Toby Jones
‘She’s breaking the walls down!’ Olivia Colman and Sam Mendes on mothers, mental illness and the movies
Empire of Light is Mendes’ most personal film to date. He and its stars, including Colman, Micheal Ward and Toby Jones, talk medication, escapism and kicking down sandcastles
Catherine Shoard
06, Jan, 2023 @6:00 AM
Detectorists Christmas Special review – the best thing you will watch all festive period
This special isn’t quite as perfect as the original, but revisiting Mackenzie Crook and Toby Jones’s precious sitcom is pure pleasure. It beats all other yuletide TV hands down
Jack Seale
26, Dec, 2022 @10:15 PM
The Pale Blue Eye review – baffled, beardy Christian Bale in gruesome murder yarn
Set in 1830, a mildly ridiculous plot sends a haunted Bale to investigate the gothic killing of a military cadet
Peter Bradshaw
22, Dec, 2022 @5:00 PM
Best movies of 2022 in the US: No 7 – The Wonder
A strange and beautiful period drama full of mystery and miracles – and Florence Pugh is a wonder herself, with a bristling, transfixing performance
Adrian Horton
15, Dec, 2022 @12:00 PM
Best films of 2022 in the UK: No 8 – The Wonder
A strange and beautiful period drama full of mystery and miracles – Florence Pugh is a wonder herself, with a bristling, transfixing performance
Adrian Horton
14, Dec, 2022 @6:00 AM
‘People told us what a consolation it was’ – Toby Jones on the return of Detectorists
As he and Mackenzie Crook revive their beloved treasure hunters for a Christmas special, the actor reveals how their pairing began, what his four new projects are – and why there’s no such thing as a small role
Ellen E Jones
06, Dec, 2022 @4:39 PM
The Wonder review – Florence Pugh is miraculously good in eerie drama
Toronto film festival: The star plays a nurse investigating an alleged miracle in a captivating period thriller about the dangers of religious fervor
Benjamin Lee in Toronto
14, Sep, 2022 @8:24 PM
‘Roger Moore collapsed one night. I thought he’d died’: how we made The Play What I Wrote
‘Ralph Fiennes strode into the dressing room and said he loved the show – we booked him there and then. The whole thing was very kick-bollocks-scramble’
Interviews by Andrew Dickson
22, Nov, 2021 @3:00 PM
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain review – Cumberbatch’s cat artist drowns in quirk
Benedict Cumberbatch’s portrayal of eccentric Edwardian artist famed for his cute cats is brimful of star cameos but gets lost in mannered performances
Peter Bradshaw
03, Sep, 2021 @6:15 AM
First Cow review – celebrating the milk of human kindness
Kelly Reichardt’s offbeat gem about an unlikely friendship founded on biscuits is a satisfying fable of America’s past and present
Mark Kermode Observer film critic
30, May, 2021 @7:00 AM
Danny Boy review – the tremendous Toby Jones deserves all the awards
This excellent, eye-opening drama about the Iraq war probes the line between military violence and unlawful killing. Essential viewing
Ellen E Jones
12, May, 2021 @9:25 PM
Toby Jones: ‘Nobody is just one thing’
From Chekhov to Capote to Harry Potter, Toby Jones is one of our most brilliantly versatile actors. So why do people keep trying to tell him who he is?
Eva Wiseman
09, May, 2021 @8:00 AM
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