All articles by Fionnuala Halligan
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Reviews‘Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning’ review: Spy franchise wraps a self-regarding double bill
Simon Pegg, Hayley Atwell and Ving Rhames return for a sequel that’s more stunt than substance
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FeaturesThe lowdown on all the Cannes 2025 titles
Screen profiles all the films in the Cannes Film Festival’s Official Selection and parallel sections.
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FeaturesMy Screen Life: Antonia Campbell-Hughes on cinema influences and falling in love with Dublin
Actor and filmmaker Antonia Campbell-Hughes reveals why they are proud to be part of Ireland’s eclectic independent film landscape.
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CommentComment: industry desperate for Cannes to keep its hot streak going
It’s more than eyes on the Cannes Competition - it’s wallets too.
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NewsAsif Kapadia on the “dark, heavy” journey of getting dystopian doc ‘2073’ made – and seen
The Oscar-winning director discussed the struggles of making and distributing the film at a Visions du Reel masterclass
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NewsCorneliu Porumboiu prepares to film in France later this year
The director’s next project will be an adventure with musical elements
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Reviews‘Hallow Road’ review: Babak Anvari drives dangerously with Rosamund Pike, Matthew Rhys
Close-quarters SXSW chiller is also a portrait of a marriage
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Reviews’Beat The Lotto’: Gambling hijinks in entertaining Irish doc
Led by a mathemattician, a numbers syndicate attempts to game the Irish Lottery in 1992
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FeaturesScreen critics’ stand-out titles from Berlin 2025
Screen’s team of critics provided the most comprehensive coverage from the festival.
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Reviews’Aontas’ review: Irish-language crime puzzle
Carrie Crowley and Brid Brennan anchor Damian McCann’s twisting noir thriller
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Reviews‘Late Shift’ review: Leonie Benesch excels as a Swiss nurse under pressure
Petra Volpe’s tense hospital drama plays as a Berlin Special Gala
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CommentNine Bafta takeaways: no politics and little diversity, but fun, friendly and very British
Screen’s executive editor, reviews and new talent Fionnuala Halligan looks back at last night’s Bafta Film Awards.
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Reviews‘All I Had Was Nothingness’ review: A powerful ‘Shoah’ through the eyes of its maker
40 years later, Guillame Ribot pairs unused footage with Claude Lanzmann’s words to show how the film was made
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Reviews‘Islands’ review: Sam Riley, Stacy Martin scorch in Canary Islands suspense
Fuerteventura-set noir is the latest from Germany’s Jan-Ole Gerster
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Reviews‘Christy’ review: A casualty of the care system struggles on a tough Irish estate
Brendan Canty’s debut is an extension of his short film and opens Berlin’s Generation 14plus
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Reviews‘Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy’: Review
Renee Zellweger and Hugh Grant make a welcome return in this warm-hearted, best of British romcom
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Reviews‘Khartoum’: Sundance Review
Five displaced Sudanese citizens re-enact their experiences in this immersive documentary
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Reviews‘Kiss Of The Spider-Woman’: Sundance Review
Bill Condon’s musical take on the exhausted Argentina-set drama
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Reviews‘The Thing With Feathers’: Sundance Review
Benedict Cumberbatch plumbs the depths of grief in this adaptation of Max Porter’s novella
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Reviews‘The Stringer’: Sundance Review
Documentary seeks the truth behind one the most famous photographs ever taken