Six of the best films to see in cinemas this weekendNew this weekend: Ready or Not, The Laundromat, Inna de YardFri Sep 27 2019 - 05:30
Ready or Not is an absolute hoot of a bloody horrorReview: What this lacks in characterisation, it makes up in sheer, hurtling momentumFri Sep 27 2019 - 05:00
The Laundromat: Meryl Streep is no Erin BrockovichReview: The film feels compiled from a list of pitches nobody got round to whittling downFri Sep 27 2019 - 05:00
The Goldfinch: A sedating film adaptation of Donna Tartt’s bookReview: It’s adequately acted, smoothly edited and as dead as Carel FabritiusTue Sep 24 2019 - 13:30
Scooby-Doo is 50: Yes it really was all about drugsGrowing up on cartoons that soaked up psychedelia as blotting paper soaked up LSDSat Sep 21 2019 - 05:00
Latest movies reviewed: All films in cinemas this week ratedThe Irish Times what-to-see guide to the movies now in cinemas across IrelandFri Sep 20 2019 - 06:00
The movie quiz: Which director failed to get Daniel Day-Lewis an Oscar?Also: Scarlett Johansson's roles, the Golden Lion winner, and a Nicole Kidman, filmFri Sep 20 2019 - 06:00
Six of the best films to see in cinemas this weekendNew this weekend: Ad Astra, The Farewell, Rambo: Last BloodFri Sep 20 2019 - 05:30
Rambo: Last Blood: Gruesome violence, archaic patriotism – and more than a bit racistReview: There are good reasons why they don’t make them like this any moreThu Sep 19 2019 - 18:24
Oscars race: who are the real contenders and who have blown their chances?Academy Awards 2020: An educated stab at the 2020 best-film nominees, six months outThu Sep 19 2019 - 11:08
The Kitchen: Shallow comedy with nonsensical plotReview: Film starring Melissa McCarthy in 1970s Manhattan splutters to weak endingWed Sep 18 2019 - 05:00
Lulu Wang: ‘I thought The Farewell would be my last-ever film’The Chinese-American director on wowing Sundance, turning down ‘streaming service’ money, and how Crazy Rich Asians proved you don’t need a white American lead actorSat Sep 14 2019 - 05:00
Donald Clarke: Why The Crown won’t make Olivia Colman’s brown eyes blueNeither Claire Foy nor Colman look much like the queen, so does ocular continuity matter?Sat Sep 14 2019 - 05:00
Latest movies reviewed: All films in cinemas this week ratedThe Irish Times what-to-see guide to the movies now in cinemas across IrelandFri Sep 13 2019 - 06:00
What’s up and what’s down at the Toronto International Film FestivalKnives Out, Joker, Jojo Rabbit, The Goldfinch and The Report among the contendersFri Sep 13 2019 - 06:00
The movie quiz: Who is in both the highest and second highest grossing films ever?Plus: How are actors Barbra Streisand and Diane Lane related by marriage?Fri Sep 13 2019 - 05:30
Six of the best films to see in cinemas this weekendNew this weekend: Hustlers, Downton Abbey, For Sama, PhoenixFri Sep 13 2019 - 05:30
Extra Ordinary: The film's most valuable asset is Maeve HigginsReview: This intimate romp about everyday people packs in a lot. Maybe too muchThu Sep 12 2019 - 06:00
For Sama: Probably the most powerful film yet about Syria’s civil warReview: Waad al-Kateab’s documentary has moments of beauty among the horrorsWed Sep 11 2019 - 05:00
Downton Abbey: Chaos, charm and an orgy of happy endingsReview: The familiarity of it does little to dull the appealTue Sep 10 2019 - 00:01
A dull Goldfinch, two funny popes, and Scarlett Johansson’s broken marriageToronto film festival: Opening weekend also included Knives Out, Greed and Sea FeverMon Sep 9 2019 - 11:15
Nothing boosts the cinema experience like a mass walkoutWhy are audience members so eager to flee screenings of The Painted Bird?Sat Sep 7 2019 - 06:06
For Sama: ‘I knew that this was the only way I had of fighting for freedom in Syria’During the assault on Aleppo, an accidental citizen journalist began filming. She didn’t know she was making one of 2019’s essential documentariesSat Sep 7 2019 - 05:00
Latest movies reviewed: All films in cinemas this week ratedThe Irish Times what-to-see guide to the movies now in cinemas across IrelandFri Sep 6 2019 - 06:00
The movie quiz: Joel Schumacher had how many sex partners?Also: Wallace and Gromit’s debut, Astaire and Kellys on fire and Angelina Jolie's odd one outFri Sep 6 2019 - 05:30
Six of the best films to see in cinemas this weekendNew this weekend: Bait, Rojo, The Shiny ShrimpsFri Sep 6 2019 - 05:30
Rojo: A South American Colombo in a bravely staccato filmReview: Benjamin Naishtat’s awkward movie demands patience from the viewerFri Sep 6 2019 - 05:00
An Irish sex comedy? Thank You Come AgainReview: The film follows events in a Dublin sex shop during a fraught working dayTue Sep 3 2019 - 10:00
Harvey Weinstein: ‘I can make or break your career. So show me your breasts’A new documentary on Weinstein gives some of his victims a first chance to speak on cameraMon Sep 2 2019 - 08:29
Something squalid amidst the baked goods at Marks & SpencerAm I the only one reeling at the fact that the venerable shop is selling ‘Porn Star Martinis’?Sat Aug 31 2019 - 19:26
The Troubles on film: ‘Hollywood has done everywhere and it’s always wrong’Critic Mark Cousins takes a personal look at North’s relationship with cinema for Channel 4Sat Aug 31 2019 - 05:00
Latest movies reviewed: All films in cinemas this week ratedThe Irish Times what-to-see guide to the movies now in cinemas across IrelandFri Aug 30 2019 - 06:00
Six of the best films to see in cinemas this weekendNew this weekend: The Souvenir, Aniara, A Faithful Man, The MustangFri Aug 30 2019 - 05:30
Which films are in contention as interminable awards season ramps up?Donald Clarke runs the rule over the likely winners ahead of this week’s festival trifectaFri Aug 30 2019 - 05:00
The Mustang: It’s a prison movie. It’s a horsey movie. It’s hard to resistReview: Performances elevate an old familiar tune that gets a little stranded between genresFri Aug 30 2019 - 05:00
The movie quiz: What is James Bond’s next movie called?Also: Sisters and their Oscars, not a Dustin film, and a query about Cherilyn SarkisianFri Aug 30 2019 - 05:00
Asterix: The Secret of the Magic Potion – these Frenchmen are crazy!Review: The animation is routine and our favourite characters don’t get enough to doFri Aug 30 2019 - 05:00
The Souvenir: Like being stuck in an episode of I Don’t Like the ’80sReview: A Withnail and I-style study of a posh lush, but without the nostalgiaThu Aug 29 2019 - 05:00
Dubliner Barry Keoghan cast in upcoming Marvel film, The EternalsOne-time Love/Hate star lands role as evil superhuman alongside Angelina JolieTue Aug 27 2019 - 14:03
Irish Cinema in the Twenty-First Century: searching for Irish film’s soulReview: Ruth Barton comes up with some workable answers to her own questionsTue Aug 27 2019 - 06:00
With another Matrix film, maybe we really are living in a simulationHumans approach much of life in a deluded trance. Hence the jubilation about sequels to mediocre filmsSat Aug 24 2019 - 05:00
Latest movies reviewed: All films in cinemas this week ratedThe Irish Times what-to-see guide to the movies now in cinemas across IrelandFri Aug 23 2019 - 06:00
Joanna Hogg: Back to the 1980s – without the rose-tinted lensThe director on her semi-autobiographical new film The Souvenir, starring her friend Tilda Swinton’s daughter, and how Batman stole her leading man Robert PattinsonFri Aug 23 2019 - 06:00
Six of the best films to see in cinemas this weekendNew this weekend: Pain and Glory, Never Grow Old, Hail Satan?, CrawlFri Aug 23 2019 - 05:30
The movie quiz: Who escapes in The Great Escape?Also: The Marvel universe in order, a Brad Pitt non-movie, Oscar number crunchingFri Aug 23 2019 - 05:00
Never Grow Old: John Cusack shines in gripping western filmed in ConnemaraReview: Ivan Kavanagh’s film is impressively filthy and studded with convincing violenceFri Aug 23 2019 - 05:00
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark: Stephen King would approveReview: Guillermo del Toro produces a very agreeable horror romp to appeal to teensFri Aug 23 2019 - 05:00
Pain and Glory: Banderas excels in Almodóvar’s personal dramaReview: Almodóvar is in a contemplative mood for his take on Fellini’s 8½Fri Aug 23 2019 - 05:00
Peter Fonda: Henry’s estranged son, Jane’s ‘sweet baby brother’, Bridget’s less famous dadPeter Fonda, though a smaller star than other family members, helped reinvent HollywoodMon Aug 19 2019 - 17:11
Why Irish film-makers and actors can’t do proper sex scenesFilm sex is fine. But sex featuring Irish actors, in films set in Ireland? That never really worksMon Aug 19 2019 - 06:00