Some Like it Hot, A Star is Born, The Wizard of Oz ... and other great remakesGreat directors like Hitchcock and DeMille weren’t above having a second go at their own filmsThu Jun 06 2019 - 20:18
Papi Chulo: It really shouldn’t work as well as it doesReview: Irish filmmaker John Butler ventures into hazardous ground with his first US filmThu Jun 06 2019 - 18:39
X-Men: Dark Phoenix: The plot feels like it was scribbled on a menu after a drunken lunchReview: This sludgy mess fails to explain character, motivation or its elaborate set piecesWed Jun 05 2019 - 06:00
Why remake your own film? ‘One answer: Julianne Moore’Chilean filmmaker Sebastián Lelio, who won an Oscar for A Fantastic Woman, has remade his 2013 drama Gloria – and this time it’s set in LATue Jun 04 2019 - 05:00
Men Behaving Badly signalled the start of ‘Lad Culture’ - we just didn’t see itWe invariably look in the wrong places for inappropriate contentSat Jun 01 2019 - 05:00
Six of the best films to see in cinemas this weekendNew this weekend: Octavia Spencer and Allison Janney in Ma, Thunder Road and SunsetFri May 31 2019 - 10:45
Ma: Octavia Spencer is wasted in a low-brow horror with notionsReview: Mediocre effort held together with chewing gum and bloodied sticking plasterFri May 31 2019 - 05:00
The movie quiz: What’s the shortest-titled film ever nominated for best picture?Also: Who won the Palme D’Or in Cannes in May, for the film Parasite?Fri May 31 2019 - 05:00
Godzilla: King of the Monsters – More cliches than a 1970s disaster movieReview: The monsters don’t need to eat the scenery, as the main cast have that coveredFri May 31 2019 - 05:00
Trailer for film of Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch has Oscar all over itFew films have felt so awards-baity since The French Lieutenant’s WomanThu May 30 2019 - 11:29
Four Weddings at 25: The film that gave us ‘That Dress’, that poem and Hugh Grant the starFour Weddings and a Funeral was, for a while, the highest grossing British film of all timeThu May 30 2019 - 09:53
Modernist puzzle: László Nemes and his bloody awkward filmHungarian auteur’s new film Sunset shows a vanished Budapest on the edge of changeWed May 29 2019 - 05:00
Cannes 2019: Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite takes Palme d’OrAntonio Banderas is among the other winners as contentious festival draws to a closeSat May 25 2019 - 21:10
Cannes 2019: Who will win the Palme d’Or?Cannes diary: Tarantino gets an early lead in the dog days of this year’s festivalSat May 25 2019 - 16:26
The under-sevens need toughening up when it comes to scary trailersDonald Clarke: Who are the weedy children collapsing at the merest glimpse of blood?Sat May 25 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 May 24 2019 - 06:00
Booksmart: Terrific directorial debut from actor Olivia WildeReview: Delightful film follows two friends as they party their way into oblivion during last week of high schoolFri May 24 2019 - 05:00
Tarantino, Almódovar and Loach head the old brat pack at CannesFewer instant classics on show, but Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite, Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire, dark drama The Lighthouse and Irish horror Vivarium stand outFri May 24 2019 - 05:00
The move quiz: Which film didn’t begin as a Saturday Night Live sketch?Also: Marvel superheroes and their parents, Hitchock in colour, 007 by the numbersFri May 24 2019 - 05:00
Six of the best films to see in cinemas this weekendNew this weekend: Teen drama-comedy Booksmart, and Elton John biopic RocketmanThu May 23 2019 - 21:00
Aladdin is a weird mess of woke film-making. Thanks Guy RitchieReview: Disney’s bid to make flesh of their animations has hit a speed-bumpThu May 23 2019 - 17:35
Rocketman: Hugely enjoyable Elton John biopic is an old-school musicalReview: It doesn’t always make sense, but the choreography distracts from the musical non sequitursThu May 23 2019 - 17:20
Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood: There’ll be fighting in the aislesCannes 2019: Quentin Tarantino reviewed, early Oscar buzz, plus Isabelle Huppert in FrankieWed May 22 2019 - 09:36
Tarantino’s plea over Cannes spoilers riles the criticsOnce Upon a Time… In Hollywood shows off a fascination with period detail and gift for cinematic textureTue May 21 2019 - 20:00
Cannes 2019: Banderas kills Banderas, Tarantino makes a spoiler plea, Maradona does a no-showCannes diary: Polanski’s latest film screens in secret; plus reviews of Portrait of a Lady on Fire and Young AhmedTue May 21 2019 - 11:45
Cannes 2019: This year’s first five-star film, plus a lonely, whimpering Palm DogCannes diary: Robert Pattinson stars in The Lighthouse; and a crowded market for muttsMon May 20 2019 - 13:05
Cannes 2019: Irish movie Vivarium gets thumbs up from criticsCannes diary: New fund for film-makers; Nicholas Winding Refn says the future is in streaming? Maybe we should just go home and watch tellySun May 19 2019 - 11:45
Cannes 2019: Where the rich shell out for big ticket eventsCannes diary: Change comes slow for gender equality and Rocketman Taron tears upSat May 18 2019 - 15:15
Cannes 2019: Irish film starring Jesse Eisenberg gets rapturous receptionVivarium, an Irish science-fiction horror, has world premiere as part of International Critics Week at the film festivalSat May 18 2019 - 13:45
Ready for their Cannes close-up? Irish film-makers in the spotlightCinema is an increasingly puzzling market. So what counts as success for an Irish release?Sat May 18 2019 - 05:00
‘Covering the Cannes Festival is the hardest job in the world. Pity Us’Donald Clarke: The #sordidtruth about covering Cannes in the age of TwitterSat May 18 2019 - 05:00
Cannes 2019: I’ve just seen Rocketman, the Elton John biopic. It’s a hootCannes diary: Jim Jarmusch, plus Sorry We Missed You, Bacurau and Les MisérablesFri May 17 2019 - 14:45
Latest movies reviewed: All films in cinemas this week ratedThe Irish Times what-to-see guide to the movies now in cinemas across IrelandFri May 17 2019 - 06:00
Six of the best films to see in cinemas this weekendNew this weekend: John Wick 3, Birds of Passage, Beats, TuckedFri May 17 2019 - 05:30
The movie quiz: A Cannes bumper quiz, beginning with who is on the poster?Also: From the Riviera to the Oscars, Elton John beached, the woman’s angleFri May 17 2019 - 05:00
French social discontent gets a look-in at CannesFlying saucers turn out to be recurrent motif, as zombie comedy gets mixed receptionFri May 17 2019 - 05:00
Birds of Passage: A new classic following the Colombian drug tradeReview: An epic work of folk, gangster and other-worldly cinema about a tribal familyFri May 17 2019 - 05:00
John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum: Keanu Reeves kills a man with a bookReview: He kills everyone whose name you don’t know. It’s a masterpiece of martial choreographyWed May 15 2019 - 13:18
Cannes 2019: Thierry biffs back the beamers – and gives us brilliant bagsCannes diary: Gender parity, populist politics, freebies and zombies. It’s all go alreadyWed May 15 2019 - 11:00
Cannes 2019: Jim Jarmusch’s The Dead Don’t Die gets festival off to glittering startStar-studded cast of Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Tilda Swinton and Chloë Sevigny light up red carpetWed May 15 2019 - 05:00
Doris Day: Her image was too shiny. Her films were too perky. Yet she was a sort of geniusDoris Day, star of Calamity Jane and Pillow Talk, dies aged 97Mon May 13 2019 - 17:11
Audience participation is the worst performance trend since human sacrificeDonald Clarke: Some of us are quite happy being bad sports. Now get away from meSat May 11 2019 - 05:00
Six of the best films to see in cinemas this weekendNew this weekend: Amazing Grace, Float Like a Butterfly, Madeline’s Madeline, Pokémon Detective PikachuFri May 10 2019 - 06:00
Cannes 2019: A busload of auteurs and pizzazz aplentyTime will tell about the quality of the films – but the programme does not disappointFri May 10 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 May 10 2019 - 06:00
A new Star Wars trilogy isn’t far, far awayDisney shares its eight-year film schedule: Artemis Fowl lands next year, Avatar 2 in 2021Fri May 10 2019 - 05:45
The movie quiz: Which James Bond film has made the most money?Also: How many people died on Judgment Day, according to the first line of Terminator 2?Fri May 10 2019 - 05:45
High Life: Interesting outer-space drama full of odditiesReview: From a ‘Sex Box’ to a brief shot of Six Nations rugby, this sci-fi film makes for interesting viewingFri May 10 2019 - 05:00
Narco natives: Seeing Colombia’s drug trade through indigenous eyesTo research their new film Birds of Passage, Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra visited the Wayuu people of northern Colombia to hear their stories of the early days of the drug warsFri May 10 2019 - 05:00
Float Like a Butterfly: An Irish boxing movie that stirs the bloodReview: The story, vaguely inspired by Katie Taylor, is about a Traveller girl who trains herself to boxing excellenceThu May 09 2019 - 06:00
