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John Maguire: The Creator’s futuristic AI thrills deliver the sci-fi film of the year

Gareth Edwards’ film is a cross between Blade Runner and Apocalypse Now in its wonderfully rendered, believable future

John Maguire on film: That boy Patrick Kielty can act, as Ballywalter proves

The almost romantic, almost comedy of isolation and reconnection showcases the considerable acting chops of The Late Late’s new presenter

John Maguire on film: Kenneth Branagh’s latest flick fails to conjure spirit of Poirot

A Haunting In Venice doesn’t generate a thrill, a shiver or even curiosity about whodunnit

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John Maguire on Film: Celine Song’s debut Past Lives allows complex truth of love to shine through

Past lives explores the intertwined history of three romantically linked characters from Korea and North America

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John Maguire: Poetic documentary The Future Tense walks a tightrope between two nations in flux

Documentary makers Joe Lawlor and Christine Molloy examine complexities of belonging in both Ireland and England, while on Netflix Painkillers exposes excoriating greed that hooked the American nation on a narcotic 100 times more powerful than heroin

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John Maguire on film: Car racing promo Gran Turismo gets nowhere very fast

A motor sports movie based on a video game was never going to be stellar, but Gran Turismo is little more than a special effects spectacle

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John Maguire: Paris Memories is a harrowing tale of survivor’s guilt and trauma after terror attacks

Involving drama is a very personal look at the trauma experienced by those who survived a series of devastating terrorist attacks on France in 2015 in which over 130 people were murdered and hundreds more injured

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John Maguire on film: a sci-fi take on Groundhog Day, plus two flavours of Jon Hamm

The Business Post reviews this week’s screen entertainment

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John Maguire: Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning brings action back to life

Christopher McQuarrie’s latest outing in the franchise replaces the empty shell of CGI with a physical, kinetic cinema that feels grounded in time and space

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John Maguire: Indy’s latest adventure is well-crafted and shows the value of relics like our hero

Octogenarian Harrison Ford makes his final appearance as the death-defying Indiana Jones in this entertaining adventure

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John Maguire on film: Wes Anderson brings colour and charm to a dusty Arizona town in Asteroid City

There’s a lot going on in the quirky director’s sci-fi comedy that features a stellar cast and a breakneck plot

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John Maguire on film & TV: Superhero’s overdue outing is all Flash and no substance

Andy Muschietti’s movie about venerable comic book character the Flash is a confusing and carelessly rendered multiverse of other people’s ideas

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John Maguire on film: Clichéd biopic fails to live up to amazing story of talented black musician

Chevalier still manages to tell an important story set in the time of Mozart about one man’s defiance against a racist society while throwing light on his mostly forgotten achievements

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John Maguire on film: Reality check on how law enforcement in America really works

Taut, elegant thriller Reality sweeps away all of our quaint notions of the reading of rights and upfront questioning of a suspect

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John Maguire: Joaquin Phoenix’s new movie is equal parts hilarious and baffling

Beau is Afraid, from Midsommar director Ari Aster, is as likely to inspire deep affection as seething rage

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John Maguire: Towering Eight Mountains explores the growing chasm between two life-long friends

Duo become firm friends as children, go their separate ways and are reunited as adults but their different backgrounds and experiences lead to differences that can’t be reconciled

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Film and TV reviews: Sensitive portrayal of the suffocating sameness of life in small-town Ireland

Lakelands, the confident debut from

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Film reviews: Director shines cold light on those who left Ann Lovett to her fate

Recreation of the tragic teenager’s last day reflects the claustrophobia of a small-town Ireland that could abandon her to die alone in childbirth

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Film and TV reviews: Jet black Evil Dead rises to the occasion in full-bodied revival

Plenty of blood, gore and plucked eyeballs keep Lee Cronin’s revival freshly gruesome, though Sineád O’Shea’s documentary about the real-life horror of historical church abuses in Ireland is far grimmer

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Strain and grind of character’s everyday life overwhelms French film One Fine Morning

The new film from French writer Mia Hansen-Løve explores the life of a widow with a young child, an ailing father and a yearning for better days