Of course Darth Vader voted for Trump. Get over it, libsDonald Clarke: All the Friends voted Democrat, right? No wonder the party is in troubleFri Nov 09 2018 - 05:00
Cork Film Festival: An early taste of awards season certsHot tips: Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Favourite, David Lowery’s The Old Man and the GunFri Nov 09 2018 - 05:00
Almost every film in cinemas this week, reviewed and ratedThe Irish Times what-to-see guide to the movies now in cinemas across IrelandFri Nov 09 2018 - 00:00
Netflix commissions new animation from Kilkenny’s Cartoon SaloonNora Twomey, Oscar nominee for ‘The Breadwinner’, will direct ‘My Father’s Dragon’Thu Nov 08 2018 - 18:28
They Shall Not Grow Old: Peter Jackson’s definitive first World War filmReview: The director exploits all his technical gifts to convey the everyday experience of warThu Nov 08 2018 - 05:00
Wildlife: Carey Mulligan and Jake Gyllenhaal are excellent. But Ed Oxenbould is betterReview: Paul Dano channels his literary side in a directorial debut that abounds with aggressive metaphorsWed Nov 07 2018 - 11:31
It’s indulgent, disordered and wildly up itself. But you shouldn’t miss it‘The Other Side of the Wind’ is just part of the Orson Welles flotilla docked at Netflix CoveMon Nov 05 2018 - 11:53
Mike Leigh: ‘Brexit was a terrible manipulation of people and their needs’The director on why he's telling the story of a very British massacre, disagreeing with Jeremy Corbyn and avoiding 'thick actors'Sat Nov 03 2018 - 06:15
Widows: funny, twisty, implausible heist caper delivers unashamed thrillsReview: Steve McQueen tries to cram in too much good stuff – but there's no crime in that when it's such good stuffFri Nov 02 2018 - 06:05
The movie quiz: An American Werewolf in London and where else?Also: Toting up the Dalmations, IDing the Queen, and a Coen brother officially directsFri Nov 02 2018 - 06:00
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekNew this week: Steve McQueen's Widows, Chris O'Dowd in Juliet Naked, Mike Leigh's Peterloo, and MiraiFri Nov 02 2018 - 06:00
‘Whitey’ Bulger and the queasy celebration of notorious thugs‘Whitey’ Bulger, like the Krays, Ned Kelly and the General, is idealised in filmFri Nov 02 2018 - 05:30
Almost every film in cinemas this week, reviewed and ratedThe Irish Times what-to-see guide to the movies now in cinemas across IrelandFri Nov 02 2018 - 05:00
Juliet, Naked review: An unexpected and enchanting rom-com delightA frustrated Rose Byrne and menacing fan-boy Chris O’Dowd in seaside town so lovely we yearn to call it Richard-on-the-CurtisThu Nov 01 2018 - 06:30
The 100 greatest foreign-language films revealedOnly four out of the top 100 films directed by women in BBC poll of criticsWed Oct 31 2018 - 06:42
Peterloo review: a beautiful history lesson but where’s the Mike Leigh grit?Who thought we’d end up praising the facets of a Leigh film that feel most like the work of David Lean?Wed Oct 31 2018 - 06:30
The best horror movies of all time – see them if you dareThe silver screen’s spooky best from the last 100 years of cinemaTue Oct 30 2018 - 11:00
Nobody’s perfect. But ‘Some Like It Hot’ isBilly Wilder’s 1959 film is being reissued. But how did it attain untouchable status?Sat Oct 27 2018 - 05:00
The movie quiz: Who was Bourne to direct Damon?Also: Fada facts, the food is the film, a winning actor and actress, and album originsFri Oct 26 2018 - 06:30
The Hate U Give review: Home truths on the American conditionA stunning performance by Amandla Stenberg makes a worthwhile film unmissableFri Oct 26 2018 - 06:00
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekendNew this week: Bohemian Rhapsody, Katie, The Hate U GiveFri Oct 26 2018 - 06:00
John le Carré: the spymaster who was never left out in the coldThe spy novelist is 87, but his star has never shone brighter, with a BBC adaptation of ‘The Little Drummer Girl’ about to startFri Oct 26 2018 - 05:30
Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot: Good biopic that hits a wallReview: Gus Van Sant in better form in film about quadriplegic cartoonist John CallahanFri Oct 26 2018 - 05:00
Almost every film in cinemas this week, reviewed and ratedThe Irish Times what-to-see guide to the movies now in cinemas across IrelandFri Oct 26 2018 - 00:00
Katie: The walking, punching, dancing enigma of Katie TaylorFulcrum of this lucid documentary is the tricky era after the boxer fell out with her fatherThu Oct 25 2018 - 05:00
Calling Natalie Portman a ‘supporting actor’ is like saying Thumper is the star of ‘Bambi’Why is ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ not a musical? Because it wants to be an Oscar contenderMon Oct 22 2018 - 11:35
Angry white men: Michael Moore takes on Donald TrumpThe film-maker on Trump’s charm, new film Fahrenheit 11/9, and getting the vote outSat Oct 20 2018 - 06:15
Bob Dylan’s ‘Blood on the Tracks’ as a rock opera? Jesus Christ...Donald Clarke: The Who’s ‘Tommy’, ‘Quadrophenia’, Pink Floyd’s ‘The Wall’, Lloyd Webber. EnoughFri Oct 19 2018 - 06:00
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekendFahrenheit 11/9, Halloween, The Lonely Battle of Thomas Read, DogmanFri Oct 19 2018 - 06:00
The movie quiz: Who is the fake president?Also: Two-time Oscar nominees, the sequels gap and defying Irish classificationFri Oct 19 2018 - 05:55
Touch Me Not: The transgressive sex is not the problem; it’s the lack of humourReview: Romanian director Adina Pintilie’s Golden Bear-winning film is ‘not for everyone’Fri Oct 19 2018 - 05:00
Almost every film in cinemas this week, reviewed and ratedThe Irish Times what-to-see guide to the movies now in cinemas across IrelandFri Oct 19 2018 - 00:00
Fahrenheit 11/9: As funny as anything Michael Moore has doneReview: Moore takes aim at Trump with satire, stunts and sometimes unreliable reportingThu Oct 18 2018 - 06:00
The Lonely Battle of Thomas Reid: The Kildare man who wouldn’t sell his land to the IDAReview: The David-and-Goliath film pits a stubborn, brave rebel against official IrelandThu Oct 18 2018 - 05:00
Why ‘Venom’, a stupid film about a monster, has killed ‘A Star Is Born’ at the box officeThe stinkily reviewed ‘Venom’ proves that the right film at the right time still can sellMon Oct 15 2018 - 10:17
Katie Taylor: ‘Stepping away from my dad was difficult’The boxing champion on fame, and keeping her mind ‘intact’Sat Oct 13 2018 - 05:00
‘After the Celtic Tiger, maybe even ordinary people became a little more brutal’Paddy Breathnach on making a film about a homeless family with Roddy DoyleFri Oct 12 2018 - 06:15
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekendNew this week: First Man, Rosie, Mandy, 1945Fri Oct 12 2018 - 06:00
The movie quiz: a dirty question about Clint EastwoodAlso: Wuthering Heights’ Cathy, the Marvel Universe, and a gangster who loved loved the American DreamFri Oct 12 2018 - 05:55
My Bergmanesque despair is being dialled up to 11The Oxford English Dictionary’s newest entries include more than 100 film-related termsFri Oct 12 2018 - 05:30
Almost every film in cinemas this week, reviewed and ratedThe Irish Times what-to-see guide to the movies now in cinemas across IrelandFri Oct 12 2018 - 00:00
Bad Times at the El Royale: Up-itself post-Tarantino flopReview: director Drew Goddard has made a pastiche of a pastiche of a pastiche. Could that be right?Thu Oct 11 2018 - 06:00
Rosie: Roddy Doyle’s homeless film burns with a raw urgencyReview: Credible picture of an ordinary family cast into an extraordinary situationThu Oct 11 2018 - 05:00
‘Sean Gallagher’s electrifying exercise in grand patriotic baloney’Donald Clarke dishes out the star ratings for the presidential candidates’ one-minute pitchesWed Oct 10 2018 - 06:00
First Man: Who better to play robotic Neil Armstrong than perennially blank Ryan Gosling?Review: This terrific study of the 1969 Moon landing is all about the man inside the suitWed Oct 10 2018 - 06:00
The Johnny Depp you once loved wasn’t the real Johnny DeppDiscrediting of movie stars we admire can be hard to process. But we never really knew themMon Oct 08 2018 - 06:30
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekendNew this week: A Star Is Born, Tehran Taboo, Columbus, Under the ClockFri Oct 05 2018 - 06:00
The movie quiz: The last Irish-born Oscar winner for acting is...?Also: name a taxidermy-loving son and think of a fast number for a Pixar characterFri Oct 05 2018 - 05:55
The creeping menace of Americanised Halloween is frighteningDonald Clarke: We began dressing up as monsters. Now it’s a Vegas Elvis or saucy flight attendantFri Oct 05 2018 - 05:00
Almost every film in cinemas this week, reviewed and ratedThe Irish Times what-to-see guide to the movies now in cinemas across IrelandFri Oct 05 2018 - 00:00
