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The French Dispatch: Something for le weekend

Wes Anderson’s Gallic portmanteau is gorgeous but insubstantial

Fri Oct 22 2021 - 05:00

The Great Migration – Paula Murphy on African-American artist Jacob Lawrence

An Irishwoman’s Diary

Sun Feb 21 2021 - 15:01

The Capote Tapes: From impoverished childhood to cocaine-fuelled decline

‘I felt like his story hadn’t been told,’ Ebs Burnough says about his Truman Capote documentary

Tue Jan 26 2021 - 05:00

The Hands of Franky Machine: A musical movie for the ears

Hour-long audio drama is a love letter to 1950s noir, set in a dirty near-future cityscape

Wed Nov 25 2020 - 05:00

Lovecraft Country: American TV shows its true colours. And it’s exhilarating

Racist sheriffs, not tentacled beasts, provide the real scares in this take on Jim Crow’s US

Tue Aug 18 2020 - 10:55

Mubi: online repertory cinema for a handful of change

Fancy a rotating visual feast of 30 arthouse movies monthly and all neatly curated?

Sat Mar 28 2020 - 05:00

Turner Prize nominee surprised at North’s lack of protests over Brexit

Film exploring role of women in civil rights movement shortlisted for prestigious award

Mon Nov 04 2019 - 03:45

Lou Reed the rock poet: When should songs be considered poetry?

Dylan, Patti Smith, Gil Scott-Heron and Lou Reed wrote song-poems that transcended pop, and bands such as Fontaines DC are keeping rock and poetry in perfect rhyme

Sat Oct 19 2019 - 05:00

A Drop of Patience: Insight into US and race by original woke writer

Black identity and disability are examined in William Melvin Kelley’s rediscovered classic

Sat Oct 05 2019 - 06:00

The Irish Times view on Toni Morrison: Seer and truth-teller

Morrison was a recipient of that rare combination, popular and critical acclaim

Sat Aug 10 2019 - 00:02

Yara Shahidi: Oprah Winfrey's tip for US president

The fluency of this politically engaged actor, just 19, is staggering. Maybe Oprah is right?

Wed Aug 07 2019 - 05:00

The 10 best films of 2019 so far

The Favourite was savage, Eighth Grade gave us hope, Apollo 11 was cool and magical

Mon Jun 24 2019 - 11:05

Ulster American review: Exasperations, ultimatums and wearying repetition

The trouble with polemicists, in David Ireland’s satire, is that they might mean what they say

Wed Apr 10 2019 - 16:30

Oscars 2019: Olivia Colman and Green Book triumph in a night of shocks

Green Book is best film, Bohemian Rhapsody wins most. Glenn Close overlooked for 7th time

Mon Feb 25 2019 - 06:28

If Beale Street Could Talk: A seductive, exemplary movie

Review: Barry Jenkins’s third film is least as good as his Oscar-winning Moonlight

Wed Feb 06 2019 - 11:30

Barry Jenkins: ‘Being poor and black in Miami was all I knew’

The 'If Beale Street Could Talk' director on the Oscars mix-up and what's next

Sat Feb 02 2019 - 05:00

Oscars 2019: Here’s who I predict will be nominated today

Donald Clarke: If I get fewer than 80% of these correct I’ll be disappointed

Mon Jan 21 2019 - 10:11

Policing the borderlands of fiction and non-fiction

For serious writers, invention in reportage remains taboo

Sat Nov 24 2018 - 05:00

A Different Drummer by William Melvin Kelley: The new ‘Stoner’?

Rediscovered classic from a black American writer imagines a different Deep South

Sat Nov 17 2018 - 06:00

‘I never thought I would like free jazz, but I really do’

In conversation: Daniel McIntyre and Parker Mulherin, musicians

Sat Nov 10 2018 - 06:00

Theatre access is always a compromise for those with a disability

The message is that, at best, we are a nuisance; at worst, we are not welcome

Tue Nov 06 2018 - 17:01

Oscars 2019: My money’s on Lady Gaga and ‘A Star Is Born’

Donald Clarke: Toronto Film Festival has fired the Academy Awards starting pistol

Mon Sept 17 2018 - 12:03

Toronto may not have the Cannes kudos, but the gap is closing

Audience input and domestic films make TIFF more than just an Oscar barometer

Mon Sept 17 2018 - 11:22

Toronto film festival: Oscar contenders ‘Roma’ and ‘Beale Street’ impress

Academy Award talk is a tradition in Toronto, and this year’s festival is no different

Thu Sept 13 2018 - 11:00

Irish films in the mix at Venice and Toronto festivals

The Favourite from Yorgos Lanthimos will compete for the Golden Lion at Venice and John Butler’s Papi Chulo will premiere at Toronto

Thu Jul 26 2018 - 07:00

The Young Karl Marx: Birth of a working-class superhero

Review: A cerebral bromance between the charismatic Marx and the rakish Engels

Fri May 04 2018 - 05:00

A Wrinkle in Time: Oprah towers over this sprawling, messy film

Review: It’s a mish-mash of quantum physics, trippy adventure and glitter

Wed Mar 21 2018 - 09:50

Which films will be up for next year’s Oscars? These ones will

Donald Clarke predicts 2019’s Best Picture nominees. He was nearly half right this year

Tue Mar 06 2018 - 16:24

The best in film 2017, according to the Dublin Film Critics Circle

Dunkirk blows away the competition

Thu Dec 14 2017 - 16:38

The 10 best films of 2017 so far

We’re halfway through the year – it’s time to take cinematic stock

Wed Jun 28 2017 - 14:00

Warren Beatty: ‘I’ve had 16 books written about me. All baloney’

Warren Beatty, a true Hollywood maverick, sets the record straight on his six-decade-long career and the state of cinema today

Sat Apr 22 2017 - 05:00

This documentary will make you rethink everything about US black history

I Am Not Your Negro is already attracting the attention of bigots for its brilliance

Thu Apr 06 2017 - 11:39

May and EU can’t dictate that line of malice be redrawn

Ireland’s call: Border question needs to be isolated from sphere of economics

Thu Mar 16 2017 - 04:43

Oscars 2017 predictions: What should win, and what will win

‘La La Land’ or ‘Moonlight’? Emma Stone or Natalie Portman? Casey Affleck or Denzel Washington? Donald Clarke makes his predictions for Sunday night's Oscars ceremony

Thu Feb 23 2017 - 05:00