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Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Alfie Williams in 28 Years Later

Glory and gory be! 28 Years Later is an utter triumph

Danny Boyle and Alex Garland mix the gory with political allegory and a touching family drama in this riveting zombie thriller

With over $50 million spent before filming even began in Belfast and along the North's coast, this is an adventure where you can truly see where the money went

How to Train Your Dragon is all-fired-up family fun

Hassie Harrison shows all her action hero chops as Zephyr

Dangerous Animals is a rager of an Oz survival horror

This is a Bonologue that obeys all the conventions of a stage production, but this being Bono, it is also a folk mass and a sermon

Review: Bono: Stories of Surrender

If there's a more uplifting cinema experience between now and Christmas, 2025 will be one for the books

The Ballad of Wallis Island is a big hug of a movie

John Krasinski and Natalie Portman are out to find "the most important archaeological discovery in history". Eiza González (left) is the mysterious agent out to stop them

Fountain of Youth is a family adventure for a rainy day

Does Ethan Hunt survive? As Tom Cruise, ever the bottom-line showman, laughed to Empire, "You gotta see the movie"

Tom Cruise hunts the Mission pieces in Final Reckoning

Chloë Sevigny in Magic Farm

Chloë Sevigny's Magic Farm is vivid but underbaked

The Wedding Banquet remake is more than a mere vow renewal

The Wedding Banquet: Old, borrowed, yet still new

Masked and majestic, Sleep Token juxtapose crushing riffage with moments of what-just-happened? beauty Photo: Andy Ford

Wide awake in Arcadia as Sleep Token rouse jaded ears

With The Surfer, Irish director Lorcan Finnegan has delivered one of the best Nicolas Cage films of recent years

Ego Under the Sun. Nicolas Cage is swell as The Surfer

With its man-comes-back-to-town storyline, Amongst the Wolves keeps one eye on the door and another on Ireland's ills as it drives towards its bloody conclusion

Dublin gets a western showdown in Amongst the Wolves

Mixing memoir and travelogue, director Sarah Share joins John Murry as he goes back to his native Mississippi

Singer-songwriter John Murry makes big screen his own

Thunderbolts*

Thunderbolts* is a fun return to form for Marvel

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Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Alfie Williams in 28 Years Later

Glory and gory be! 28 Years Later is an utter triumph

With over $50 million spent before filming even began in Belfast and along the North's coast, this is an adventure where you can truly see where the money went

How to Train Your Dragon is all-fired-up family fun

Hassie Harrison shows all her action hero chops as Zephyr

Dangerous Animals is a rager of an Oz survival horror

This is a Bonologue that obeys all the conventions of a stage production, but this being Bono, it is also a folk mass and a sermon

Review: Bono: Stories of Surrender

If there's a more uplifting cinema experience between now and Christmas, 2025 will be one for the books

The Ballad of Wallis Island is a big hug of a movie

John Krasinski and Natalie Portman are out to find "the most important archaeological discovery in history". Eiza González (left) is the mysterious agent out to stop them

Fountain of Youth is a family adventure for a rainy day

Does Ethan Hunt survive? As Tom Cruise, ever the bottom-line showman, laughed to Empire, "You gotta see the movie"

Tom Cruise hunts the Mission pieces in Final Reckoning

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This is a Bonologue that obeys all the conventions of a stage production, but this being Bono, it is also a folk mass and a sermon

Review: Bono: Stories of Surrender

Masked and majestic, Sleep Token juxtapose crushing riffage with moments of what-just-happened? beauty Photo: Andy Ford

Wide awake in Arcadia as Sleep Token rouse jaded ears

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