Advice for college: never forget that social media never forgetsDonald Clarke: Choose your friends, clothes and politics wisely. They’ll come back to haunt youFri Sept 21 2018 - 05:00
John Paul II in Ireland: A Plea for Peace – a nostalgic popemobile tripReview: This creaky documentary links the pope’s 1979 visit with the peace processFri Sept 21 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 Sept 21 2018 - 00:00
For Saoirse review: Well worth travelling up Dublin’s Champs-Élysées to seeDublin Fringe Festival: Colm Keegan’s Ballymun odyssey rarely takes an expected turnThu Sept 20 2018 - 11:56
The Little Stranger: Ghosts in the big house are not scary partReview: Lenny Abrahamson’s impressively clammy follow-up to the all-conquering 'Room'Thu Sept 20 2018 - 06:00
Oscars 2019: My money’s on Lady Gaga and ‘A Star Is Born’Donald Clarke: Toronto Film Festival has fired the Academy Awards starting pistolMon Sept 17 2018 - 12:03
Toronto may not have the Cannes kudos, but the gap is closingAudience input and domestic films make TIFF more than just an Oscar barometerMon Sept 17 2018 - 11:22
Float like a Butterfly: Film about Irish Traveller girl boxer wins in Toronto“In Ireland, to have a young female Irish Traveller at the centre of a film ... is unthinkable”Sun Sept 16 2018 - 20:42
McQueen’s ‘Widows’ so consistently funny that flaws hardly matterToronto film festival: British filmmaker honours series while imprinting his own visual stampSat Sept 15 2018 - 11:00
The Sky Is Falling: Muddled and a bit barmyBook review: Peter Biskind struggles to explain superheroes’ link to US extremismSat Sept 15 2018 - 06:00
Lenny Abrahamson: ‘I was offered some very high-profile prestige movies’The Dubliner on the exhausting success of Room, anti-Semitism and his ghostly The Little StrangerSat Sept 15 2018 - 05:00
Michael Moore blasts Trump in new Fahrenheit 11/9 documentaryToronto film festival: Natalie Portman dazzles in Vox Lux as Irish films continued to premiere at another busy Tiff for domestic cinemaFri Sept 14 2018 - 11:00
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekendNew this week: The Rider, Crazy Rich Asians, Lucky, A Mother Takes Her Son to Be ShotFri Sept 14 2018 - 06:00
The movie quiz: Which is the odd Terminator out?Also: Bond villains, Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals and pious ties to a new horror filmFri Sept 14 2018 - 05:55
A Mother Brings Her Son to Be Shot: It’s still grim up NorthReview: Sinead O’Shea’s film documents a bandit-controlled Northern Irish communityFri Sept 14 2018 - 05:00
King of Thieves: Three films rolled into a single heist movieReview: With Michael Caine, Ray Winstone and Michael Gambon, it couldn’t be boringFri Sept 14 2018 - 05:00
In praise of Autumn: Ireland is not a summery nationAs everything turns a deathly brown, it feels unpatriotic to favour any other seasonFri Sept 14 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 Sept 14 2018 - 00:00
Toronto film festival: Oscar contenders ‘Roma’ and ‘Beale Street’ impressAcademy Award talk is a tradition in Toronto, and this year’s festival is no differentThu Sept 13 2018 - 11:00
The Rider: Cowboys and injuriesReview: Study of a damaged rodeo rider is a hugely impressive slice of prairie naturalismThu Sept 13 2018 - 06:00
‘The Favourite’ takes two awards at Venice Film FestivalOlivia Colman wins best actress for performance in Yorgos Lanthimos’s Irish productionSat Sept 08 2018 - 20:43
Michael Caine: Still willing to blow the bloody doors offThe 85-year-old actor’s opinions may veer as wildly as his six-decade career, but who cares?Sat Sept 08 2018 - 05:00
‘Rosie’ may be an ‘issue film’, but it is charged with raw emotionFilm tackling homelessness crisis premieres at Toronto International Film FestivalSat Sept 08 2018 - 03:00
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekendNew this week: The Miseducation of Cameron Post, Black 47, PuzzleFri Sept 07 2018 - 06:00
The weekly movie quiz: Do you know your Nelson Mandela actors?Also: Which chiropteric superhero has not been the subject of a 2018 film?Fri Sept 07 2018 - 05:55
Puzzle: A winning film to soften the heart of a rattlesnakeReview: An apparently ordinary mother finds fulfilment in competitive jigsaw-puzzlingFri Sept 07 2018 - 05:00
The Nun: stupid, confusing and scary – but not sexyReview: A likable cast is the only saving grace for this incoherent horror flickFri Sept 07 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 Sept 07 2018 - 00:00
Burt Reynolds, once the most popular star on planet, has died aged 82Deliverance star earned an Academy Award nomination for Boogie NightsThu Sept 06 2018 - 21:14
Black ’47: Brain-twitching Great Irish Famine revenge thrillerReview: Lance Daly’s movie rattles along at the pace of a hungry dog pursuing a healthy rabbitWed Sept 05 2018 - 05:00
Barry Keoghan: ‘My mother would be pretty proud. And surprised’Actor on making Famine film Black 47, becoming American and Dublin's sweet smellSat Sept 01 2018 - 05:00
Forget Bresson; the geeks have inherited the earthEthan Hawke doesn’t equate superhero movies with French auteurs. Is this heresy?Fri Aug 31 2018 - 06:00
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekendNew to the screen this week: Cold War, Searching, I Dolours, C’est la Vie, UpgradeFri Aug 31 2018 - 06:00
The movie quiz: A Christopher Nolan film without Michael Caine?Also: Adapting Dickens and JK Rowling, taking it to TV, one that doesn’t add upFri Aug 31 2018 - 05:55
Almost every film in cinemas this week, reviewed and ratedThe Irish Times what-to-see guide to the movies now in cinemas across IrelandFri Aug 31 2018 - 00:00
Yardie: Idris Elba’s directorial debut is messy but promisingReview: Too many violent set-pieces, though well staged, are placed in no lucid contextThu Aug 30 2018 - 06:40
Filming Dolours Price: ‘Her name is Latin for sorrow. That describes her life’Journalist Ed Moloney on his interview with the compelling, acidic late IRA womanThu Aug 30 2018 - 00:01
The Happytime Murders: steer well clear of this Melissa McCarthy filmReview: These 90 minutes are among the longest you’ll endure in the cinema this yearTue Aug 28 2018 - 10:20
Neil Simon’s best films: From ‘The Odd Couple’ to ‘Biloxi Blues’The playwright and screenwriter, who has died at 91, redefined American humourMon Aug 27 2018 - 10:44
‘Crazy Rich Asians’ comes early to Ireland. Why?The all-Asian movie is a box-office smash in the US. Suddenly money is driving diversitySat Aug 25 2018 - 05:00
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekendNew this week: BlacKkKlansman, Alpha, The King, The Spy Who Dumped MeFri Aug 24 2018 - 06:00
The movie quiz: Which made more, Black Panther or Infinity War?And can you identify the actor husbands of Angelina Jolie?Fri Aug 24 2018 - 05:55
The Children Act: Just let the film die, Emma ThompsonReview: Thommo just about rescues this silly adaptation of Ian McEwan’s novelFri Aug 24 2018 - 05:00
Film-maker Pawel Pawlikowski’s deft touch to the fore in ‘Cold War’The Polish auteur’s latest movie is of a stripe that enamours almost all who see itFri Aug 24 2018 - 05:00
The Eagles’ ‘Greatest Hits’ is music for people who do not really like musicAlbum is now top-selling album in US after overtaking Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’Fri Aug 24 2018 - 01:00
Almost every film in cinemas this week, reviewed and ratedThe Irish Times what-to-see guide to the movies now in cinemas across IrelandFri Aug 24 2018 - 00:00
Lenny Abrahamson to direct Sally Rooney adaptation for BBCNovelist to bring her own work to small screen with Oscar-nominated IrishmanWed Aug 22 2018 - 09:45
The Spy Who Dumped Me: Between the decapitations and lacerations, you won’t be dozing offReview: Susanna Fogel’s comedy is the most violent ever entry into the spy-spoof film genreTue Aug 21 2018 - 11:00
BlacKkKlansman: New Spike Lee movie is funny, agitated and dynamicReview: Spike Lee also manages something unexpected from a political film: warmthTue Aug 21 2018 - 10:31
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekendNew this week: The Heiresses, Equalizer 2, The Guardians, The Eyes of Orson WellesFri Aug 17 2018 - 06:00
