The Irish Times what-to-see guide to the movies now in cinemas across Ireland

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

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 ...

The upcoming ‘The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society’ is so bad it's good

The distinguished film-maker continues her experiments in the unpredictable with her latest work – just don’t go asking what it’s (...)

The Irish Times what-to-see guide to the movies now in cinemas across Ireland

New this week: A searing family drama from France, a gentle coming-out comedy from the US, and a heartwarming documentary from Ire(...)

Also: The film that was never No 1, welcome to the K Club, and Lean nites in Dublin

The Sobbing Cretin is popular with right-wing bullies and those with no imagination

Programme flush with exciting talent but only three of 18 films competing for Palme d’Or have female directors

Donald Clarke: In a freak occurence, a movie has topped the box office based only on good reviews

A flying wolf can’t make up for awful dialogue, absent humour and ropy CGI

Review: The actors give it their all. There are super squirmy moments. The plot is illogical

Xavier Legrand’s portayal of domestic violence is a singular debut

Smug dialogue, dystopian cityscapes and Chewbacca feature in clip for latest spin-off

With Steven Sondheim’s ‘Assassins’ opening at the Gate, what drives the perpetrators. from Booth to Oswald to Hinckley?

Also: the oldest man win an Oscar and spot the fake Aussie from the usual suspects

New this week: A thriller so tense you can hear a pin drop, a hard-hitting Irish prison drama, and an epic about the French Aids c(...)

The Irish Times what-to-see guide to the movies now in cinemas across Ireland

Two bored, haughty shrews plot a murder – it’s ‘Heathers’ meets ‘Double Indemnity’

Reaction to the sitcom’s 10th series highlights the yawning chasm of US politics

Robin Campillo’s film is at its best when at its most intimate

The documentary maker’s film about people taking piano exams may be his warmest yet

Review: Frank Berry’s heart-breaking tale is shot through with generous humanism

As acclaimed Irish movie Michael Inside is released, we look at prison movies from Birdman of Alcatraz to The Shawshank Redemption

Bochco, who has died in New York at 74, also created LA Law and NYPD Blue

The director has flipped the script once again with his latest project ‘Wonderstruck’, a proper grown-up film about and for childr(...)

The Irish Times what-to-see guide to the movies now in cinemas across Ireland

New this week: An animated masterpiece that manages to out-fantastic Mr Fox

Also: The 3rd rule of Fight Club, the Golden Girls’ Elvis, and Neta-Lee Hershlag before she was . . . ?

If Egg season has taught us anything, it is that recreational denial makes everything tastier

Review: Three friends set out to lose their virginity on prom night. Then mom finds out

Review: ‘The young man could not be less animated if he were fashioned from Bakelite’

Scott Eastwood is no Clint, but Maya Hawke might be as good as Ethan and Uma

Review: It’s an undeniably entertaining film, but also retro-addicted and madly overlong

The Hollywood great’s failed lawsuit has got fact-based TV and cinema off the hook

Fame and online haters don’t affect him but the Force remains strong with the Star Wars star

And which of these actors is Irish-born: Negga, Ronan, Gambon, Fassbender?

'The Irish Times' what-to-see guide to the movies now in cinemas across Ireland

New this week: Oprah in A Wrinkle in Time, and a Steven Soderbergh iPhone movie

Blandine Lenoir’s lovely, intricate film tackles a subject that rarely gets addressed in art

‘Newsnight’ graphic shows how quickly people jump on potential bias

Review: Shot on an iPhone, Steven Soderbergh's movie starts well but ends badly

Review: The likable, energetic John Boyega aside, nothing about this film is very good

Did de Niro play Frankenstein? How many women won 2018 Oscars?

Mary Magdalene demythifies Christ’s 13th apostle, and Peter Rabbit bounds into cinemas

The Irish Times what-to-see guide to the movies now in cinemas across Ireland

Review: Rooney Mara is as focused as ever in Garth Davis’s mildly revisionist biblical drama

Donald Clarke: You’d think there’d be a British St Patrick’s Day, with Union Jack beer

Daniel Craig will play the shaken-not-stirred imperial thug for perhaps the last time

Investigation of Temple Bar-based centre follows failure to release funds for documentary

Review: It’s a painful Irish ‘Prince and the Pauper’ with endless masturbation jokes

Behind the scenes at the making of the film version of the Beatrix Potter’s book – and keeping lookout for an appearance by Julian(...)

Review: But anyone who can make a coherent whole of all these elements deserves a prize

Review: Brief, heartfelt and well acted, the film never goes entirely off the rails

As ‘Mary Magdalene’ arrives in cinemas, our film correspondent selects 10 great sons of God

He plays Jesus Christ in ‘Mary Magdalene’, in an echo of his own childhood as part of a cult religion. But the eccentric actor say(...)

The ‘Irish Times’ what-to-see guide to the movies now in cinemas across Ireland

This week brings us a riveting revenger, a forbidding Outback western, and Nicolas Cage at his unhinged loopiest

President Trump tweeted that the declining audience for the Oscars is due to the fact that we don't have stars. Except for himself

Most of this just-about-okay film exists in nostalgic twilight. How appropriate

Review: Treat of a documentary about the actor and inventor who died broke

Review: Terrific story of a haunted big house has a baffling denouement

Review: Not a second is wasted in Lynne Ramsay’s revenge nightmare for the ages

Donald Clarke predicts 2019’s Best Picture nominees. He was nearly half right this year

ADIFF ends run with film critics’ awards, but rescheduled screenings will continue

Analysis: Frances McDormand cares a lot, but doesn’t give a damn who she offends

Frances McDormand beats Saoirse Ronan to best actress for her ‘Three Billboards’ role

The writer and actor raised on a farm in Co Meath is now a vital chronicler of London life

Who is in the running to win the Oscars in every category?

The sort-of-Irish Oscar Wilde bash is now a key pre-Academy Awards event

New this week: Deadly games are played to hilarious effect in Game Night

All the cast are funny in this mad murder mystery, but Sharon Horgan is funniest

Donald Clarke: Playing to ‘so-bad-it’s-good’ film aesthetic became boring 40 years ago

Review: It’s the favourite to win best foreign language picture at the 2018 Oscars

Review: Why is an animated film set in Brooklyn voiced entirely by British actors?

Daniela Vega, a Chilean trans actor, is sensational in ‘A Fantastic Woman’ and is helping nudge trans issues into the mainstream

Netflix, now a film-maker, has released a series of weak science-fiction movies

The likes of ‘Custody’, ‘Sweet Country’ and ‘The Third Murder’ are worth seeking out

Review: Duncan Jones’s latest film is a nod his late father, David Bowie, but it feels weirdly threadbare. It’s not disastrous – j(...)

Also: Black Panther’s home town, an Ifta winner, and will the early Oscar nominee catch the worm?

New this week: Saoirse Ronan shines in the hilarious and touching Lady Bird, while I, Tonya is an edgy, only-in-America blast

You young know nothing as my generation has the monopoly on wisdom

John Curry is brought to life in James Erskine’s excellent documentary

Alleged misbehaviour after ‘Into the West’ filming probed by Channel 4 documentary

Review: The film’s genius is its ability to root us in Lady Bird’s perspective. But it does more

‘Black 47’, Lance Daly’s film that addresses one of the most traumatic periods in Irish history, is a story that has barely regist(...)

Oscar-favourite Frances McDormand named best actress ahead of Saoirse Ronan

The three-time Oscar nominee on fame, Hollywood scandals, and the abortion referendum

Film premieres tonight at the prestigious Berlin Film Festival

The news that Spielberg is remaking ‘West Side Story’ drew some fire, but some of our best-loved films are remakes or ‘fresh’ adap(...)

New this week: The Shape of Water is a fish-meets-female fantasy that dives deep into romance

Despite a surfeit of gay coming-of-age cliches, this Icelandic drama is surging with potential

John Connors’ best actor acceptance speech got a noisy standing ovation at the Iftas