Lover For a Day: The most French film you’ll see this yearReview: Lecturer beds student. Characters talk a lot about love and sex. In black and whiteThu Feb 08 2018 - 05:00
Loveless review: From Russia, but definitely not with loveAlexey Zvyagintsev’s powerful movie is deservedly up for the best foreign film OscarWed Feb 07 2018 - 17:00
Quentin Tarantino has questions to answer about his Roman Polanski rape commentsOver the last few weeks a mass of interwoven accusations have pushed the movie director into an increasingly uncomfortable placeWed Feb 07 2018 - 16:15
Black Panther: This film is revolutionary. Just not that goodReview: It features a black superhero, but the CGI is suffocating and the plot is weakWed Feb 07 2018 - 10:27
Andrey Zvyagintsev: ‘With Russia’s re-Stalinsation, there are negative tendencies’Film director Andrey Zvyagintsev is viewed as one of the greatest film-makers but in his native Russia the acclaim is not so universalWed Feb 07 2018 - 05:00
Fifty Shades Freed: Last gasp of a decrepit phenomenonFifty Shades of Grey, part 3 is out this week – a stinky post-Weinstein anachronismMon Feb 05 2018 - 10:39
Virtual reality: Even better than the real thing?Virtual reality is coming to the Audi Dublin International Film Festival with a two-day conference on ‘immersive entertainment’Sat Feb 03 2018 - 05:00
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekendDaniel Day-Lewis goes out in haute style, and Gerard Butler channels his inner BlackbeardFri Feb 02 2018 - 06:00
James Bond has always been a misogynist dinosaur. Now he has to changeThere is something unsettling about a video, compiled in the wake of the #MeToo movement, detailing Bond’s repeated, casual mistreatment of womenFri Feb 02 2018 - 05:00
Journey’s End: A serious version of ‘Blackadder Goes Forth’Review: Long camera takes give a sense of the claustrophobia of life in the trenchesThu Feb 01 2018 - 12:00
Roman J Israel, Esq: Colin Farrell is fine. The film is a total messReview: This Oscar-nominated film starring Farrell and Denzel Washington just doesn’t feel ready for release.Thu Feb 01 2018 - 09:42
Phantom Thread: Daniel Day-Lewis is pained and brilliant in his final filmReview: The actor plays a perfectionist artist who makes life a nightmare for those around himWed Jan 31 2018 - 11:52
‘The Post’, ‘Dunkirk’ and ‘I, Tonya’ are full of errors. So what?A film isn’t a history class. Clever audiences bring a healthy scepticism to the moviesTue Jan 30 2018 - 06:00
The Young Offenders: Breaking into the English MarketThe runaway success of the film has led to a BBC series and a new level of attention in CorkSat Jan 27 2018 - 05:00
The movie quiz: How mad did Max 2 get in the US?Also: Star family dynasties, putting the Good in Fellas and acting to the Vronsky beatFri Jan 26 2018 - 07:00
Five of the best films to see at the cinema this weekendNew this week: Early Man is a primitive hoot, Last Flag Flying sombrely channels The Last Detail, and Downsizing proves the law of diminishing returnsFri Jan 26 2018 - 06:00
‘Three Billboards’ is not suffering a backlash: some people just didn’t like itFilm’s failure to score a Best Director Oscar nomination for Martin McDonagh is not necessarily a reactionFri Jan 26 2018 - 05:00
Bryan Cranston: ‘I was going to become a police officer’Bryan Cranston had a solid career as a jobbing actor for three decades, then ‘Breaking Bad’ happenedFri Jan 26 2018 - 05:00
Third and (thank heavens!) final Maze Runner filmFantasy-sequence finale is so generic it has given up pretending to be a real movieThu Jan 25 2018 - 05:00
Downsizing: A film reeking of Long-Cherished Project SyndromeIntriguing concept gets lost amid naive environmental fantasy in rare disappointmentWed Jan 24 2018 - 09:28
Oscars 2018: 10 talking points from the nominationsNetflix has its first nod, Cinematography has its first woman, ‘Three Billboards’ could struggleTue Jan 23 2018 - 17:12
Saoirse Ronan, ‘Three Billboards’, Cartoon Saloon and Daniel Day-Lewis nominated for OscarsMartin McDonagh’s ‘Three Billboards’ is named in seven nomination categoriesTue Jan 23 2018 - 13:49
Tomorrow’s Oscar nominations today – Donald Clarke predictsHe called 83% of the nominations correctly in 2016 and 2017. But this year is tougherMon Jan 22 2018 - 11:25
Will Saoirse Ronan win an Oscar? Watch the SAG Awards to find outThe ‘Lady Bird’ star faces tough competition in this year’s best female actor categorySun Jan 21 2018 - 06:00
The movie quiz: What film went home without a Golden Globe?Also: The many faces of Winston Churchill, Pixar’s latest, and the Bull Durham brandFri Jan 19 2018 - 07:00
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekendSpielberg, Hanks and Streep’s The Post is heavy with shadows of Trumpocracy while Liam Neeson just about stays on track in The CommuterFri Jan 19 2018 - 06:00
Get deleting. You might be the next Milkshake Duck‘Milkshake duck’ captures perfectly the social media dystopia we have created for ourselvesFri Jan 19 2018 - 05:00
Liam Neeson: Unexpectedly beating up people at age 65Liam Neeson never expected to be beating up people on a train at the age of 65 – or still getting into trouble for opening his big Ballymena mouthFri Jan 19 2018 - 05:00
Rey: Filmed over seven years, it often feels that wayThis unconventional historical yarn is disjointed, self-important and lacks humourFri Jan 19 2018 - 00:00
The Post: Steven Spielberg’s latest irresistible entertainmentTom Hanks is stubborn, Meryl Streep is vulnerable, the whole film is elegantWed Jan 17 2018 - 05:00
Christoph Waltz: slightly sinister, supremely talentedPrecise, odd and a little bit untrustworthy, the Oscar-winner is the best thing in ‘Downsizing’Sat Jan 13 2018 - 05:00
The movie quiz: are you golden, or you just an empty globe?Also: The actor who never appeared in a Potter, living with Oscar nominations, and Thunderbirds are who?Fri Jan 12 2018 - 07:00
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekendNew this week: Golden Globe-winning 'Three Billboards' and what makes Eric Clapton tickFri Jan 12 2018 - 05:00
Oprah for president? This is the cult of celebrity gone madDonald Clarke: Oprah is extraordinary but being elevated purely on celebrity is wrong. Is this Trump’s legacy?Fri Jan 12 2018 - 05:00
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri review: A class act with too many implausible turnsMartin McDonagh’s unromantic comedy doesn’t fall apart, but its many threads frayFri Jan 12 2018 - 00:01
Saoirse Ronan one of only three best actress Ifta nomineesMaudie, Handsome Devil, Cardboard Gangsters, Three Billboards, The Farthest dominateThu Jan 11 2018 - 14:21
Darkest Hour review: Oldman is chunky, the script is clunkyThe latest film about Churchill is like something the BBC might show on a Sunday nightWed Jan 10 2018 - 05:00
Saoirse Ronan edges closer to an Oscar. Martin McDonagh still has a fight on his handsAnalysis: The Golden Globes over, thoughts turn to the most open Oscar race in decadesMon Jan 08 2018 - 17:30
Saoirse Ronan wins best actress at Golden GlobesMartin McDonagh wins best screenplay; attendees dress in blackMon Jan 08 2018 - 06:42
Golden Globes: Everything you need to knowIt’s shaping up to be a big night for Saoirse Ronan and the #MeToo movementSun Jan 07 2018 - 07:00
Donald Clarke’s movie quiz: The next Star Wars spin-off?Also: Jim Sheridan characters, Casablanca’s most quotable line and Stand by Me’s starting pointFri Jan 05 2018 - 06:00
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekendNew this week: Casting rather than cash is king in Getty kidnapping saga, while Ben Stiller wrestles with his big ego in Brad’s StatusFri Jan 05 2018 - 06:00
Jupiter’s Moon review: Refugee as superhero fails to convinceThis Hungarian art-house oddity is a technical marvel in search of a moral purposeFri Jan 05 2018 - 05:00
Boy babies wet their nappies at any lurch towards gender equalityThe three highest grossing movies in the US have women in leading roles – about timeFri Jan 05 2018 - 05:00
All the Money in the World: Great riches from Christopher PlummerAmong the most satisfyingly propulsive films Ridley Scott has delivered this centuryFri Jan 05 2018 - 00:00
2018 movie preview: 50 films to watch out forA Famine drama, another ‘Jurassic World’ and any number of Marvel blockbusters are on the waySat Dec 30 2017 - 05:00
The annual Get Off My Lawn! awards for online outrageFrom ill-judged advertising to Saoirse Ronan’s accent, here are the most annoying stories of the yearFri Dec 29 2017 - 17:34
The movie quiz: Who went home without an Oscar in 2017?Also: Bypassing Ireland, animated box-office, Hollywood RIP and Brian O’Driscoll’s film debutFri Dec 29 2017 - 08:00
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekJessica Chastain lays her cards on the table. Ferdinand the bull is releasedFri Dec 29 2017 - 06:00
