Lorcan Finnegan’s Vivarium, starring Jesse Eisenberg and Imogen Poots, will be shown during Cannes 2019 International Critics’ Wee(...)

How much harder it is for a star to deliver records that matter when, like Madonna, they have passed their 60th birthday?

We already know not to ‘watch what others are watching’. That way lies Mrs Brown’s Boys

Some think she’s ‘a bit frightening’, including in Neil Jordan’s Greta, but the star couldn’t be nicer

New this weekend: Neil Jordan's Greta and Mel Gibson in Dragged Across Concrete

Avengers: Endgame set to become the fifth Marvel film in top 10 grossing of all time

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Also: A first for Marvel, Friends’ Phoebe and her parents, not directed by Ridley Scott

Review: Paolo Sorrentino looks a bit like a bad copy of himself in this ugly collage

Big-name auteurs in Croisette line-up, but only four films by women in competition

Review: To make something so boring of the fascinating true-life story of Soviet spy Melita Norwood takes a certain quality

The sudden interest in Meet Joe Black brings back an overlooked oddity from 1998

Pornography – even hard-core – was once big box office. The internet changed everything

Donald Clarke: Chris Evans’ endeavour into US politics may prove to be just a hero’s folly

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New this weekend: Wild Rose, mid90s, Little

Also: Who was not in the Wild Bunch and who has yet to remake a Disney classic?

Review: After their child dies, a couple have visions suggesting the infant may still be nearby

‘This isn’t a goof’: Actor and director talks Mid90s and the power of writing

Review: The old jokes can still raise laughs if enjoyed in the right company

Review: She has all the talent she needs – a great voice, acting presence and comic timing

Released in April 1989, it changed everything for Daniel Day-Lewis and Jim Sheridan

Two decades after the Phantom Menace teaser, they are our age’s internet art form

New this weekend: Pet Sematary, Missing Link, Shazam!, The Sisters Brothers

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Also: The Mafia and The Godfather, directing for Netflix and songs not on Trainspotting soundtrack

Review: You’d have to work very hard to kill the story of Bert Trautmann

Review: Too many asides and extended punch-ups drag this past the two-hour mark

Review: There are ideas worth pursuing here, but they needed a lot more refinement

Review: The story of a North Sea drilling crew facing catastrophe is told effectively

Former Hitler Youth member overcame animosity to become a star goalkeeper at Manchester City

The fanatical mother of Carrie, the self-sacrificing Mildred Pierce, the baddass Sarah Connor

Donald Clarke: A new print of A Clockwork Orange is on the way – get your boots on

Agnès Varda’s death is a loss to French cinema, but her legacy lives on

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Also: John Wayne’s real name, the fat suit fracas and spot the fake Robert De Niro's movie

New this weekend: At Eternity’s Gate, Dumbo, The Man Who Wanted to Fly, Being Frank

Review: His comic creation – Sievey in a papier-mâché head – inspired Lenny Abrahamson’s ‘Frank’

Review: The film makes a genuine effort to engage with the artist’s mental torments

Review: Tim Burton makes canny use of a delightful cast including Colin Farrell and Eva Green

At 51, Craig needs to work hard to convince as the UK’s greatest killing machine

Donald Clarke: Woodstock 50 line-up criticism has left you sounding like your parents

The actor throws himself into playing Van Gogh – and makes sure to have fun doing it

New this weekend: Us is a macabre American satire from the maker of Get Out

Review: There’s something iffy about the way Bing Liu edited his Oscar-nominated film

Prepare for DiCaprio, Pitt, freaky dancing and an awkward Manson Family association

Bing Liu’s complex Oscar-nominated documentary is carefully engineered film-making

Review: All credit to a cast that includes Lupita Nyong’o and Elisabeth Moss

Pixar’s fourth instalment will keep the Entertainment-Industrial Complex ticking over

Re-released this week, the ‘absolute rubbish’ film is one of the most entertaining movies ever

Donald Clarke: We need a campaign to put the film at the heart of Saint Patrick’s Day

Captain Marvel a box office smash despite tiny-bearded men’s protests about ‘radical feminism’

Rising star on fast track to unavoidability could not turn down chance to work with Lady Bird actor

Also: Pride & Prejudice & movie stars, going Oscarless, Olivia Colman’s point of view

Review: The two leads spare no effort in teasing emotions in sincere melodrama

Avengers: Endgame opens on April 25th. It will be the highest grossing film of the year

Review: Andrew Garfield, Riley Keough and Topher Grace ‘star’ in this queasy follow-up

Review: There is no easy way of addressing such a nuanced subject

Best of Irish: In advance of St Patrick’s Day, we celebrate leading lights of our creative industries

LIsa McGee brilliantly selected her slurs and generalisations about Northern religions

Lukas Dhont’s Girl, inspired by Nora Monsecour, has a cisgender lead. Does it matter?

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Also: What film won most Oscars in the 2019 Academy Awards?

New this weekend: Border, The Kindergarten Teacher, Captain Marvel, Maiden

Review: Iranian master Asghar Farhadi crafts a crowd-pleaser that fails to satisfy

Review: The first Marvel release with a woman protagonist can’t do for the 90s what Bumblebee did for the 80s

Ali Abbasi’s latest work invites allegorical interpretation on a number of themes

English writer Stephen Merchant on helming Fight With My Family, trying to move away from satire and revisiting The Office

Critics’ circle awards wrap up Dublin International Film Festival 2019

Whatever name the building was known by in its lifetime, it was always a city landmark

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New this weekend: The Hole in the Ground, Foxtrot, Fighting with My Family and Sauvage

And, if you're feeling clever, what is the working title of the next James Bond film?

The Japanese horror did more to revitalise a genre than any other release of its era

Documentary on Peter Rice offers a faultless account of ‘the Joyce of structural engineering’

Review: This is knitting-pattern cinema, completely lacking in emotional charge

Dublin International Film Festival: Paul Duane’s What Time Is Death? charts Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty’s latest singular projec(...)

Review: Seána Kerslake fires on all emotions in a film that could flatten a lesser actor

As 40th-anniversary screenings arrive, it’s worth asking why we were so accepting of censorship

Donald Clarke predicts next year’s best picture nominees. He used to be good at this...

Analysis: How did Green Book, an indifferent film with lazy racial politics, win best picture?

Green Book is best film, Bohemian Rhapsody wins most. Glenn Close overlooked for 7th time

Dublin International Film Festival: Composer David Shire on his life in the movies

Where can you watch the ceremony? When does it start and end? Who are the favourites?

Why are people obsessed with sharing their ignorance?

The Favourite may be overlooked for the big prizes with Roma likely to steal the show

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New this weekend: Cold Pursuit, Capernaum, The Passenger, On the Basis of Sex

Review: Nadine Labaki’s ruthlessly moving new film deserves its Oscar nomination

Review: This revenge thriller will be renowned for its star's racially charged comments

The festival is back with a sponsor and boasts new world cinema, fresh Irish releases and a host of famous guests

Actor, who was diagnosed with cancer, was a key figure in German cinema

Donald Clarke: This week’s Oscars news reflects the common, idiotic view that cinema is little more than a type of flat theatre th(...)

The Tallaght actor might have to get used to it, as her star quality shines in The Hole in the Ground

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New this weekend: The Lady Eve rereleased, A Private War, Happy Death Day 2U

Also: Who is Brie Larson about to become in a Marvel Comics adaptation?

Review: Joe Cornish’s retelling of the King Arthur myth in London is zippy enough

Review: The honkingly unsubtle dialogue is not worthy of Rosamund Pike’s steely focus

The ‘Captain Marvel’ star is campaigning for more diversity in the press pool. Will it work?