Alexander Payne

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Reese Witherspoon to return as Tracy Flick in Election sequel
The Oscar-winner will reunite with Alexander Payne for a Paramount+ adaptation of Tom Perrotta’s Tracy Flick Can’t Win

Benjamin Lee

08, Dec, 2022 @6:15 PM

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The 100 best films of the 21st century
Gangsters, superheroes, schoolkids, lovers, slaves, peasants, techies, Tenenbaums and freefalling astronauts – they’re all here in our countdown of cinema’s best movies since 2000

Peter Bradshaw, Cath Clarke, Andrew Pulver and Catherine Shoard

13, Sep, 2019 @5:00 AM

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Election at 20: assessing the high school satire's brutal politics
Reese Witherspoon’s ruthless go-getter remains fascinatingly toxic in Alexander Payne’s bleak and biting political comedy

Charles Bramesco

23, Apr, 2019 @6:00 AM

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'Having a child is a distraction from your own mortality': Kathryn Hahn and Tamara Jenkins on their IVF film
Hahn stars in Jenkins’ new comedy about a couple struggling with infertility. They talk about whether feminism and the media should shoulder some blame for encouraging women to wait before reproducing – and why their film shouldn’t be dismissed as a chick flick

Catherine Shoard

15, Nov, 2018 @4:27 PM

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Gong with the wind: the early Oscar contenders that fall by the wayside
From Bonfire of the Vanities to Downsizing, how did the highly touted turn into the long forgotten, and could A Star Is Born be next?

Guy Lodge

27, Aug, 2018 @9:00 AM

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Downsizing review – little point
Matt Damon and director Alexander Payne squander the comic potential of this unwieldy high-concept satire

Wendy Ide

28, Jan, 2018 @8:00 AM

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Downsizing review – Matt Damon micro-utopia fantasy is only a small victory
Alexander Payne takes us down the rabbit hole of miniaturisation for a blisteringly brilliant film overwhelmed by its own implications

Peter Bradshaw

25, Jan, 2018 @3:30 PM

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Alexander Payne on Downsizing: ‘The film isn’t a major statement – it’s a metaphor’
The director best known for character comedies such as Sideways and Nebraska on why he’s made a sci-fi dystopia about tiny humans

Jonathan Romney

07, Jan, 2018 @10:00 AM

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Prowling panthers, paranormal spies and vengeful ice-skaters: must-see movies of 2018
The Black Panther roars, Matt Damon shrinks, Aardman go stone age and Jennifer Lawrence takes spying into a new dimension – we preview the best cinema of the new year

Peter Bradshaw

02, Jan, 2018 @7:00 AM

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High-concept satire Downsizing is dwarfed by its white saviour narrative
Alexander Payne’s ambitious new comic fantasy has ideas to spare but a condescending tone and a disastrous racial caricature leave a bitter taste in the mouth

Guy Lodge

18, Dec, 2017 @12:00 PM

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Is climate change Hollywood's new supervillain?
Eco-thriller Geostorm, with Gerard Butler as a weather-busting scientist, is the latest movie to battle the environment. From Blade Runner 2049 to Alexander Payne’s Downsizing, film are turning up the heat on the big screen

Graeme Virtue

19, Oct, 2017 @11:18 AM

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Downsizing: Matt Damon gets tiny in first trailer for Oscar-tipped sci-fi comedy
Damon and Kristen Wiig star as a couple who decide to undergo a shrinking procedure in Alexander Payne’s film, the director’s first since 2013’s Nebraska

Guardian film

12, Sep, 2017 @10:30 AM

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