Film criticism
Three ways Robert Downey Jr’s Vertigo might not be Hollywood’s stupidest ever idea
Hitchcock’s 1958 thriller is an acknowledged classic, meaning Downey Jr has a few options. I say go nuclear
Peter Bradshaw
27, Mar, 2023 @4:03 PM
Quentin Tarantino’s next film is about a film critic: should I be scared? | Peter Bradshaw
The director’s last film is rumoured to centre on the life of New Yorker film writer Pauline Kael – if true, her 1970s face-off with Warren Beatty would make a thrilling plot line
Peter Bradshaw
16, Mar, 2023 @12:09 PM
The Whale is not a masterpiece – it’s a joyless, harmful fantasy of fat squalor
The Oscar nomination for The Whale must mean it’s great, right? Wrong! It is a shallow and stigmatising reflection of thin people’s assumptions about fat bodies
Lindy West
10, Mar, 2023 @12:00 PM
Sorry, Seth Rogen: good film reviews wouldn’t mean much if bad ones weren’t allowed
The actor has been complaining about the hurt that critics can deliver. But someone has to call out stinkers, as you would think he’d agree
Peter Bradshaw
09, Mar, 2023 @12:04 PM
Seth Rogen: negative reviews are ‘devastating’ and ‘I know people who have never recovered’
The actor described the effect of criticism in the film industry and said it can feel ‘like a very personal rejection’
Andrew Pulver
09, Mar, 2023 @12:04 PM
Brilliant and radical, Chantal Akerman deserves to top Sight and Sound’s greatest films poll
It’s high time a woman won Sight and Sound’s all-time vote, and Jeanne Dielman’s ascension to the No 1 spot is exhilarating
Peter Bradshaw
01, Dec, 2022 @7:00 PM
Lynch/Oz review – curtains pull back to reveal the wizard that is David Lynch
How the auteur was influenced by 1939 classic The Wizard of Oz is examined in witty and insightful expert contributions curated by Alexandre O Philippe
Peter Bradshaw
30, Nov, 2022 @1:00 PM
Is That Black Enough for You?!? review – tremendous study of black American cinema
Elvis Mitchell delivers a vivid history of African American cinema, ranging from the unsung heroes of Hollywood’s golden age to the thrills of Blaxploitation
Peter Bradshaw
09, Nov, 2022 @7:00 AM
Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power review – a good hard look at the male gaze
Nina Menkes’s rigorous film-theory docu-essay teases out the differences in the ways men and women are treated, both on screen and in the industry
Peter Bradshaw
15, Oct, 2022 @4:50 PM
Michael Walker obituary
Other lives: Critic, author and cinephile who became one of the first teachers of film studies at A-level
Alexander Jacoby
26, Sep, 2022 @7:01 PM
Jean-Luc Godard: a genius who tore up rule book without troubling to read it | Peter Bradshaw
Godard was the inspired maverick of the French New Wave, the Lennon to Truffaut’s McCartney, and kept his radical imagination to the very end
Peter Bradshaw
13, Sep, 2022 @8:22 AM
The Guardian view on John Williams and movie music: a complex magic | Editorial
Editorial: The composer’s 90th birthday celebrations are a reminder of the underrated excellence and visceral power of film scores
Editorial
13, Feb, 2022 @6:25 PM
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