Jesse Eisenberg
Resistance review – mime star Marcel Marceau's wartime heroics
Jesse Eisenberg plays the legendary performer who helped thousands of Jews escape the Nazis, in a well-meaning but cliche-ridden biopic
Peter Bradshaw
18, Jun, 2020 @8:00 AM
Vivarium review – home is where the hell is
Jesse Eisenberg and Imogen Poots are plunged into a suburban nightmare in this unsettling satire on consumerism
Mark Kermode, Observer film critic
29, Mar, 2020 @7:00 AM
Vivarium review – the unspeakable horror of settling down in suburbia
Having kids and buying a house become the stuff of nightmares in Lorcan Finnegan’s black comedy, starring Imogen Poots and Jesse Eisenberg
Peter Bradshaw
26, Feb, 2020 @7:45 PM
Zombieland: Double Tap review – a fan service sequel for fans who barely exist
A belated sequel to the 2009 sleeper hit brings back the main cast but can’t quite conjure up enough humour or charm to justify its existence
Benjamin Lee
16, Oct, 2019 @1:48 PM
Next question: rewatching the most awkward movie press tours
A string of uncomfortable interviews with Joaquin Phoenix for Joker join a well of other awkward run-ins between actors and journalists
Stuart Heritage
03, Oct, 2019 @4:11 PM
From Midsommar to martial arts: how movie cults got real
In a spate of new releases, big screen cults have found the human element among the madness and mayhem
Charles Bramesco
11, Jul, 2019 @7:00 AM
The Hummingbird Project review – software, stocks, and surprising thrills
Jesse Eisenberg and Salma Hayek turn a story of financial tech into a gripping drama of many parts
Wendy Ide
16, Jun, 2019 @7:00 AM
The Hummingbird Project review – deeply odd tunnel-digging drama
Jesse Eisenberg plays a stock trader hoping to make millions by linking Kansas and New York underground
Mike McCahill
13, Jun, 2019 @12:00 PM
Outside the multiplex: the best smaller films to see in the US this summer
From a troubling film about race in America to a shocking documentary about China’s one child policy, this season offers more than just superhero sequels
Benjamin Lee
06, Jun, 2019 @6:00 AM
Happy Talk review – Susan Sarandon can't save Jesse Eisenberg's trite play
A reliably accomplished performance from the Oscar winner isn’t enough to add weight to an uneven tale with a thudding twist
Benjamin Lee
17, May, 2019 @1:00 AM
Jesse Eisenberg on Woody Allen, anxiety and fatherhood: ‘Now I get to worry about something visible’
A little bit difficult, a little bit intense: the star of The Social Network has often seemed more comfortable with a film script than with messy human emotions – including his own. But that’s changed…
Gwilym Mumford
14, Sep, 2018 @5:00 AM
Brie Larson’s Basmati Blues and other lost movies A-listers wish had stayed buried
Films that actors make before they find fame can come back to bite them years later, as Larson discovered when the trailer for a rice-based romcom she filmed in 2012 was met with derision
Anna Smith
15, Nov, 2017 @4:37 PM
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