Joe Wright

Cyrano review – Peter Dinklage woos to no avail in Joe Wright’s musical romance

Overegged direction and forgettable songs leave the ever great Dinklage and Sicily’s glorious scenery with too much work to do

Wendy Ide

26, Feb, 2022 @3:00 PM

Cyrano review – Peter Dinklage captivates as letter ghostwriter in musical version

Game of Thrones star brings a piercing commitment to the title role in Joe Wright’s solemn screen adaptation of Rostand’s play

Peter Bradshaw

23, Feb, 2022 @2:00 PM

Romance, 14th-century style: why cinema has fallen for courtly love

From Cyrano to The Last Duel, the world of medieval chivalry is big on screen – and its preoccupation with appearances isn’t so far from our own

Phil Hoad

14, Feb, 2022 @12:02 PM

Haley Bennett: ‘I always felt like, what’s wrong with me?’

The actor never thought she would make it in a lead role – until Terrence Malick had a word. Now she is stepping into the spotlight as Roxanne in Joe Wright’s Cyrano

Cath Clarke

10, Feb, 2022 @3:19 PM

Never mind the nose: what makes Cyrano de Bergerac a hero for all time?

Edmond Rostand’s great romantic has drawn actors including Ralph Richardson, Antony Sher and James McAvoy to its lead role. It is a tale of glorious theatricality, glittering poetry and heroic self-sacrifice

Michael Billington

11, Jan, 2022 @6:00 AM

The Woman in the Window review – broken thriller is barely worth a look

Amy Adams gives a flat performance as an agoraphobe unravelling a dull mystery in Joe Wright’s cursed misstep now being dumped on Netflix

Benjamin Lee

13, May, 2021 @11:00 PM

Direct another day: who should replace Danny Boyle on Bond 25?

With the Slumdog Millionaire film-maker choosing to depart the next 007 adventure over ‘creative differences’, it’s time for producers to pick an alternative

Zach Vasquez

22, Aug, 2018 @1:48 PM

Why Darkest Hour should win the 2018 best picture Oscar

Ahead of the 2018 Academy Awards, Steve Rose makes a rousing case for the thrilling political drama in which Gary Oldman gives us the full Churchill

Steve Rose

21, Feb, 2018 @9:00 AM

Bafta nominations 2018: no female directors again betrays #MeToo message | Peter Bradshaw

Guillermo del Toro’s swirlingly sensuous fantasy Shape of Water leads the list, but why on earth has Greta Gerwig missed out – again?

Peter Bradshaw

09, Jan, 2018 @10:42 AM

Winston Churchill makes a fine movie star. If only we had a leader to match him in real life today

Britain’s wartime leader is played by Gary Oldman in the film Darkest Hour. The Observer’s chief political columnist on why his legend is a rebuke to current world politicians

Andrew Rawnsley

07, Jan, 2018 @8:00 AM

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

Winston Churchill of Darkest Hour a rebuke to Trump, says film's director

Director Joe Wright says that the biopic, which stars Gary Oldman as Churchill, will show the war leader resisting “tide of fascism, bigotry and hate”

Andrew Pulver

28, Sep, 2017 @4:03 PM