Shem the Penman Sings Again Review: When James met JohnA delightful, playful study of the relationship between Joyce and McCormackThu Jan 07 2016 - 18:00
A War (Krigen) Review: Fighting from front line to home frontThe war in Afghanistan is the inspiration for a tense Danish courtroom dramaThu Jan 07 2016 - 18:00
The Hateful Eight review: The wheels come off the wagonTarantino sinks deeper into his auto-mythology with more haphazard plotting, gooey violence and endless dialogue, writes Donald ClarkeThu Jan 07 2016 - 17:00
Quentin Tarantino film distribution row hits some Irish audiences‘The Hateful Eight’ will be not be screened at Cineworld due to failure to agree termsTue Jan 05 2016 - 19:51
Top 10 ‘Get Off My Lawn’ moments of outrage in 2015Trump, tabloids, Gaybo’s grimace and questions of race and gender all make the listSat Jan 02 2016 - 10:07
Joy review: Jennifer Lawrence’s silver dollars playbookLawrence reunites with Robert De Niro, Bradley Cooper and director David O Russell for an enjoyable – if thoroughly inauthentic – biopicFri Jan 01 2016 - 06:00
Movie preview: Films to see in 2016From now until next December, here are 50 big releases that will demand to be noticed over the next yearFri Jan 01 2016 - 01:00
Sleeping with Other People review: do ask, do tellCompared with the likes of ‘Trainwreck’, this modest comedy turns into a bedroom farce of a transcendent orderThu Dec 31 2015 - 15:00
The community spirit and awful on-screen romances of Alison BrieThe actor talks about playing ‘strong’ Trudy, wife to the awful Pete Campbell in Mad Men; and her new film, in which she dates jerksThu Dec 24 2015 - 06:00
Daddy’s Home review: these father figures just don’t add upWill Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg reprise their Other Guys double act, but Sean Anders’ latest comedy is strictly by-the-numbersWed Dec 23 2015 - 11:00
And the best British actor is . . . Saoirse Ronan? Really?Why does the London Film Critics’ Circle refer to Irish actors as British? It’s bafflingSun Dec 20 2015 - 17:42
Donald Clarke’s 2015: The Irish are coming. Yes, I knowIt looks as if we will see the most Irish Academy Awards everSat Dec 19 2015 - 14:00
Ireland’s Viva makes shortlist to join Oscar-chasing packPaddy Breathnach’s film portrays young gay man’s struggle to get by in present-day CubaFri Dec 18 2015 - 17:05
The Ticket Awards 2015 - and the awards for best film go to...We asked your opinions, and you responded in your thousands. Here are the results of the popular votes - and our critical takeFri Dec 18 2015 - 06:02
Reissue of the week: The Red Shoes - Powell and Pressburger’s 1948 film is still worth seeingMoira Shearer shines in a ballet story that explores the destructive side of artThu Dec 17 2015 - 12:04
Star Wars box office takings to rocket – that’s the Vader do itLet the game commence: Battle on to see which will be the most successful film to dateThu Dec 17 2015 - 01:00
Star Wars review: New faces, old stories, star turn from the skelligJJ Abrams taps into Star Wars’ ancient energy without breaking any new ground, and a certain island almost steals the showWed Dec 16 2015 - 08:01
Donald Clarke: Controversy over Fury will do the roundsBoxer’s Sports Personality of the Year listing is proving contentiousSat Dec 12 2015 - 01:00
By the Sea review: Life’s a beach and then you film itAngelina Jolie Pitt’s passionate homage to 1970s foreign arthouse films is gorgeous but miserableFri Dec 11 2015 - 10:00
Guy Maddin: ‘I wanted to cure myself of myself’With ‘The Forbidden Room’, a sprawling tribute to lost films, the singular Canadian director has come up with his most ‘Guy Maddin-y’ film to dateFri Dec 11 2015 - 06:00
Peggy Guggenheim - Art Addict review: all hail the queen of high bohemiaGuggenheim heard Joyce sing, met Gertrude Stein, Picasso, Dali and Beckett... and then the Manhattan heiress's life got really interestingThu Dec 10 2015 - 15:46
Fassbender and Ronan nominated in Golden GlobesStrong Irish presence among the nominees shortlisted for the 73rd annual showThu Dec 10 2015 - 15:10
Reissue of the week: When Harry Met Sally - We’ll still have what she’s havingWhen Harry Met Sally is still sharp, funny and touching after all these yearsWed Dec 09 2015 - 18:00
Six Irish films to feature at Sundance Film FestivalMammal, Land of the Enlightened, The Lobster, Viva, Love & Friendship and Sing Street featureTue Dec 08 2015 - 16:40
Donald Clarke: Fat-shaming bullies feel they are making a moral pointStunt on London Underground highlights particular strain of aggressive prejudiceSat Dec 05 2015 - 08:03
The Ticket Awards 2015: FilmFranchises were creaky (though a certain space opera has yet to land); the best films were strange beasts; and the locals came good. Donald Clarke and Tara Brady on the best and worst of film in 2015Fri Dec 04 2015 - 06:00
Sunset Song review: A model of Scottish miseryBrutal dad, worse husband, children dying, a wife’s suicide – no one could accuse Davies of lightening the moodThu Dec 03 2015 - 18:00
The Ticket's Top 10 Movies of 2015It was a year of blockbusters, but 2015 was also distinguished by eccentric, smaller films that pushed various whacky agendas. Our list tends towards the latter...Thu Dec 03 2015 - 16:34
11 Minutes review: a bold experiment that winds up breaking its own ground rulesJerzy Skolimowski’s thriller covers all the angles with great invention, but still leaves a trail of confusion in its wakeThu Dec 03 2015 - 12:07
Victor Frankenstein review: a bloated exercise in opportunistic grave robbingThe latest retelling of Mary Shelley’s classic tale is a cobbled-together farrago of cod psychology and makeshift backstoryThu Dec 03 2015 - 10:31
Donald Clarke: Black Friday is a white elephantWe no longer need to covet the American way of life as our ‘stuff’ is the same as theirsSat Nov 28 2015 - 01:00
Bridge of Spies Review: Land of the Free and home of Tom HanksThe actor again represents the Good America in Spielberg’s irresistible movieFri Nov 27 2015 - 11:17
Carol review: One of America’s great film-makers has returned in triumphTodd Haynes’s new film surges with suppressed emotion as he tells the tale of two women in love in the 1950s,Fri Nov 27 2015 - 11:16
Pixar president Jim Morris on the 20 year journey since Toy StoryPixar raised a generation of children before recently slipping into a slump. Don’t be predicting its demise any time soon though, its president Jim Morris tells Donald ClarkeThu Nov 26 2015 - 11:00
Black Mass review: the best fake Martin Scorsese film of the yearJohnny Depp is convincing, and the tale is told with energy, but there’s little new in this based-on-fact story of Boston crime boss Whitey BulgerWed Nov 25 2015 - 16:00
Donald Clarke: Bad Sex Award – the agony and the ecstasy‘The promiscuous shell-collecting in Jane Austen gets my juices flowing’ . . . and so onSat Nov 21 2015 - 01:00
From Boba to Yoda: The A-Z of Star Wars‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ is out on December 17th. Here’s your Star Wars guideFri Nov 20 2015 - 15:55
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 review: running to the finish on emptyDespite Jennifer Lawrence and some effective mayhem, this last, long episode of the fantasy quadrilogy huffs and puffs to its conclusionFri Nov 20 2015 - 09:41
Todd Haynes: ‘We don’t always move in a progressive line towards tolerance’Todd Haynes nearly ended up in the halls of academia, but instead turned to film, and in the process brought a new aesthetic to the mainstreamFri Nov 20 2015 - 06:00
Love review: big-screen 3D sex is not a many-splendoured thingWhile it has some original ideas, the 3D scenes may eventually be too much for youFri Nov 20 2015 - 01:08
The Perfect Guy review: the satanic beat goes on . . . and onVirtual remake of ‘Boy Next Door’ has its ruthless moments but is ultimately predictableThu Nov 19 2015 - 18:00
What to buy for your modern family? Boxsets, CDs and games to match their personality typesThe last thing we would want to do is stereotype people by age or inclination, but, when it comes to buying Christmas presents, who has time to consider complex nuances of character?Thu Nov 19 2015 - 12:00
Donald Clarke: You pretend to like us Nordies but you don’tEven fervent Southern nationalists harbour guilty suspicions of Northern othernessSat Nov 14 2015 - 01:00
Steve Jobs review: a quasi-biopic of an unremittingly monstrous personalityWith a brilliant script from Aaron Sorkin, elegant design and ruthless discipline mark out Danny Boyle’s unexpectedly impressive film. Steve Jobs may have approvedFri Nov 13 2015 - 11:22
Seth Rogan: ‘People expect me to be a gregarious party animal. I'm not at all’Party animal; campaigner for law reform; controversial film-maker; and now Steve Jobs’ conscience: Seth Rogen explains his many career twists and turns to Donald ClarkeFri Nov 13 2015 - 06:00
Tangerine review: The best Christmas movie about trans prostitutes ever madeTangerine’ glows with aesthetic and technological flair, but it is the humanity on display that makes Sean Baker’s film specialThu Nov 12 2015 - 19:00
Lady in the Van review: Alan Bennett’s everywhere, but Maggie Smith shinesThe cyclonic Smith has an indecently appropriate role in this starry film adaptation by Bennett of his own hit West-End playThu Nov 12 2015 - 16:30
The Fear of 13 review: death-row tales of the unexpectedNick Yarris – sentenced to death for rape and murder in 1982 – tells his own story in this fascinating, if flawed, new documentary from David SingtonThu Nov 12 2015 - 13:46
13 things to do indoors this winter: ski, climb, watch, visitIt’s getting colder, darker, wintrier. Whether you favour active or stationary pursuits, these suggestions will get you through the coming monthsMon Nov 09 2015 - 12:00
Burnt review: over-garnished cliche, and that’s just for startersPlaying a bit like the world’s most lavish episode of Masterchef, Bradley Cooper latest is all pretty food and bourgeois nonsenseSun Nov 08 2015 - 13:24
