Review: Choice is an illusion here, and the rule of law doesn’t care who knows

Women filmmakers are the thematic plank of this year’s DIFF programme

The Bronx filmmaker talks spirituality, creative bonds and his Italian-Irish roots

Half our favourite movies have vanished. But there’s still plenty of great stuff to search for

Terry Gilliam’s ill-fated Don Quixote, starring Adam Driver, has finally made it to the screen

New this weekend: Just Mercy, Waves, A Hidden Life, Bombshell

Review: Jamie Foxx does his best work in a decade. Charismatic Michael B Jordan puts in a tone-setting performance

Trey Edward Shults’s third film crashes on to the cinema screen with sound and fury

Trey Edward Shults discusses his upcoming film Waves and the personal side of his work

New this weekend: Adam Sandler in Uncut Gems, Sam Mendes’s 1917, and El Topo

The cast work hard, but the film grants Jean Seberg no agency in her own story

Review: Alejandro Jodorowsky’s movie has a strange, magical aura for cineastes

New films released this weekend include Jojo Rabbit, Amanda, and Aquarela

The former TV presenter has gone from fronting travel shows to a key role in Guy Ritchie’s new film

Review: French drama offers a very measured response to a specific 2015 news story

Review: Viktor Kossakovsky’s ode to water is more war zone than nature documentary

And we have one to avoid at just about all costs (hint: it’s not The Rise of Skywalker)

Review: This hallucinogenic detective story broke Chinese box-office records in 2018

The decade in culture: Arrival, Lady Bird, Get Out... But which movie is at number one?

The 24-year-old Irish actor on Little Women, awards season and her sense of home

New this weekend: Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Little Women, Buddies, Spies in Disguise

The glossiest, prettiest movie of 2019 is overstyled and primed for the Oscar red carpet

Review: 1985’s Buddies was the first, and arguably still the best film to tackle the Aids crisis

Why do they have breasts but no nipples? Why do some have furry feet and others shoes?

Dutch violinist’s brand of ‘schmaltz’ divides classical critics but entertains the masses

Hollywood producer says studios are realising that making films starring women is good business

Alex Gibney’s new film, Citizen K, profiles fallen Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky

New this weekend: Beanpole, Citizen K, The Kingmaker, Jumanji: The Next Level, Fiddler: Miracle of Miracles

Review: Each sequence of the film set in postwar Russia brings fresh horror and new intrigue

Review: Documentary is a terrifying reminder that those with absolute power never make good retirees 

Review: Alex Gibney’s new documentary about Mikhail Khodork is a compelling if disconcerting experience

We start with Monos, Marriage Story and Midsommar. Find out what else makes the cut

Dublin director of photography Robbie Ryan wins for Best Cinematography

The actor on working with female directors, hating social media, and Thatcher’s legacy

Review: Lesley Manville excels and Neeson reminds us that he is still an amazing actor

Review: This uneven documentary set in an underground Syrian hospital lacks real soul

Review: Wang Xiaoshuai’s expansive drama contains phenomenal central performances

Ordinary Love has garnered the best reviews of Barros D’Sa and Leyburn’s already distinguished career

New this weekend: Knives Out, The Two Popes, The Nightingale, The Biggest Little Farm

Review: Emma the pig and a ragged rooster that moves in with her head the animal cast

Review: This is an extraordinary film, powered by political and historical fury

Review: This exquisite tale has Paris, melancholic flashbacks and swashbuckling adventures

Good noir always has political commentary, says Motherless Brooklyn’s star and director

Review: Rapman directs a streetwise young cast in this London take on Boyz n the Hood

New this weekend: Blue Story, La Belle Epoque, Judy & Punch, Frozen 2, Harriet

Review: This is a fine and essential primer to the life of Harriet Tubman

Review: This compelling religious drama set in Appalachia features real live serpents

Filmmaker and rapper Andrew Onwubolu, who made waves with Shiro’s Story, has just finished his first feature film called Blue Stor(...)

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

New this weekend: Marriage Story, Le Mans ’66, The Report

The director Paul Feig on bad reviews of Last Christmas, making an ad with Trump, and Freaks and Geeks

Review: Westmoreland finds plenty of additional intrigue in this late 1980s Japanese setting

Review: Lupita Nyong’o is lumbered with a shallow character in this standard zombie apocalypse

Review: Not a single joke works in this confusing tribute to fandom of Love Actually

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

New this weekend: The Irishman, Luce, Meeting Gorbachev

Review: Kelvin Harrison jnr superb performance is worth mulling over

Review: Star cast can’t save a film that is a preposterous, uneven mess

New this week: Monos, The Aeronauts, Sorry We Missed You, Doctor Sleep, Brittany Runs a Marathon

The Good Liar brings two veteran actors together on screen for the first time

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

For Mike Flanagan, the most important reviews were from Stephen King and the Kubrick estate

Review: Julianne Moore and Michelle Williams excel in white privilege and first-world problems drama

Review: Alejandro Landes’s thrilling tale of child guerilla soldiers is a must-see

Brittany Runs a Marathon negotiates a very careful path around women and weight

Jillian Bell has a reputation for scene-stealing and her promotion to heroine is long overdue

New this weekend: The Last Black Man in San Francisco, Terminator: Dark Fate, By the Grace of God

The film has an emotional resonance that is being felt everywhere the film has premiered

By the Grace Of God, about sexual abuse by a priest in Lyon, focuses on the perspective of the survivors

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

Review: The film tells of a sexual predator priest and the cardinal who protected him

Review: All the diversity window dressing can’t hide Dark Fate’s inconsequentiality

Review: Theron is as miscast as Morticia as Chloë Grace Moretz is as Wednesday

Zack Gottsagen has followed his dreams and plays the starring role alongside Shia LaBeouf in The Peanut Butter Falcon

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

New this weekend: The Peanut Butter Falcon, Land Without God, Shaun the Sheep, Official Secrets

Review: Woolly hero’s latest adventure is his most satisfying one yet

Mannix Flynn meets with generations of his family who recount harrowing childhoods

Review: With a nod to Huckleberry Finn, this is an auspicious first feature from Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz

The film-maker ‘asked all the girlfriends if he liked being strangled. Everyone says no’

Fresh out of drama school, Marchánt Davis found his breakout role in Chris Morris’s latest film, The Day Shall Come

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

New this weekend: A Bump Along the Way, Lost Lives, The King, Abominable

Review: The third Yeti-themed animation in 12 months includes some screen magic

Review: This chronicle of the 3,700 killed in the Troubles is a sobering, triggering reminder

Review: There’s a nostalgic fuzz around this high concept sci-fi action

Ang Lee’s sci-fi action thriller pits the star against a Fresh Prince-era version of himself

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

New this weekend: Joker, The Last Tree, Best Before Death, Good Posture

Review: Shola Amoo’s dramatic triptych has parallels with Barry Jenkins’s Moonlight

Review: Grace Van Patten shines in Dolly Wells’s heartful debut film

She's practised and polished but you can’t forget that you are watching a performance

New biopic Judy latest manifestation of gay, quasi-religious worship of Wizard of Oz icon

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

New this weekend: Ready or Not, The Laundromat, Inna de Yard

Review: Peter Webber’s documentary is as moving as it is toe-tapping