The Jungle book review: awe-inspiring retelling of the Kipling classicDirector Jon Favreau sticks close to Disney’s original and delivers a gorgeous film that combines the epic with the intimateThu Apr 14 2016 - 15:30
Hirokazu Koreeda: finding the universal in the subtle tensions that bind familyRenowned director Hirokazu Koreeda latest film Our Little Sister is a family drama without any major crises - and film festivals are in love with itThu Apr 14 2016 - 12:59
Pitbull. Nowe porzadki review: an extravagantly horrid Polish crime thrillerSome of the set pieces are genuinely impressive, but the tide of casual sadism and misogyny eventually becomes exhaustingWed Apr 13 2016 - 23:47
‘Brooklyn’ and ‘Room’ win big at Ifta awardsBob Geldof and Liam Neeson among stars in Dublin for Irish film industry awardsMon Apr 11 2016 - 01:00
Iftas 2016: Room wins seven awards, Brooklyn takes twoMichael D Higgins delivers amusing tribute to Liam Neeson for outstanding contributionSat Apr 09 2016 - 23:58
Iftas: Extraordinary awards season comes to close‘Room’, ‘Sing Street’ and ‘My Name is Emily’ lead nominations in excellent year for Irish filmSat Apr 09 2016 - 15:25
Robert De Niro vexed by ‘Vaxxed’The star’s Tribeca Film Festival accepted, then dropped, Andrew Wakefield’s film about what he still believes to be links between the MMR vaccine and autismSat Apr 09 2016 - 07:00
I Am Belfast review: Mark Cousins paints a vital, intimate portrait of a cityWith luscious photography and an insidious electronic score from David Holmes, Cousins’ film finds intriguing oddness in the apparent drabness of the northern capitalFri Apr 08 2016 - 15:32
My Name is Emily review: a teen road movie that’s well worth the mileageSimon Fitzmaurice’s film unfurls in impressive, nested sub-narratives, along with the mildest hints of psychological autobiographyFri Apr 08 2016 - 12:40
Donald Clarke: More penises on screen, pleaseFemale nudity is about three times more common than male nudity in film. It’s hardly surprising when guys usually run the showFri Apr 08 2016 - 11:00
Midnight Special review: a sweet little mystery of Spielbergian proportionsFather and superpowered son go on the run in Jeff Nichols’s sci-fi adventure full of enigma and gothic disorderThu Apr 07 2016 - 17:06
The Man Who Knew Infinity review: a boffin story that does add upThis tale of a seminal moment in the history of mathematics studiously avoids the highbrow, but proves itself worthy in the processThu Apr 07 2016 - 13:30
Dheepan director Jacques Audiard: ‘I wanted to do a remake of Straw Dogs’The director of A Prophet returns with a shockingly prophetic drama about clashes between immigrants and ParisiansThu Apr 07 2016 - 13:00
Donald Clarke: This atheist dogma is beyond beliefSure, the Rising was undemocratic and religious. As an atheist, I have no problem with thatSat Apr 02 2016 - 05:00
Ewok of Ages: A Star Wars Story review - a playfully subversive tour de ForceEver the master of marketing, JJ Abrams' unheralded release - set between The Force Awakens and Episode VIII - has astonished Star Wars fans and critics alikeFri Apr 01 2016 - 11:20
Michael Shannon: ‘The performance is an escape for an actor as much as it is for an audience’Strong roles in ‘8 Mile’ and ‘Bad Boys II’ ensured he had a face that kept getting recognisedFri Apr 01 2016 - 06:00
Victoria review: ingeniously made, superbly acted, continuously thrillingFar more than just a gimmick, Sebastian Schipper’s one-take thriller argues brilliantly for the single-shot as a viable mediumThu Mar 31 2016 - 16:00
Eddie the Eagle review: Taron Egerton and Hugh Jackman nail the landingDexter Fletcher’s biopic of the fated British ski jumper Eddie Edwards shamelessly and faultlessly hits every cheap chord - you may even shed a tearWed Mar 30 2016 - 14:51
Vinyl isn’t coming back. It’s over, manSome young people are buying vinyl, but they’re the wrong young peopleSat Mar 26 2016 - 07:00
Jeremy Irons “I wasn’t some fancy-pants film actor. I was a builder”Jeremy Irons has always been Hollywood’s go-to guy when a bit of upper-crust sophistication is needed, but when he got the part of Batman’s butler, the honorary Corkman decided to add some grit to the polishFri Mar 25 2016 - 06:28
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 review: A big fat waste of timeThis long-awaited sequel to one of the biggest rom-coms of all time surges with humanity, goodwill and fellow feeling - and is a total dudThu Mar 24 2016 - 18:38
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice review - lost in the murk of expectationTasked with rebooting the franchise, Zack Snyder delivers a superabundance of mopey superhero tropes, tons of computer-generated pseudo-gloom - and not much elseTue Mar 22 2016 - 22:02
Xena is gay: what next, marriage?A reboot of the fantasy series would no longer hide the Warrior Princess’s sexuality. It’s part of a social shift unthinkable a generation agoSat Mar 19 2016 - 07:00
High Rise review: infuriatingly disordered take on the classic JG Ballard textDirector Ben Wheatley knows how to unsettle, and the cast are immaculate, but it’s not enough to sustain this monolith of a filmFri Mar 18 2016 - 10:17
Zootropolis review: now here’s a plot you can really, ahem, sink your teeth intoWith a plot that unfurls with all the sinuousness of a PG-cert Chinatown, Disney’s latest box-office smash is one of their bestFri Mar 18 2016 - 09:57
Risen review: Biblical tale that drifts deep into Sunday School territoryKevin Reynolds’ tolerable Easter entertainment sees Joseph Fiennes’ Roman warrior tasked with finding the missing body of ChristFri Mar 18 2016 - 09:57
Michael Collins review: nowhere near as historically inaccurate as we once supposedTwenty years on, Neil Jordan’s drama looks like a clear attempt to sweeten history with the palatable goo of modern mythologyFri Mar 18 2016 - 09:56
Sing Street director John Carney: ‘I knew that era so well. I didn’t have to research it’From his early films to Bachelor’s Walk and Once, there have always been flashes of autobiography in John Carney’s work. His latest Sing Street, however, edges much closer to full-on memoirFri Mar 18 2016 - 06:22
Rock the Kasbah review: the pathetic last wheeze of the Baby Boomer brigadeHow could a movie directed by Barry Levinson and starring Bill Murray, Kate Hudson and Bruce Willis turn out to be so atrocious? It’s a fair questionThu Mar 17 2016 - 07:38
Let’s ban rugby, and all school sportsThere isn’t much in the modern curriculum that is designed as torture: except sportSat Mar 12 2016 - 06:12
Kate Dickie: ‘I genuinely believe that the witch is there’You may know Dickie from Game of Thrones. The Scottish actor’s new film, The Witch, is a folk horror to savourFri Mar 11 2016 - 07:00
Charlie Kaufman: ‘It’s puppets having sex. They will start to laugh and then stop’The scriptwriter on his new stop-motion film that took six months to shoot just one sex sceneFri Mar 11 2016 - 06:00
The Witch review: masterful old-school dread stalks the New WorldEvery beast and plant takes on threatening form in a slippery, intelligent menace-filled film by first-time director Robert EggersThu Mar 10 2016 - 23:18
Allegiant review: There's so much to dislike, it’s hard to know where to startFeaturing the drippiest couple in popular culture since the Care Bears, the latest Divergent movie could hardly be worse if it triedThu Mar 10 2016 - 13:13
Traders review: Bankers fight to the death in this impressive, blood-soaked debutKillian Scott and John Bradley stand out in this Irish thriller about two down-on-their-luck share dealers who decide to go for brokeWed Mar 09 2016 - 15:17
John Bradley: from Game of Thrones to Dublin death matchThe Manchester-Irish actor is best known as the nicest man in Westeros, Samwell Tarly. So how will he get on as a nasty piece of work in Dublin thriller Traders?Wed Mar 09 2016 - 06:00
Boyzlife: the kind of music even your parents complain isn’t strange enoughBoyzone and Westlife are merging into a supergroup. Pipe down, rock snobsSat Mar 05 2016 - 07:00
Hail, Caesar! review: the Coen brothers let loose in la-la landJoel and Ethan go full Hollywood screwball in a beautifully shot all-star farce that never quite adds up to more than the sum of its partsThu Mar 03 2016 - 16:30
Hitchcock/Truffaut review: essential viewing for fans of the masterMartin Scorsese, David Fincher and Richard Linklater are among the talking heads that pop up in Kent Jones’s exemplary film about the meeting of the two auteursThu Mar 03 2016 - 12:00
Donald Clarke: A cynical European at the Oscars – well, near the OscarsCultural differences transpire when I say that I intend to walk to the ceremony, and when I sigh at the uptight security arrangements. Still, one does one’s best to fit inTue Mar 01 2016 - 17:00
Ahead of Oscars, Room takes two prizes at Spirit awardsWins for one of the Irish films vying for best picture at tonight’s Academy AwardsSun Feb 28 2016 - 09:59
Donald Clarke on the eve of the ‘most Irish’ OscarsSaoirse Ronan, Lenny Abrahamson and Emma Donoghue talk academy fantasiesSat Feb 27 2016 - 12:00
Dear United States. Don’t elect Donald Trump. With love, the planetHaving him in the White House would be like having an orang-utan piloting your planeSat Feb 27 2016 - 05:45
Donald Clarke’s Oscars: Who will win? And who should?‘The Revenant’ or ‘Room’? Leonardo DiCaprio or Michael Fassbender? Brie Larson or Saoirse Ronan? It’s the most unpredictable best-picture race in decadesFri Feb 26 2016 - 06:00
Oscars: Saoirse Ronan feels love as hopefuls arriveAhead of 88th Academy Awards, the Irish film industry decamps to HollywoodFri Feb 26 2016 - 01:00
Secret in Their Eyes review: not quite peculiar enough to be interestingChiwetel Ejiofor and Julia Roberts ably deliver in a detective film with a dark twist, but the whiff of compromise (and Nicole Kidman's face) hangs heavy over this remakeThu Feb 25 2016 - 16:00
The Forest review: would be hard-pressed to frighten even the frailest infantEvery cliché of contemporary or vintage horror is ready to leap out and not scare Natalie Dormer in this by-the-numbers ghost flickThu Feb 25 2016 - 14:00
Grimsby review: Sacha Baron Cohen makes the switch from sharp wit to halfwitThe laughs are few and far between as once-unassailable Baron Cohen hits a new low in this mean-spirited and very unfunny spy caperThu Feb 25 2016 - 12:51
Oscars 2016: Donald Clarke ranks the best picture nominationsMainstream entertainments such as Mad Max: Fury Road and The Revenant jostle with independents including Brooklyn and RoomThu Feb 25 2016 - 06:00
Benjamin Cleary: ‘I keep thinking I’ll wake up and discover this isn’t real’In any other year, Oscar nominee Benjamin Cleary would be the name on everyone’s lips – but he’s delighted to be in the race with Room and BrooklynThu Feb 25 2016 - 06:00
