Review: There are good reasons why they don’t make them like this any more

Academy Awards 2020: An educated stab at the 2020 best-film nominees, six months out

Review: Film starring Melissa McCarthy in 1970s Manhattan splutters to weak ending

Neither Claire Foy nor Colman look much like the queen, so does ocular continuity matter?

The Chinese-American director on wowing Sundance, turning down ‘streaming service’ money, and how Crazy Rich Asians proved you don(...)

Knives Out, Joker, Jojo Rabbit, The Goldfinch and The Report among the contenders

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New this weekend: Hustlers, Downton Abbey, For Sama, Phoenix

Plus: How are actors Barbra Streisand and Diane Lane related by marriage?

Review: This intimate romp about everyday people packs in a lot. Maybe too much

Review: Waad al-Kateab’s documentary has moments of beauty among the horrors

Review: The familiarity of it does little to dull the appeal

Toronto film festival: Opening weekend also included Knives Out, Greed and Sea Fever

Why are audience members so eager to flee screenings of The Painted Bird?

During the assault on Aleppo, an accidental citizen journalist began filming. She didn’t know she was making one of 2019’s essenti(...)

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New this weekend: Bait, Rojo, The Shiny Shrimps

Also: Wallace and Gromit’s debut, Astaire and Kellys on fire and Angelina Jolie's odd one out

Review: Benjamin Naishtat’s awkward movie demands patience from the viewer

Review: The film follows events in a Dublin sex shop during a fraught working day

A new documentary on Weinstein gives some of his victims a first chance to speak on camera

Am I the only one reeling at the fact that the venerable shop is selling ‘Porn Star Martinis’?

Critic Mark Cousins takes a personal look at North’s relationship with cinema for Channel 4

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New this weekend: The Souvenir, Aniara, A Faithful Man, The Mustang

Review: Performances elevate an old familiar tune that gets a little stranded between genres

Donald Clarke runs the rule over the likely winners ahead of this week’s festival trifecta

Also: Sisters and their Oscars, not a Dustin film, and a query about Cherilyn Sarkisian

Review: The animation is routine and our favourite characters don’t get enough to do

Review: A Withnail and I-style study of a posh lush, but without the nostalgia

Review: Ruth Barton comes up with some workable answers to her own questions

Humans approach much of life in a deluded trance. Hence the jubilation about sequels to mediocre films

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The director on her semi-autobiographical new film The Souvenir, starring her friend Tilda Swinton’s daughter, and how Batman stol(...)

New this weekend: Pain and Glory, Never Grow Old, Hail Satan?, Crawl

Review: Guillermo del Toro produces a very agreeable horror romp to appeal to teens

Review: Ivan Kavanagh’s film is impressively filthy and studded with convincing violence

Review: Almodóvar is in a contemplative mood for his take on Fellini’s 8½

Also: The Marvel universe in order, a Brad Pitt non-movie, Oscar number crunching

Peter Fonda, though a smaller star than other family members, helped reinvent Hollywood

Film sex is fine. But sex featuring Irish actors, in films set in Ireland? That never really works

Without seeing the movie, people have opinions on whether it was a right-wing or a left-wing

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New this weekend: Once Upon a Time in . . . Hollywood, Dora and the Lost City of Gold, Transit, Penny Slinger: Out of the Shadows

Also: Once upon a role in Hollywood, a new Bafta award, Saoirse Ronan’s mums

In 2015, the actor was convicted of assaulting a movie executive at Sundance. His quiet rehabilitation continues with a role in Ta(...)

A harmless doctored video of Bill Hader becoming Tom Cruise has triggered full-on panic

Review: It’s a squalid mess that makes ill use of some talented young performers

Review: This existential riddle keeps the audience on edge throughout

The number of female directors in the film business remains stubbornly low

The film isn’t about the murder of Sharon Tate and friends in 1969. It’s about the end of eras

Francis Ford Coppola’s disaster-struck Vietnam epic has had yet another recut

Those three dots in Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood are a ‘creative decision’

A new American Crime Story project will see overdue redemption for Monica Lewinsky

Canadian event is the most important cinema festival in North American calendar

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New this weekend: Holiday, Blinded by the Light, Gaza, The Sun Is Also a Star

Also: Two-Oscar characters, staffing Hogwarts, Jackman credits, films of THE book

Review: A dreamy romance that will cause even cynics to emit contented sighs

‘We have three phases in Gaza. We prepare for war. There’s the war. There is mopping up after war’

Review: Actors play delightfully off one another as every beat hits with resounding force

Review: This effort to replicate the commercial sucess of The Lego Movie is a creative flop

The fluency of this politically engaged actor, just 19, is staggering. Maybe Oprah is right?

Different cases of Allen and Polanski show how past is now up for vigorous reassessment

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New this weekend: Do the Right Thing and Oldboy rereleased, plus Photograph and The Angry Birds Movie 2

Also: The first of 4 franchises, officially Tarantino, the most Marvel, not starring Travolta

Review: Famous, often-copied action sequence remains as striking as ever

Review: Previous ranting about the film nudging black audiences towards violence now sounds like so much gibberish

The trailer exists to reassure the millions who grew up with Mean Streets, Goodfellas, Casino and The Departed.

Review: Neither Johnson nor Statham has much to work with, but the banter is awful

Tóibín’s error when discussing the prose in genre fiction was to move from ‘I just get bored’ to ‘it’s blank, it’s nothing’

Director Quentin Tarantino as enthusiastic as ever but can’t avoid criticism of his past

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New this weekend: Jaws, The Chambermaid, Marianne & Leonard, A Season in France

Also: That Cats trailer, Sam Jackson titles, Oscar nominees by country, the first Columbo

Review: Steven Spielberg’s 1976 classic is back for a limited release of a shiny new print

Review: Gabriela Cartol plays a hardworking hotel worker in Mexico, striving for better

James Cameron’s Avatar knocked from top spot as Marvel film makes €2.5 billion

The actor has made his first film: ‘I got to wear my own clothes, be Jack all day. Amazing’

The informality invites us to view his less lovely outbursts as the forgivable ramblings of a silly pal

Tom Cruise was as unblemished as a newly born kitten 34 years ago and not much has changed

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New this weekend: Gwen, Varda by Agnès

Also: Hitchcock women in danger, adapting Shakespeare, Bond’s numero uno baddie

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