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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
Braveheart (1995) Philip Molloy The battle scenes, which are among the best ever seen on film, are absolutely crucial to the success of the movie. Braveheart truly deserves the description 'epic.'
Posted Feb 27, 2026  Edit critic review
The Quick and the Dead (1995) Philip Molloy No matter how many fancy ways Raimi invents to stage the shootouts, the tedium is quick in coming and there is nothing else going on between times to build suspense or interest in the characters.
Posted Feb 26, 2026  Edit critic review
Apollo 13 (1995) Philip Molloy Amazingly, for someone who has shown such a recurring interest in the state of the American family, [Ron Howard] has had very little of significance to say about it.
Posted Feb 26, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Sirāt (2025) Hilary A White Sirat is visually and aurally striking and wields a remarkably heightened mythological waft somewhere between Sorcerer and Fury Road.
Posted Feb 26, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert (2025) Hilary A White Luhrmann’s film is a jamboree that succeeds in ways that his 2022 biopic couldn’t, harmonising the director’s customary flourish with that of his subject.
Posted Feb 26, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Scream 7 (2026) Chris Wasser Dull for the first half and confusing in the second, Scream 7 is utterly preposterous and entirely inconsequential; a horror without brains, wit and imagination.
Posted Feb 26, 2026  Edit critic review
Sense and Sensibility (1995) Philip Molloy The most striking aspect of this film is its poise. Thompson, who has spent five years adapting the book, has posited the regular Austen dilemmas of head and heart exquisitely between comedy and melodrama.
Posted Feb 25, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
Paul McCartney: Man on the Run (2025) Chris Wasser McCartney’s golden commentary anchors and enriches this riveting and rewarding project.
Posted Feb 25, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
Cecil: The Lion and the Dentist (2026) Pat Stacey Safari tourists are sold an illusion of the real Africa, while trophy hunting feeds the macho delusions of the Palmers of this world, who imagine they’re going head-to-head with wild beasts.
Posted Feb 24, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
The Secret Agent (2025) Hilary A White Filho gives every dotty fringe character or setup all the time they need, and the effect, while a lengthy 160 minutes, is one of deep and heady immersion, like walking through a collective memory.
Posted Feb 19, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Cold Storage (2026) Chris Wasser Goofy, scrappy and unforgivably chatty, Cold Storage could do with some sharper jokes and bigger scares.
Posted Feb 19, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) Chris Wasser It’s all close-ups and close calls, arguments and tantrums, and this stressful, feverish film will have you sweating.
Posted Feb 19, 2026  Edit critic review
Chocolat (2000) Philip Molloy You will get the point of Chocolat early on -- the character which are introduced signpost exactly how Hallström will go about making it -- but you have to admire the restraint with which he sets about it.
Posted Feb 17, 2026  Edit critic review
Pretty in Pink (1986) Mary MacGoris A pretty gruesome film.
Posted Feb 14, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Crime 101 (2026) Hilary A White The car chases are a little undercooked and the payoff in the finale might not be quite worth the ticket fare, but that all-star cast as well as some flavoursome LA-noir tension is where ground is made up.
Posted Feb 12, 2026  Edit critic review
1/5
Whistle (2025) Chris Wasser Janky visual effects lower the tone and there is a sense throughout of Hardy and Egerton making up the rules – and the dialogue – as they go along. Do ­yourself a favour and rewatch Final ­Destination instead.
Posted Feb 12, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley (2025) Hilary A White Rather than reams of talking heads giving their two cents, Amy Berg wisely frames her gilded documentary scrapbook around the women in [Jeff Buckley's] life, from mother Mary Guibert to Buckley’s ­romantic partners.
Posted Feb 12, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Wuthering Heights (2026) Chris Wasser You don’t make a film this showy, this unapologetically raunchy without hoping for a big reaction. It’s on the way, I’d bet. Just don’t go taking any of it too seriously.
Posted Feb 09, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
A Quiet Love (2025) Chris Wasser Big topics – too big for a shared space, perhaps – and this eager, heartfelt documentary sometimes gets in its own way. But you’ll be glad you watched it.
Posted Feb 06, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
The Muppet Show (2026) Pat Stacey This is the Muppet show, just as we remember it from the old days.
Posted Feb 06, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
My Father's Shadow (2025) Hilary A White In his Cannes-winning feature debut, [Akinola Davies] has crafted something quite special, and nails that elusive trick of finding the universal in the particular.
Posted Feb 06, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
Twinless (2025) Chris Wasser The less you know about this one, the better. Intelligent and inventive, Sweeney’s unconventional grief comedy is full of surprises and is next-to-impossible to discuss without spoiling.
Posted Feb 06, 2026  Edit critic review
A Face in the Crowd (1957) Irish Independent Staff Kazan's aim is to show how a gullible public can be tricked by such a person and the tactics that slick advertisers and politicians use to exploit him for their own corrupt ends.
Posted Feb 05, 2026  Edit critic review
Send Help (2026) Hilary A White This corporate take on Lord of the Flies (blatantly foreshadowed by the discovery of a conch shell early on) is unlikely to surge Raimi back to the top tier, but he and writers Damian Shannon and Mark Swift have terrific fun where the premise allows.
Posted Feb 04, 2026  Edit critic review
Camille (1936) Irish Independent Staff On the stage it has been illuminated by the genius of Bernhardt and Eleanora Duse: now the screen's greatest actress [Greta Garbo] has crowned her acting career by a really worthy interpretation of this exalting and difficult part in the film Camille.
Posted Feb 04, 2026  Edit critic review
Misery (1990) Mary MacGoris The whole piece, adroitly directed by Rob Reiner, grips like super-glue in a measured accumulation of tongue-in-cheek tension.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
Babe (1995) Philip Molloy The Australian cinema has thrown up its share of oddities over the years, none more so than the likeable comedy Babe.
Posted Jan 20, 2026  Edit critic review
The American President (1995) Philip Molloy The American President does work. If Reiner brings anything to his movies it is a refined sense of what will play.
Posted Jan 20, 2026  Edit critic review
The Secret of Me (2025) Pat Stacey Depressingly, so-called corrective surgeries for intersex children still occur in most countries, and Money’s theories still appear in medical textbooks.
Posted Jan 20, 2026  Edit critic review
The Rip (2026) Ann Marie Hourihane The Rip is so bad that it is tempting to say that no one will watch it.
Posted Jan 16, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Rental Family (2025) Chris Wasser It shouldn’t work, but there isn’t another actor in the world who could take such a sappy and implausible premise and turn it into something genuinely uplifting.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) Pat Stacey The magnitude of what Jackson and everyone else involved in The Lord of the Rings have accomplished can't be overstated. It's the trilogy to rule them all.
Posted Jan 14, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) Chris Wasser Instead, screenwriter Garland and DaCosta (hired to direct a zombie film with very few zombies) prioritise this icky Jimmy nonsense. It’s an unfortunate misstep, nasty and mean-spirited, and there isn’t much O’Connell can do to help.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) Pat Stacey It comprehensively blows away any lingering doubts about whether Jackson could equal the achievement of "Fellowship". He hasn't just equalled it, he's surpassed it.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) Philip Molloy [Peter Jackson] has pulled it off. While the movie honours the text, you don't feel that it has been enslaved by it. The Fellowship of the Ring has the pace and dramatic balance and visual flair of a movie.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
Out of the Past (1947) Irish Independent Staff For popular entertainment of the type that sustains itself on a blend of wisecracking and sudden death, this film is about made to measure.
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Alice in Wonderland (1951) Irish Independent Staff The pattern of madness is lost. It is possibly this absence of pattern that takes most away from the screen's achievement and leaves us with the impression of having experienced a restless dream rather than a quiet snooze on a summer afternoon.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
The Sure Thing (1985) Mary MacGoris Love will find a way, as it's always been perfectly obvious it's going to do in this film.
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
Orphans (1987) Irish Independent Staff It's very convincingly acted and well directed with a fine sense of claustrophobia by Alan J. Pakula. All quite sad, basically sentimental but ultimately depressing.
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
The Princess Bride (1987) Irish Independent Staff It's all a bit like The Magic Flute mixed with Gilbert and Sullivan mixed with Grimm mixed with Noel Coward, and you don't have the music to bother you.
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Song Sung Blue (2025) Hilary A White Jackman and Hudson are a dream combo in a story that isn’t afraid to take us to dark and difficult junctures.
Posted Jan 02, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
Marty Supreme (2025) Hilary A White [Timothée Chalamet] is outstanding as the never-say-die anti-hero you’ll want to both cheer on and strangle, often in the space of a single scene.
Posted Jan 02, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
Sentimental Value (2025) Hilary A White ...[Stellan Skarsgård's] performance here as the incorrigible, impatient movie helmsman who struggles outside the ordered hierarchy of a film set, is a delicate and vulnerable turn that will remind the world why is truly one of the greats.
Posted Dec 30, 2025  Edit critic review
Born That Way (2025) Ann Marie Hourihane The film raises serious questions about how we want people with disabilities – or maybe just people – to be treated by our authorities and our health and welfare systems.
Posted Dec 19, 2025  Edit critic review
Hook (1991) Mary MacGoris On the whole, it's a fearful farrago.
Posted Dec 19, 2025  Edit critic review
The Abyss (1989) Mary MacGoris I found The Abyss quite rivetting.
Posted Dec 10, 2025  Edit critic review
Buried Alive (2025) Pat Stacey The story of [Mick Meaney's] surreal stunt and its aftermath is told with enormous warmth, humour and poignancy in Daire Collins’s superb bilingual documentary Buried Alive...
Posted Nov 24, 2025  Edit critic review
Train Dreams (2025) Ann Marie Hourihane Train Dreams is not big and it is not clever. It’s almost as if it is an inaction movie. But it is interesting and it is straight talking, and of course the scenery, as in all Westerns, is beautiful.
Posted Nov 24, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Wicked: For Good (2025) Chris Wasser Chu’s misshapen sequel encounters an unfortunate narrative conundrum: how to tell its own story when a better one is playing out in the background. It can’t be done.
Posted Nov 18, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Kenny Dalglish (2025) Chris Wasser Academy Award-winning filmmaker Asif Kapadia (Amy, ­Senna) manages this extraordinarily moving documentary which successfully captures the spirit, generosity and talent of a proper footballing hero.
Posted Oct 30, 2025  Edit critic review
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