Parasite review: An exquisite film. A perfect social satireWhat really hooks you is the gorgeous smoothness of the narrative machineryWed Feb 05 2020 - 05:00
Bafta awards: Two Irish stars lose out to Renée Zellweger for best actressSaoirse Ronan in running for Little Women, while Jessie Buckley competed for Wild RoseSun Feb 02 2020 - 22:00
Calm down online bores, colour-blind casting isn’t ‘woke’With Dev Patel as David Copperfield, movies have caught up with theatre’s creative approachSat Feb 01 2020 - 05:00
Bong Joon Ho: ‘Even among ourselves we wonder why Korean cinema exploded’His movie Parasite is bookies’ favourite – ahead of The Irishman and Joker – for a best film OscarSat Feb 01 2020 - 05:00
Six of the best films to see in the cinema this weekendNew this weekend: The Lighthouse, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, Richard Jewell, Queen & SlimFri Jan 31 2020 - 06:00
The movie quiz: Which of these Irish stars was actually born in Ireland?Plus: The country without an Oscar and a trilogy named after a classic ice-creamFri Jan 31 2020 - 06:00
The Rhythm Section: Blake Lively looks more Pilates addict than heroin addictReview: Just one of many reasons to avoid this weird, thrown-together thrillerFri Jan 31 2020 - 05:00
Queen & Slim: Daniel Kaluuya and Jodie Turner-Smith save this filmReview: This ‘Bonnie and Clyde for the Black Lives Matter generation’ isn’t a total failureThu Jan 30 2020 - 05:00
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood: A tremendous film, a great young directorReview: Tom Hanks stars as the family entertainer Mr Rogers in Marielle Heller’s filmWed Jan 29 2020 - 05:00
Casting a Jesus or George Washington? Only Tom Hanks will doMr Rogers is an icon of US popular culture. Who better to play him than another icon?Mon Jan 27 2020 - 05:00
Sundance Film Festival: Irish film Herself wins rave reviewsPerformances praised in film about abused woman caught up in the Irish housing crisisSat Jan 25 2020 - 13:36
Robert Eggers on bringing Robert Pattinson to The LighthouseIn 10 years no movie has attracted such a buzz at Director’s Fortnight in CannesSat Jan 25 2020 - 05:00
Simon and Garfunkel for people who don’t like Simon and GarfunkelDonald Clarke: Never cool, Bridge over Troubled Water spans tastes half a century onSat Jan 25 2020 - 05:00
The movie quiz: What mighty age is Olivia De Havilland?Plus: Holly Golightly’s kittie cat, shut out of the Oscars, and not starring Judi DenchFri Jan 24 2020 - 06:00
Six of the best films to see in the cinema this weekendNew this weekend: The Personal History of David Copperfield, Weathering with YouFri Jan 24 2020 - 06:00
The Turning: This film is a total waste of time. Don’t even read the reviewReview: I can’t even spoil the ending of this movie. There isn’t one. It’s that badThu Jan 23 2020 - 07:00
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote: Compromised and astonishingly unfinishedReview: 25 years in the making, the hollowness of the female characters is bad timingThu Jan 23 2020 - 05:30
The Personal History of David Copperfield: Armando Iannucci delivers a minor miracleReview: This is maybe the best Dickens film adaptation since David LeanWed Jan 22 2020 - 05:00
Oscars 2020: Suddenly, it looks like 1917 will win Best PictureIn the space of an evening, Sam Mendes’s war film slashed to odds-on by all major bookiesMon Jan 20 2020 - 05:02
Netflix: The best 101 films to watch right nowHalf our favourite movies have vanished. But there’s still plenty of great stuff to search forSat Jan 18 2020 - 06:10
Here’s why Billie Eilish’s Bond theme commission has hit a sour noteDonald Clarke: A 19-year-old electropop sensation is to write and sing the next Bond theme and Twitter is not amusedSat Jan 18 2020 - 05:00
Six of the best movies to see in the cinema this weekendNew this weekend: Just Mercy, Waves, A Hidden Life, BombshellFri Jan 17 2020 - 06:00
The movie quiz: What film recently took home the most Golden Globes?Plus: ‘Don’t answer the phone. Don’t open the door. Don’t try to escape’Fri Jan 17 2020 - 05:00
Bad Boys for Life review: The funny bits are funny. The serious bits are even funnierWill Smith and Martin Lawrence in a noisy, inconsequential violent rompFri Jan 17 2020 - 05:00
A Hidden Life: Terrence Malick’s beautiful, serious, sometimes infuriating filmReview: Sheer cinematic sweep of director’s latest impresses even as viewers’ patience is testedWed Jan 15 2020 - 10:20
The book v film debate: How much licence should screen adaptations take?David Copperfield, Normal People and Dune are all on the way, some more reverent than othersWed Jan 15 2020 - 05:00
Bombshell review: This film doesn’t have an idea in its pretty little headDespite its three Oscar nominations, Bombshell isn’t as smart as the women it depictsTue Jan 14 2020 - 12:01
Oscars 2020: Joker is a well made film but does it deserve 11 Academy Award nominations?How did film about a comic book idiot get more nominations than The Irishman?Tue Jan 14 2020 - 00:01
Oscars 2020: Saoirse Ronan receives fourth Academy Award nominationIrish star’s turn in Little Women pits her against Renée Zellweger in best-actress raceMon Jan 13 2020 - 16:14
August Diehl: ‘Acting with Malick you are part of a band making music’German actor on preparing for A Hidden Life with the unconventional directorMon Jan 13 2020 - 05:00
Oscars 2020: Who will be nominated today, and who will win?Saoirse Ronan should get a nod for Little Women. There are few other options for the IrishSun Jan 12 2020 - 05:00
Uncut Gems: How Adam Sandler and the Safdie brothers made a jewel of a filmDirectors Joshua and Benjamin Safdie and their 10-year journey to making Uncut GemsSat Jan 11 2020 - 06:00
You'll be sorry when nobody holds the door for you any moreDonald Clarke: Harvey Weinstein's lawyer took us on a trip back to the Sexist Seventies this weekSat Jan 11 2020 - 05:00
Six of the best movies to see in the cinema this weekendNew this weekend: Adam Sandler in Uncut Gems, Sam Mendes’s 1917, and El TopoFri Jan 10 2020 - 06:00
The movie quiz: Where is the current Wonder Woman from?Plus: Whose first ever line in movies was ‘Gimme a whiskey . . . and don’t be stingy’?Fri Jan 10 2020 - 06:00
1917 review: A thoughtful war movie for Generation PlayStationThis slice of prestige British film-making nimbly avoids accusations of heritage cosinessThu Jan 09 2020 - 06:00
Uncut Gems review: Adam Sandler ends up naked in the boot of a carAdam Sandler plays his stock comic weirdo, but Idina Menzel owns the screenThu Jan 09 2020 - 05:00
Bafta nominations lose their sparkle over lack of diversityNods for Saoirse Ronan and Jessie Buckley, but little for women and none for black actorsTue Jan 07 2020 - 18:52
Six of the best movies to see in the cinema this weekNew films released this weekend include Jojo Rabbit, Amanda, and AquarelaMon Jan 06 2020 - 09:48
Golden Globes: Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood wins bigSaoirse Ronan, nominated for Little Women performance, loses out to Renée ZellwegerMon Jan 06 2020 - 06:00
Sam Mendes: ‘It’s not about the British are great, the Germans are bad’The director of first World War movie 1917 on portraying the conflict in a contemporary lightSat Jan 04 2020 - 05:00
Golden Globes: Ricky Gervais, comedy’s indestructible lightning rod, returnsDonald Clarke: Provocateur returns to host Golden Globes for a fifth timeSat Jan 04 2020 - 05:00
Jojo Rabbit: between daring and bad taste in Nazi GermanyReview: While the film argues against hate, it does little to educate about the specific enormities of Nazi GermanyFri Jan 03 2020 - 05:30
The movie quiz: Name the name of The Phantom MenacePlus: A Marvel movie of their own, an animated Oscar, Carry On to the end of the lineFri Jan 03 2020 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: Which Joni Mitchell song underscores Emma Thompson’s grim revelation in Love, Actually?Plus: Who won an Oscar for his Santa Claus and which film first featured Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas?Wed Jan 01 2020 - 06:00
Critics seem to have already forgotten some of the past decade’s best filmsDonald Clarke: Blue is the Warmest Colour, 12 Years a Slave both overlooked in the pollsSat Dec 28 2019 - 05:00
Film 2020: The 50 films to watch out forThe best biopics, documentaries, cartoons, features and award favourites of the yearSat Dec 28 2019 - 05:00
Six of the best movies to see in the cinema this weekendAnd we have one to avoid at just about all costs (hint: it’s not The Rise of Skywalker)Fri Dec 27 2019 - 06:00
The movie quiz: 10 questions for 10 yearsOn the first Frozen, the last Hobbit, the 7th Star Wars, and all the Harry PottersFri Dec 27 2019 - 05:00
The 10 worst films of the past 10 yearsThe worst film of the 2010s was so reactionary, materialistic and lazy it selected itselfThu Dec 26 2019 - 06:02
