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
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 Sept 06 2019 - 05:30
Rojo: A South American Colombo in a bravely staccato filmReview: Benjamin Naishtat’s awkward movie demands patience from the viewerFri Sept 06 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 Sept 03 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 Sept 02 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
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 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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Trump’s tweet oozed out the day before The Hunt was pulledWithout seeing the movie, people have opinions on whether it was a right-wing or a left-wingSat Aug 17 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 16 2019 - 06:00
Six of the best films to see in cinemas this weekendNew this weekend: Once Upon a Time in . . . Hollywood, Dora and the Lost City of Gold, Transit, Penny Slinger: Out of the ShadowsFri Aug 16 2019 - 05:30
Emile Hirsch on remorse, Bono's daughter and shooting an Irish westernIn 2015, the actor was convicted of assaulting a movie executive at Sundance. His quiet rehabilitation continues with a role in Tarantino’s new film and, oddly, a new Irish westernFri Aug 16 2019 - 05:00
The movie quiz: How many Star Wars films came out before 2000?Also: Once upon a role in Hollywood, a new Bafta award, Saoirse Ronan’s mumsFri Aug 16 2019 - 05:00
How can you spot a deepfake, and if you can’t is that a problem?A harmless doctored video of Bill Hader becoming Tom Cruise has triggered full-on panicThu Aug 15 2019 - 19:47
Good Boys: Too sentimental for adults, too raunchy for kidsReview: It’s a squalid mess that makes ill use of some talented young performersThu Aug 15 2019 - 16:40
Transit: A five-star, art-house modern-day CasablancaReview: This existential riddle keeps the audience on edge throughoutThu Aug 15 2019 - 15:30
Half the movies at Toronto Film Festival are made by womenThe number of female directors in the film business remains stubbornly lowWed Aug 14 2019 - 12:26
Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood review: Exhilarating and infuriatingThe film isn’t about the murder of Sharon Tate and friends in 1969. It’s about the end of erasTue Aug 13 2019 - 10:00
Apocalypse Now returns to cinemas, minus the Playboy BunniesFrancis Ford Coppola’s disaster-struck Vietnam epic has had yet another recutTue Aug 13 2019 - 00:55
Film titles: (Some of) the punctuation is just ....W*E*I*R*D?!Those three dots in Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood are a ‘creative decision’Mon Aug 12 2019 - 06:01
For Monica Lewinsky, it’s payback timeA new American Crime Story project will see overdue redemption for Monica LewinskySat Aug 10 2019 - 05:00
Irish movies feature strongly at Toronto International Film FestivalCanadian event is the most important cinema festival in North American calendarFri Aug 09 2019 - 08:45
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 09 2019 - 06:00
Six of the best films to see in cinemas this weekendNew this weekend: Holiday, Blinded by the Light, Gaza, The Sun Is Also a StarFri Aug 09 2019 - 05:30
Humanity’s search for normality amid the chaos that is Gaza‘We have three phases in Gaza. We prepare for war. There’s the war. There is mopping up after war’Fri Aug 09 2019 - 05:00
The Sun is also a Star: As America divides, Hollywood offers hopeReview: A dreamy romance that will cause even cynics to emit contented sighsFri Aug 09 2019 - 05:00
The movie quiz: What is the last word spoken in Annie Hall?Also: Two-Oscar characters, staffing Hogwarts, Jackman credits, films of THE bookFri Aug 09 2019 - 05:00
Blinded by the Light: One of summer’s most irresistibly entertaining filmsReview: Actors play delightfully off one another as every beat hits with resounding forceThu Aug 08 2019 - 05:00
