Fassbender’s charisma fails to mask The Snowman’s big problemTomas Alfredson’s slice of Scandi noir is the kind of thriller that now belongs on TVFri Oct 13 2017 - 05:00
It’s Not Yet Dark: A moving, lively story that's an example to us allThis well-made documentary about Simon Fitzmaurice, who has motor neurone disease, never dips into melodramaWed Oct 11 2017 - 05:00
Star Wars trailer: Mind our good Skellig with that light sabreRey is waving her sword dangerously close to the Kerry rocks. She’ll frighten the cormorantsTue Oct 10 2017 - 13:57
Harvey Weinstein is no longer getting away with it. That’s goodThe film business isn’t as bad as it once was for sexual misconduct. But it’s still pretty awfulMon Oct 09 2017 - 15:20
Where did it all go wrong for Blade Runner 2049?The hyped sequel has had a disastrous opening: is it all the studio's fault?Mon Oct 09 2017 - 10:51
Donald Clarke: The game is up for Morrissey the reactionaryHow did we Smiths obsessives miss the signs in the 1980s. Because they were thereSat Oct 07 2017 - 06:00
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekendNew this week: The return of the skinjobs, the real Arab women of Israel, and zany animeFri Oct 06 2017 - 06:00
Donald Clarke's movie quiz: are you (a) box office gold or (b) a flop?This week: A dedication from The Stranglers, Oscar on Oscar, and when Elvis met RonanFri Oct 06 2017 - 06:00
Return to Montauk review: A cold but classy concoctionSadly this Colm Tóibín-assisted effort has none of the warmth of his best workFri Oct 06 2017 - 05:00
Blade Runner was about climate change, claustrophobia and melancholiaCan Denis Villeneuve’s 163-minute sequel to Blade Runner rescue a ‘broken’ box office?Fri Oct 06 2017 - 05:00
Kate Winslet, Idris Elba and a dog up a mountain. Who thought this was a good idea?The Mountain Between Us review: The two stars and a dog go for a long walk in the mountains. Who thought this was a good idea?Wed Oct 04 2017 - 05:00
Blade Runner 2049: intoxicating, brain-melting alienationReview: Blade Runner 2049 is not without flaws, but it’s a marvel it works as well as it doesTue Oct 03 2017 - 18:25
An 800-word tribute to 140-character tweetsDon't double their length, Twitter. It’s like telling Shakespeare to ditch the sonnet structureSat Sept 30 2017 - 06:00
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekendNew this week: Winnie the Pooh – the origin story, the devil’s own spaghetti western, and a Bridget Jones for the fleabag generationFri Sept 29 2017 - 07:00
The movie quiz: Back in the days of Oz, Wind and KaneAlso: Spielberg’s early ouevre, roll call of female directors, and Andy Warhol on filmFri Sept 29 2017 - 05:27
Brimstone is no country for young womenAt its best, Martin Koolhoven’s western is like being caught up in one of God’s more entertaining divine ragesThu Sept 28 2017 - 14:01
Storm in a teacup at the Centre of my WorldThis German drama is full of pretty people doing things that were once quirkyThu Sept 28 2017 - 05:00
Goodbye Christopher Robin has the subtlety and manipulation of a TV Christmas adSimon Curtis’s take on the creation of Winnie the Pooh gleams brightly at every point, despite sitting on a bed of genuine tragedy and low-level miseryWed Sept 27 2017 - 05:00
What do you mean you don’t own a telly? You really shouldYoung actor Shailene Woodley committed a cardinal celebrity sin at the recent EmmysSat Sept 23 2017 - 06:00
Donald Clarke's movie quiz: Name the year of the new Blade RunnerAlso: best picture biopics, Kristen vs Kirsten, and the first movie to rake in $100mFri Sept 22 2017 - 07:00
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekendNew this week: The 1983 breakout from The Maze and Shi LaBeouf remarkably channels tennis brat John McEnroeFri Sept 22 2017 - 06:00
Borg vs McEnroe: the power and the fury‘There was a quest for perfection and meaning in both of them – I think they were both haunted by a deeper existential pain’Fri Sept 22 2017 - 05:00
The Rotten Tomatoes site is blunt, but it’s not killing cinemaBlade Runner 2049 director Denis Villenueve is one of few film-makers to praise the siteThu Sept 21 2017 - 14:00
Kingsman review: Laugh? I nearly clawed my eyes outWas the first one not bad enough? This sequel seems to think notWed Sept 20 2017 - 09:39
‘Maze’ review: more like the ‘Great Escape’ than we had any right to expectThe 1983 prison break gets a responsible treatment but it's most effective as a prison break yarnWed Sept 20 2017 - 05:00
Oscars countdown starts here. And the Irish are in the raceSeveral films with Irish involvement impressed critics at the Toronto Film FestivalMon Sept 18 2017 - 12:20
McDonagh wins People’s Choice Award at Toronto film festivalThe prize for London-Irish author’s film ‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’ raises hopes for Oscar successSun Sept 17 2017 - 19:50
Lord Hook-Hook, voice of the ‘permanently offended’George Hook, the spluttering mouthpiece of powerful but paranoid older men, falls silentSat Sept 16 2017 - 06:00
Donald Clarke's movie quiz: Who was tough enough to take on Alien?Also this week: comedy triplets, a Lady and the Tramp song and Oscar by the numbersFri Sept 15 2017 - 06:30
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekendNew this week: J-Law in the mother of all weird-outs and an unhinged Asian ExtremeFri Sept 15 2017 - 06:00
Eddie Izzard: I like to think I kicked the trans door openThe actor knows all about standing up for his principles. Can he take that to Westminster?Fri Sept 15 2017 - 05:00
Victoria & Abdul review: We are barely amusedStephen Frears directs Judi Dench in passable middle-brow entertainmentWed Sept 13 2017 - 10:19
Mother! A disgusting, disturbing feast for the sensesReview: A ragged Jennifer Lawrence keeps this wild Gothic ride aloftTue Sept 12 2017 - 15:09
RTÉ’s ‘mutilated’ map of Ireland was a stylistic error, no moreFurore over health services map saw the State broadcaster likened to the TalibanSat Sept 09 2017 - 06:00
Donald Clarke's movie quiz: name this song from Withnail & IAlso this week: Daniel Day’s Oscar directors, John Ford's legendary Debbie, and a Clint Eastwood nameFri Sept 08 2017 - 06:00
Elizabeth Olsen: ‘You don’t want to be followed by strangers in cars’As a sister of the Olsen Twins and a star in her own right, the actor is wary of fameFri Sept 08 2017 - 05:00
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekend'It' efficiently delivers the jolts, while mystery 'Wind River' provides more thoughtful fareFri Sept 08 2017 - 05:00
The Drummer and the Keeper review: airy, funny, optimistic and honestNick Kelly’s deft film details the friendship between a bipolar rock musician and a teenager with Asperger syndromeThu Sept 07 2017 - 09:43
Dennis Skinner: Nature of the Beast - holding the trough-scoffers to accountDaniel Draper’s feature-length documentary on the ‘Beast of Bolsover’ focuses on the man, but misses out on current political concernsThu Sept 07 2017 - 05:00
I want to complain about people who complain about filmsBoth the easily offended and the responsibly annoyed communities have lost their vimWed Sept 06 2017 - 10:54
It review: Industry-standard horror meets 1980s nostalgiaThis version of the Stephen King bullet stopper works on its own degraded termsWed Sept 06 2017 - 07:00
Former Fat Lady Sings frontman’s first film draws on mental health issuesNick Kelly: from plectrum to spectrum, between rock and a hard placeMon Sept 04 2017 - 05:00
The great doner kebab rush of 1982Doughnuts and burritos are fads that come and go but late-night kebabs are here foreverSat Sept 02 2017 - 06:00
Like ‘Brokeback Mountain’, but with Yorkshire weatherFrancis Lee’s ‘God’s Own Country’ feels like a career-launching filmSat Sept 02 2017 - 05:00
Donald Clarke’s movie quiz: What is the longest Pixar film?Also this week: Wes Craven, conceived Down Under, a real Oscar stumper, and who nixed Nixon?Fri Sept 01 2017 - 06:00
An Irish film, a Scottish film and a Welsh film go into a bar...Moon Dogs review: This Irish-Scottish-Welsh film with a strong cast and plenty of silly costumesThu Aug 31 2017 - 13:15
Patti Cake$ review: hip-hop epic to the tune of SpringsteenThere are reasons to frown at the choice of a white protagonist for this movie – even if she puts in a charismatic performanceThu Aug 31 2017 - 06:12
Una review: A troubling conversation about sexual abuseThe two leads just about make this stagey duologue about a past crime workThu Aug 31 2017 - 05:30
It’s sensible not to screen ‘Gone with the Wind’ in TennesseeA Memphis cinema has decided the classic film is offensive to African-Americans. They’re rightTue Aug 29 2017 - 17:00
Do you sit in the back of a taxi or the front (like a dangerous sociopath)?Freedom from torture of having to “make conversation” is not too much to expect when paying by the mileSat Aug 26 2017 - 06:00
