‘We limit ourselves. We’re told to behave in a certain way from birth’Following on from her work on the stage and TV, Jessie Buckley now makes her big-screen debut in ‘Beast’ – a bow that is cause for great excitement in her native Co KerryWed Apr 25 2018 - 05:00
Spoiler alert: People don’t hate spoilers . . . or do they?Avengers: Infinity War directors have made sure the new film’s story remains a secret. But if they did tell you, would it really spoil the experience?Sat Apr 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 Apr 20 2018 - 06:00
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekendNew this week: An Irish zombie pic, a feminist western and a Canadian dramaFri Apr 20 2018 - 06:00
Let the Sunshine In: A French ‘comedy’ of sexual misadventuresReview: Plot is series of fragmented episodes of people squabbling and embracingFri Apr 20 2018 - 05:00
Coming out made me more free in every aspect of my lifeSince she publicly came out in 2014, ‘Juno’ actor Ellen Page has chosen roles and projects that are more personally fulfilling – such as David Freyne’s Irish zombie flick ‘The Cured’Fri Apr 20 2018 - 05:00
Never Steady, Never Still: A beautiful, wintry, heartfelt filmReview: Poignancy and visual poetry mark director Hepburn as major new talentThu Apr 19 2018 - 09:37
Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts: The feminist western you need to seeReview: A vicious, Sergio Leone-style tale of one woman’s revenge on a rapistWed Apr 18 2018 - 10:09
‘Western’ offers a clever study of toxic masculinityReview: Valeska Grisebach’s thorny film takes a scalpel to male bravado and colonialismFri Apr 13 2018 - 13:35
Almost every film in cinemas this week, reviewed and ratedThe Irish Times what-to-see guide to the movies now in cinemas across IrelandFri Apr 13 2018 - 06:00
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekendNew this week: A searing family drama from France, a gentle coming-out comedy from the US, and a heartwarming documentary from IrelandFri Apr 13 2018 - 06:00
‘Abused women know that danger can be lurking everywhere’Xavier Legrand’s scintillating ‘Custody’ dramatises the horror of domestic violenceFri Apr 13 2018 - 05:00
A Fistful of Dollars: ‘See, my mule don’t like people laughing’Review: Classic spaghetti western rerelease showcases Clint Eastwood’s star qualityThu Apr 12 2018 - 06:00
Making the Grade: Irish documentary is one of the great, affecting films about teachingReview: A colourful cross-section of the 30,000 Irish children who learn pianoThu Apr 12 2018 - 06:00
‘Love, Simon’ is a very welcome messageReview: The film is a landmark in LGBTQ representation, but succeeds on its own meritsTue Apr 10 2018 - 12:30
‘When the epidemic started I realised that we needed to be considered by society’In his award-winning new film ‘120 BPM’, Robin Campillo pays tribute to the lives and the sacrifices of those behind the 1980s Aids activism group ACT UPSat Apr 07 2018 - 05:00
Is this the first Bruce Willis movie written by Russian trolls?While Death Wish doubles as a commercial for the gun lobby, its alt-right posturing is undermined by its uneven, head-scratching toneFri Apr 06 2018 - 18:08
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekendNew this week: A thriller so tense you can hear a pin drop, a hard-hitting Irish prison drama, and an epic about the French Aids crisisFri Apr 06 2018 - 06:00
Almost every film in cinemas this week, reviewed and ratedThe Irish Times what-to-see guide to the movies now in cinemas across IrelandFri Apr 06 2018 - 06:00
The Hurricane Heist: A force- 10 disaster with notionsReview: Is a mini-sermon on climate change necessary in a dumb actioner?Fri Apr 06 2018 - 05:00
Ghost Stories: Scares and floating sheets in dismal BritainReview: Adaptation of the play ‘Dead of Night’ transfers the show-stopping moments wellFri Apr 06 2018 - 05:00
Wonderstruck: Unconvincing fantasy and even less credible realityReview: How did Todd Haynes’s messy, overstuffed misfire attract so many stars?Thu Apr 05 2018 - 11:01
A Quiet Place: An almost silent horror masterpieceReview: Genre thrills centring on familial tension in a post-apocalypic worldThu Apr 05 2018 - 10:37
‘Michael Inside’ – how prison affects a teenaged first-timer‘A lot of the former prisoners said the story of the film is very much their story’Tue Apr 03 2018 - 05:00
Paddy Considine: ‘I can’t remember the last big film I’ve seen that was any good’Director talks about his new film, his 'crippling' Irlen syndrome and why Hollywood isn’t everythingFri Mar 30 2018 - 06:30
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekendNew this week: An animated masterpiece that manages to out-fantastic Mr FoxFri Mar 30 2018 - 06:00
Almost every film in cinemas this week, reviewed and ratedThe Irish Times what-to-see guide to the movies now in cinemas across IrelandFri Mar 30 2018 - 06:00
Journeyman: An ageing boxer’s life-changing fightReview: Paddy Considine’s latest tale is about community, carers and close friendsFri Mar 30 2018 - 05:00
Ready Player One author Ernest Cline living the VR dream – in real lifeCline is now a bestselling author and his story has been brought to cinematic life by Steven SpielbergThu Mar 29 2018 - 05:00
Isle of Dogs: A five-star movie that doesn’t put a paw wrongReview: Wes Anderson’s second stop-motion animation film is his warmest picture yetWed Mar 28 2018 - 13:30
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekendNew this week: Oprah in A Wrinkle in Time, and a Steven Soderbergh iPhone movieFri Mar 23 2018 - 06:00
Almost every film in cinemas this week, reviewed and rated'The Irish Times' what-to-see guide to the movies now in cinemas across IrelandFri Mar 23 2018 - 06:00
The Third Murder: One of the most polarising films of the yearReview: Many are left cold by the strange marriage of brutality and wistfulnessFri Mar 23 2018 - 05:00
Vivienne Westwood: ‘This film about me is mediocre. I am not’Review: ‘Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist’ is highly entertaining. But the designer hates itThu Mar 22 2018 - 10:00
‘People of all kinds of cultures, colours, ages, weights. That’s what we wanted to show’African-American director Ava DuVernay’s ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ starring Oprah is a big hit at box offices despite so-called negative ‘audience reviews’Thu Mar 22 2018 - 05:00
A Wrinkle in Time: Oprah towers over this sprawling, messy filmReview: It’s a mish-mash of quantum physics, trippy adventure and glitterWed Mar 21 2018 - 09:50
Catherine Keener: ‘I did not know about Harvey Weinstein at all’Onetime queen of indie flicks on her good Catholic upbringing, the #MeToo movement and her latest role in Irish director Alan Gilsenan’s adaptation of a Carol Shields novelSat Mar 17 2018 - 05:00
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekendMary Magdalene demythifies Christ’s 13th apostle, and Peter Rabbit bounds into cinemasFri Mar 16 2018 - 06:00
Almost every film in cinemas this week, reviewed and ratedThe Irish Times what-to-see guide to the movies now in cinemas across IrelandFri Mar 16 2018 - 06:00
The Magic Flute: Restored 1975 Oscar winning operaReview: Filmed by Ingmar Bergman, this version of Mozart’s opera is fascinating to watchFri Mar 16 2018 - 05:00
Walton Goggins: ‘I’m very grateful Quentin Tarantino saw something in me’The actor, who made his breakthrough in The Hateful Eight, puts the same thought into his Tomb Raider character that another actor might reserve for Richard IIIFri Mar 16 2018 - 05:00
Peter Rabbit: A family comedy that will spawn many sequelsReview: Even the controversial 'allergy bullying' scene doesn’t feel out of place in this slapstick filmThu Mar 15 2018 - 09:51
Tomb Raider: Stand upwind. It’s the first stinker of 2018Review: Delicate, non-English-sounding Alicia Vikander is wildly miscast as Lara CroftWed Mar 14 2018 - 17:00
Lynne Ramsay: From Ratcatcher to revenge thrillerThe Scottish film-maker on her taut new film starring Joaquin Phoenix, watching movies with her mum, and the awkward fallout from that Natalie Portman flickSat Mar 10 2018 - 05:00
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekendThis week brings us a riveting revenger, a forbidding Outback western, and Nicolas Cage at his unhinged loopiestFri Mar 09 2018 - 06:00
Almost every film in cinemas this week, reviewed and ratedThe ‘Irish Times’ what-to-see guide to the movies now in cinemas across IrelandFri Mar 09 2018 - 06:00
Ruben Östlund: ‘I worry that left-wing people misunderstand Marx’An encounter with homeless children in Ireland spurred the director to make films that challenge political beliefsFri Mar 09 2018 - 05:00
Mom and Dad: Nicolas Cage takes to the crazed plot like a duck to waterReview: The actor reaches a new level of lunacy in Brian Taylor’s filmFri Mar 09 2018 - 05:00
Sweet Country: Once upon a time in the outbackReview: Warwick Thornton’s ‘western’ grippingly depicts Antipodean racial inequalityFri Mar 09 2018 - 05:00
Gringo: A hugely likable cast keeps this film afloatReview: Charlize Theron and Thandie Newton star in this decent stab at a cross-crossing crime caperFri Mar 09 2018 - 05:00
