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The Lost Boys come of age: Looking back at the ultimate American gothic

Shot on a small budget with a relatively unknown cast, Joel Schumacher’s 1987 tale of youth and rebellion continues to occupy a unique place in the pantheon of pop culture, teeming with subtexts that remain relevant today

John Maguire on film: Tiny details combine to make An Cailín Ciúin a true classic

Colm Bairéad’s debut feature may well be the best Irish-language film ever made

Anton Savage: ‘If the cross-examination of Heard goes in Depp’s favour, it will provide a public victory immeasurably valuable to him’

As Johnny Depp’s legal battle rumbles on, the Hollywood megastar is drawing more and more attention to the kind of accusations no celebrity’s career could previously have been expected to bear

John Maguire on film: Raimi struggles to navigate Marvel’s increasingly well-trodden landscape

The 28th instalment of the Marvel Comics Universe has its moments, but is undermined by a predictable and uninteresting script

John Maguire on film: Downton’s New Era is nothing but the same old story

A second attempt to wring more cash out of the Downton Abbey franchise falls flat on its face

John Maguire on film: The Northman, a Viking tale that thrills with unsettling visions and ferocious violence

Director Robert Eggers brings to life the Norse myth that inspired Shakespeare’s Hamlet in a breathtaking action-filled epic

John Maguire on film: A once Fantastic franchise that has lost the secret to creating magic

Special effects and slapstick comedy fail to hide the lack of direction and emptiness at the heart of the third instalment of the Fantastic Beasts series,

John Maguire on Film: True Things – an office anti-romance that spins out of control for director Harry Wootliff

Ruth Wilson and Tom Burke impress as the two leads in Wootliff’s flawed psychological drama

A fight at the Oscars: Irish comedians on the slap heard around the world

The incident has provided a platform for discussion of the risks that attend a comedy career

Six of the best? John Maguire gives his Oscars forecast

Our resident movie critic casts an eye over the runners and riders of the 2022 Academy Awards, and boldly predicts who’ll take home the ‘Big Six’ gongs at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles tonight

John Maguire on film: A bleak but brilliant study of the legacy of grief left by the Kosovo War

Blerta Basholli’s award-winning film covers the aftermath of a brutal massacre in Kosovo: as the women of a small village attempt to reconstruct their lives, they are often met with resistance from their own community

John Maguire on film: Sean Baker’s Red Rocket is an energetic, rollicking look at life on the margins in the US

The film tells the story of a washed-up porn actor named Mikey Saber who returns to his tiny Texan home town in the summer of 2016

John Maguire on film: Roger Michell goes out in style with his delightful comedy-drama The Duke

The late director’s final offering is an enjoyable look back at the 1961 theft of one of the most expensive paintings in Britain. Meanwhile Damien Power’s No Exit offers something short of a blizzard of thrills

John Maguire on film: Here Before is a promising thriller that descends into an exercise in gaslighting

Stacey Gregg’s directorial debut starts off as an absorbing examination of grief before completely losing the plot

Film studies: How the horror heroine turned into the ultimate survivor

In the 21st century, a transformation has come over the horror genre in which the ageing process is no longer a hindrance but has become empowering for women of a ‘certain age’ who are literally and figuratively still killing it

Kenneth Branagh interview: ‘The ground from beneath my feet had been taken away and now I was walking on sand: if ever there was a living metaphor for instability, it was that’

Kenneth Branagh’s new film, Belfast, which covers the start of the Troubles and the effect it had on the actor as a nine-year-old boy, has been given a universally positive reception and could well put him in line for an Oscar

The Profile: Why Lana and Lilly Wachowski remain at the cutting edge of modernist sci-fi cinema

Twenty-three years since The Matrix made their name, a fourth instalment of the siblings’ most celebrated work, Resurrections, was released in cinemas, this time without Lilly’s involvement

Film: Spielberg finds his rhythm with new take on Bernstein classic

For his first musical, Steven Spielberg has revisited the themes of racial and social integration and the power of mutual respect with an updated West Side Story

Silver-screen superstars: the best films of 2021

John Maguire rounds up your favourites and the ones you shouldn’t miss in this review of the year in cinema

Film: Campion explores new territory with tense, lowering Western

Jane Campion returns with her first film in 12 years, a shifting, layered and ambiguous Western