David Thewlis

The Sandman review – Neil Gaiman has created 2022’s single greatest hour of TV drama

This dark, engrossing comic book adaptation is utterly lavish, and features an emotional depth that’s almost unheard of in fantasy epics. It should delight fans and newcomers alike

Rebecca Nicholson

05, Aug, 2022 @5:00 AM

TV tonight: it’s the Insecure finale – and no one expects a happy ending

The last ever episode of Issa Rae’s Emmy-winning comedy. Plus: Worzel Gummidge gets twitchy. Here’s what to watch this evening

Hollie Richardson, Jack Seale and Phil Harrison

28, Dec, 2021 @6:00 AM

The week in TV: Landscapers; The Great; You Don’t Know Me; How to Make It on OnlyFans

Olivia Colman and David Thewlis are superb as a pair of unlikely murderers on the run; The Great laughs in the face of history; and there’s only one real hero in You Don’t Know Me

Barbara Ellen

12, Dec, 2021 @9:30 AM

Landscapers review – Olivia Colman and David Thewlis stun as killer couple on the run

Two of their generation’s greatest actors reach new heights in this immaculate retelling of real-life murderous couple Susan and Christopher Edwards

Lucy Mangan

07, Dec, 2021 @10:05 PM

TV tonight: Olivia Colman and David Thewlis star as two killers on the run

Landscapers follows Susan and Christopher as they try to evade capture. Plus: Impeachment enters the home straight. Here’s what to watch this evening

Hollie Richardson, Phil Harrison, Graeme Virtue and Jack Seale

07, Dec, 2021 @6:00 AM

David Thewlis on new show Landscapers and the misogyny of Naked: ‘I find it much tougher to watch today’

As he stars alongside Olivia Colman in a drama about the Mansfield Murders, the actor talks about his discomfort with Naked, doing night shoots with Julie Walters – and growing old grotesquely

Zoe Williams

07, Dec, 2021 @6:00 AM

Naked review – one of British cinema’s great monsters

David Thewlis’s lost soul, raging around London in Mike Leigh’s fiercely bleak masterwork, is even more disturbing 28 years on

Peter Bradshaw

11, Nov, 2021 @10:00 AM

Shooting Martha by David Thewlis review – clunky film-world farce

The actor’s new novel is set in a world of egotistical film directors and desperate actors, but the showbiz satire is often wide of the mark

Anthony Cummins

02, Aug, 2021 @9:00 AM

David Thewlis: ‘It does get to you, spending more waking hours as a character than oneself’

The actor on his new novel about an irascible director, his faux-feud with Christopher Eccleston and his ‘secret’ marriage

Michael Hogan

25, Jul, 2021 @8:30 AM

The Dumb Waiter review – Thewlis and Mays’s supreme double act beefs up Pinter’s menace

David Thewlis and Daniel Mays add rich new shades to the over-familiar 1957 two-hander in this filmed adaptation

Arifa Akbar

11, Jul, 2021 @12:13 PM

Rare Beasts review – Billie Piper’s deliciously dark and deadpan anti-romcom

Tragedy smacks up against slapstick in Piper’s off-kilter comedy of love and self-loathing, the star’s striking directorial debut

Mark Kermode , Observer film critic

23, May, 2021 @7:00 AM

Rare Beasts review – masterful Billie Piper rips up the romcom rulebook

In her directorial debut, Piper announces herself as a truly thrilling film-maker with this bleakly brilliant inversion of the cutesy London love story