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Spilt Milk (2024) 4/5 EDIT “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...” – Irish Independent Mar 24, 2026 Full Review La Grazia (2025) 85% 4/5 EDIT “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.” – Irish Independent Mar 19, 2026 Full Review The Love That Remains (2025) 94% 4/5 EDIT “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. ” – Irish Independent Mar 12, 2026 Full Review Project Hail Mary (2026) 95% 5/5 EDIT “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.” – Irish Independent Mar 12, 2026 Full Review Hoppers (2026) 94% 3/5 EDIT “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.” – Irish Independent Mar 9, 2026 Full Review Báite (2025) 3.5/5 EDIT “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.” – Irish Independent Mar 9, 2026 Full Review Sirāt (2025) 91% 4/5 EDIT “Sirat is visually and aurally striking and wields a remarkably heightened mythological waft somewhere between Sorcerer and Fury Road.” – Irish Independent Feb 26, 2026 Full Review EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert (2025) 97% 4/5 EDIT “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.” – Irish Independent Feb 26, 2026 Full Review The Secret Agent (2025) 98% 5/5 EDIT “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.” – Irish Independent Feb 19, 2026 Full Review Crime 101 (2026) 89% 3/5 EDIT “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.” – Irish Independent Feb 12, 2026 Full Review It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley (2025) 98% 4/5 EDIT “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. ” – Irish Independent Feb 12, 2026 Full Review My Father's Shadow (2025) 97% 4/5 EDIT “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.” – Irish Independent Feb 6, 2026 Full Review Send Help (2026) 93% EDIT “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.” – Irish Independent Feb 4, 2026 Full Review Song Sung Blue (2025) 77% 4/5 EDIT “Jackman and Hudson are a dream combo in a story that isn’t afraid to take us to dark and difficult junctures. ” – Irish Independent Jan 2, 2026 Full Review Marty Supreme (2025) 93% 5/5 EDIT “[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.” – Irish Independent Jan 2, 2026 Full Review David Bowie: The Final Act (2025) 70% 3/5 EDIT “...Stiasny’s more conventional documentary sometimes struggles to keep its feet on the ground, neither comprehensive enough to be a rounded career retrospective, nor cleanly focused enough on that final journey towards Blackstar.” – Sunday Independent (Ireland) Dec 30, 2025 Full Review Sentimental Value (2025) 95% 5/5 EDIT “...[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.” – Irish Independent Dec 30, 2025 Full Review Goodbye June (2025) 64% 4/5 EDIT “You’d need to be hard of heart to discard this star-studded hymn that salutes not only the malleability of family bonds but also the incredible staff on our hospital floors (take a bow, Fisayo ­Akinade, as June’s nurse).” – Sunday Independent (Ireland) Dec 16, 2025 Full Review Silent Night, Deadly Night (2025) 77% 3/5 EDIT “It mightn’t win awards, but it lands moments of daft mayhem, especially when writer-­director Mike P. Nelson camps it up.” – Sunday Independent (Ireland) Dec 16, 2025 Full Review Eleanor the Great (2025) 66% 3/5 EDIT “A pretty decent way for ­Johansson to open her directorial account, all told.” – Sunday Independent (Ireland) Dec 12, 2025 Full Review Ella McCay (2025) 24% 2/5 EDIT “What begins as an old-school character study of a woman breaking through the patriarchy through hard work and gumption turns into a muddled, unfocused caper that seems to be constantly bailing out water. A big mess.” – Sunday Independent (Ireland) Dec 12, 2025 Full Review It Was Just an Accident (2025) 98% 5/5 EDIT “Any semblance of a bemusing road-trip drama about possible mistaken identity turns into an altogether darker commentary on state repression, torture and trauma. As only Panahi can do.” – Sunday Independent (Ireland) Dec 4, 2025 Full Review Horseshoe (2025) 3.5/5 EDIT “Some scenes do veer close to jumping the shark, but it makes great use of a committed cast and sweeping Sligo backdrops.” – Sunday Independent (Ireland) Dec 4, 2025 Full Review Blue Moon (2025) 90% 4/5 EDIT “Even for a filmmaker as prone to nostalgia as Linklater, Blue Moon luxuriates in a golden-age patina before showing us that it was still a realm of broken dreams, disillusionment and merciless market whims.” – Sunday Independent (Ireland) Dec 3, 2025 Full Review Zootopia 2 (2025) 91% 4/5 EDIT “Whip-smart, cannily tooled, and littered with winks at Hollywood classics (everything from Ratatouille to The Shining), this humdinger from Jared Bush and Byron Howard is a big fat win for the Mouse House.” – Sunday Independent (Ireland) Dec 3, 2025 Full Review
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