Anthony Hopkins

‘I know what anxiety is. And guilt’: Florian Zeller on his nightmarish new play

The French prodigy, who won an Oscar for The Father, talks about The Forest, his labyrinthine new drama following a man whose life unravels after an affair

Laura Cappelle

31, Jan, 2022 @8:00 AM

The Remains of the Day: revisit Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson’s classic tale of longing

James Ivory’s adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel is a tragicomic story of endless manners and unlived possibilities

Michelle Wang

17, Sep, 2021 @2:04 AM

Streaming: The Father and other films about dementia

Florian Zeller’s heart-rending film The Father is the latest in a spate of recent works tackling the condition and its effects on the family

Guy Lodge

28, Aug, 2021 @7:00 AM

Tom Hanks is everyone's ideal on-screen dad. I wish he was mine | Stuart Heritage

You can keep your Harrison Fords and Anthony Hopkinses. I want Tom Hanks to legally become my parent, take me to the baseball game and give me chummy little pep talks

Stuart Heritage

18, Jun, 2021 @12:35 PM

The Father review – Hopkins a wordy Oscar winner

Academy winner Anthony Hopkins tackles the script’s verbosity with aplomb but this study of dementia remains somewhat stagey

Mark Kermode Observer film critic

13, Jun, 2021 @7:00 AM

The Father review – Anthony Hopkins superb in unbearably heartbreaking film

Hopkins gives a moving, Oscar-winning turn as a man with dementia in a film full of intelligent performances, disorienting time slips and powerful theatrical effects

Peter Bradshaw

10, Jun, 2021 @10:00 AM

Elyse review – Anthony Hopkins turns psychiatrist in portrait of a troubled woman

Stella Hopkins directs her husband – but struggles to get the best out of her cast – in this uneven psychological drama

Leslie Felperin

25, May, 2021 @9:00 AM

Are they having a laugh? How The Father’s posters get the film so wrong

Anthony Hopkins’ harrowing dementia drama is the sensation of this awards season. So why is it endlessly being advertised as another movie altogether?

Stuart Heritage

14, May, 2021 @10:31 AM

Steven Soderbergh: Oscars ending changed in case Chadwick Boseman won

The producer of this year’s ceremony has defended finishing with best actor rather than best film, leading to anticlimax after Anthony Hopkins triumphed

Catherine Shoard

05, May, 2021 @10:39 AM

The Virtuoso review – Anthony Hopkins on autopilot for dull hitman thriller

Once you’ve worked out the big climactic twist after 15 minutes, you’ll know this story of a strictly amateur master assassin is firing blanks

Leslie Felperin

29, Apr, 2021 @12:00 PM

No surprises for one Oscar winner | Brief letters

Brief letters: NHS privatisation | Anthony Hopkins | Waiting for the Guardian | Dropping vowels

Letters

27, Apr, 2021 @4:52 PM

Chadwick Boseman’s family defends Anthony Hopkins amid best actor Oscars backlash

Brother of the late actor congratulates the 83-year-old, as Academy criticised for not allowing Hopkins to make his acceptance speech on Zoom