Six of the best films to see in cinemas this weekendNew this weekend: The Peanut Butter Falcon, Land Without God, Shaun the Sheep, Official SecretsFri Oct 18 2019 - 05:30
Official Secrets: Fascinating Iraq War whistleblower taleReview: Hood’s study of Katharine Gun is an efficient, diverting exercise that will educateFri Oct 18 2019 - 05:00
Dark Lies the Island: It looks good, they act well, but it doesn’t workReview: Everyone involved is doing decent work, but the picture doesn’t hang together as it shouldWed Oct 16 2019 - 14:00
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil. Angelina Jolie isn’t cruel enoughReview: A dreary, woke subplot sends Maleficent to a hidden kingdom to express herselfTue Oct 15 2019 - 14:00
Protesting against art, even an anti-abortion film, is not a good lookDonald Clarke: Unplanned is a laughable atrocity but I’ll be with the other Centrist DadsSat Oct 12 2019 - 05:00
‘I am Mannix Flynn. I am 62. I have come through poverty, prison, abuse – you name it’‘The so-called hard left aren’t hard at all. They’ve abandoned the working classes’Sat Oct 12 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 Oct 11 2019 - 06:00
The movie quiz: Solve the anagram for an Alfred Hitchcock filmPlus: A Marvel alter ego, failure to make the top 20, wearing the cartoon pants, part IIIsFri Oct 11 2019 - 05:30
Six of the best films to see in cinemas this weekendNew this weekend: A Bump Along the Way, Lost Lives, The King, AbominableFri Oct 11 2019 - 05:30
The King: Timothée Chalamet stars in a hunk of medieval hokumReview: Not since Monty Python has a period Frenchman been as absurd as Robert PattinsonThu Oct 10 2019 - 10:45
The Day Shall Come: Chris Morris’s film may be the year’s biggest disappointment to dateReview: Morris has turned fascinating stories into the first out-and-out dud of his careerThu Oct 10 2019 - 05:00
A Bump Along the Way: Vibrant Bronagh Gallagher shines in charming Irish crowd-pleaserReview: Tess McGowan wrote the film while pregnant, and it throbs with authenticityWed Oct 09 2019 - 11:36
Bronagh Gallagher: ‘I never felt I was with the right man. But that’s how the dice rolled’The actor on Brexit and Irishness, her Derry childhood, being independent and Quentin TarantinoSat Oct 05 2019 - 06:00
IndieCork: There’s no festival quite like itFilms about middle-aged pregnancy, road bowls and power-lifting ... and a few tunesSat Oct 05 2019 - 05:00
Joker proves we can no longer imagine a world without smartphonesDonald Clarke: The item everyone claims to hate is now baked into contemporary aestheticsSat Oct 05 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 Oct 04 2019 - 06:00
The movie quiz: Spot the anagram for a Clint Eastwood westernAlso: The youngest Oscar winner and Samuel L Jackson’s Quentin Tarantino filmsFri Oct 04 2019 - 05:30
Six of the best films to see in cinemas this weekendNew this weekend: Joker, The Last Tree, Best Before Death, Good PostureFri Oct 04 2019 - 05:30
Losing Alaska: A community checkmated by climate changeReview: Irish filmmaker Tom Burke's documentary is engrossing but a little bit shapelessFri Oct 04 2019 - 05:00
Best Before Death: KLF’s Bill Drummond takes another arty figaryReview: Paul Duane documents Drummond on his latest quest to confuse and bewilderFri Oct 04 2019 - 05:00
The Joker film controversy is exhausting. It does not make a hero of its lead characterDonald Clarke: Almost nobody expressing concern has seen the movieTue Oct 01 2019 - 10:30
Joker film review: Terrific, tear-out-the-follicles acting from Joaquin PhoenixSatirical masterpiece or manifesto for psychopathy, this is a beautifully made filmMon Sept 30 2019 - 13:15
Yes, you should feel bad for not finishing (insert classic novel here)Donald Clarke: Guilt is an important aspect of life and a vital part of the reading experienceSat Sept 28 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 Sept 27 2019 - 06:00
The movie quiz: How many Rambo films are there?Also: Neil Jordan’s title characters, Gleeson-free zone, the Marx Bros and musicFri Sept 27 2019 - 05:30
Six of the best films to see in cinemas this weekendNew this weekend: Ready or Not, The Laundromat, Inna de YardFri Sept 27 2019 - 05:30
The Laundromat: Meryl Streep is no Erin BrockovichReview: The film feels compiled from a list of pitches nobody got round to whittling downFri Sept 27 2019 - 05:00
Ready or Not is an absolute hoot of a bloody horrorReview: What this lacks in characterisation, it makes up in sheer, hurtling momentumFri Sept 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 Sept 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 Sept 21 2019 - 05:00
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 Sept 20 2019 - 06:00
Latest movies reviewed: All films in cinemas this week ratedThe Irish Times what-to-see guide to the movies now in cinemas across IrelandFri Sept 20 2019 - 06:00
Six of the best films to see in cinemas this weekendNew this weekend: Ad Astra, The Farewell, Rambo: Last BloodFri Sept 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 Sept 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 Sept 19 2019 - 11:08
The Kitchen: Shallow comedy with nonsensical plotReview: Film starring Melissa McCarthy in 1970s Manhattan splutters to weak endingWed Sept 18 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 Sept 14 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 Sept 14 2019 - 05:00
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 Sept 13 2019 - 06:00
Latest movies reviewed: All films in cinemas this week ratedThe Irish Times what-to-see guide to the movies now in cinemas across IrelandFri Sept 13 2019 - 06:00
Six of the best films to see in cinemas this weekendNew this weekend: Hustlers, Downton Abbey, For Sama, PhoenixFri Sept 13 2019 - 05:30
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 Sept 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 Sept 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 Sept 11 2019 - 05:00
Downton Abbey: Chaos, charm and an orgy of happy endingsReview: The familiarity of it does little to dull the appealTue Sept 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 Sept 09 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 Sept 07 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 Sept 07 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 Sept 06 2019 - 06:00
Six of the best films to see in cinemas this weekendNew this weekend: Bait, Rojo, The Shiny ShrimpsFri Sept 06 2019 - 05:30
