All articles by Fionnuala Halligan – Page 4
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Reviews‘Kinds Of Kindness’: Cannes Review
Yorgos Lanthimos returns to his Greek Weird Wave roots for this triptych of dark tales playing in Cannes competition
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Reviews‘The Girl With The Needle’: Cannes Review
Horrific true events inspire Magnus von Horn’s murderous black-and-white drama
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Reviews‘When The Light Breaks’: Cannes Review
National and personal tragedy collide over the course of a single Icelandic summer day in Runar Rúnarsson’s Un Certain Regard opener
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Features“My films are cut through with the need to resist the violence of our times,” Alice Diop tells Visions du Reel audience
“My aim is to find the right format for the film I want to make,” said the French filmmaker of documentaries and ‘Saint Omer’.
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Reviews‘The Flats’: CPH:DOX Review
The past casts a permanent shadow over a West Belfast housing estate in this CPH:DOX winner
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Reviews‘The Beautiful Game’: Review
Micheal Ward and Bill Nighy make a dream team in Thea Sharrock’s homeless football league drama
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Reviews‘Grand Theft Hamlet’: SXSW Review
Video game ’Grand Theft Auto’ plays host to a virtual staging of Shakespeare’s Hamlet
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FeaturesScreen editors make final Oscars predictions, reflect on 2024 race: “It’s going to go down as one of the great years”
“A great year for the studios, and backed up by fantastic box office, which creates that excitement around the awards show.”
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FeaturesScreen critics’ top films from Berlin 2024
What did the critics really love from this year’s Berlinale?
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ReviewsEat/Sleep/Cheer/Repeat: Dublin Review
Ireland’s Cheer team defies the odds to make it to the Orlando ‘worlds’
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Reviews‘Spaceman’: Berlin Review
Adam Sandler and Carey Mulligan are cast adrift in Netflix’s sluggish sci-fi
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Reviews’Made In England: The Films Of Powell and Pressburger’: Berlin Review
Martin Scorsese guides this rich, personal journey through the films of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
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CommentComment: Bafta’s winning films are an optimistic vision of a global UK industry
Box-office success for ’The Zone Of Interest’, ’Anatomy Of A Fall’ and ’All Of Us Strangers’ suggests the arthouse audience is back too.
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Reviews‘All Shall Be Well’: Berlin Review
A sudden death is a tipping point for a long-term lesbian couple in Ray Yeung’s Hong Kong-set social drama
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Reviews‘Crossing’: Berlin Review
An ageing Georgian woman travels to Istanbul in search of her trans niece in Panorama’s elegiac opener
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FeaturesScreen critics’ top films from Sundance 2024
The best reviewed titles out of this year’s Sundance Film Festival.
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Features10 documentaries to watch from Sundance 2024
The docuementary side of the Sundance film festival has produced some real critics favourites in 2024.
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Reviews‘In The Summers’: Sundance Review
Two girls spend years of summer holidays with their troubled father in New Mexico in this Sundance-winning debut
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Reviews‘Skywalkers: A Love Story’: Sundance Review
A Russian couple risk their lives to secure Insta-worthy photos on perilous rooftops
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Reviews‘Sugarcane’: Sundance Review
Accomplished account of generations of abuse against Canada’s Indigenous tribes