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
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
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
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
‘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
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
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 9 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 5 2019 - 06:00
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 5 2019 - 05:00
IndieCork: There’s no festival quite like itFilms about middle-aged pregnancy, road bowls and power-lifting ... and a few tunesSat Oct 5 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 4 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 4 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 4 2019 - 05:30
Best Before Death: KLF’s Bill Drummond takes another arty figaryReview: Paul Duane documents Drummond on his latest quest to confuse and bewilderFri Oct 4 2019 - 05:00
Losing Alaska: A community checkmated by climate changeReview: Irish filmmaker Tom Burke's documentary is engrossing but a little bit shapelessFri Oct 4 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 1 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 Sep 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 Sep 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 Sep 27 2019 - 06:00
The movie quiz: How many Rambo films are there?Also: Neil Jordan’s title characters, Gleeson-free zone, the Marx Bros and musicFri Sep 27 2019 - 05:30
Six of the best films to see in cinemas this weekendNew this weekend: Ready or Not, The Laundromat, Inna de YardFri Sep 27 2019 - 05:30
Ready or Not is an absolute hoot of a bloody horrorReview: What this lacks in characterisation, it makes up in sheer, hurtling momentumFri Sep 27 2019 - 05:00
The Laundromat: Meryl Streep is no Erin BrockovichReview: The film feels compiled from a list of pitches nobody got round to whittling downFri Sep 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 Sep 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 Sep 21 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 Sep 20 2019 - 06:00
The movie quiz: Which director failed to get Daniel Day-Lewis an Oscar?Also: Scarlett Johansson's roles, the Golden Lion winner, and a Nicole Kidman, filmFri Sep 20 2019 - 06:00
Six of the best films to see in cinemas this weekendNew this weekend: Ad Astra, The Farewell, Rambo: Last BloodFri Sep 20 2019 - 05:30
Rambo: Last Blood: Gruesome violence, archaic patriotism – and more than a bit racistReview: There are good reasons why they don’t make them like this any moreThu Sep 19 2019 - 18:24
Oscars race: who are the real contenders and who have blown their chances?Academy Awards 2020: An educated stab at the 2020 best-film nominees, six months outThu Sep 19 2019 - 11:08
The Kitchen: Shallow comedy with nonsensical plotReview: Film starring Melissa McCarthy in 1970s Manhattan splutters to weak endingWed Sep 18 2019 - 05:00
Lulu Wang: ‘I thought The Farewell would be my last-ever film’The Chinese-American director on wowing Sundance, turning down ‘streaming service’ money, and how Crazy Rich Asians proved you don’t need a white American lead actorSat Sep 14 2019 - 05:00
Donald Clarke: Why The Crown won’t make Olivia Colman’s brown eyes blueNeither Claire Foy nor Colman look much like the queen, so does ocular continuity matter?Sat Sep 14 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 Sep 13 2019 - 06:00
What’s up and what’s down at the Toronto International Film FestivalKnives Out, Joker, Jojo Rabbit, The Goldfinch and The Report among the contendersFri Sep 13 2019 - 06:00
The movie quiz: Who is in both the highest and second highest grossing films ever?Plus: How are actors Barbra Streisand and Diane Lane related by marriage?Fri Sep 13 2019 - 05:30
Six of the best films to see in cinemas this weekendNew this weekend: Hustlers, Downton Abbey, For Sama, PhoenixFri Sep 13 2019 - 05:30
Extra Ordinary: The film's most valuable asset is Maeve HigginsReview: This intimate romp about everyday people packs in a lot. Maybe too muchThu Sep 12 2019 - 06:00
For Sama: Probably the most powerful film yet about Syria’s civil warReview: Waad al-Kateab’s documentary has moments of beauty among the horrorsWed Sep 11 2019 - 05:00
Downton Abbey: Chaos, charm and an orgy of happy endingsReview: The familiarity of it does little to dull the appealTue Sep 10 2019 - 00:01
A dull Goldfinch, two funny popes, and Scarlett Johansson’s broken marriageToronto film festival: Opening weekend also included Knives Out, Greed and Sea FeverMon Sep 9 2019 - 11:15
Nothing boosts the cinema experience like a mass walkoutWhy are audience members so eager to flee screenings of The Painted Bird?Sat Sep 7 2019 - 06:06