Donald Clarke on the best portrayals of the city on film, from ‘The Informer’ to ‘Once’

New this week: In the Fade, The Happy Prince, Ocean’s 8, Kissing Candice

Also: Alfred Hitchcock’s last, Oscar winners’ dads, and a helluva long weekend

Review: Gut-wrenching moments of tragedy in Fatih Akin’s gritty crime drama

Donald Clarke: What we object to at the cinema has changed. Movie ratings should too

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Review: Rupert Everett the writer-director isn’t as impressive as Rupert Everett the actor

Review: ‘Things were better during the Troubles. Now the mad ones have the run of the place’

The idea that only kids should review children’s films is even sillier, writes Donald Clarke

Also: What was the last non-sequel to top the box office for its year of release?

New this week: Hereditary, A Ciambra, Studio 54, The Sound of Music

I don’t like soccer, I only like the World Cup. Have you got that?

The ‘Happy Prince’ star on being gay, playing Oscar Wilde, and surviving the film world

Review: Gripping tale of the 1970s New York disco that foretold of the world we now live in

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Cinema-goers are flocking to the art-horror film ... then giving out about it afterwards

Review: Super Troopers belong to 2001, when Linkin Park were big and Clinton was president

Animated ‘Spiderman’ looks promising. But ‘Suspiria’, and new films from Steve McQueen and Lenny Abrahamson look breathtaking

Aoife McArdle has made her name with videos for Bryan Ferry and U2. Her debut feature, ‘Kissing Candice’, was made for a much lowe(...)

Also: The youngest ever best Oscar actress, going dame-less, and Adam Sandler – not!

New this week: Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, McQueen, All the Wild Horses, The Boy Downstairs

It did not take long for the word to get twisted and turned back on the socially responsible

Review: No one in this documentary seems easy company, but it could become cult viewing

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‘Episode Five Syndrome’ has blighted film franchises from Star Trek to Rocky

Review: Playful and mildly risky, it’s the second best film in the ‘Jurassic’ sequence

Donald Clarke: And then The Shawshank Redemption, The Sting and 12 Angry Women

And which came first: Solo, A New Hope, Phantom Menace or Rogue One?

New this week: My Friend Dahmer, Pandora's Box and That Summer

Reviled director to film reviled libertarian hero’s novel. This is a bad idea

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Review: This biopic reminds us what a terrifying place American high school can be

Review: The wife who went missing 20 years ago reappears and introduces herself to her husband’s new squeeze

Review: It has the stupidest premise you’ll encounter outside a Schwarzenegger comedy

Fonda may be the greatest actor of her age. What’s she doing in the awful ‘Book Club’?

New releases: The Breadwinner, Zama, Edie, Jeune Femme, Citizen Lane, Deadpool 2

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This week's film quiz is rated on the Streisand scale. Which Barbra are you?

Donald Clarke: Few noticed her ‘Chesil Beach’ faux pas. Which is good. Isn’t it?

Still feisty and busy at 85, Sheila Hancock remains connected to the zeitgeist

Review: The animation is gorgeous in this Oscar-nominated feature about a young woman supporting her family under the Taliban in K(...)

Movie scheduling is a voodoo science - nobody knows why certain releases work in certain slots

Review: Ian McEwan’s own script cannot find a cinematic substitute for his sharp prose

Asia Argento stuns audience with Weinstein allegation: ‘festival was his hunting ground’

Cannes daily: on the last day of the festival, some inaccurate predictions and Terry Gilliam’s long-cherished project disappoints

Cannes diary: our film correspondent meets the controversial director and rounds up the rest of the news

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Jeune Femme, Citizen Lane, Deadpool 2, Dive, Redoubtable, Sherlock Gnomes

Going d’Orless, the Nexflix question, and the year the festival shut down early

There was plenty of Hollywood bling – and anger – at this year’s festival but new movies from Hirokazu Kore-eda and Ryusuke Hamagu(...)

Donald Clarke: Why I'm founding Gammon Pride Day

Former actor Leon Vitali comes across as a genuine evangelist for the Kubrickian faith

Review: Ryan Reynolds’s relish for the role is, mostly, passed on to the audience

Review: The film's rough charm and performances distract from its underlying polemic

Cannes diary: Spike Lee’s black Klan comedy, Wim Wenders’s Papal pic and Lars von Trier’s latest outrage

Protests, Directors’ Fortnight and the race for the Palme d’Or

Everyone loves Jim Jarmusch’s ‘80s playlist but our correspondent remains unexcited by the PR for ‘Climax’

Cannes Diary: Godard phones it in and Christopher Nolan declares his undying love for film

Cannes daily: Netflix splashes the cash and Godard keeps on puzzling

Cannes daily: Penélope Cruz praises Chastain; strange shouts at the screenings – and Guy Ritchie is back. No, really

New this week: Godard at the barricades in ’68, and the plot’s afoot in gnomastic Holmes

Also: Harvey Weinstein’s unlovely crew, yowl of a stuck cat, and describing Sean Thornton

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Simply being at the film festival constitutes a step up in the hierarchy

Review: Utterly trivial, occasionally disrespectful and hugely amusing

Review: Steer clear of John Cameron Mitchell’s aggressively appalling musical fantasia

Cannes daily: A shot of Kristen Stewart glancing admiringly at Cate Blanchett is causing a stir

Cannes Daily: a very French opening ceremony, while our man on the Croisette reviews this year’s bag

Review: Clive Owen and Amanda Seyfried cannot save ‘Gattaca’ director’s sketchy sci-fi

Despite a dispute with Netflix and films not being ready in time, the competition is one of the funkiest, least creaky in years

It is 50 years since the 1968 Cannes film festival was called to a halt in solidarity with protesting students – but don’t expect (...)

Mega-grossing Avengers movie shows the nerds – or maybe the superfans – have won

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Also: Spot the fake Bond villain, and who carried on more than anyone else?

New this week: Tough-minded Tully is not what you expect when you’re expecting

Review: There’s no easy way to summarise this documentary. But it’s well worth seeing

Academy say pair removed ‘in accordance with the organisation’s standards of conduct’

Review: Diablo Cody has mashed up ‘Mary Poppins’ and ‘We Need to Talk About Kevin’

John Cameron Mitchell, ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’ creator, on ‘How to Talk to Girls at Parties’ and its star

Review: It lacks the hypocrisy of ‘Shallow Hal’ but the makers struggle with the central message

Too much fame, too young, that has been a problem for young actors too – but the articulate, polite Charlie Plummer is unlikely to(...)

Movie cats are malicious. Dogs can be savage. But horses are always brave, handsome and stoic

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Superhero chaos in Avengers, the jolting thiller Beast, and a James Whale classic

Review: First released in 1932, this Boris Karloff picture was thought lost for years

Donald Clarke: Why do so many people insist on telling you they’re uninterested?

Coming-of-age ritual laid bare in this debut, shortlisted for best foreign language Oscar

Donald Clarke tests the new multisensory movie gimmick, 4DX, at Cineworld in Dublin

Review: It’s not a good film, but it is clogged with star actors and good jokes

Donald Clarke: Resistance is futile to the singalong tunes and the unstoppable Travolta

James is back on the big screen with ‘The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society’

New this week: An Irish zombie pic, a feminist western and a Canadian drama

This week, it also helps if you know your Shakespeare and your Rocks

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Donald Clarke: The greatest sporting event of the calendar is about to begin

Review: The film develops new flavours of creepiness amid the socio-political metaphor

Review: It’s polite, tweedy and so anaemic you feel the urge to feed it a pint of Guinness

Review: The film is a long, slow Winnebago ride to a cold, cold grave

‘The Leisure Seeker’ is the latest undemanding, patronising film aimed at oldies

Some Monty Python is sexist, classist and unfunny. But, on the bright side of life ...