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The big winner, Cold War, will barely scrape an Academy Award nomination

Nora Twomey’s ‘The Breadwinner’ misses out on animated feature gong in Seville

New this week: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse, Free Solo, Keepers of the Flame, Dead Souls

Also: Which character has appeared in all of the Star Wars movies

The actor on moving from musicals to movies, #MeToo and the perils of being a good looking guy

With tricky commemorations ahead, Nuala O’Connor’s documentary is nicely measured

Review: The director embraces all his worst instincts in this horrible film

A recent statement from MacGowan addressed the annual controversy concerning that gay slur in that Christmas song with great reaso(...)

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Review: Aquaman begins with a carefree abandon, but then it goes a bit watery

Review: Soul, sincerity and invention join to pack a punch in this candy-charged cartoon

Year in Culture Review: From Lady Bird to A Star is Born, here are our films of the year

Nice Gollum argues for a People’s Vote. Cruel Gollum rants about “blue passportses”

New this week: The Old Man & the Gun, Sorry to Bother You, Roma

The arch provocateur on his divisive film The House that Jack Built, misogyny and Björk

Also: Marvel movie without a sequel, songs at the Oscars and Jane Austen adaptations

Review: Social observations, humour and some of recent cinema’s most emotioanl scenes

Success of ‘Mamma Mia’ and ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ has studios trawling the vinyl vaults

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Irish-produced film ranks second only to ‘Vice’. Monaghan actor gets a fourth nod

Review: The actors do their jobs. The camerawork is suitably grimy. It’s not enough

Review: David Lowery’s film works its magic by treating its elder characters with respect

Footage released to celebrate the 90th anniversary of ESB

New this week: Creed II, Disobedience, Three Identical Strangers, The Wild Pear Tree

Also: Nicolas Roeg's locations, a tricky Harry Potter question and bands inspired by movies

The former British PM may be a woman of note, but putting her face on one is asking for trouble

Review: The director’s latest lengthy musing generates fascinating conversations

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Irish film-makers bring comedy, horror and documentary to Utah festival

Review: A persistent kowtowing to corporate interests flattens this family film

Review: The Rocky films have moved on, and the acting has never been better in the series

‘Dead Souls’ will be screened over two days. Can something that long be called a ‘movie’?

The actor and comedian tells unpleasant truths in profane language – and gets huge respect

‘Creed II’ is No 8 in the Stallone franchise. We salute its refusal to throw in the towel

Oscar winner Bernardo Bertolucci was one of Italy's great post-war directors

Few directors have made so many films that touch on the status of masterpiece

Review: This documentary follows an unlikely journey across treacherous seas

New this week: Assassination Nation, Shoplifters, The Girl in the Spider’s Web and The Camino Voyage

Also: a horror classic director, Keanu Reeves’s birthplace and a question about time

Donald Clarke: There’s a reason advertising executives have second homes in Tuscany

Review: A family of petty thieves take a cold and hungry girl into their care

Review: Plenty of films try to deconstruct the online life but few have dug as deeply as this

Review: The clothes are bizarre, the accents are all over the place, and the hero’s a bit odd

There are up to nine projects on the boil about the outlaw nobody cares about any more

There has been a stunning variety of screen Santas. But one outshines them all

Oscar-winning writer of ‘All the Presidents’ Men’ coined the phrase ‘Follow the money’

New this week: 9 to 5 rereleased and The Ballad of Buster Scruggs from the Coen brothers airs on Netflix

Also: Keeping company with Marlon and Marilyn, directing Meryl and Brendan

The Frames frontman is in danger of becoming an elder statesman

Being a disciple of Marvel comics in their golden years was like belonging to a cult

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Review: JK Rowling’s yarn plays like a fragmented fan fiction assembled through Twitter

Donald Clarke: Writer gave superheroes like Spider-Man and Captain America complex interior life

Shape-shifting Geoff Dyer offers lively cross-cultural dissection of beloved 1968 war film

‘I have an aversion to be being told I have to look a certain way to be an actress’

Donald Clarke: Hand over €19 and a supercomfy, well-oiled cinema experience is yours

Independent cinemas criticise ‘exclusive’ deal with Curzon chain, which has no screens in Ireland

Also: the last Oscar best picture winner to be based on a novel and know your Hustons

New this week: Wildlife, Good Favour, The Grinch, They Shall Not Grow Old

Donald Clarke: All the Friends voted Democrat, right? No wonder the party is in trouble

Review: Remake of Dario Argento’s 1977 classic does nothing with its many good ideas

Hot tips: Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Favourite, David Lowery’s The Old Man and the Gun

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Nora Twomey, Oscar nominee for ‘The Breadwinner’, will direct ‘My Father’s Dragon’

Review: The director exploits all his technical gifts to convey the everyday experience of war

Review: Paul Dano channels his literary side in a directorial debut that abounds with aggressive metaphors

‘The Other Side of the Wind’ is just part of the Orson Welles flotilla docked at Netflix Cove

The director on why he's telling the story of a very British massacre, disagreeing with Jeremy Corbyn and avoiding 'thick actors'

Review: Steve McQueen tries to cram in too much good stuff – but there's no crime in that when it's such good stuff

New this week: Steve McQueen's Widows, Chris O'Dowd in Juliet Naked, Mike Leigh's Peterloo, and Mirai

Also: Toting up the Dalmations, IDing the Queen, and a Coen brother officially directs

‘Whitey’ Bulger, like the Krays, Ned Kelly and the General, is idealised in film

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A frustrated Rose Byrne and menacing fan-boy Chris O’Dowd in seaside town so lovely we yearn to call it Richard-on-the-Curtis

Only four out of the top 100 films directed by women in BBC poll of critics

Who thought we’d end up praising the facets of a Leigh film that feel most like the work of David Lean?

The silver screen’s spooky best from the last 100 years of cinema

Billy Wilder’s 1959 film is being reissued. But how did it attain untouchable status?

Also: Fada facts, the food is the film, a winning actor and actress, and album origins

New this week: Bohemian Rhapsody, Katie, The Hate U Give

The spy novelist is 87, but his star has never shone brighter, with a BBC adaptation of ‘The Little Drummer Girl’ about to start

Review: Gus Van Sant in better form in film about quadriplegic cartoonist John Callahan

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Fulcrum of this lucid documentary is the tricky era after the boxer fell out with her father

A stunning performance by Amandla Stenberg makes a worthwhile film unmissable

Why is ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ not a musical? Because it wants to be an Oscar contender

The film-maker on Trump’s charm, new film Fahrenheit 11/9, and getting the vote out

Fahrenheit 11/9, Halloween, The Lonely Battle of Thomas Read, Dogman

Donald Clarke: The Who’s ‘Tommy’, ‘Quadrophenia’, Pink Floyd’s ‘The Wall’, Lloyd Webber. Enough

Also: Two-time Oscar nominees, the sequels gap and defying Irish classification

Review: Romanian director Adina Pintilie’s Golden Bear-winning film is ‘not for everyone’

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Review: Moore takes aim at Trump with satire, stunts and sometimes unreliable reporting

Review: The David-and-Goliath film pits a stubborn, brave rebel against official Ireland

The stinkily reviewed ‘Venom’ proves that the right film at the right time still can sell

Stories of 2018: The boxing champion on never getting used to fame, and keeping her mind ‘intact’

Paddy Breathnach on making a film about a homeless family with Roddy Doyle

New this week: First Man, Rosie, Mandy, 1945

Also: Wuthering Heights’ Cathy, the Marvel Universe, and a gangster who loved loved the American Dream