{"id":275690,"date":"2026-01-09T09:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T09:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/275690\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T09:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T09:35:09","slug":"best-of-the-box-office-in-the-year-ahead-our-critics-guide-to-the-must-see-movies-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/275690\/","title":{"rendered":"Best of the box office in the year ahead \u2013 our critics\u2019 guide to the must-see movies in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nIrish stars light up the big screen with blockbuster offerings\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Barry Keoghan and Cillian Murphy in 'Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man'. Photo: Robert Viglasky\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/SF Peaky.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Barry Keoghan and Cillian Murphy in &#8216;Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man&#8217;. Photo: Robert Viglasky<\/p>\n<p>Chris Wasser and Hilary White<\/p>\n<p>Today at 06:30<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">While everyone is tipping Jessie Buckley for Oscar glory this year, \u2018Hamnet\u2019 is not her only movie in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">And there is plenty of other Irish talent taking centre stage in the 12 months ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Irish stars light up the big screen with blockbuster offerings Barry Keoghan and Cillian Murphy in &#8216;Peaky Blinders:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[7118,69378,14442,24461,18,117,877,19,17,24510,1340,1721,23432,23942,6000,33857],"class_list":{"0":"post-275690","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-cillian-murphy","9":"tag-barry-keoghan","10":"tag-brad-pitt","11":"tag-bradley-cooper","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-facebook","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-jessie-buckley","18":"tag-leonardo-dicaprio","19":"tag-mark-zuckerberg","20":"tag-paul-mescal","21":"tag-people-culture-magazine","22":"tag-tom-cruise","23":"tag-tom-hanks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115864464529111141","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}