{"id":235854,"date":"2026-01-09T10:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T10:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/235854\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T10:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T10:09:08","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.newsbeep.com\/ie\/235854\/","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.newsbeep.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":235855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49654,17940,9366,2920,93,823,61,60,312,10495,2597,5042,6992,5592,1054],"class_list":["post-235854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-barry-keoghan","tag-brad-pitt","tag-bradley-cooper","tag-cillian-murphy","tag-entertainment","tag-facebook","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jessie-buckley","tag-leonardo-dicaprio","tag-mark-zuckerberg","tag-paul-mescal","tag-people-culture-magazine","tag-tom-cruise","tag-tom-hanks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}