Hostiles review: A fiercely satisfying western of the old schoolThere is something of ‘The Searchers’ in director Scott Cooper’s elegiac taleFri Dec 29 2017 - 05:00
Molly’s Game: Jessica Chastain does yellow-pack ScorseseAaron Sorkin’s debut film isn’t going to get as many Oscar nominations as predictedThu Dec 28 2017 - 05:00
Eric Clapton opens up – even on his bizarre racist periodLili Zanuck’s documentary doesn’t shy away from the musician’s darkest daysThu Dec 28 2017 - 05:00
The 102 best films to watch on NetflixLight the fire, make the popcorn, and settle down for a binge-watch of some of these greatsSat Dec 23 2017 - 05:00
Test yourself with Donald Clarke’s Christmas movie quizWho narrates The Muppet Christmas Carol? Who won’t be pulling Santa’s sled?Fri Dec 22 2017 - 08:00
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekendNew this week: Pitch Perfect 3 hits a whole host of high notes, while Jumanji just gets byFri Dec 22 2017 - 06:00
Bruce Springsteen is slightly less authentic than One DirectionSo Pet Shop Boys kept The Pogues off the Christmas number one in 1987. Get over itFri Dec 22 2017 - 05:00
Pitch Perfect 3: Perfectly in tune with its own mad formulaForget about plot: this is the most uncomplicated fun you will have this ChristmasTue Dec 19 2017 - 13:04
Irish Times films-of-2017 reader poll distorted by online campaignRustling through this year’s ballot papers, there is something puzzling going on...Sat Dec 16 2017 - 05:00
The movie quiz: Are you a Jedi master of numbers?Also: Selina Kyle’s scratchy aka, the first billion-dollar movie, and a classic Caine jobFri Dec 15 2017 - 08:00
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekendStar Wars: The Last Jedi has everyone talking but there are better movies to seeFri Dec 15 2017 - 06:00
The Christmas murder mystery film we all need in our livesBob Geldof solves a murder in the midst of Band Aid in James Ward Byrkit’s proposed filmFri Dec 15 2017 - 05:00
Pierce Brosnan as Gerry Adams: the movie you need to see nowForget ‘Star Wars’. Stay in tonight and watch the straight-to-Netflix film, ‘The Foreigner’Fri Dec 15 2017 - 00:01
The best in film 2017, according to the Dublin Film Critics CircleDunkirk blows away the competitionThu Dec 14 2017 - 16:38
The Prince of Nothingwood review: The strange film king of AfghanistanSonia Kronlund’s documentary on the Afghan film-maker Salim Shaheen is full of vibrant personal portraitsThu Dec 14 2017 - 05:00
Star Wars: The Last Jedi review: boring, bloated and confusingThe latest instalment will fill a Star Wars-shaped hole but is punishingly longTue Dec 12 2017 - 17:16
Star Wars: The Last Jedi ... Film insiders tweet their verdicts‘Best movie since Empire.’ At least, that’s what people who went to the premiere saidMon Dec 11 2017 - 16:13
Golden Globes: Saoirse Ronan, Daniel Day-Lewis, Martin McDonagh and Caitriona Balfe up for awards‘The Breadwinner’, by Kilkenny’s Cartoon Saloon, nominated for best animated featureMon Dec 11 2017 - 14:27
Star Wars bumper quiz: May the trivia be with youTest yourself on the opening scroll, the disco thump, Bobo’s debut and Darth’s descendantsSat Dec 09 2017 - 06:00
Kinopolis celebrates Poland’s fecund film cultureThis year's festival features Agnieszka Holland’s ‘Spoor’, Maria Sadowska’s ‘The Art of Loving’, and Krzysztof Krauze and Joanna Kos-Krauze’s 'Birds Are Singing in Kigali'Sat Dec 09 2017 - 05:00
Donald Trump believes he’s Luke Skywalker: How Star Wars works for everyoneWith the release of The Last Jedi imminent, a look back at how the ‘Star Wars’ juggernaut started in a ‘galaxy far, far away’Sat Dec 09 2017 - 05:00
Saoirse Ronan the star attraction at Dublin screening of Lady BirdIrish star may become only third female actor to score three Oscar nominations before age 23Sat Dec 09 2017 - 00:22
The movie quiz: Where is the ‘happiest place on Earth’?Also: Tarantino’s joints, a star hits the big 01, trippin’ in ’68, and a new girl with a dragon tattooFri Dec 08 2017 - 08:00
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekendNew this week: Jake Gyllenhaal in a survivor’s story, an ageless assassin in ancient Japan, and clever Yuletide horrorFri Dec 08 2017 - 06:00
Too many critics still regard television as an inferior mediumThe inclusion of 'Twin Peaks: The Return' on such lists is bizarre: it’s a TV series. Right?Fri Dec 08 2017 - 05:00
Brigsby Bear review: A strange creature of tonal shiftsCommitted performances cannot save this bizarre story of abduction and reconciliationWed Dec 06 2017 - 05:00
Menashe review: The most emotionally honest film you'll see this yearMenashe deserves our attention for its oddness and heart aloneWed Dec 06 2017 - 05:00
Jake Gyllenhaal never better in moving Boston marathon dramaStronger review: The true story of a victim of the Boston Marathon bombing avoids the clichés of the genreWed Dec 06 2017 - 05:00
Saoirse Ronan’s ‘Saturday Night Live’ is unfunny PaddywhackerySaoirse Ronan – national treasure and a total pro – deserves better material than thisMon Dec 04 2017 - 09:32
Ticket Awards 2017: The best films of the yearHere are our favourite film moments of the last year. Don't forget to vote for yoursSat Dec 02 2017 - 06:46
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekendJulia Roberts and Owen Wilson wow in Wonder and James Franco hits gold in The Disaster ArtistFri Dec 01 2017 - 06:00
Call Saoirse Ronan British. Go on. . . Please. . . Pretty please!Nothing makes the blood surge more exhilaratingly than recreational outrageFri Dec 01 2017 - 05:00
Michael Haneke: ‘I hope all my films are obscene’The film-maker abhors violence, but he can’t help putting it in his workFri Dec 01 2017 - 05:00
Song of Granite review: An intoxicatingly odd ode to Joe HeaneyPat Collin’s Irish-language feature is awkward, original and surprising throughoutThu Nov 30 2017 - 00:00
Jaha’s Promise review: Fearless about female genital mutilationThis portrait of Jaha Dukureh confirms that campaigning can make a differenceWed Nov 29 2017 - 14:17
Happy End review: Michael Haneke's nightmares about the future come trueMichael Haneke’s latest movie never quite gets startedWed Nov 29 2017 - 11:48
Is it still okay to watch Toy Story?Whether or not you watch work by discredited film-makers is an emotional decisionSun Nov 26 2017 - 06:00
10 novels crying out to be brought to the big screenCatcher in the Rye, The Blind Assassin: great literary works that should be moviesSat Nov 25 2017 - 06:00
Donald Clarke: ‘I am at one with pregnant women, injured war veterans and people who can remember the Cuban Missile Crisis’Sound Off: It wasn’t supposed to happen – I have surely not reached the age when I can expect pleasant twerps to surrender their seats on public transportSat Nov 25 2017 - 06:00
‘Being judged by your sex. We are so used to being treated as less’Battle of the Sexes star Andrea Riseborough, who slips in and out of parts with ease, is agitated for real. She has a few points to makeSat Nov 25 2017 - 05:30
Donald Clarke's movie quiz: are you (a) the star or (b) the wars?This puzzlers week's include the first of Marvel, box-office remakes and 007’s top directorFri Nov 24 2017 - 08:00
Beach Rats review: An uneasy tale of a young gay man’s self-discoveryHarris Dickinson swells with potential in Eliza Hittman’s gripping releaseFri Nov 24 2017 - 06:05
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekendNew this week: Battle of the Sexes is the feminist v male chauvinist pig showdown we need right nowFri Nov 24 2017 - 06:00
Donald Clarke: Get over Charles Manson and get over the 1960sThe continuing adoration of the popular culture of the 1960s is exhausting and inhibitingFri Nov 24 2017 - 06:00
Daddy’s Home 2 review: Mel Gibson edges us into inappropriate territory‘Slap her on the caboose’: the advice an 11-year-old boy is given on how to treat girlsThu Nov 23 2017 - 05:00
Suburbicon review: George Clooney’s latest symphony of bum notesNo wonder the Coen brothers turned down this sub-par scriptThu Nov 23 2017 - 05:00
The Star review: It’s hard to keep the faith with this nativity storyFilm has an innocence that contrasts nicely with the snark of much contemporary animationThu Nov 23 2017 - 05:00
From the millennial to the rock geezer: Gifts for movie and music buffsGifts for movie and music buffsThu Nov 23 2017 - 00:00
Donald Clarke's movie quiz: are you (a) on the money or (b) all out of cashThis week's puzzlers feature Ron Burgundy’s profession, Wall Street wolves, and brassy Bond and BasseyFri Nov 17 2017 - 08:00
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekendNew this week: Bening as an ageing film noir star, Robert Pattinson as a half-dead hood – and an American epic worth staying home forFri Nov 17 2017 - 06:00
