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Tara Brady

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La Grazia (2025) 84% 4.5/5 EDIT “Sorrentino supplies the occasional surreal house-style flourish – a drifting tear observed in zero gravity – but mostly the director leans into the quiet complexities of Servillo’s turn.” – Irish Times Mar 20, 2026 Full Review Dead Man's Wire (2025) 92% 4/5 EDIT “[Al Pacino's] presence and the use of vintage TV cameras by the film’s cinematographer, Arnaud Potier, add to the sense that we’re watching a lost 1970s thriller.” – Irish Times Mar 19, 2026 Full Review Scarlet (2025) 72% 3/5 EDIT “Hosoda’s visual imagination remains formidable. It’s impossible not to swoon at the director’s reach. ...The storytelling proves less assured.” – Irish Times Mar 13, 2026 Full Review A Pale View of Hills (2025) 61% 3.5/5 EDIT “It’s a film of visual elegance and melancholic intent, yet it often feels as elusive as the memories it seeks to dramatise.” – Irish Times Mar 12, 2026 Full Review Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man (2026) 91% 2/5 EDIT “What once felt coolly stylised now seems mannered, even silly. The cufflinks gleam from the heritage cosplay: the razor has dulled.” – Irish Times Mar 7, 2026 Full Review Báite (2025) 3.5/5 EDIT “Adapted by Sheena Lambert from her novel The Lake, Ruán Magan’s drama boasts pedigree, handsome visuals and solid, absorbing storytelling, even if its central murder mystery never quite quickens the pulse.” – Irish Times Mar 4, 2026 Full Review All You Need Is Kill (2025) 83% 4/5 EDIT “Occasionally, the 3D character animation and frame-rate stutter in the margins. But the film’s approximation of temporal confines never leaves the viewer feeling stuck in a moment.” – Irish Times Feb 26, 2026 Full Review If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) 92% 5/5 EDIT “Byrne refuses to sand down Linda’s harsher edges, yet she reveals the raw terror beneath the fury. The result is a bruising character study that challenges the audience to sift genuine catastrophe from psychic projection. ” – Irish Times Feb 22, 2026 Full Review The Secret Agent (2025) 98% 4/5 EDIT “It’s an odd arrangement: despite the languid pacing, the film evokes conspiracy chillers of the 1970s such as Three Days of the Condor and The Parallax View.” – Irish Times Feb 19, 2026 Full Review Little Amélie or the Character of Rain (2025) 98% 4.5/5 EDIT “As Amélie wrestles with death, grief and her own cultural displacement...the film swerves into the certainties of the conscious, adult world without losing its childlike lightness or comic touch.” – Irish Times Feb 12, 2026 Full Review The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie (2024) 86% 3.5/5 EDIT “This is not merely a nostalgic homage. Instead, it rechannels the mayhem of house-style architects Bob Clampett, Chuck Jones and Rod Scribner into a pleasing modern movie shape.” – Irish Times Feb 11, 2026 Full Review Twinless (2025) 97% 4.5/5 EDIT “Grief is seldom this entertaining.” – Irish Times Feb 6, 2026 Full Review My Father's Shadow (2025) 97% 4/5 EDIT “[My Father's Shadow] quietly marries personal and national histories, offering a deceptively sprawling portrait of Lagos, a family and the fragile, frantic ways people try to hold on against tyranny.” – Irish Times Feb 4, 2026 Full Review Rabbit Trap (2025) 47% 3/5 EDIT “Technically, Rabbit Trap is assured, particularly in its use of analogue equipment and dense sound design. Emotionally, though, it remains curiously hollow. ” – Irish Times Jan 29, 2026 Full Review Primate (2025) 78% 3.5/5 EDIT “[Certain moments in the film] coalesce into amusing, tense and joyfully disposable entertainment carefully calibrated for audience shrieks and merriment.” – Irish Times Jan 28, 2026 Full Review H Is for Hawk (2025) 80% 3/5 EDIT “The goshawk reminds us how enthusiastically humans project themselves on to the animal kingdom. The film reminds us how limiting these analogies can be.” – Irish Times Jan 23, 2026 Full Review No Other Choice (2025) 97% 3/5 EDIT “...the mise-en-scene is meticulous, the violence intermittently darkly comic, but the effect is tonally various and curiously blunted.” – Irish Times Jan 22, 2026 Full Review Megadeth: Behind the Mask (2026) 4/5 EDIT “As ever, Mustaine is unmistakably himself. The tunes are good, too. Godspeed, Megadeth.” – Irish Times Jan 16, 2026 Full Review The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025) 95% 4/5 EDIT “[Kaouther Ben Hania] carefully sidesteps ethical questions about the use of performance alongside archival evidence with a clear-headed chronicle of a tragedy and of wider Palestinian suffering.” – Irish Times Jan 15, 2026 Full Review People We Meet on Vacation (2026) 76% 2/5 EDIT “The seasoned comic actors Alan Ruck, Jameela Jamil and Molly Shannon are criminally underused. Colin Wilkes’s sleek costumes can’t compensate for the lack of onscreen chemistry. They might as well be wearing hazmat suits.” – Irish Times Jan 9, 2026 Full Review Oh Canada (2024) 66% 3/5 EDIT “It lacks the wild provocations of Schrader’s scalding recent trilogy, but Oh, Canada pokes and probes in quieter, sneakier ways.” – Irish Times Jan 9, 2026 Full Review Peter Hujar's Day (2025) 91% 4/5 EDIT “Whishaw’s performance is a theatrical masterclass in controlled ramble; Hall’s is the art of listening, with responses that range from concern to a slightly cocked head. ” – Irish Times Jan 2, 2026 Full Review Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros (2023) 100% 4.5/5 EDIT “Wiseman has made films about bureaucracies, city halls and cabarets, but here the institution is pleasure itself. It’s a feast that will leave many viewers ravenous.” – Irish Times Jan 2, 2026 Full Review David Bowie: The Final Act (2025) 70% 3/5 EDIT “Embraced as a musical primer, Bowie: The Final Act offers an amiable if scattershot overview that hopscotches between early Glastonbury, Ziggy Stardust and Blackstar.” – Irish Times Dec 30, 2025 Full Review Cover-Up (2025) 98% 5/5 EDIT “At a moment when truth is increasingly relative, Cover-Up acknowledges the grim continuation of the state apparatus that Hersh first exposed in the aftermath of My Lai. Without journalists of his calibre, we’d be none the wiser.” – Irish Times Dec 27, 2025 Full Review
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