afternoon (1975) Mary MacGoris It's based, by the way, on a real life episode. Which is possibly another reason why it's so dull.
Posted Mar 05, 2026  Edit critic review
Nashville (1975) Mary MacGoris We've had all the phoniness of American elections before, better done, and if we don't know all about the hollow glamour of stardom, achieved or aspiring, it's not for want of telling.
Posted Mar 05, 2026  Edit critic review
Mr. Quilp (1975) Mary MacGoris There is a considerable difference between fairy tales with magic and monsters -- usually good as well as bad -- and a set of inhuman humans.
Posted Mar 05, 2026  Edit critic review
Jaws (1975) Mary MacGoris Well, it may put you off swimming for life but it's worth it. Despite all the build-up, often suspicious, it's a very good film indeed, with director Steven Spielberg playing not only on shock value but also on an interest in character.
Posted Mar 05, 2026  Edit critic review
Barry Lyndon (1975) Mary MacGoris A good deal of the laughter comes from the director's pictures with their majestically paced evocation of the stilted artificiality of the period -- the whole film is a visual delight, in camera work, costumes, scenery, colour.
Posted Mar 05, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
The Dunblane Tapes (2026) Pat Stacey Will Stone’s deeply moving documentary, which features the testimonies of many other bereaved parents, does just enough to remind us of the horror of that day, without dwelling on it.
Posted Mar 04, 2026  Edit critic review
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