Latest movies reviewed: All films in cinemas this week ratedThe Irish Times what-to-see guide to the movies now in cinemas across IrelandFri Nov 01 2019 - 09:25
Sorry We Missed You: One of Ken Loach’s best filmsReview: Film shines a light on the grim reality of gig economy workersFri Nov 01 2019 - 06:00
The Aeronauts: A rare treat of old-fashioned adventureReview: Thrilling action and captivating performances make this film a treatFri Nov 01 2019 - 05:00
The movie quiz: What, according to Harry Lime, did Switzerland give the world?Plus: What is the lowest grossing Pixar film ever?Fri Nov 01 2019 - 05:00
Doctor Sleep: Like an evening in a Shining theme parkReview: Ewan McGregor stars in a less intense sequel to The ShiningWed Oct 30 2019 - 16:00
Ken Loach: What’s Britain doing owning part of Ireland?The director who has spent 50 years poking the establishment on Brexit, right-wing broadcasters and the gig economyWed Oct 30 2019 - 06:00
Six of the best films to see in cinemas this weekNew this weekend: The Last Black Man in San Francisco, Terminator: Dark Fate, By the Grace of GodMon Oct 28 2019 - 10:02
Event of the Week: Horrorthon 2019Irish Film Institute brings Little Monsters, Colour Out of Space and more to its screensSat Oct 26 2019 - 05:00
Call me a snob, but Marvel’s Black Panther is ‘less than’ Scorsese’s Raging BullDonald Clarke: Kids’ movies are becoming the only cinema many punters will pay to seeSat Oct 26 2019 - 05:00
The Last Black Man in San Francisco: Nothing much like it out there right nowReview: Talbot’s haunting reverie on contemporary urban discontents should be treasuredFri Oct 25 2019 - 05:45
Black and Blue: Bargain-basement chase flick like an echo from a lost ageReview: This often-violent film that paints a grim picture of inner-city decay swivels unconvincingly to happy-clappyFri Oct 25 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 Oct 25 2019 - 05:00
The movie quiz: Work out the Martin Scorsese film anagramAlso: Bruce Willis films, a spooky voice in the Top 10 and Ford v Ferrari’s name changeFri Oct 25 2019 - 05:00
‘Saoirse Ronan is going to land her fourth Oscar nomination for Little Women’Online film commentators react enthusiastically to early US screeningsThu Oct 24 2019 - 12:45
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid – the western for people who hate westerns – turns 50Steve McQueen turned the film down because he didn’t get on with NewmanThu Oct 24 2019 - 10:09
The Curious Works of Roger Doyle: A quiet giant of Irish musicReview: This film functions as an alternative history of Ireland in the post-1960s confusionThu Oct 24 2019 - 05:00
Want a three-course dinner at the cinema? No, I bleeding don’tDonald Clarke: Food sales keep movie theatres going, despite the outrage it causesSat Oct 19 2019 - 05:00
De Niro and Pacino: ‘We are very close... We have known each other a long time’The Hollywood veterans are back on screen together for Martin Scorsese’s The IrishmanSat Oct 19 2019 - 05:00
The movie quiz: Spot the anagram for an Oscar winnerPlus: What's after an Excellent Adventure, Shirley Bassey’s Bonds, and a 1970s private eyeFri Oct 18 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 Oct 18 2019 - 06:00
Six of the best films to see in cinemas this weekendNew this weekend: The Peanut Butter Falcon, Land Without God, Shaun the Sheep, Official SecretsFri Oct 18 2019 - 05:30
Official Secrets: Fascinating Iraq War whistleblower taleReview: Hood’s study of Katharine Gun is an efficient, diverting exercise that will educateFri Oct 18 2019 - 05:00
Dark Lies the Island: It looks good, they act well, but it doesn’t workReview: Everyone involved is doing decent work, but the picture doesn’t hang together as it shouldWed Oct 16 2019 - 14:00
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil. Angelina Jolie isn’t cruel enoughReview: A dreary, woke subplot sends Maleficent to a hidden kingdom to express herselfTue Oct 15 2019 - 14:00
Protesting against art, even an anti-abortion film, is not a good lookDonald Clarke: Unplanned is a laughable atrocity but I’ll be with the other Centrist DadsSat Oct 12 2019 - 05:00
‘I am Mannix Flynn. I am 62. I have come through poverty, prison, abuse – you name it’‘The so-called hard left aren’t hard at all. They’ve abandoned the working classes’Sat Oct 12 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 Oct 11 2019 - 06:00
The movie quiz: Solve the anagram for an Alfred Hitchcock filmPlus: A Marvel alter ego, failure to make the top 20, wearing the cartoon pants, part IIIsFri Oct 11 2019 - 05:30
Six of the best films to see in cinemas this weekendNew this weekend: A Bump Along the Way, Lost Lives, The King, AbominableFri Oct 11 2019 - 05:30
The King: Timothée Chalamet stars in a hunk of medieval hokumReview: Not since Monty Python has a period Frenchman been as absurd as Robert PattinsonThu Oct 10 2019 - 10:45
The Day Shall Come: Chris Morris’s film may be the year’s biggest disappointment to dateReview: Morris has turned fascinating stories into the first out-and-out dud of his careerThu Oct 10 2019 - 05:00
A Bump Along the Way: Vibrant Bronagh Gallagher shines in charming Irish crowd-pleaserReview: Tess McGowan wrote the film while pregnant, and it throbs with authenticityWed Oct 09 2019 - 11:36
Bronagh Gallagher: ‘I never felt I was with the right man. But that’s how the dice rolled’The actor on Brexit and Irishness, her Derry childhood, being independent and Quentin TarantinoSat Oct 05 2019 - 06:00
IndieCork: There’s no festival quite like itFilms about middle-aged pregnancy, road bowls and power-lifting ... and a few tunesSat Oct 05 2019 - 05:00
Joker proves we can no longer imagine a world without smartphonesDonald Clarke: The item everyone claims to hate is now baked into contemporary aestheticsSat Oct 05 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 Oct 04 2019 - 06:00
The movie quiz: Spot the anagram for a Clint Eastwood westernAlso: The youngest Oscar winner and Samuel L Jackson’s Quentin Tarantino filmsFri Oct 04 2019 - 05:30
Six of the best films to see in cinemas this weekendNew this weekend: Joker, The Last Tree, Best Before Death, Good PostureFri Oct 04 2019 - 05:30
Losing Alaska: A community checkmated by climate changeReview: Irish filmmaker Tom Burke's documentary is engrossing but a little bit shapelessFri Oct 04 2019 - 05:00
Best Before Death: KLF’s Bill Drummond takes another arty figaryReview: Paul Duane documents Drummond on his latest quest to confuse and bewilderFri Oct 04 2019 - 05:00
The Joker film controversy is exhausting. It does not make a hero of its lead characterDonald Clarke: Almost nobody expressing concern has seen the movieTue Oct 01 2019 - 10:30
Joker film review: Terrific, tear-out-the-follicles acting from Joaquin PhoenixSatirical masterpiece or manifesto for psychopathy, this is a beautifully made filmMon Sept 30 2019 - 13:15
Yes, you should feel bad for not finishing (insert classic novel here)Donald Clarke: Guilt is an important aspect of life and a vital part of the reading experienceSat Sept 28 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 27 2019 - 06:00
Six of the best films to see in cinemas this weekendNew this weekend: Ready or Not, The Laundromat, Inna de YardFri Sept 27 2019 - 05:30
The movie quiz: How many Rambo films are there?Also: Neil Jordan’s title characters, Gleeson-free zone, the Marx Bros and musicFri Sept 27 2019 - 05:30
The Laundromat: Meryl Streep is no Erin BrockovichReview: The film feels compiled from a list of pitches nobody got round to whittling downFri Sept 27 2019 - 05:00
Ready or Not is an absolute hoot of a bloody horrorReview: What this lacks in characterisation, it makes up in sheer, hurtling momentumFri Sept 27 2019 - 05:00
The Goldfinch: A sedating film adaptation of Donna Tartt’s bookReview: It’s adequately acted, smoothly edited and as dead as Carel FabritiusTue Sept 24 2019 - 13:30
Scooby-Doo is 50: Yes it really was all about drugsGrowing up on cartoons that soaked up psychedelia as blotting paper soaked up LSDSat Sept 21 2019 - 05:00
