Half our favourite movies have vanished. But there’s still plenty of great stuff to search for

Donald Clarke: A 19-year-old electropop sensation is to write and sing the next Bond theme and Twitter is not amused

New this weekend: Just Mercy, Waves, A Hidden Life, Bombshell

Will Smith and Martin Lawrence in a noisy, inconsequential violent romp

Plus: ‘Don’t answer the phone. Don’t open the door. Don’t try to escape’

Review: Sheer cinematic sweep of director’s latest impresses even as viewers’ patience is tested

David Copperfield, Normal People and Dune are all on the way, some more reverent than others

Despite its three Oscar nominations, Bombshell isn’t as smart as the women it depicts

How did film about a comic book idiot get more nominations than The Irishman?

Irish star’s turn in Little Women pits her against Renée Zellweger in best-actress race

German actor on preparing for A Hidden Life with the unconventional director

Saoirse Ronan should get a nod for Little Women. There are few other options for the Irish

Directors Joshua and Benjamin Safdie and their 10-year journey to making Uncut Gems

Donald Clarke: Harvey Weinstein's lawyer took us on a trip back to the Sexist Seventies this week

Plus: Whose first ever line in movies was ‘Gimme a whiskey . . . and don’t be stingy’?

New this weekend: Adam Sandler in Uncut Gems, Sam Mendes’s 1917, and El Topo

This slice of prestige British film-making nimbly avoids accusations of heritage cosiness

Adam Sandler plays his stock comic weirdo, but Idina Menzel owns the screen

Nods for Saoirse Ronan and Jessie Buckley, but little for women and none for black actors

New films released this weekend include Jojo Rabbit, Amanda, and Aquarela

Saoirse Ronan, nominated for Little Women performance, loses out to Renée Zellweger

Donald Clarke: Provocateur returns to host Golden Globes for a fifth time

The director of first World War movie 1917 on portraying the conflict in a contemporary light

Review: While the film argues against hate, it does little to educate about the specific enormities of Nazi Germany

Plus: A Marvel movie of their own, an animated Oscar, Carry On to the end of the line

Donald Clarke: Blue is the Warmest Colour, 12 Years a Slave both overlooked in the polls

The best biopics, documentaries, cartoons, features and award favourites of the year

And we have one to avoid at just about all costs (hint: it’s not The Rise of Skywalker)

On the first Frozen, the last Hobbit, the 7th Star Wars, and all the Harry Potters

The worst film of the 2010s was so reactionary, materialistic and lazy it selected itself

The decade in culture: Arrival, Lady Bird, Get Out... But which movie is at number one?

The Decade in Culture: As we move into the roaring twenties many things remain the same about the seventh art

Yet another adaptation of A Christmas Carol proves that Dickens was right on the money

The Decade in Culture: The most impactful books, series and performers of 2010-19

New this weekend: Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Little Women, Buddies, Spies in Disguise

And for the season that's in it, there's a Star Wars question in here too

Review: It’s funny enough, but when our hero is turned into a pigeon, it really takes off

This isn’t a proper film – just a nondescript, boring component in the Star Wars machine

As Episode IX arrives, how does it stack up against the other 10 films in the saga?

It’s clever, it’s funny, it’s dramatic, and this won’t be its last movie award this season

Like: Who are Rey’s parents? Who are Finn’s? Is it okay to include a digitised Carrie Fisher?

Donald Clarke: The non-binary pronoun ‘they’ is the dictionary’s word of the year

New this weekend: Beanpole, Citizen K, The Kingmaker, Jumanji: The Next Level, Fiddler: Miracle of Miracles

Review: Inside track on how Fiddler on the Roof became an unlikely cultural phenomenon

Plus: Naming the non-Polanski and soundtracking Guardians of the Galaxy

No nomination for Irish star of Little Women but Andrew Scott gets nod for Fleabag

Review: There’s killer apes and rogue Vikings, the Dannies DeVito and Glover and there’s The Rock

Irish actor picks up fifth nod, for Little Women. Andrew Scott named for Fleabag

We start with Monos, Marriage Story and Midsommar. Find out what else makes the cut

Donald Clarke: Who cares that Billie Eilish had never heard of Van Halen?

Plus: The number of the new Star Wars, never been with Bond, suggestive of Joni Mitchell

New this weekend: Ordinary Love, So Long My Son

Review: A likeable salute to a Magic Ireland we don’t see much anymore

Europe has always tolerated the sex offender, up for four major awards this weekend

Review: This is a harrowing, often effective film, with Lucas Hedges as a former child actor now in rehab

We rummage through the first trailer for clues to the 25th Bond movie

Review: There is a fine noir here somewhere, busting to escape the Friends of Ed Norton Cabaret

Donald Clarke: Move to attach warnings to films on Disney+ is honest and responsible

Playing a rape victim in The Nightingale was an emotional wrench for the Irish-Italian actor

New this weekend: Knives Out, The Two Popes, The Nightingale, The Biggest Little Farm

Plus: Netflix releases, who played 007's Q and John Ford adaptations and

Review: Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce go full throttle in a sanitised version of the truth

Al Pacino gives his most enjoyable performance in decades in Martin Scorsese’s sprawling film

James was sharp in his literary criticism and largely invented modern television criticism

Review: Kristen Stewart, the classiest star of this disaster, is the most disappointing

Review: Daniel Craig, Chris Evans and Jamie Lee Curtis star in this energetic whodunnit

It’s no fun passing on a link to the latest Netflix box set at Christmas

Donald Clarke: The online kerfuffle should do Tom Hooper’s project no harm

Plus: Woody Allen by the numbers, spelling the best Scrooge’s name, one Oscar at a time

Review: Is this the best we can hope for now from cop thrillers?

Review: Mia Wasikowska has never been better in a raging, uncontained performance

New this weekend: Blue Story, La Belle Epoque, Judy & Punch, Frozen 2, Harriet

Spirits writer Dave Broom presents The Amber Light, a film about the drink and its cultural significance

Making a follow-up to the highest grossing animation ever was always going to be tough. ‘We realised there was more story to tell’

Review: The follow-up works a little too hard to be respectful to the original charmer

Sly feminism, a jerk of a prince, and a tune adored by girls, boys and karaoke drunks

Alice in Wonderland made her a star but she prefers to stay out of the limelight

Confirms a stubborn English belief that the right way is the way things are done in the southeast of UK

The Irish Times what-to-see guide to the movies now in cinemas across Ireland

New this weekend: Marriage Story, Le Mans ’66, The Report

Plus: Back to the Future years, Mria’s favourite things, filmed in Ireland, the odd book out

Review: Adam Driver intense as investigator who uncovered CIA’s torture methods

It’s hard not to think of Geri Halliwell in a Union Jack miniskirt as you watch the PM

Review: Titled Ford v Ferrari in the US, this is a sweaty, oily macho throwback

Review: Scarlett Johansson has never been better and Adam Driver is equally good in Noah Baumbach’s breakup tale

Le Mans ’66 director James Mangold on Scorsese, the Marvel controversy and the state of film

Donald Clarke: BBC’s ‘novels that shaped our world’ list is terrible in a very particular way

Director Scott Z Burns talks about US torture practices, democracy and why he had to make The Report

The Irish Times what-to-see guide to the movies now in cinemas across Ireland

New this weekend: The Irishman, Luce, Meeting Gorbachev

Queries on cameos, Oscars, marriages, De Niro, Gimme Shelter and much more

Review: Ceaseless adulation grates – but it is still a fascinating study of a remarkable life

Martin Scorsese’s gangster film will play well on Netflix, but it’s even better in the cinema

Frozen 2, The Painted Bird and Adolf Hitler all feature at Ireland’s oldest film festival

New this week: Monos, The Aeronauts, Sorry We Missed You, Doctor Sleep, Brittany Runs a Marathon

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