While We Watched: Gripping film about Ravish Kumar presents a chilling view of India’s broadcast mediaThis film, centred on one brave journalist railing against populist fervour, addresses universal problemsFri Jul 14 2023 - 05:00
The Deepest Breath: A tense, engrossing documentary about the terrifying sport of freedivingHumans exist on a spectrum between those who find this extreme sport tempting and those who feel nauseous watching it on filmThu Jul 13 2023 - 05:00
Why are the best film-makers signing up for franchise movies? Money might have something to do with it Donald Clarke: These days there’s only one way for promising directors to get their rewardSun Jul 09 2023 - 06:00
Four new films to see this weekCruise & co firing on all cylinders in latest Mission: Impossible, plus Pierce Brosnan in fun caper comedy The Out-Laws, French satire Smoking Causes Coughing, and Morocco-set drama The Damned Don’t CrySun Jul 09 2023 - 05:00
The Out-Laws: Pierce Brosnan grapples with a comedy role not quite dumb enough for Robert De NiroPierce Brosnan and Ellen Barkin are the future parents-in-law who turn out to have unexpected jobsFri Jul 07 2023 - 08:01
The Movie Quiz: Who gives out the Oscars?Plus: Fosse, Kane, Levine...A film directed by whom might complete the set?Fri Jul 07 2023 - 05:00
Judi Dench: ‘My family was so rooted in Ireland. It is not a surprise to come back and feel unbelievably settled’Oscar-winner’s father, from Dorset, and her mother, born in Dublin, first met at Wesley College in DublinThu Jul 06 2023 - 21:13
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One: Tom Cruise at 60 appears implausibly comfortableTom Cruise and the series itself are in rude health as this indecently exciting instalment showsThu Jul 06 2023 - 08:55
The 10 best films of 2023 so far – in reverse orderBox office is booming, powered by a handful of smash hits. But look around, especially in art houses and on streamers, and you’ll find plenty of great moviesMon Jul 03 2023 - 05:15
Four new films to see this weekHarrison Ford does his gruffly charming best in frenetic but underwhelming Indiana Jones 5, plus enjoyable animation Ruby Gilman, Teenage Kraken, amiable doc Hello, Bookstore, and Succession’s Sarah Snook in eerie Run Rabbit RunSun Jul 02 2023 - 05:00
Elemental is a tale of romance that arrives at an awkward time for the industryNew film Elemental struggled at US box office but its makers believe there’s something special about the animation studioSun Jul 02 2023 - 05:00
How to make the new Irish passport the world’s coolest: Vote for the jellyfish, the shark and the lizardDonald Clarke: We are a sentimental people, but that does not extend to passports any more than it does to driving licencesSun Jul 02 2023 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: How many Steven Spielberg films have held the title of the highest grossing of all time?Plus: Who first sang an official James Bond theme over the opening credits?Fri Jun 30 2023 - 06:30
Run Rabbit Run: Scarey starey child tropes in the wretched Australian wildernessFirst-rate performances from actors of three generations overcome reservations about this clammy thrillerFri Jun 30 2023 - 05:45
Hello, Bookstore: tracing the fortunes of a bibliophilic heroDelightful documentary on Matthew Tannenbaum’s efforts to keep afloat his shop in Lenox, MassachusettsFri Jun 30 2023 - 04:45
Laura Linney, Kathy Bates and Cyndi Lauper: Galway Film Fleadh reveals its 2023 line-upThe festival boasts 20 world premieres and seven Irish premieres kicking off with Dublin director Thaddeus O’Sullivan’s The Miracle ClubTue Jun 27 2023 - 18:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekWe Anderson’s exquisitely crafted but twee and exhausting Asteroid City, plus Jennifer Lawrence’s cringy, atrocious romcom No Hard Feelings and superior documentaries The Last Rider and The Super 8 YearsSun Jun 25 2023 - 05:00
The n-word has been cut from The French Connection by the new puritans. Where do we draw the line?Donald Clarke: Streaming services now hold the keys to alter final cuts of films perhaps permanently, a troubling developmentSun Jun 25 2023 - 05:00
Pageboy: A Memoir by Elliot Page - An engaging and raw takedown of Hollywood’s hypocrisy towards queernessThe text reads more like an exercise in self-psychoanalysis than a linear history of celebrity ascentSat Jun 24 2023 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: When did Michael Douglas win his first Oscar? Plus: How many Martin Scorsese films are set largely outside the US?Fri Jun 23 2023 - 05:45
The Super 8 Years: Lucid, unpretentious language, but the medium has changed irretrievablyNobel prize-winner in literature Annie Ernaux digs through home-movie footage from the 1970s that sheds light on years raising children and finding herself as an artistFri Jun 23 2023 - 05:00
Asteroid City: Wes Anderson hands his detractors a wealth of ammunitionIt is difficult to locate the narrative or emotional core in a film that has difficulty settling upon what story it wants to tellWed Jun 21 2023 - 05:15
The Ezra Miller conundrum: are superhero blockbusters too big to cancel?Donald Clarke: Some are asking why the actor hasn’t received the Woody Allen or Roman Polanski treatmentSun Jun 18 2023 - 05:45
Four new films to see this weekHigh-energy superheroics in The Flash, plus the human body close up in De Humani Corporis Fabrica, gay religious drama You Can Live Forever, and trashily kinetic Extraction 2 on NetflixSun Jun 18 2023 - 05:00
Harrison Ford: ‘I just want to get through the f**king day with some self-respect left’The 80-year-old star returns as Indiana Jones and he seems to be enjoying himself while reflecting on the state of the worldSat Jun 17 2023 - 05:55
The Movie Quiz: How many Rambo flicks do not have John R’s surname in the title?Plus: Who is about to take over from Maximus Decimus Meridius?Fri Jun 16 2023 - 05:00
Glenda Jackson: No room for compromise in a career as an actor and politician marked by stubbornness and originalityNot afraid to embrace difficult material, by the early 1970s Jackson was established as the most emotionally intelligent female actor of her generationThu Jun 15 2023 - 14:28
Extraction 2: This barely recycled snuff trash really makes you think (no, of course it doesn’t)Chris Hemsworth plays hard-boiled mercenary Tyler Rake in a loud, empty action flick that gets by on undeniable chutzpahThu Jun 15 2023 - 13:00
‘With MND you are trapped in your own body. You can reach the stage where you have no quality of life’Liam Carney, one of Ireland’s most deservedly unavoidable actors, on playing a man with motor neuron disease in Claire Dix’s film SunlightWed Jun 14 2023 - 05:00
The Flash: the Ezra Miller factor casts a pall over a film that is funnier than it has any right to beThe dubious rise of the nerdocracy continues unabated, as do the multiverse larksWed Jun 14 2023 - 02:00
Is the Bible the filthiest story ever told?Donald Clarke: A mischievous complaint has exposed the absurdity of the current wave of American book-banningSun Jun 11 2023 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekHard-hitting Native American drama War Pony and Ukrainian crime thriller Panfir, plus so-so Flamin’ Hot streaming on Disney — and yet another noisy TransformersSun Jun 11 2023 - 05:00
Summer movies 2023: Indiana Jones, Mission: Impossible, Barbie, Oppenheimer and more The films to watch out for this season – including two that make up the most anticipated movie weekend in yearsSat Jun 10 2023 - 08:42
The Movie Quiz: The new Mission: Impossible is out soon. How many M:I films will that make?Plus: How many women have now won the Palme d’Or for directing at Cannes?Fri Jun 09 2023 - 05:00
Flamin’ Hot: Eva Longoria’s directorial debut is another addition to the brand-licking genreA Mexican-American janitor invents a new snack flavour in an implausible millennial version of the American dreamFri Jun 09 2023 - 05:00
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts – A miserable one star for this numbingly tedious mayhemThe latest entry in this boring, cacophonous series has nothing like the unexpected sprightly form of the 2018 spin-off BumblebeeThu Jun 08 2023 - 05:00
Irish cinematographer Robbie Ryan: ‘My mantra is: never television. I haven’t really done any TV’The sought-after Dubliner on working with Ken Loach and Andrea Arnold, the perils of making one-shot films, and his anti-TV mindsetTue Jun 06 2023 - 05:07
Four new films to see this weekSpider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Paul Mescal in Carmen, Amanda and RealitySun Jun 04 2023 - 05:00
Roger Waters has his flaws, but he’s not a NaziDonald Clarke: The Pink Floyd singer may have been guilty of crimes against music, but more recent accusations are unjustifiedSat Jun 03 2023 - 05:00
The Movie Quiz: The Exorcist takes place near which university?Plus: What comes next? Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Miller’s Crossing, Barton FinkFri Jun 02 2023 - 05:00
Carmen: Paul Mescal sings, he gets to smoulder. But this film has an identity crisisThe Irish star, for no obvious reason, strums an acoustic guitar to a soft melody while sitting on a wall in this feature. So it’s a kind of folk musical? Well, noThu Jun 01 2023 - 05:15
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse – Endlessly, dizzyingly imaginative, but also mildly disappointingThis film plugs straight into the aesthetic of the comic book, borrowing from Marvel’s artists of the silver ageWed May 31 2023 - 14:00
Cannes 2023: Palme d’Or and Palm Dog wrap up the world’s greatest film festivalCannes Festival’s 76th edition didn’t disappoint, consistently keeping the cinematic spirits aloftMon May 29 2023 - 05:34
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekPlus: The Little Mermaid, Disney’s latest live-action cash grab, is nicely sung. Plus Paul Schrader’s masterly Master Gardener, Irish documentary 406 Days, and Finland’s Ramboesque SisuSun May 28 2023 - 05:00
Cannes 2023: Anatomy of a Fall wins Palme d’Or for Justine Triet The Grand Prix, essentially runner-up, went to The Zone of Interest by Jonathan GlazerSat May 27 2023 - 21:20
Making great films, like being US president, is an old person’s gameDonald Clarke: This year’s Cannes is discrediting Tarantino’s youth theory as Loach, Kaurismäki, Breillat and Scorsese take plauditsSat May 27 2023 - 05:00
Cannes 2023: Who will win the Palme d’Or?Cannes diary: Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest has generated the most buzz, but plenty of rivals could bag the prize insteadFri May 26 2023 - 11:49
The Movie Quiz: A cover of which Joy Division classic scores the night-time chase in Heat? Plus: ‘You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. You’ll hurl.’ Tag line to which 1990s hit?Fri May 26 2023 - 05:00
The Little Mermaid: Disney’s live-action remake should satisfy indulgent fans. The rest can scowl pointlessly into the voidRob Marshall’s adequate maritime romance will drag caskets of sunken treasure to the surfaceThu May 25 2023 - 05:15
Lily-Rose Depp: ‘It’s always a little sad to see mean, false things said about someone you care about’Cannes diary 2023: The actor, whose father opened this year’s festival, is dismissive of accusation of disruption on the set of her HBO show The IdolWed May 24 2023 - 10:48
