Many are women tidied away by an industry that prefers its boats to remain unrocked

The actor on capital punishment, ‘mentally compromised’ Trump and US race relations

Plus: brothers & sisters of Oscar winners, playing The Exorcist, directing Stephen King

The Old Guard, Finding the Way Back, Scoob!, Black Water: Abyss

Silly adaptation of Greg Rucka’s comic about ancient immortals tees up new franchise

Review: The characters are dull, the tensions intermittent, the violent scenes confusing

Late composer was among tiny handful of film scorers whose work is instantly recognisable

Ten minutes in, the plot has already tested the allowances we make for pulp hokum

The Irish experts at expressing themselves through ironic aggression rather than sincere affection

Plus: great escape goddesses, Hitchcock's first silent/last sound film, the show still went on

Hamilton, Lynn + Lucy, The Booksellers, Inheritance

Film Review: This study of independent and antiquarian booksellers speaks volumes

The new indie comedy Saint Frances features period sex – cinema has travelled a long way

The activity of ‘stans’ online is not entirely harmless - dissenters get abused

The Sex Education actor talks about her Irish roots and her Anglo-French upbringing

Plus: Spot the fake Michael Bay film, performing for Bond, the month for Oscar

Review: Jon Stewart directs a witty and neatly drawn look at politics and big money

Review: Frank Beauvais meditates on movie addiction through a collage of film clips

Irresistible, Eurovision Song Contest, Fanny Lye Deliver’d, Just Don’t Think I’ll Scream

The festival, long the prime spot for new Irish features, is moving online for just one year

‘I just want to get trading. I have been sitting on my butt since March,’ says one manager

The late film-maker defined an age, made movies whole generations hugged to their bosoms

Decent folk have been complaining about bad behaviour in cinemas for many years

Unsubscribe, a no-budget flick, broke a record after two film-makers’ clever thinking

Review: Director leans too heavily towards sentimental and sensational

Plus: How many best picture Oscar nominees in 2022? Whose grandson is in Artemis Fowl?

Review: Excellent Israeli film attacks a serious subject with rigour and ingenuity

Joan of Arc, 7500, The Day After I’m Gone/Hayom Sheachrey Lechti, Resistance

Cinemas have hardly been open, but there have still been plenty of top-notch releases

Is Jamie Dornan better than Donal McCann? Ruth Negga superior to Brenda Fricker?

Caricatures of black people fuel a culture of abuse from boardrooms to classrooms

Plus: ‘Foreign language’ Oscar women, Jane Campion's films and Hunger Games stars

Review: Pete Davidson’s autobiographical script is loosely packed but has undoubted zest

Da 5 Bloods, The King of Staten Island, Virus Tropical, Artemis Fowl

Much diddly-eye ballyhoo apparently adapted from a tea towel makes it through the fug

Donald Clarke: A film you’ve probably never heard of has topped the US charts for five weeks

Plus: A tip for Benjamin, Michael Mann and Burt Bacharach, Spider-Man vs who?

Review: Perfectly aligned performances from the young leads hold the film aloft

Review: Well-worn yarns of Laurel Canyon music in the groovy times get another airing

Dating Amber, A Rainy Day in New York, Miss Slavic 7, Echo in the Canyon

David Freyne's film is set two years after being gay was decriminalised in Ireland

The only true victims of the meme are gentle souls whose name is being taken in vain

Plus: Oceans of titles, new century Oscar winners, Stoned movie subjects

Review: Fast-paced documentary of a hard-edged US media showman

Review: The slightly jolting coincidences do not derail Dominik Moll’s smooth machine

The Vast of Night, Mike Wallace Is Here, Only the Animals, and The High Note

Even before Covid-19, there were signs the young faced greater challenges than their parents

Plus: What blockbuster film is still due to be released in 2020?

Director Braden Croft combines double crosses with life-threatening degradation

We rate Women Make Film, Take Me Somewhere Nice, True Fiction and The County

Review: Mark Cousins’s epic documentary is a lengthy journey worth making more than once

Donald Clarke: Streaming provides a lifeline but pressure builds on Tenet to kickstart recovery

Plus: The winningest musical decade, role-playing with Judi, famously misquoted lines

Review: Vicki Lesley’s documentary worthily tries to cover all bases but lacks punch as a result

A searing but subtle US abortion drama, plus ‘exótico’ Mexican wrestling, Portuguese spirituality, and nuclear power at a low simm(...)

Review: The film paints no sort of sunny picture of the termination procedure

Festival’s 32nd edition to revolve around streamings ticket-limited to venue capacity

Just as Newton experimented with light during the Black Death, I could experiment with the grooming habits of the Iron Age

Plus: Odd Irishman out, cut from the Oscars, Hitchcock’s heroes, directing Harry Potter

Corneliu Porumboiu serves up a corrupt cop, a femme fatale and a globe-trotting plot

Michelle Obama’s softly softly marketing movie, plus a documentary on romcoms and two very different films from a Romanian master

There’s no grit, no Hillary Clinton, and little discussion of race relations or Donald Trump

Donald Clarke and Tara Brady's definitive list has more than a few surprises

Donald Clarke: Nobody dares hug you now. The chances of a fraternal kiss are slimmer still. It’s great

Plus: See if you can spot the odd movie out – with the titles as Gaeilge

Film suggests Diana Kennedy is culinary evangelist with gift for performative bossiness

Weinstein in The Assistant, sex’n’death in Ema, Mexican food in Nothing Fancy

Here’s some cosy TV to make confinement more bearable

Review: Ferdia Mac Anna’s flimsy, low-budget film has an ingenuous charm

Stories will need to establish whether they are set before, during or after the pandemic

Also: Possibly Hitchcock, directing James Bond, Godzilla versus who this time?

Review: Neasa Hardiman’s maritime horror is a flawed but impressive ‘big screen’ debut

Review: Keith Walsh’s documentary, shot in Gort, is beautiful but philosophically shaky

An unreconstructed attitude to women is evident and queasy questions go unanswered

Let the Riverdancer release his ‘vanity project’ Blackbird and silence the Twitter haters

On screen, tireless actor ranged from Rambo to Romeo + Juliet, with plenty of trips to old country

Plus: Liam Neeson’s movies and films that didn’t begin life on TV

Review: This old-school chiller is a joyous – if nasty – celebration of the female rock fan

Review: The screenplay works hard to cram a long career into a fresh, well-meaning whole

And, more importantly, will we be able to watch him star in Dune from a cinema seat?

I know it’s a time of crisis, but when did this mythical rabbit become part of Irish Easter?

Plus: Cate Blanchett’s odd one out and a big Disney movie goes online

But you probably won’t, since it’s on Netflix and these days the audience is captive

Slight but enchanting tale of the Taiwanese diaspora in the US just lacks a bit of oomph

‘I never considered myself a sex symbol’, James Bond, The Avengers actor once said

It’s hard, in 100 minutes, to convey the slow terror of a virus that kills in low percentages

There’s enough novelty to last a lifetime, but repeated viewing brings its own comforts

Plus: who namechecked Marilyn Monroe, Tarantino’s ‘masterpiece’ and Hamlet-inspired titles

Review: Natalie Portman is hidebound as an astronaut heading for a nervous breakdown

Fancy a rotating visual feast of 30 arthouse movies monthly and all neatly curated?

The crisis has allowed people loudly signal rediscovered their commitment to highbrow classics

Plus: Gone with the Wind’s last line and private eyes who never got an Oscar nod

Review: Imogen Poots and Jesse Eisenberg are excellent in this ultimate self-isolation movie

Film review: A competitive drama without any real villain

Review: Haifaa al-Mansour returns to Saudi Arabia for a study of the pressures put upon women

‘We are delighted to offer an escape,’ say organisers of screenings in Dublin’s suburbs

Coronavirus: Cinemas are closed, festivals cancelled, movie productions halted

Apple and Google are excellent options for the greatest era of American cinema

Plus: the film with the fewest credited characters and who has never played Napoleon?