Paul Blart 2 review: so mordantly witless that it has the quality of a bleak art-house tragedyThis film adds to the looming sense that mainstream US cinema comedy is deep in a Dark AgeFri Apr 10 2015 - 19:00
Japanese Film Festival: Film samurai head for Irish townsNot content with one town, the Japanese Film Festival is touring its work to seven Irish venuesFri Apr 10 2015 - 14:30
Jauja review: beautiful faux-western from Lisandro AlonsoViggo Mortensen stars in and scores this well-crafted Patagonian nightmareFri Apr 10 2015 - 10:30
John Wick review: the car – or the puppy gets itThis Keanu Reeves film captures the relentless excitement of ‘shoot ‘em up’ video gamesFri Apr 10 2015 - 05:00
Good Kill review: more of a conversation piece than a fully formed filmImportant questions about murderous US drone strikes but the film is a botched operationFri Apr 10 2015 - 04:30
Tallaght community stars in a remarkable film about suicide clustersFrank Berry has moved into the first rank of Irish film-makers with his naturalistic first dramatic featureMon Apr 06 2015 - 06:00
Donald Clarke: A trigger warning about trigger warningsWarning: this piece contains facetious jokes about precious bloody students and tedious middle-aged snorting on the ‘state of the world today’Sat Apr 04 2015 - 01:01
I Used To Live Here review: live and don’t let dieFrank Berry, director of the super documentary Ballymun Lullaby, tackles an incendiary issue in his first dramatic feature.Fri Apr 03 2015 - 10:00
Altman review: mish M*A*S*HFilm buffs will want to see this fairly interesting, but also fairly pedestrian, documentary on the legendary director of M*A*S*H and NashvilleFri Apr 03 2015 - 09:00
While We’re Young review: the young and the fecklessNoah Baumbach’s new comedy sees him laugh at his peers but positively howl at the generation coming upThu Apr 02 2015 - 16:00
The Water Diviner review: loud, brash and manipulative - but stuffed with humanityFor his directorial debut, Russell Crowe has delivered exactly what you probably expectedThu Apr 02 2015 - 13:13
Russell Crowe: ‘I respect the gods of film’Self-effacing he isn’t: Australian national treasure Russell Crowe tells Donald Clarke why he is the acting equivalent of a FerrariThu Apr 02 2015 - 12:45
New James Bond trailer unveiled in fittingly covert style‘Spectre’, starring Daniel Craig and Monica Bellucci, is set to be released in OctoberSun Mar 29 2015 - 17:28
Donald Clarke: Accept no substitute for Irish EnglishDo the math on cookies, popsicles and garbage – it all adds up to a US verbal assaultSat Mar 28 2015 - 00:02
Life of Riley review: a diverting trifle with a sliver of mortal terror at its heartAlain Resnais’ final film displays a joie de vivre that remained with the director to the endFri Mar 27 2015 - 12:50
Dior and I review: nicely made, but where are the rampant vulgarities?And Dior himself comes across like a suburban golfer taking a weekend jaunt to the hardware storeFri Mar 27 2015 - 12:18
Seventh Son review: The highs and lows of ‘bad acting’Julianne Moore could learn a thing or two from her co-star Jeff BridgesFri Mar 27 2015 - 08:00
Damián Szifron: one director, several storiesWith ‘Wild Tales’ Argentinian director Damián Szifron has singlehandedly revived the often ignored art of the portmanteau film. The secret is to have just one person making the whole thing, he saysFri Mar 27 2015 - 05:30
Cinderella review: A glass slipper more than half-fullUnironic simplicity. Gentle familiarity. No 3D. Kenneth Branagh’s step back in time to Disney’s heyday may just be the great leap forward we’ve been waiting for Hollywood to takeThu Mar 26 2015 - 17:00
Tana Bana review: Fruits of the loom | JDiff 2015A day in the life of an Indian silk weaverTue Mar 24 2015 - 18:00
A Master Builder review: Scandi angst transplanted | JDiff 2015The grinding gears of the drama fairly shake the spiritTue Mar 24 2015 - 11:08
Force Majeure review: Pitiless, pessimistic, but funny | JDiff 2015A sour, blackly comic Swedish drama on the nature of masculinity and the fragility of human relationsTue Mar 24 2015 - 11:03
Danny Huston: why this Danny boy was always destined to toe the family lineIn Dublin to promote his latest film, the grandson of Walter, son of John and half-brother of Anjelica, admits that it was always going to be hard to avoid entering the ‘family business’Tue Mar 24 2015 - 01:00
Miss Julie review: an appropriately draining exercise in lusty social discomfort | JDiff 2015Mon Mar 23 2015 - 01:00
Donald Clarke: Do threats made on Twitter count as free speech?Ashley Judd says she will press charges over threats made in the US, but imprisoning people for saying nasty things is a tricky businessSat Mar 21 2015 - 14:11
Stars align for JDiff 2015Don’t be surprised to see the likes of Julie Andrews roaming the streets of Dublin in the coming daysFri Mar 20 2015 - 11:46
Insurgent review: What really grinds down the spirits is the conservatism of it allAs a distillation of all that’s most ordinary about contemporary Young Adult science fiction, it could hardly be betteredFri Mar 20 2015 - 10:00
Home review: Sheldon Cooper really is an alienET phone Home – right now. This Dreamworks Animation is pleasingly voiced, satirically conceived but awfully familiarFri Mar 20 2015 - 09:00
Jim Parsons: 'I am quite the opposite of unapproachable'He isn’t really crazy, his mother never really had him tested, and Jim Parsons isn’t the least bit worried about being confused with a certain bazinga TV physicistFri Mar 20 2015 - 07:00
Designer start at Savoy to Dublin film festival13th festival is last to have Jameson, which has supported event since its inception in 2003, as title sponsorFri Mar 20 2015 - 01:02
Mommy review: vibrant, chaotic, masterfulXavier Dolan’s tale of a troubled teen and his mum establishes him as one of the era’s essential auteursThu Mar 19 2015 - 15:00
Coming Home JDiff review: Touching documentary about a man who spent 13 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commitThu Mar 19 2015 - 01:00
Phoenix JDiff review: This postwar melodrama is almost ludicrous but raw performances make for a slice of seductive Berlin noirThu Mar 19 2015 - 01:00
Ifta Awards to be broadcast on TV3 after split into two ceremoniesFilm and Drama Awards in May will not be screened live after technical issues last yearWed Mar 18 2015 - 19:54
Eddie Marsan: ‘I can’t wait till I’m famous so I can be a right pain in the arse’The London actor, one of the best in the business, views acting as a trade and feels strongly about the lack of working-class representationMon Mar 16 2015 - 05:45
Donald Clarke: Apple Watch launch marks a tipping pointTim Cook’s presentation of Apple watch invited the assumption it might cure leprosySat Mar 14 2015 - 01:00
Run All Night review: Neeson gets to be Neeson and others get to be shotThe amazing reversal here is that, for once, Liam is the avenged rather than the avengerFri Mar 13 2015 - 13:00
Goodbye to Language review: Godard speaking in tonguesThe loopy French iconoclast is as nouvelle vague as ever, but it must be said that his latest shouty diatribe is also bracingly cinematicFri Mar 13 2015 - 10:00
In a House That Ceased to Be review: Christina Noble doc is moving – and hard-hittingAs well as offering an unforgiving denunciation of the poisonous symbiosis that once existed between Catholic Church and Irish State, In a House That Ceased to Be also manages an argument for common decencyThu Mar 12 2015 - 20:00
The truth behind that ‘quality of life’ ranking of global cities‘There was some moaning about Dublin’s relatively unimpressive position’Sat Mar 07 2015 - 01:01
Appropriate Behaviour review: Satirical jaundice and naked delight in all things bohemianAppropriate Behaviour is not particularly good-looking or innovative, but warm laughter abounds throughoutFri Mar 06 2015 - 12:00
Kill the Messenger review: A lesser ‘All the President’s Men’Michael Cuesta’s film lacks conviction in telling Gary Webb’s cover-up storyFri Mar 06 2015 - 09:00
Dreamcatcher review: a story full of courage and decency, resilience and humourDocumentarian Kim Longinotto turns her lens to the sex workers of Chicago and discovers that too many have the same story to tellThu Mar 05 2015 - 17:39
Chappie review: unintentionally funny, occasionally offensive, truly awfulAs well as being derivative and casually rascist, Neil Blomkamp’s latest also manages to be chaotic, discordant, sentimental and downright uglyThu Mar 05 2015 - 13:33
Julianne Moore: super trooperJulianne Moore is the army brat who became a soap opera star and the doyenne of independent film. Now she’s won a best actress Oscar for ‘Still Alice’, will she finally be recognised as one of cinema’s finest actors?Thu Mar 05 2015 - 06:00
Donald Clarke: MP says doctors should examine heavenly bodiesConservative MP David Tredinnick complains about BBC promoting ‘the science perspective’Sat Feb 28 2015 - 05:00
‘White God’ director Kornél Mundruczó: “It’s a fairy tale, like Walt Disney or the Grimm brothers”The dogs of Budapest rebel against their human oppressors in Mundruczó prize-winning featureFri Feb 27 2015 - 13:17
It Follows review: a brilliantly unsettling, determinedly awkward jump-shockerDavid Robert Mitchell’s low-budget horror nods to the genre’s greats while being entirely originalFri Feb 27 2015 - 10:12
The Second Best Marigold Hotel review: a ramshackle affairMaggie Smith, Bill Nighy, Judi Dench and other nice people amble through a plot culled from a 1970s sitcomFri Feb 27 2015 - 07:51
