In July 1969, Dennis Hopper’s movie baffled the suits, freaked out audiences and made a fortune

Review: It’s technically remarkable but the characters are weak and the story a carbon copy

Reports that Lashana Lynch is to take on the 007 code name should be approached with caution

There was lots of comedy and a little Celtic misery at the famously bibulous festival

Review: His earthy storytelling helps counteract the general blandness of this film

Netflix once had the field to itself. Now Disney and other Hollywood behemoths are closing in – and they’re here to take your mone(...)

The Twelfth weekend neatly illustrates Freud’s ‘narcissism of small differences’

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The director on telling Pavarotti’s larger-than-life story, making movies that last and looking for stories to share

New this weekend: The Dead Don’t Die, Only You, Stuber, Eating Animals, The Brink

Also: Whose old man doesn’t rock, Oscar-nominated characters, based on an untrue story

Review: It’s so much fun that one slightly regrets the eventual arrival of the zombies

Review: The buddy-cop comedy makes a rare comeback in this mid-summer diversion

Review: Future generations may look back on these practices as we now do at slavery

Prestigious festival provides point of reference for for the very best of new Irish cinema

The director on fighting to make movies, climate change and teenagers who can save the world

Blame the Walkman for bringing us all to the point of listening to music in isolation

Racist backlash to Disney's Little Mermaid casting wasn’t all it seemed

Review: The testimony of the airmen is what lingers most strongly in this documentary

The Oscars body has invited 842 new members: 50% female, 29% people of colour

Review: Nobody has a hair out of place in this highly buffed account of a German artist

New this weekend: Midsommar, Spider-Man: Far from Home, Knife + Heart

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Also: Ron Howard movies, directors’ last, filming Raymond Chandler, joining DC

Review: Gemma Arterton and Elizabeth Debicki struggle in a strait-jacket of a script

Erik Nelson on his documentary about the bombing of Germany, and the resonances today

Book review: Juicier sex scenes, bloodier violence and racier dialogue being lapped up by cinema goers came to a shuddering end in(...)

Astrology is the perfect belief for the age of internet conspiracy and woolly faith

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New this weekend: Yesterday, Metal Heart, Apollo 11, Support the Girls, In Fabric

Also: Spinal Tap’s phony tune, first Trek for a new gen, spelling the Mysterio man

Review: V2 rocket scientist Arthur Rudolph was spirited to the US to work on the space programme

In Fabric star has carved out a varied career in media but has not forgotten her roots

Review: The film, directed by the former child actor, is stuffed with good dialogue

Review: This eye-wateringly beautiful film feels like a deep breath nervously exhaled

Extra Ordinary, Never Grow Old, Animals and Supervized on bill for 31st festival

The Favourite was savage, Eighth Grade gave us hope, Apollo 11 was cool and magical

Rolling Thunder Revue makes things up, but it's truer than other films we could mention

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New this weekend: Toy Story 4, Brightburn, Five Seasons

Also: What fictional person was nominated for an Oscar in 2002? (That’s a clue)

Review: Comic horror deserves immortalisation for its shameless trolling of Toy Story 4

Review: This is a rare instance where we’d like to see the original theatrical release

A re-release with extra footage could take the Marvel film past the $2.788bn earned by Avatar

Review: It’s not an embarrassment but Toy Story 4 is not a top-flight Pixar movie

Welcome, once again, to silence on the bus and personal distance on the train

The ‘My Left Foot’ child actor does not only act - he’s now a writer and film-maker too

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Plus: What actor has recently been confirmed as the next Batman?

New this weekend: Diego Maradona, We the Animals

Review: Asif Kapadia’s documentary follows Maradona’s terrible, doomed momentum

Review: The movie’s only purpose is to reassure you of its own unnecessary existence

As of last weekend, Endgame is just $50 million short of Avatar. Why won’t it catch it?

Kurios: Cabinet of Curiosities shows jugglers, contortionists and acrobats doing their thing

I, Dolours, a documentary portrait of late IRA woman Dolours Price, is essential viewing

I, Dolours tells the story of IRA activist Dolours Price, comedian Oliver Callan on the God question and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingsta(...)

Donald Clarke: Women in Northern Ireland could conclude industry cares less for them

The actor on Los Angeles, being authentic and returning to ‘huge’ Galway

New this weekend: Gloria Bell, Late Night, Papi Chulo, Dirty God

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Also: Directing Robert Pattinson, animated but Oscarless, remaking their own films

Review: Sebastián Lelio has accomplished a very satisfactory remake of his own movie

The 1949 Ealing classic starring nine Alec Guinnesses is getting a welcome reissue

Great directors like Hitchcock and DeMille weren’t above having a second go at their own films

Review: Irish filmmaker John Butler ventures into hazardous ground with his first US film

Review: This sludgy mess fails to explain character, motivation or its elaborate set pieces

Chilean filmmaker Sebastián Lelio, who won an Oscar for A Fantastic Woman, has remade his 2013 drama Gloria – and this time it’s s(...)

We invariably look in the wrong places for inappropriate content

New this weekend: Octavia Spencer and Allison Janney in Ma, Thunder Road and Sunset

Review: Mediocre effort held together with chewing gum and bloodied sticking plaster

Review: The monsters don’t need to eat the scenery, as the main cast have that covered

Also: Who won the Palme D’Or in Cannes in May, for the film Parasite?

Few films have felt so awards-baity since The French Lieutenant’s Woman

Four Weddings and a Funeral was, for a while, the highest grossing British film of all time

Hungarian auteur’s new film Sunset shows a vanished Budapest on the edge of change

Antonio Banderas is among the other winners as contentious festival draws to a close

Cannes diary: Tarantino gets an early lead in the dog days of this year’s festival

Donald Clarke: Who are the weedy children collapsing at the merest glimpse of blood?

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Review: Delightful film follows two friends as they party their way into oblivion during last week of high school

Fewer instant classics on show, but Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite, Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire, dark drama The Lighthous(...)

Also: Marvel superheroes and their parents, Hitchock in colour, 007 by the numbers

New this weekend: Teen drama-comedy Booksmart, and Elton John biopic Rocketman

Review: Disney’s bid to make flesh of their animations has hit a speed-bump

Review: It doesn’t always make sense, but the choreography distracts from the musical non sequiturs

Cannes 2019: Quentin Tarantino reviewed, early Oscar buzz, plus Isabelle Huppert in Frankie

Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood shows off a fascination with period detail and gift for cinematic texture

Cannes diary: Polanski’s latest film screens in secret; plus reviews of Portrait of a Lady on Fire and Young Ahmed

Cannes diary: Robert Pattinson stars in The Lighthouse; and a crowded market for mutts

Cannes diary: New fund for film-makers; Nicholas Winding Refn says the future is in streaming? Maybe we should just go home and wa(...)

Cannes diary: Change comes slow for gender equality and Rocketman Taron tears up

Vivarium, an Irish science-fiction horror, has world premiere as part of International Critics Week at the film festival

Cinema is an increasingly puzzling market. So what counts as success for an Irish release?

Donald Clarke: The #sordidtruth about covering Cannes in the age of Twitter

Cannes diary: Jim Jarmusch, plus Sorry We Missed You, Bacurau and Les Misérables

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New this weekend: John Wick 3, Birds of Passage, Beats, Tucked

Review: An epic work of folk, gangster and other-worldly cinema about a tribal family

Also: From the Riviera to the Oscars, Elton John beached, the woman’s angle

Flying saucers turn out to be recurrent motif, as zombie comedy gets mixed reception