Michelle Pfeiffer

Scarface at 40: why is Al Pacino’s murderous kingpin still so idolized?

Endlessly postered and memed, the violent and tragic lead of Brian de Palma’s all-guns-blazing epic remains ever-present

Charles Bramesco

09, Dec, 2023 @11:17 AM

The Age of Innocence review – Scorsese’s brilliant tragedy of New York society manners

Daniel Day-Lewis and Michelle Pfeiffer are powerfully matched as guilty lovers in an Edith Wharton adaptation that bears comparison with Hollywood’s golden age classics

Peter Bradshaw

15, Mar, 2023 @7:00 AM

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania review – incoherent special-effects dump

Magnetic Jonathan Majors is the saving grace of Marvel’s baffling, illogical latest outing

Wendy Ide

19, Feb, 2023 @12:30 PM

Batman Returns at 30: still as weird as big-budget blockbusters get

Tim Burton’s kinetic and kinky sequel pushed the boundaries for the summer movie template helped by a standout movie star turn from Michelle Pfeiffer

AA Dowd

19, Jun, 2022 @5:22 AM

The First Lady review – star-studded series is a third-rate disappointment

The series on three first ladies falls flat despite a stacked cast, including Viola Davis as Michelle Obama, Michelle Pfeiffer as Betty Ford and Gillian Anderson as Eleanor Roosevelt

Adrian Horton

13, Apr, 2022 @6:33 PM

Kapow! Our writers pick their favorite Batman movie

To celebrate the release of The Batman, Guardian writers have written about their all-time favorite Caped Crusader films from Adam West to Ben Affleck

Peter Bradshaw, Andrew Pulver, Radheyan Simonpillai, Janelle Zara, Lisa Wong Macabasco, Charles Bramesco, Simon Abrams, Luke Holland, Benjamin Lee, Toby Moses, Nicholas Barber and Ben Child

04, Mar, 2022 @7:22 AM

French Exit review – a duff display case for Pfeiffer’s jewel of a performance

Often stilted and self-conscious, this adaptation of Patrick deWitt’s 2018 novel nevertheless has one huge asset…

Wendy Ide

03, Jul, 2021 @2:00 PM

The 20 best Michelle Pfeiffer films – ranked!

She blazed a trail as gangsters’ molls and slinky lounge acts, then returned from a career break to essay a variety of wicked witches, comic turns and grand dames. Next month she’ll be seen as a penniless heiress in acclaimed comedy French Exit. But which are her best roles?

Peter Bradshaw

25, Feb, 2021 @12:05 PM

French Exit review – Michelle Pfeiffer can't save disastrous sinking souffle

A misjudged performance from the star is one of many bum notes in an irritating and indulgent story of rich people becoming less rich

Benjamin Lee

11, Oct, 2020 @2:00 AM

Maleficent: Mistress of Evil review – panto fun is missing in action

Angelina Jolie, Michelle Pfeiffer and Elle Fanning do their best to justify a second revisionist fairytale, but CGI battles replace narrative clarity

Peter Bradshaw

15, Oct, 2019 @1:00 PM

'I'm sucking up your IQ!': what 90s Batman tells us about Hollywood

The dialogue is corny, the heroes moody, the fights risible, but the Batman films of Tim Burton and Joel Schumacher paved the way for today’s blockbusters

Alex Hess

14, May, 2019 @11:10 AM