Matt Bomer: ‘After two days in Galway, I thought: I’ll just do another lap around the town’The actor on Los Angeles, being authentic and returning to ‘huge’ GalwayFri Jun 07 2019 - 09:35
Latest movies reviewed: All films in cinemas this week ratedThe Irish Times what-to-see guide to the movies now in cinemas across IrelandFri Jun 07 2019 - 06:00
Six of the best films to see in cinemas this weekendNew this weekend: Gloria Bell, Late Night, Papi Chulo, Dirty GodFri Jun 07 2019 - 06:00
The movie quiz: Whose poem was read at the Four Weddings funeral?Also: Directing Robert Pattinson, animated but Oscarless, remaking their own filmsFri Jun 07 2019 - 05:45
Kind Hearts and Coronets: one of the greatest comedies ever madeThe 1949 Ealing classic starring nine Alec Guinnesses is getting a welcome reissueFri Jun 07 2019 - 05:00
Gloria Bell: Julianne Moore with useless boyfriends and awkward familyReview: Sebastián Lelio has accomplished a very satisfactory remake of his own movieFri Jun 07 2019 - 05:00
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
