★★★★ The Guardian
★★★★★ The Independent
Visually arresting and bursting with slapstick and whimsy, Wes Anderson delivers another delight featuring a cast of his usual suspects and many new additions.
★★★★★ Time Out
★★★★ The Telegraph
The latest from Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi is a knotted tale of morality, humanity and the ease with which social media can flip public perception.
After premiering in 2018’s Exhibition on Screen season, I, Claude Monet is back by popular demand, revealing the heart and soul of arguably the world’s most loved artist.
★★★★★ The Guardian
★★★★ The Irish Times
Director Céline Sciamma’s (Portrait of A Lady on Fire) latest is a delicate, wonderfully beguiling tale about the power of memory and imagination.
Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers experience passion and tragedy in this 20th-century ballet masterpiece.
★★★★ Empire
Based on the director director Maria Sødahl’s own personal experiences this powerful, emotional drama follows life partners Anja and Tomas who have slowly grown apart over the years.
★★★★½ AV Club
A searing, award-winning drama about one woman’s experiences in post-war Kosovo, presented as part of Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival On Tour.
Filmed live on stage from London’s West End, James McAvoy (X-Men, Atonement) returns to the stage in an inventive new adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac.
★★★★★ The Irish Times
★★★★★ The Guardian
A “fable from a true tragedy”, Pablo Larraín’s imaginative interpretation of how Christmas 1991 played out for the strained Princess Diana leads viewers through a maze of her internal and external struggles.
In a world of decadence and corruption, Verdi’s masterpiece pits power against innocence with devastating effects.
Who was Frida Kahlo? Everyone knows her, but who was the woman behind the bright colours, the big brows, and the floral crowns? Take a journey through the life of a true icon, discover her art, and uncover the truth behind her often turbulent life.
★★★★ Irish Independent
★★★★ The Observer
In this playful German comedy, which cleverly explores themes of love, relationships, humanity and identity, a scientist must live for three weeks with a humanoid cyborg programmed to be her ideal life partner.
Filmed live on-stage in London’s West End, Bill Nighy (Love Actually, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel) and Carey Mulligan (Promising Young Woman, The Dig) feature in David Hare’s Skylight.
★★★★★ The Irish Times
★★★★★ The Guardian
In this remarkably assured debut, Swiss director Andreas Fontana leads viewers through a seductive, moneyed world where political violence simmers just under the surface.
★★★★ The Guardian
★★★★½ AV Club
Winner of Berlin Film Festival’s prestigious Golden Bear, There is no Evil unfurls as a quartet of separate stories about disobedience and personal responsibility in present-day Iran.
★★★★★ The Irish Times
★★★★ The Guardian
Winner of Un Certain Regard at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival and Brazil’s entry for the 2020 Oscars, this is a sumptuous, sweeping tale of sisterly loss, desire and fortitude.
★★★★★ The Independent
★★★★ The Irish Times
Starring Joaquin Phoenix, this is a delicate, moving story from writer-director Mike Mills about family dynamics, the connections between us all, and the past and the future.
Claude Monet was an avid horticulturist and arguably the most important painter of gardens in the history of art, but he was not alone. Great artists like Van Gogh, Bonnard, Sorolla, Sargent, Pissarro and Matisse all saw the garden as a powerful subject for their art.
Filmed in London’s West End, set twelve years before his epic His Dark Materials trilogy, this gripping adaptation revisits Phillip Pullman’s fantastical world in which waters are rising and storms are brewing.
★★★★★ The Guardian
★★★★ The Telegraph
Led by Tilda Swinton, Memoria finds Thai writer-director Apichatpong Weerasethakul branching out into English-language filmmaking without forsaking any of his own lyrical cinematic vocabulary.
