Donald Clarke

Donald Clarke

Film Correspondent

Donald Clarke is Film Correspondent at The Irish Times

Face it, the casual mob cares not if phones impinge on the audience experience of others

Future generations will find the notion of texting at the cinema or theatre as unacceptable as we now regard smoking in such places

Four new films to see this week: Disclosure Day, Pink Narcissus, Time and Water, The Fall of Sir Douglas Weatherford

Emily Blunt, Eve Hewson, Bobby Kendall, Andri Snær Magnason and Peter Mullan feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of June 12th, 2026

The Movie Quiz: Which Toy Story do we reach next week?

Plus: What is, at time of quizzing, the highest grossing film of 2026?

Pink Narcissus review: This languorous queer sexual fantasy from 1971 has aged well

The sense of adventure, experiment and risk remains

Disclosure Day review: Eve Hewson asks the practical questions in Spielberg’s sprawling sci-fi yarn

Gloomier, less sentimental and less focused than ET and Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Steven Spielberg’s best films, in reverse order

As Disclosure Day arrives in cinemas, we rate each of the director’s 34 movies so far

A century on, Marilyn Monroe speaks to the possibilities the United States once offered

With Miles Davis and Allen Ginsberg, the film star contributed to an unstoppable excitement about the future

Four new films to see this week: Savage House, Masters of the Universe, Afternoons of Solitude, Erupcja

Richard E Grant, Claire Foy, Nicholas Galitzine, Andrés Roca Rey and Charli XCX feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of June 5th, 2026

The Movie Quiz: Who recently directed Billie Eilish?

Plus: Which TV cartoon hero returns to cinemas this weekend?

Marjane Satrapi: Iranian film-maker and graphic novelist ‘dies of sadness’ at 56

Satrapi was known for Persepolis, a graphic novel series later turned into award-winning film

Savage House review: Richard E Grant, Claire Foy and much boozing, humping and double dealing

This film feels like an elaborate, if mid-priced, tribute to Stanley Kubrick’s immortal Barry Lyndon

Masters of the Universe review: All solid good fun. All professionally honed. A minor miracle

Brash, retro and self-aware, this Mattel franchise film walks the fine line between stupid and clever

Horror films Backrooms and Obsession are doing something astonishing

The building success of Obsession speaks to the power of strong reviews and stronger word of mouth – and twentysomething YouTube film-makers

Four new films to see this week: Power Ballad, Tuner, Backrooms and Fairyland

Paul Rudd, Dustin Hoffman, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve and Emilia Jones feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of May 29th, 2026

Tuner review: At 88, Dustin Hoffman still has it opposite Leo Woodall in old-school thriller

Consistently original performances and witty dialogue paper over the cracks

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