The Rotten Tomatoes site is blunt, but it’s not killing cinemaBlade Runner 2049 director Denis Villenueve is one of few film-makers to praise the siteThu Sept 21 2017 - 14:00
Kingsman review: Laugh? I nearly clawed my eyes outWas the first one not bad enough? This sequel seems to think notWed Sept 20 2017 - 09:39
‘Maze’ review: more like the ‘Great Escape’ than we had any right to expectThe 1983 prison break gets a responsible treatment but it's most effective as a prison break yarnWed Sept 20 2017 - 05:00
Oscars countdown starts here. And the Irish are in the raceSeveral films with Irish involvement impressed critics at the Toronto Film FestivalMon Sept 18 2017 - 12:20
McDonagh wins People’s Choice Award at Toronto film festivalThe prize for London-Irish author’s film ‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’ raises hopes for Oscar successSun Sept 17 2017 - 19:50
Lord Hook-Hook, voice of the ‘permanently offended’George Hook, the spluttering mouthpiece of powerful but paranoid older men, falls silentSat Sept 16 2017 - 06:00
Donald Clarke's movie quiz: Who was tough enough to take on Alien?Also this week: comedy triplets, a Lady and the Tramp song and Oscar by the numbersFri Sept 15 2017 - 06:30
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekendNew this week: J-Law in the mother of all weird-outs and an unhinged Asian ExtremeFri Sept 15 2017 - 06:00
Eddie Izzard: I like to think I kicked the trans door openThe actor knows all about standing up for his principles. Can he take that to Westminster?Fri Sept 15 2017 - 05:00
Victoria & Abdul review: We are barely amusedStephen Frears directs Judi Dench in passable middle-brow entertainmentWed Sept 13 2017 - 10:19
Mother! A disgusting, disturbing feast for the sensesReview: A ragged Jennifer Lawrence keeps this wild Gothic ride aloftTue Sept 12 2017 - 15:09
RTÉ’s ‘mutilated’ map of Ireland was a stylistic error, no moreFurore over health services map saw the State broadcaster likened to the TalibanSat Sept 09 2017 - 06:00
Donald Clarke's movie quiz: name this song from Withnail & IAlso this week: Daniel Day’s Oscar directors, John Ford's legendary Debbie, and a Clint Eastwood nameFri Sept 08 2017 - 06:00
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekend'It' efficiently delivers the jolts, while mystery 'Wind River' provides more thoughtful fareFri Sept 08 2017 - 05:00
Elizabeth Olsen: ‘You don’t want to be followed by strangers in cars’As a sister of the Olsen Twins and a star in her own right, the actor is wary of fameFri Sept 08 2017 - 05:00
The Drummer and the Keeper review: airy, funny, optimistic and honestNick Kelly’s deft film details the friendship between a bipolar rock musician and a teenager with Asperger syndromeThu Sept 07 2017 - 09:43
Dennis Skinner: Nature of the Beast - holding the trough-scoffers to accountDaniel Draper’s feature-length documentary on the ‘Beast of Bolsover’ focuses on the man, but misses out on current political concernsThu Sept 07 2017 - 05:00
I want to complain about people who complain about filmsBoth the easily offended and the responsibly annoyed communities have lost their vimWed Sept 06 2017 - 10:54
It review: Industry-standard horror meets 1980s nostalgiaThis version of the Stephen King bullet stopper works on its own degraded termsWed Sept 06 2017 - 07:00
Former Fat Lady Sings frontman’s first film draws on mental health issuesNick Kelly: from plectrum to spectrum, between rock and a hard placeMon Sept 04 2017 - 05:00
The great doner kebab rush of 1982Doughnuts and burritos are fads that come and go but late-night kebabs are here foreverSat Sept 02 2017 - 06:00
Like ‘Brokeback Mountain’, but with Yorkshire weatherFrancis Lee’s ‘God’s Own Country’ feels like a career-launching filmSat Sept 02 2017 - 05:00
Donald Clarke’s movie quiz: What is the longest Pixar film?Also this week: Wes Craven, conceived Down Under, a real Oscar stumper, and who nixed Nixon?Fri Sept 01 2017 - 06:00
An Irish film, a Scottish film and a Welsh film go into a bar...Moon Dogs review: This Irish-Scottish-Welsh film with a strong cast and plenty of silly costumesThu Aug 31 2017 - 13:15
Patti Cake$ review: hip-hop epic to the tune of SpringsteenThere are reasons to frown at the choice of a white protagonist for this movie – even if she puts in a charismatic performanceThu Aug 31 2017 - 06:12
Una review: A troubling conversation about sexual abuseThe two leads just about make this stagey duologue about a past crime workThu Aug 31 2017 - 05:30
It’s sensible not to screen ‘Gone with the Wind’ in TennesseeA Memphis cinema has decided the classic film is offensive to African-Americans. They’re rightTue Aug 29 2017 - 17:00
Do you sit in the back of a taxi or the front (like a dangerous sociopath)?Freedom from torture of having to “make conversation” is not too much to expect when paying by the mileSat Aug 26 2017 - 06:00
Bigelow on Detroit: ‘Racism hurts everyone. It’s a human story’Katherine Bigelow’s furious new film, ‘Detroit’, tackles historic racism and strikes some shocking notes. But the ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ director has been taking fire for even taking on the projectSat Aug 26 2017 - 05:00
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekendCruise flies high, Soderbergh & co get lucky, and the big man’s back in a retooled T2Fri Aug 25 2017 - 10:00
The movie quiz: Are you a-Cruisin’ for a a-bruisin’ with this week’s stumpers?Also: Donald Clarke tallies Taken, Garfield, Colin Farrell and a terrifyingly toothy predatorFri Aug 25 2017 - 06:00
American Made review: Tom Cruise in a Cold War ‘Goodfellas’? Count us inAnother Doug Liman collaboration lets Cruise have fun with who he used to beThu Aug 24 2017 - 05:15
Steven Soderbergh said he’d quit film. So why is he back?And what is the mystery behind “Rebecca Blunt”, the unknown talent who has written his latest film?Thu Aug 24 2017 - 05:00
Logan Lucky review: Steven Soderbergh back with a bang and a clangIt doesn’t all work, but the unique film-maker’s return is a qualified triumphTue Aug 22 2017 - 14:23
BBC releases list of top 100 comedy films of all timeThe hot list throws up all sorts of funny food for thoughtTue Aug 22 2017 - 14:00
Jerry Lewis: ‘An undeniable genius, comedy’s absolute’Lewis followed his partnership with Dean Martin with a string of critical hits and, of course, ‘The King of Comedy’Mon Aug 21 2017 - 09:00
Leo who? Anatomy of a silly-season news storyFrom Varadkar’s Chicago caper to the Walnut Whip, non-stories are now the real newsSat Aug 19 2017 - 06:00
Final Portrait review: rich detail from the life of GiacomettiStanley Tucci’s study of the Swiss artist is a rhapsody to bohemian Paris in the 1960sFri Aug 18 2017 - 06:00
Quest review: a portrait of real black lives in the Obama yearsStory of Christopher and Christine’a Rainey and their family struggles is gripping cinemaFri Aug 18 2017 - 06:00
The Hitman’s Bodyguard review: Can Reynolds and Jackson sink much lower?Elaborate action sequences fail to cover up the cliched characters and general idiocyThu Aug 17 2017 - 06:00
The Dark Tower review: A baffling tower of pulpThe Stephen King inspired film looks like a cluttered 95-minute trailerWed Aug 16 2017 - 14:00
Never say never: Daniel Craig confirms one more Bond filmAnd when he's finished as 007? Clondalkin man Aidan Turner looks nicely positionedWed Aug 16 2017 - 12:00
Political correctness hasn’t gone mad. It has made us nicerIt’s time to reclaim the phrase that bigots use to criticise tolerant, open-minded discourseSat Aug 12 2017 - 06:00
Carrie on screaming: the 20 best Stephen King moviesHis works have been adapted by Rob Reiner, Brian De Palma, Stanley Kubrick and David Cronenberg. And we’re soon to see more adaptations on screenSat Aug 12 2017 - 05:00
From Tara to Xanadu: the best houses in the moviesManderley in ‘Rebecca’, the floating home in ‘Up’ – fictional houses can envelop the viewerSat Aug 12 2017 - 00:00
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekend‘A Ghost Story’ is a heartbreaking haunting while an award-winning Godzilla returns to stomp TokyoFri Aug 11 2017 - 06:00
Chiselled demigods and muscled heroes: Tom of Finland’s iconic imagesNew film about Nordic animator who was behind hugely influential post-war gay eroticaThu Aug 10 2017 - 05:00
A Ghost Story review: Haunted hipsters makes for a frightfully good filmDirector David Lowery’s playful ‘post horror’ makes an emotional connectionWed Aug 09 2017 - 16:45
Blockbusted! What was the worst film of the summer?Blockbuster season is almost over, and while it wasn’t as bad as last year, there were still some real stinkersWed Aug 09 2017 - 13:00
Atomic Blonde: embarrassingly clunky 1980s period detailThey stopped short of having Boy George run Charlize over with a Sinclair C5Tue Aug 08 2017 - 12:55
