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Review of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023)

By Donald Clarke (1,051) for The Irish Times (483) on 16 Feb 2023

Imagine a Roger Corman film made with the combined budgets of every Roger Corman film and you are halfway there…

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Review of Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2022)

By Donald Clarke (1,051) for The Irish Times (483) on 15 Feb 2023

If you scrunch up your eyes and tilt your head you could imagine yourself watching an avant-garde animation at a Brooklyn art house…

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Review of Magic Mike's Last Dance (2023)

By Donald Clarke (1,051) for The Irish Times (483) on 10 Feb 2023

Last Dance is frightfully indulgent, but, this being Soderbergh, it is also studded with delightful outbreaks of invention…

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Review of Women Talking (2022)

By Donald Clarke (1,051) for The Irish Times (483) on 08 Feb 2023

Polley allows bursts of weirdness and humour to punctuate deliberation that, though often abstract, never becomes alienatingly cerebral…

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Review of EO (2022)

By Donald Clarke (1,051) for The Irish Times (483) on 03 Feb 2023

This is a profoundly serious film, one concerned about our disregard for animals and our disintegrating ecosystems, but it is also restlessly alive…

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Review of The Whale (2022)

By Donald Clarke (1,051) for The Irish Times (483) on 02 Feb 2023

The director of shockers such as Requiem for a Dream and Mother…

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Review of The Fabelmans (2022)

By Donald Clarke (1,051) for The Irish Times (483) on 25 Jan 2023

The result is neither as sentimental nor as moving – if those adjectives can be separated – as the director’s more personal 20th century…

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Review of Babylon (2022)

By Donald Clarke (1,051) for The Irish Times (483) on 18 Jan 2023

For all its confusion, Babylon really does function as celebration of an increasingly threatened medium…

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Review of Babylon (2022)

By Donald Clarke (1,051) for The Irish Times (483) on 18 Jan 2023

For all its confusion, Babylon really does function as celebration of an increasingly threatened medium…

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Review of M3GAN (2022)

By Donald Clarke (1,051) for The Irish Times (483) on 13 Jan 2023

Alas, the film does slip towards industry-standard punch-ups in the last 15 minutes…

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Review of TÁR (2022)

By Donald Clarke (1,051) for The Irish Times (483) on 10 Jan 2023

The middle body of the picture, shot impeccably by Florian Hoffmeister, takes on the quality of an oblique ghost story as, struggling to prepare…

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Review of A Man Called Otto (2022)

By Donald Clarke (1,051) for The Irish Times (483) on 06 Jan 2023

The thing still works well enough as a middlebrow hankie dampener…

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Review of The Enforcer (2022)

By Donald Clarke (1,051) for The Irish Times (483) on 06 Jan 2023

The film is sometimes too sleazy, but it is, more often, not sleazy enough…

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Review of Wildcat (2022)

By Donald Clarke (1,051) for The Irish Times (483) on 02 Jan 2023

Wildcat remains a tense, diverting study of a man struggling with internal demons while doing his best for an initially helpless creature…

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Review of Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody (2022)

By Donald Clarke (1,051) for The Irish Times (483) on 29 Dec 2022

I Wanna Dance with Somebody plays by the rules of the TV movie to efficient, if scarcely groundbreaking, effect…

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Review of Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)

By Donald Clarke (1,051) for The Irish Times (483) on 14 Dec 2022

No doubt millions will be have no difficulty ferreting out the emotional core and propelling The Way of Water to box office success…

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Review of The Quiet Girl (2022)

By Donald Clarke (1,051) for The Irish Times (483) on 12 Dec 2022

The action is unsettling throughout…

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Review of White Noise (2022)

By Donald Clarke (1,051) for The Irish Times (483) on 09 Dec 2022

Few film adaptations so awkwardly aligned deliver quite so many full-on belly laughs…

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Review of The Silent Twins (2022)

By Donald Clarke (1,051) for The Irish Times (483) on 09 Dec 2022

Though certainly at home to overcast misery, the film incorporates spooky, stop-motion animation and musical interludes that might have amused…

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Review of White Noise (2022)

By Donald Clarke (1,051) for The Irish Times (483) on 09 Dec 2022

Few film adaptations so awkwardly aligned deliver quite so many full-on belly laughs…

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