A revolting orgy of indulgence laced with brilliance of so many imagesDespite the Night review: Philippe Grandrieux’s film takes us to pretentious parties and horrible porn shootsFri Oct 13 2017 - 05:00
It’s Not Yet Dark: A moving, lively story that's an example to us allThis well-made documentary about Simon Fitzmaurice, who has motor neurone disease, never dips into melodramaWed Oct 11 2017 - 05:00
Star Wars trailer: Mind our good Skellig with that light sabreRey is waving her sword dangerously close to the Kerry rocks. She’ll frighten the cormorantsTue Oct 10 2017 - 13:57
Harvey Weinstein is no longer getting away with it. That’s goodThe film business isn’t as bad as it once was for sexual misconduct. But it’s still pretty awfulMon Oct 9 2017 - 15:20
Where did it all go wrong for Blade Runner 2049?The hyped sequel has had a disastrous opening: is it all the studio's fault?Mon Oct 9 2017 - 10:51
Donald Clarke: The game is up for Morrissey the reactionaryHow did we Smiths obsessives miss the signs in the 1980s. Because they were thereSat Oct 7 2017 - 06:00
Donald Clarke's movie quiz: are you (a) box office gold or (b) a flop?This week: A dedication from The Stranglers, Oscar on Oscar, and when Elvis met RonanFri Oct 6 2017 - 06:00
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekendNew this week: The return of the skinjobs, the real Arab women of Israel, and zany animeFri Oct 6 2017 - 06:00
Blade Runner was about climate change, claustrophobia and melancholiaCan Denis Villeneuve’s 163-minute sequel to Blade Runner rescue a ‘broken’ box office?Fri Oct 6 2017 - 05:00
Return to Montauk review: A cold but classy concoctionSadly this Colm Tóibín-assisted effort has none of the warmth of his best workFri Oct 6 2017 - 05:00
Kate Winslet, Idris Elba and a dog up a mountain. Who thought this was a good idea?The Mountain Between Us review: The two stars and a dog go for a long walk in the mountains. Who thought this was a good idea?Wed Oct 4 2017 - 05:00
Blade Runner 2049: intoxicating, brain-melting alienationReview: Blade Runner 2049 is not without flaws, but it’s a marvel it works as well as it doesTue Oct 3 2017 - 18:25
An 800-word tribute to 140-character tweetsDon't double their length, Twitter. It’s like telling Shakespeare to ditch the sonnet structureSat Sep 30 2017 - 06:00
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekendNew this week: Winnie the Pooh – the origin story, the devil’s own spaghetti western, and a Bridget Jones for the fleabag generationFri Sep 29 2017 - 07:00
The movie quiz: Back in the days of Oz, Wind and KaneAlso: Spielberg’s early ouevre, roll call of female directors, and Andy Warhol on filmFri Sep 29 2017 - 05:27
Brimstone is no country for young womenAt its best, Martin Koolhoven’s western is like being caught up in one of God’s more entertaining divine ragesThu Sep 28 2017 - 14:01
Storm in a teacup at the Centre of my WorldThis German drama is full of pretty people doing things that were once quirkyThu Sep 28 2017 - 05:00
Goodbye Christopher Robin has the subtlety and manipulation of a TV Christmas adSimon Curtis’s take on the creation of Winnie the Pooh gleams brightly at every point, despite sitting on a bed of genuine tragedy and low-level miseryWed Sep 27 2017 - 05:00
What do you mean you don’t own a telly? You really shouldYoung actor Shailene Woodley committed a cardinal celebrity sin at the recent EmmysSat Sep 23 2017 - 06:00
Donald Clarke's movie quiz: Name the year of the new Blade RunnerAlso: best picture biopics, Kristen vs Kirsten, and the first movie to rake in $100mFri Sep 22 2017 - 07:00
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekendNew this week: The 1983 breakout from The Maze and Shi LaBeouf remarkably channels tennis brat John McEnroeFri Sep 22 2017 - 06:00
Borg vs McEnroe: the power and the fury‘There was a quest for perfection and meaning in both of them – I think they were both haunted by a deeper existential pain’Fri Sep 22 2017 - 05:00
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 Sep 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 Sep 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 Sep 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 Sep 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 Sep 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 Sep 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 Sep 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 Sep 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 Sep 15 2017 - 05:00
Victoria & Abdul review: We are barely amusedStephen Frears directs Judi Dench in passable middle-brow entertainmentWed Sep 13 2017 - 10:19
Mother! A disgusting, disturbing feast for the sensesReview: A ragged Jennifer Lawrence keeps this wild Gothic ride aloftTue Sep 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 Sep 9 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 Sep 8 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 Sep 8 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 Sep 8 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 Sep 7 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 Sep 7 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 Sep 6 2017 - 10:54
It review: Industry-standard horror meets 1980s nostalgiaThis version of the Stephen King bullet stopper works on its own degraded termsWed Sep 6 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 Sep 4 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 Sep 2 2017 - 06:00
Like ‘Brokeback Mountain’, but with Yorkshire weatherFrancis Lee’s ‘God’s Own Country’ feels like a career-launching filmSat Sep 2 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 Sep 1 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