The Laundromat: Meryl Streep is no Erin BrockovichReview: The film feels compiled from a list of pitches nobody got round to whittling downFri Sept 27 2019 - 05:00
Ready or Not is an absolute hoot of a bloody horrorReview: What this lacks in characterisation, it makes up in sheer, hurtling momentumFri Sept 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 Sept 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 Sept 21 2019 - 05:00
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 Sept 20 2019 - 06:00
Latest movies reviewed: All films in cinemas this week ratedThe Irish Times what-to-see guide to the movies now in cinemas across IrelandFri Sept 20 2019 - 06:00
Six of the best films to see in cinemas this weekendNew this weekend: Ad Astra, The Farewell, Rambo: Last BloodFri Sept 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 Sept 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 Sept 19 2019 - 11:08
The Kitchen: Shallow comedy with nonsensical plotReview: Film starring Melissa McCarthy in 1970s Manhattan splutters to weak endingWed Sept 18 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 Sept 14 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 Sept 14 2019 - 05:00
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 Sept 13 2019 - 06:00
Latest movies reviewed: All films in cinemas this week ratedThe Irish Times what-to-see guide to the movies now in cinemas across IrelandFri Sept 13 2019 - 06:00
Six of the best films to see in cinemas this weekendNew this weekend: Hustlers, Downton Abbey, For Sama, PhoenixFri Sept 13 2019 - 05:30
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 Sept 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 Sept 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 Sept 11 2019 - 05:00
Downton Abbey: Chaos, charm and an orgy of happy endingsReview: The familiarity of it does little to dull the appealTue Sept 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 Sept 09 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 Sept 07 2019 - 06:06
For Sama: ‘I knew that this was the only way I had of fighting for freedom in Syria’During the assault on Aleppo, an accidental citizen journalist began filming. She didn’t know she was making one of 2019’s essential documentariesSat Sept 07 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 Sept 06 2019 - 06:00
Six of the best films to see in cinemas this weekendNew this weekend: Bait, Rojo, The Shiny ShrimpsFri Sept 06 2019 - 05:30
The movie quiz: Joel Schumacher had how many sex partners?Also: Wallace and Gromit’s debut, Astaire and Kellys on fire and Angelina Jolie's odd one outFri Sept 06 2019 - 05:30
Rojo: A South American Colombo in a bravely staccato filmReview: Benjamin Naishtat’s awkward movie demands patience from the viewerFri Sept 06 2019 - 05:00
An Irish sex comedy? Thank You Come AgainReview: The film follows events in a Dublin sex shop during a fraught working dayTue Sept 03 2019 - 10:00
Harvey Weinstein: ‘I can make or break your career. So show me your breasts’A new documentary on Weinstein gives some of his victims a first chance to speak on cameraMon Sept 02 2019 - 08:29
Something squalid amidst the baked goods at Marks & SpencerAm I the only one reeling at the fact that the venerable shop is selling ‘Porn Star Martinis’?Sat Aug 31 2019 - 19:26
The Troubles on film: ‘Hollywood has done everywhere and it’s always wrong’Critic Mark Cousins takes a personal look at North’s relationship with cinema for Channel 4Sat Aug 31 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 Aug 30 2019 - 06:00
Six of the best films to see in cinemas this weekendNew this weekend: The Souvenir, Aniara, A Faithful Man, The MustangFri Aug 30 2019 - 05:30
Asterix: The Secret of the Magic Potion – these Frenchmen are crazy!Review: The animation is routine and our favourite characters don’t get enough to doFri Aug 30 2019 - 05:00
The movie quiz: What is James Bond’s next movie called?Also: Sisters and their Oscars, not a Dustin film, and a query about Cherilyn SarkisianFri Aug 30 2019 - 05:00
The Mustang: It’s a prison movie. It’s a horsey movie. It’s hard to resistReview: Performances elevate an old familiar tune that gets a little stranded between genresFri Aug 30 2019 - 05:00
Which films are in contention as interminable awards season ramps up?Donald Clarke runs the rule over the likely winners ahead of this week’s festival trifectaFri Aug 30 2019 - 05:00
The Souvenir: Like being stuck in an episode of I Don’t Like the ’80sReview: A Withnail and I-style study of a posh lush, but without the nostalgiaThu Aug 29 2019 - 05:00
Dubliner Barry Keoghan cast in upcoming Marvel film, The EternalsOne-time Love/Hate star lands role as evil superhuman alongside Angelina JolieTue Aug 27 2019 - 14:03
Irish Cinema in the Twenty-First Century: searching for Irish film’s soulReview: Ruth Barton comes up with some workable answers to her own questionsTue Aug 27 2019 - 06:00
With another Matrix film, maybe we really are living in a simulationHumans approach much of life in a deluded trance. Hence the jubilation about sequels to mediocre filmsSat Aug 24 2019 - 05:00
Joanna Hogg: Back to the 1980s – without the rose-tinted lensThe director on her semi-autobiographical new film The Souvenir, starring her friend Tilda Swinton’s daughter, and how Batman stole her leading man Robert PattinsonFri Aug 23 2019 - 06:00
Latest movies reviewed: All films in cinemas this week ratedThe Irish Times what-to-see guide to the movies now in cinemas across IrelandFri Aug 23 2019 - 06:00
Six of the best films to see in cinemas this weekendNew this weekend: Pain and Glory, Never Grow Old, Hail Satan?, CrawlFri Aug 23 2019 - 05:30
Never Grow Old: John Cusack shines in gripping western filmed in ConnemaraReview: Ivan Kavanagh’s film is impressively filthy and studded with convincing violenceFri Aug 23 2019 - 05:00
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark: Stephen King would approveReview: Guillermo del Toro produces a very agreeable horror romp to appeal to teensFri Aug 23 2019 - 05:00
Pain and Glory: Banderas excels in Almodóvar’s personal dramaReview: Almodóvar is in a contemplative mood for his take on Fellini’s 8½Fri Aug 23 2019 - 05:00
The movie quiz: Who escapes in The Great Escape?Also: The Marvel universe in order, a Brad Pitt non-movie, Oscar number crunchingFri Aug 23 2019 - 05:00
Peter Fonda: Henry’s estranged son, Jane’s ‘sweet baby brother’, Bridget’s less famous dadPeter Fonda, though a smaller star than other family members, helped reinvent HollywoodMon Aug 19 2019 - 17:11
Why Irish film-makers and actors can’t do proper sex scenesFilm sex is fine. But sex featuring Irish actors, in films set in Ireland? That never really worksMon Aug 19 2019 - 06:00
Trump’s tweet oozed out the day before The Hunt was pulledWithout seeing the movie, people have opinions on whether it was a right-wing or a left-wingSat Aug 17 2019 - 05:00
