Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Melissa McCarthy's 20 best films – ranked!
With the actor’s new release, Superintelligence, seeing her try to save the world, here’s a look at the films that made her a comedy star
Peter Bradshaw
26, Nov, 2020 @12:00 PM

Marielle Heller: 'I don't think we have to be jerks to make good art'
The writer-director, currently starring in The Queen’s Gambit, has no truck with the idea of tortured genius
Claire Armitstead
08, Nov, 2020 @12:00 PM

Moral of the story: 2019's boldest culture asked what it means to be good
At a time when deceit is trumping decency, artists from Kanye West to Greta Gerwig and Phoebe Waller-Bridge have taken it upon themselves to pose questions about virtue and privilege
Laura Snapes
27, Dec, 2019 @12:00 PM

The 50 best films of 2019 in the UK: the full list
Our pick of the year’s top movies released in the UK reveals the end of an era, painful breakups, festive families, horrors both real and imagined, and heroes of many kinds
20, Dec, 2019 @9:36 AM

Julianne Moore was fired from Can You Ever Forgive Me? over fat suit and fake nose
Richard E Grant confirms that the actor’s departure, six days before shooting began, was due to a dispute over prosthetics
Catherine Shoard
22, Mar, 2019 @12:25 PM

Full list of nominations for the 2019 Oscars
All the nominations for the 91st Academy Awards, which take place on 24 February at the Dolby theatre in Hollywood
Guardian film
24, Feb, 2019 @3:13 PM

Screenplay glory for Can You Ever Forgive Me? and Eighth Grade
Writers Guild of America awards throw spotlight on two surprise winners – including the black-comedy Oscars contender
Andrew Pulver
18, Feb, 2019 @1:16 PM

Who should win? Critic Peter Bradshaw's Oscars picks
From Richard E Grant to Regina King, here’s who most deserves to triumph
Peter Bradshaw
16, Feb, 2019 @7:00 AM

What to see this week in the UK
From Notting Hill to Fatboy Slim, here’s our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance over the next seven days
Andrew Pulver, Michael Cragg, John Fordham, Andrew Clements, Jonathan Jones, Miriam Gillinson and Lyndsey Winship
15, Feb, 2019 @9:00 AM

Baftas 2019: what should win – and what will win | Peter Bradshaw
Controversy surrounds Bohemian Rhapsody and the dearth of female directors but Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma, Paweł Pawlikowski’s Cold War and the likely coronation of The Favourite’s Olivia Colman offer plenty to be excited about
Peter Bradshaw
08, Feb, 2019 @1:42 PM

Richard E Grant: 'Ha ha! This is the ride of my life!'
The Oscar-nominated star of Can You Ever Forgive Me? on the giddy thrill of awards season – and how he crumpled up at Barbra Streisand’s tweet
Hadley Freeman
08, Feb, 2019 @11:39 AM

What to see this week in the UK
From Burning to Robots in Edinburgh, here’s our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance over the next seven days
Andrew Pulver, Michael Cragg, John Fordham, Andrew Clements, Jonathan Jones, Miriam Gillinson, and Lyndsey Winship
08, Feb, 2019 @9:00 AM
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