The Assassin: the work of an obsessive tinkerer | Cannes ReviewHou Hsiao-hsien latest is the best-looking film in Cannes this year, but its beauty is both a strength and occasional weaknessFri May 22 2015 - 11:28
Sheila Vand: ‘We began playing a bunch of terrorists. We have to break that mould.’Iranian-American actress Sheila Vand, star of stunning vampire film A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, tells Donald Clarke about breaking the mould in the mythical Bad CityFri May 22 2015 - 11:20
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night review: An Iranian vampire in CaliforniaDrifty easy plotting and the grainy monochromeFri May 22 2015 - 04:45
Chimes at Midnight: Welles still runs deepYou can’t talk about Orson Welles without using superlatives. Let us continue the tradition by naming Chimes at Midnight as the best ever Shakespeare movieThu May 21 2015 - 08:00
Marguerite & Julien: unconvincing, mildly hilarious | Cannes ReviewQuite how this ludicrous French incest romp found itself in the main competition at this year's festival is anyone’s guessTue May 19 2015 - 12:03
Sicario: the slick mayhem of secret drug wars | Cannes reviewEmily Blunt and Benicio del Toro battle it out, while Denis Villeneuve shows his action chops ahead of his Blade Runner sequelTue May 19 2015 - 11:57
Cemetery of Splendour: Ancient forces make for a seductive and refreshing film | Cannes reviewAlthough odder than squirrels in sombreros, this film is Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s most conventional yet and among his best workTue May 19 2015 - 10:46
Inside Out: a return to form for Pixar | Cannes reviewThis animated trip inside the mind is funny, sweet and wise enough to suggest that Pixar has got its groove backTue May 19 2015 - 09:13
The Measure of a Man: Vincent Lindon sets the acting bar | Cannes ReviewLong takes and a matter-of-fact treatment add up to a quietly savage treatment of the capitalist machineMon May 18 2015 - 16:22
Louder Than Bombs: achingly tasteful, well acted, frustratingly bland | Cannes ReviewNorwegian Joachim Trier’s latest features Isabelle Huppert, Gabriel Byrne, Jesse Eisenberg and very little elseMon May 18 2015 - 13:09
Cornucopias of delight still in prospect at 68th Cannes Film FestivalThe race for the 2015 Palme d’Or looks at this stage to be between ‘Son of Saul’ and ‘Carol’, two extraordinary pictures from two very different film-makersMon May 18 2015 - 01:00
Son of Saul: A work of high artifice from the heart of the Nazi killing machine | Cannes ReviewSon of Saul is potentially the last ever Palme d’Or winner to be shot and projected with film: it would be quite the way to goSun May 17 2015 - 15:35
Donald Clarke in Cannes: High and low culture fight it out‘We should savour our centres of cultural cinema: IFI, Light House, Triskel and Queens’Sat May 16 2015 - 01:00
Farrell meets Cannes press as The Lobster eyes top prize‘It’s the kind of film that being in it doesn’t mean I know any more about it’Fri May 15 2015 - 15:00
The Lobster: a spookily beautiful, treacle-black absurdist comedy | Cannes ReviewYorgos Lanthimos’s poisonously effective film may be about the tyranny of coupledom, or it may not...Fri May 15 2015 - 14:10
Our Little Sister: Fish, football and family tragedies | Cannes ReviewHirokazu Kore-eda has made a quiet and lovely thing; a bit more plot and structure would not go amiss thoughFri May 15 2015 - 13:59
The Tribe: ‘It somehow became the most celebrated Ukrainian film since the beginning of cinema’Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy talks to Donald Clarke about a compelling critical sensationFri May 15 2015 - 05:00
A Royal Night Out review: Support can’t save royal boreStrong fringe performances drowned out by broad characterisation of the princessesThu May 14 2015 - 18:30
Lambert and Stamp review: Collage of 1960s revolutionFine exploration of the cultural earthquakes of the decade, if slightly overlongThu May 14 2015 - 17:30
An: hard to love, impossible to dislike | Cannes ReviewNaomi Kawase’s latest hammers home the metaphors, but its conviction and intelligence also shine throughThu May 14 2015 - 14:21
Tale of Tales: from full-on horror to absurdist comedy | Cannes ReviewSalma Hayek and John C Reilly play a king and queen who, desperate for an heir, engage in a bizarre magical scheme involving a sea monsterThu May 14 2015 - 11:30
Catherine Deneuve adds glamour to low-key Cannes Film FestivalOpening film obscure, but the 68th festival has much to offer, writes Donald Clarke in CannesThu May 14 2015 - 11:16
Pitch Perfect 2 review: Hits all the right notesIt’s a chaotic mess but this sequel is also one of the funniest films so far this yearWed May 13 2015 - 16:11
From Fassbender's Macbeth to Farrell's Lobster: Donald Clarke's first picks for Cannes 2015The Irish Times will be keeping a close eye on all the happenings up and down the Croisette at this year's Cannes Film Festival. Meanwhile, here are a few of the movies whetting our appetiteWed May 13 2015 - 15:24
Mad Max: Fury Road review: a post-apocalyptic western of the highest orderYou wait 30 years for a new Mad Max to come along, then Charlize Theron turns up and steals the showWed May 13 2015 - 14:32
Mad Max 4: ‘The film you couldn’t kill with a stick’Interview: The French were the first to see Mad Max as a western on wheels, says director George Miller. Forty years later, he’s back in Cannes with the explosive fourth part, Fury RoadWed May 13 2015 - 08:15
Donald Clarke: Why won’t old bands leave us alone?‘We’ve bought houses, given birth and developed an interest in gardening. Stop trying to suck us back into the uncertain foolishness of adolescence’Sat May 09 2015 - 00:02
Donald Clarke: away with horse-trading, in with bets on next Labour leaderThe most unpredictable election in a generation, they said. TV coverage proved that, for sureFri May 08 2015 - 14:45
Kit Harington: when it Snows, it poursWork has been non-stop for London-born Kit, with a ‘Spooks’ spin-off just the latest of several movies. And then there’s a certain Northern Ireland-shot fantasy blockbuster called Game of Thrones...Fri May 08 2015 - 06:00
Girlhood review: good girl gone mauvaiseA black teenager finds true friendship when she falls in with the ‘wrong’ crowd in this energising French drama set amid the Paris banlieuesThu May 07 2015 - 22:00
Spooks: The Greater Good review: mid-ranking spy stuffCompetent cinema sequel to BBC spy series struggles to break out of its comfort zoneThu May 07 2015 - 21:00
Phoenix review: a preposterous narrative played with such sincerity all reservations are forgottenA scheming husband comes face to face with his supposedly dead wife in this high-end Germany melodramaThu May 07 2015 - 18:00
Big Game review: Samuel L Jackson has never been more gameSlick action and ripe dialogue put zip in this Lapland adventure - though it’s not entirely clear how much of Big Game is funny on purposeThu May 07 2015 - 16:39
Donald Clarke: There’s something about NicolaSNP leader Nicola Sturgeon is an old-fashioned politician, in tune with town-hall politicsSat May 02 2015 - 07:26
Ivan Kavanagh: Cries and shivers for The Canal’s directorIvan Kavanagh went bananas over Ingmar Bergman at a young age. His eerie new Irish horror film The Canal, which knocked ’em dead at Tribeca, recalls the great man’s chilly aestheticFri May 01 2015 - 09:00
Unfriended review: imaginative and genuinely unsettling horror classicImaginative, unsettling dissection of online discontents is a minor horror classicFri May 01 2015 - 08:00
Get Up and Go review: more than a little missing from its soulThere are worse ways of spending a modest budget than having your characters walk and talk their way around a major city as some contrived deadline loomsFri May 01 2015 - 07:30
Far from the Madding Crowd review: sex and the single heiressThis lightweight but gorgeous looking version of Thomas Hardy’s 1874 classic is certainly a film of its timeThu Apr 30 2015 - 16:00
Ifta 2015 film and drama nominees announced‘Frank’ with Michael Fassbender and ‘Patrick’s Day’ with Moe Dunford top nominationsWed Apr 29 2015 - 16:02
Donald Clarke: Down with that sort of thing: ‘Father Ted’ at 20At the time, the sitcom seemed to reflect a happy confidence in our eccentricitiesSat Apr 25 2015 - 05:00
The Good Lie review: Collapses under the weight of its worthinessThis is the sort of achingly worthy film that, when shown to schoolchildren in civics class, causes the poor tykes to yearn for double maths.Fri Apr 24 2015 - 08:00
The Emperor’s New Clothes review: selling his own BrandRussell Brand is merely preaching to the converted in Michael Winterbottom’s new filmThu Apr 23 2015 - 22:00
Avengers: Age of Ultron review – fighting super-fatigueThe latest big-bang Avengers romp may have the cast and the quips, but superhero mania is surely on the waneThu Apr 23 2015 - 12:00
Child 44 review: confusing Soviet boreComplicated mess of a screenplay ruins potentially one of the year’s best thrillersMon Apr 20 2015 - 13:22
Donald Clarke: Game of Thrones star Kit Harington’s Belfast apology‘Good sleggin’. We love this sort of thing. Surely, murals of Kit Harington were set to appear on gable walls throughout the occupied territories?’Sat Apr 18 2015 - 01:00
Glassland review: a suitably muddy enigmaThoughtful study of a family struggling with alcoholism is harrowing but ultimately upliftingFri Apr 17 2015 - 11:18
Gente de Bien review: small scenes from the class warThis socially aware film from Colombia can’t settle on a storyFri Apr 17 2015 - 10:30
Toni Collette: ‘The story is what makes the job worthwhile. It would be pointless otherwise’Her Tallaght accent is rapid, she’s been on the tear around Dublin with Jack Reynor, and she took little convincing to make Glasslands. Australian actor Toni Collette talks to Donald ClarkeFri Apr 17 2015 - 09:00
Irish co-production ‘The Lobster’ for Cannes Film FestivalFilm starring Colin Farrell and Rachel Weisz selected for main competitionThu Apr 16 2015 - 13:24
Donald Clarke: Cameron and Miliband fight it out over posh nosh race to the bottomWhy does being ordinary have to be a virtue when it comes to British elections?Sat Apr 11 2015 - 00:01
