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Once We Were Punks (2025) 3/5 EDIT “There isn’t quite the ebullient finale of The Man Who Wanted to Fly , but the sheer DIY, never-say-die gumption of the outfit is more punk than many bands half their age peddling the same genre.” – Irish Independent May 14, 2026 Full Review 500 Miles (2026) 3/5 EDIT “Nighy, Williams, and the two young leads are the power station that keeps everything motoring along. They just about rescue 500 Miles during one or two dud notes between the first act’s cheeky-scamp humour...and the harrowing poignancy of the denouement.” – Irish Independent May 13, 2026 Full Review The Sheep Detectives (2026) 94% 4/5 EDIT “With so many moving parts, it’s a credit to Mazin and Balda that it all stays intact, with the inter-species narrative a smooth and hearty one.” – Irish Independent May 7, 2026 Full Review Romería (2025) 89% 4/5 EDIT “This is a finely hewn family drama full of brittle nostalgia, where the sound of walking on eggshells becomes deafening.” – Irish Independent May 7, 2026 Full Review The Devil Wears Prada 2 (2026) 78% 4/5 EDIT “Watching this new instalment, it becomes quickly apparent that that cohort will be amply catered for. It is, first and foremost, a movie for them, the true believers who have waited all this time.” – Irish Independent Apr 29, 2026 Full Review Apex (2026) 66% 3/5 EDIT “Take the human-quarry thrills of Deliverance or Predator and strain it through Wolf Creek’s outback dread, and you get this gory ­actioner that has “mid-tier Netflix” written all over it.” – Irish Independent Apr 23, 2026 Full Review Rose of Nevada (2025) 100% 4/5 EDIT “Jenkins leaves plenty of space between story and audience, compiling a tale that feels cobbled together from stained Polaroids, dream snatches and fleeting glimpses.” – Irish Independent Apr 23, 2026 Full Review The Blue Trail (2025) 100% 4/5 EDIT “Filled with strange, tropical wonder and beguilement, The Blue Trail is one of the more unique film outings you’ll be ­gifted with this year. ­” – Irish Independent Apr 16, 2026 Full Review Blades of the Guardians (2026) 97% 4/5 EDIT “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms in the Far East? Not quite, but Wuxia fans will not for a moment be left wanting.” – Irish Independent Apr 16, 2026 Full Review The Stranger (2025) 91% 5/5 EDIT “By provoking us to peer at these dark borders of guilt and absolution, Ozon delivers the perfect Camus adaptation.” – Irish Independent Apr 9, 2026 Full Review California Schemin' (2025) 96% 4/5 EDIT “While charting a predictable course, the story about ambitious upstarts gaming the system is a timely one, with a fine little motor provided by its hard-working co-stars.” – Irish Independent Apr 9, 2026 Full Review Two Prosecutors (2025) 97% 5/5 EDIT “[Two Prosecutors] is the work of someone dissatisfied with tired old lines in history books and adamant to dig deeper to a truth only half revealed.” – Irish Independent Apr 2, 2026 Full Review The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026) 42% 2/5 EDIT “...everything is pinging and popping and smashing like some fizzed-up computer-animated dopamine delivery device. Exhausting and hollow. Mario deserves better.” – Irish Independent Apr 1, 2026 Full Review Splitsville (2025) 84% EDIT “Splitsville can be daft and slapstick, sure, but oddly grown-up about the subject matter, as well as the art of filmmaking itself. The situations these characters are chucked into are carefully selected.” – Irish Independent Mar 27, 2026 Full Review Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5 (2025) 83% 4/5 EDIT “The effect is a lively collage of past and present, as foresight and eventuality converse and cautionary words go ignored.” – Irish Independent Mar 26, 2026 Full Review Spilt Milk (2024) 4/5 EDIT “Brian Durnin’s debut morphs at this point from a Roddy Doyle-ish sweet-and-salty setup, to a ­grittier loss-of-innocence drama... it just about holds things in place during this tonal shift, largely thanks to anchoring in the cast...” – Irish Independent Mar 24, 2026 Full Review La Grazia (2025) 87% 4/5 EDIT “Rarely do filmmaker and lead feel so mutually entwined, and while it could be argued there’s only so many times Servillo can essay a tormented Sorrentino statesman, it’s a dance that’s ­always worth turning up for.” – Irish Independent Mar 19, 2026 Full Review The Love That Remains (2025) 94% 4/5 EDIT “Godland writer-director ­Hlynur Palmason is never afraid to momentarily turn his screenplay into an art installation, meaning that while absurdist and filled with novel characterisation, he doesn’t half shy away from self-indulgence. ” – Irish Independent Mar 12, 2026 Full Review Project Hail Mary (2026) 94% 5/5 EDIT “And given that this is “hard ­sci-fi”...there’s something especially apt about how this new film aligns inspiration and formula, brains and fun, humour and high stakes in exacting ratios so that big-screen gold is alchemised before us.” – Irish Independent Mar 12, 2026 Full Review Hoppers (2026) 94% 3/5 EDIT “Flying sharks, multi-­species councils and maniacal caterpillars – it all gets just a bit too hare-brained, and that’s even within the parameters of its sci-fi flourishes. Big and fun, perhaps, but unusually dumb for Pixar.” – Irish Independent Mar 9, 2026 Full Review Báite (2025) 3.5/5 EDIT “While guilty of slipping into melodrama in its final passages, Báite is serviceable genre fare with a committed cast ably led by O’Brien and the ever-dextrous Dunford.” – Irish Independent Mar 9, 2026 Full Review Sirāt (2025) 90% 4/5 EDIT “Sirat is visually and aurally striking and wields a remarkably heightened mythological waft somewhere between Sorcerer and Fury Road.” – Irish Independent Feb 26, 2026 Full Review EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert (2025) 97% 4/5 EDIT “Luhrmann’s film is a jamboree that succeeds in ways that his 2022 biopic couldn’t, harmonising the director’s customary flourish with that of his subject.” – Irish Independent Feb 26, 2026 Full Review The Secret Agent (2025) 98% 5/5 EDIT “Filho gives every dotty fringe character or setup all the time they need, and the effect, while a lengthy 160 minutes, is one of deep and heady immersion, like walking through a collective memory.” – Irish Independent Feb 19, 2026 Full Review Crime 101 (2026) 88% 3/5 EDIT “The car chases are a little undercooked and the payoff in the finale might not be quite worth the ticket fare, but that all-star cast as well as some flavoursome LA-noir tension is where ground is made up.” – Irish Independent Feb 12, 2026 Full Review
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