Five Irish films to premiere at Sundance Film FestivalIrish film-makers bring comedy, horror and documentary to Utah festivalThu Nov 29 2018 - 10:00
Ralph Breaks the Internet: Top-notch gags, no plotReview: A persistent kowtowing to corporate interests flattens this family filmThu Nov 29 2018 - 06:00
Creed II: Little else this season has been so entertainingReview: The Rocky films have moved on, and the acting has never been better in the seriesWed Nov 28 2018 - 11:57
There’s an eight-hour movie coming to the Irish Film Institute‘Dead Souls’ will be screened over two days. Can something that long be called a ‘movie’?Wed Nov 28 2018 - 06:00
Sarah Silverman: You can't swear in front of a child but there are school shootingsThe actor and comedian tells unpleasant truths in profane language – and gets huge respectWed Nov 28 2018 - 05:00
It ain’t about how hard ya hit. It’s about how many ‘Rocky’ movies you can take‘Creed II’ is No 8 in the Stallone franchise. We salute its refusal to throw in the towelMon Nov 26 2018 - 09:57
Bertolucci’s legacy marred by ugly stories about ‘Last Tango’Oscar winner Bernardo Bertolucci was one of Italy's great post-war directorsMon Nov 26 2018 - 09:39
Nicolas Roeg: the director who took the familiar and made it strangeFew directors have made so many films that touch on the status of masterpieceSat Nov 24 2018 - 17:34
The Camino Voyage: Glen Hansard and crew row, row, row their boatReview: This documentary follows an unlikely journey across treacherous seasFri Nov 23 2018 - 14:41
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekendNew this week: Assassination Nation, Shoplifters, The Girl in the Spider’s Web and The Camino VoyageFri Nov 23 2018 - 06:00
The movie quiz: Which is not a real job on a film set?Also: a horror classic director, Keanu Reeves’s birthplace and a question about timeFri Nov 23 2018 - 05:55
Christmas ads: Instilling the festive spirit (greed, avariciousness, gluttony)Donald Clarke: There’s a reason advertising executives have second homes in TuscanyFri Nov 23 2018 - 05:45
Shoplifters: A Japanese masterpiece that creeps up on youReview: A family of petty thieves take a cold and hungry girl into their careFri Nov 23 2018 - 05:00
Assassination Nation: A frantic orgy of satirical violenceReview: Plenty of films try to deconstruct the online life but few have dug as deeply as thisThu Nov 22 2018 - 15:30
Robin Hood: Idiotic film can’t even get its absurdities rightReview: The clothes are bizarre, the accents are all over the place, and the hero’s a bit oddTue Nov 20 2018 - 14:57
Blame ‘Game of Thrones’ for the useless new Robin Hood movieThere are up to nine projects on the boil about the outlaw nobody cares about any moreTue Nov 20 2018 - 06:00
Who is the best cinema Santa Claus of them all?There has been a stunning variety of screen Santas. But one outshines them allMon Nov 19 2018 - 10:46
William Goldman, screenwriter who insisted ‘Nobody knows anything’ dies at 87Oscar-winning writer of ‘All the Presidents’ Men’ coined the phrase ‘Follow the money’Fri Nov 16 2018 - 16:30
Six of the best films to see this weekendNew this week: 9 to 5 rereleased and The Ballad of Buster Scruggs from the Coen brothers airs on NetflixFri Nov 16 2018 - 06:00
The movie quiz: Who has not directed Meryl Streep to an Oscar?Also: Keeping company with Marlon and Marilyn, directing Meryl and BrendanFri Nov 16 2018 - 05:55
Glen Hansard: ‘I have regrets about Apollo House’The Frames frontman is in danger of becoming an elder statesmanFri Nov 16 2018 - 05:00
All hail Stan Lee, master of the Marvel UniverseBeing a disciple of Marvel comics in their golden years was like belonging to a cultFri Nov 16 2018 - 05:00
Almost every film in cinemas this week, reviewed and ratedThe Irish Times what-to-see guide to the movies now in cinemas across IrelandFri Nov 16 2018 - 00:00
Suspiria: The dullest coven on the face of the EarthReview: Remake of Dario Argento’s 1977 classic does nothing with its many good ideasThu Nov 15 2018 - 14:41
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald – Like a hugely dull work bashReview: JK Rowling’s yarn plays like a fragmented fan fiction assembled through TwitterWed Nov 14 2018 - 06:00
Stan Lee: his Marvel Comics superheroes became national iconsDonald Clarke: Writer gave superheroes like Spider-Man and Captain America complex interior lifeMon Nov 12 2018 - 21:52
Broadsword Calling Danny Boy: On Where Eagles Dare reviewShape-shifting Geoff Dyer offers lively cross-cultural dissection of beloved 1968 war filmSat Nov 10 2018 - 06:00
Claire Foy: ‘Pain plays a big part in all the characters I play’‘I have an aversion to be being told I have to look a certain way to be an actress’Sat Nov 10 2018 - 05:00
First Look: Inside the new Stella mini-cinema in RanelaghDonald Clarke: Hand over €19 and a supercomfy, well-oiled cinema experience is yoursFri Nov 09 2018 - 17:31
Netflix films tipped for Oscars unlikely to be shown in Irish cinemasIndependent cinemas criticise ‘exclusive’ deal with Curzon chain, which has no screens in IrelandFri Nov 09 2018 - 10:10
The movie quiz: Who speaks Pulp Fiction's opening line?Also: the last Oscar best picture winner to be based on a novel and know your HustonsFri Nov 09 2018 - 05:55
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekendNew this week: Wildlife, Good Favour, The Grinch, They Shall Not Grow OldFri Nov 09 2018 - 05:30
Of course Darth Vader voted for Trump. Get over it, libsDonald Clarke: All the Friends voted Democrat, right? No wonder the party is in troubleFri Nov 09 2018 - 05:00
Cork Film Festival: An early taste of awards season certsHot tips: Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Favourite, David Lowery’s The Old Man and the GunFri Nov 09 2018 - 05:00
Almost every film in cinemas this week, reviewed and ratedThe Irish Times what-to-see guide to the movies now in cinemas across IrelandFri Nov 09 2018 - 00:00
Netflix commissions new animation from Kilkenny’s Cartoon SaloonNora Twomey, Oscar nominee for ‘The Breadwinner’, will direct ‘My Father’s Dragon’Thu Nov 08 2018 - 18:28
They Shall Not Grow Old: Peter Jackson’s definitive first World War filmReview: The director exploits all his technical gifts to convey the everyday experience of warThu Nov 08 2018 - 05:00
Wildlife: Carey Mulligan and Jake Gyllenhaal are excellent. But Ed Oxenbould is betterReview: Paul Dano channels his literary side in a directorial debut that abounds with aggressive metaphorsWed Nov 07 2018 - 11:31
It’s indulgent, disordered and wildly up itself. But you shouldn’t miss it‘The Other Side of the Wind’ is just part of the Orson Welles flotilla docked at Netflix CoveMon Nov 05 2018 - 11:53
Mike Leigh: ‘Brexit was a terrible manipulation of people and their needs’The director on why he's telling the story of a very British massacre, disagreeing with Jeremy Corbyn and avoiding 'thick actors'Sat Nov 03 2018 - 06:15
Widows: funny, twisty, implausible heist caper delivers unashamed thrillsReview: Steve McQueen tries to cram in too much good stuff – but there's no crime in that when it's such good stuffFri Nov 02 2018 - 06:05
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekNew this week: Steve McQueen's Widows, Chris O'Dowd in Juliet Naked, Mike Leigh's Peterloo, and MiraiFri Nov 02 2018 - 06:00
The movie quiz: An American Werewolf in London and where else?Also: Toting up the Dalmations, IDing the Queen, and a Coen brother officially directsFri Nov 02 2018 - 06:00
‘Whitey’ Bulger and the queasy celebration of notorious thugs‘Whitey’ Bulger, like the Krays, Ned Kelly and the General, is idealised in filmFri Nov 02 2018 - 05:30
Almost every film in cinemas this week, reviewed and ratedThe Irish Times what-to-see guide to the movies now in cinemas across IrelandFri Nov 02 2018 - 05:00
Juliet, Naked review: An unexpected and enchanting rom-com delightA frustrated Rose Byrne and menacing fan-boy Chris O’Dowd in seaside town so lovely we yearn to call it Richard-on-the-CurtisThu Nov 01 2018 - 06:30
The 100 greatest foreign-language films revealedOnly four out of the top 100 films directed by women in BBC poll of criticsWed Oct 31 2018 - 06:42
Peterloo review: a beautiful history lesson but where’s the Mike Leigh grit?Who thought we’d end up praising the facets of a Leigh film that feel most like the work of David Lean?Wed Oct 31 2018 - 06:30
The best horror movies of all time – see them if you dareThe silver screen’s spooky best from the last 100 years of cinemaTue Oct 30 2018 - 11:00
Nobody’s perfect. But ‘Some Like It Hot’ isBilly Wilder’s 1959 film is being reissued. But how did it attain untouchable status?Sat Oct 27 2018 - 05:00
