Oscars 2020: Who will be nominated today, and who will win?Saoirse Ronan should get a nod for Little Women. There are few other options for the IrishSun Jan 12 2020 - 05:00
Uncut Gems: How Adam Sandler and the Safdie brothers made a jewel of a filmDirectors Joshua and Benjamin Safdie and their 10-year journey to making Uncut GemsSat Jan 11 2020 - 06:00
You'll be sorry when nobody holds the door for you any moreDonald Clarke: Harvey Weinstein's lawyer took us on a trip back to the Sexist Seventies this weekSat Jan 11 2020 - 05:00
Six of the best movies to see in the cinema this weekendNew this weekend: Adam Sandler in Uncut Gems, Sam Mendes’s 1917, and El TopoFri Jan 10 2020 - 06:00
The movie quiz: Where is the current Wonder Woman from?Plus: Whose first ever line in movies was ‘Gimme a whiskey . . . and don’t be stingy’?Fri Jan 10 2020 - 06:00
1917 review: A thoughtful war movie for Generation PlayStationThis slice of prestige British film-making nimbly avoids accusations of heritage cosinessThu Jan 09 2020 - 06:00
Uncut Gems review: Adam Sandler ends up naked in the boot of a carAdam Sandler plays his stock comic weirdo, but Idina Menzel owns the screenThu Jan 09 2020 - 05:00
Bafta nominations lose their sparkle over lack of diversityNods for Saoirse Ronan and Jessie Buckley, but little for women and none for black actorsTue Jan 07 2020 - 18:52
Six of the best movies to see in the cinema this weekNew films released this weekend include Jojo Rabbit, Amanda, and AquarelaMon Jan 06 2020 - 09:48
Golden Globes: Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood wins bigSaoirse Ronan, nominated for Little Women performance, loses out to Renée ZellwegerMon Jan 06 2020 - 06:00
Golden Globes: Ricky Gervais, comedy’s indestructible lightning rod, returnsDonald Clarke: Provocateur returns to host Golden Globes for a fifth timeSat Jan 04 2020 - 05:00
Sam Mendes: ‘It’s not about the British are great, the Germans are bad’The director of first World War movie 1917 on portraying the conflict in a contemporary lightSat Jan 04 2020 - 05:00
Jojo Rabbit: between daring and bad taste in Nazi GermanyReview: While the film argues against hate, it does little to educate about the specific enormities of Nazi GermanyFri Jan 03 2020 - 05:30
The movie quiz: Name the name of The Phantom MenacePlus: A Marvel movie of their own, an animated Oscar, Carry On to the end of the lineFri Jan 03 2020 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: Which Joni Mitchell song underscores Emma Thompson’s grim revelation in Love, Actually?Plus: Who won an Oscar for his Santa Claus and which film first featured Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas?Wed Jan 01 2020 - 06:00
Film 2020: The 50 films to watch out forThe best biopics, documentaries, cartoons, features and award favourites of the yearSat Dec 28 2019 - 05:00
Critics seem to have already forgotten some of the past decade’s best filmsDonald Clarke: Blue is the Warmest Colour, 12 Years a Slave both overlooked in the pollsSat Dec 28 2019 - 05:00
Six of the best movies to see in the cinema this weekendAnd we have one to avoid at just about all costs (hint: it’s not The Rise of Skywalker)Fri Dec 27 2019 - 06:00
The movie quiz: 10 questions for 10 yearsOn the first Frozen, the last Hobbit, the 7th Star Wars, and all the Harry PottersFri Dec 27 2019 - 05:00
The 10 worst films of the past 10 yearsThe worst film of the 2010s was so reactionary, materialistic and lazy it selected itselfThu Dec 26 2019 - 06:02
The 25 best films of the 2010s. None of them won best-picture OscarThe decade in culture: Arrival, Lady Bird, Get Out... But which movie is at number one?Mon Dec 23 2019 - 06:00
Donald Clarke: Why Scrooge is the gift that keeps on givingYet another adaptation of A Christmas Carol proves that Dickens was right on the moneySat Dec 21 2019 - 05:00
Film is still dodging bullets despite being under heavy fireThe Decade in Culture: As we move into the roaring twenties many things remain the same about the seventh artSat Dec 21 2019 - 05:00
Fifty Shades, Kanye, Love/Hate: The films, TV, books and music that defined the decadeThe Decade in Culture: The most impactful books, series and performers of 2010-19Fri Dec 20 2019 - 06:00
Six of the best movies to see in the cinema this weekendNew this weekend: Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Little Women, Buddies, Spies in DisguiseFri Dec 20 2019 - 06:00
The movie quiz: How well do you know your Christmas films?And for the season that's in it, there's a Star Wars question in here tooFri Dec 20 2019 - 05:00
Spies in Disguise: Will Smith is the voice in this ho-hum Bond parodyReview: It’s funny enough, but when our hero is turned into a pigeon, it really takes offFri Dec 20 2019 - 05:00
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker review. It’s unworthy of the word ‘cinema’This isn’t a proper film – just a nondescript, boring component in the Star Wars machineWed Dec 18 2019 - 08:01
Star Wars: Every movie ranked – including The Rise of SkywalkerAs Episode IX arrives, how does it stack up against the other 10 films in the saga?Wed Dec 18 2019 - 06:30
The best movie of 2019, according to Irish film criticsIt’s clever, it’s funny, it’s dramatic, and this won’t be its last movie award this seasonTue Dec 17 2019 - 18:00
Which Skywalker? And nine other questions Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker must answerLike: Who are Rey’s parents? Who are Finn’s? Is it okay to include a digitised Carrie Fisher?Tue Dec 17 2019 - 06:00
Calling someone what they want to be called is the civilised, polite thing to doDonald Clarke: The non-binary pronoun ‘they’ is the dictionary’s word of the yearSat Dec 14 2019 - 05:00
Six of the best films to see in the cinema this weekendNew this weekend: Beanpole, Citizen K, The Kingmaker, Jumanji: The Next Level, Fiddler: Miracle of MiraclesFri Dec 13 2019 - 05:30
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles – How a Jewish musical conquered the worldReview: Inside track on how Fiddler on the Roof became an unlikely cultural phenomenonFri Dec 13 2019 - 05:00
The movie quiz: Spot the Star Wars movie anagramPlus: Naming the non-Polanski and soundtracking Guardians of the GalaxyFri Dec 13 2019 - 05:00
Screen Actors Guild awards: have Saoirse Ronan’s Oscar hopes been dented?No nomination for Irish star of Little Women but Andrew Scott gets nod for FleabagWed Dec 11 2019 - 16:58
Jumanji: The Next Level – It’s ridiculous but never stops being good funReview: There’s killer apes and rogue Vikings, the Dannies DeVito and Glover and there’s The RockTue Dec 10 2019 - 15:34
Golden Globes 2020: Saoirse Ronan nominated for best actressIrish actor picks up fifth nod, for Little Women. Andrew Scott named for FleabagMon Dec 09 2019 - 13:18
The best 50 films of 2019: Odd, rich, startlingly varied. And brilliantWe start with Monos, Marriage Story and Midsommar. Find out what else makes the cutSun Dec 08 2019 - 06:00
‘Middle-aged rock bores are the Worst People in the World’Donald Clarke: Who cares that Billie Eilish had never heard of Van Halen?Sat Dec 07 2019 - 05:00
The movie quiz: Who was first to win an Oscar for a Scorsese film?Plus: The number of the new Star Wars, never been with Bond, suggestive of Joni MitchellFri Dec 06 2019 - 05:55
The Last Right: a very Irish ‘Irish film’Review: A likeable salute to a Magic Ireland we don’t see much anymoreFri Dec 06 2019 - 05:30
Six of the best films to see in the cinema this weekendNew this weekend: Ordinary Love, So Long My SonFri Dec 06 2019 - 05:30
‘The movie industry’s acceptance of Roman Polanski must end’Europe has always tolerated the sex offender, up for four major awards this weekendThu Dec 05 2019 - 09:55
Honey Boy: Shia LaBeouf’s autobiopic of life as a child actorReview: This is a harrowing, often effective film, with Lucas Hedges as a former child actor now in rehabThu Dec 05 2019 - 06:00
James Bond: No Time to Die – What we learned from first full trailerWe rummage through the first trailer for clues to the 25th Bond movieWed Dec 04 2019 - 17:05
Motherless Brooklyn: Edward Norton’s overlong vanity projectReview: There is a fine noir here somewhere, busting to escape the Friends of Ed Norton CabaretWed Dec 04 2019 - 09:36
Disney has done the right thing on its past offencesDonald Clarke: Move to attach warnings to films on Disney+ is honest and responsibleSat Nov 30 2019 - 05:00
Aisling Franciosi: ‘I knew it would maybe be too much for people’Playing a rape victim in The Nightingale was an emotional wrench for the Irish-Italian actorSat Nov 30 2019 - 05:00
Six of the best films to see in cinemas this weekendNew this weekend: Knives Out, The Two Popes, The Nightingale, The Biggest Little FarmFri Nov 29 2019 - 06:00
