Léa Seydoux

France review – Léa Seydoux’s celebrity journalist becomes the story

A hardened news reporter is forced to reassess her life in Bruno Dumont’s watchable if laboured media satire

Wendy Ide

01, Jan, 2023 @11:30 AM

France review – TV presenter Léa Seydoux is mesmeric in intriguing media satire

The star and the film’s intentional blankness add a layer of interest to Bruno Dumont’s loose reverie about a journalist experiencing an emotional breakdown

Peter Bradshaw

27, Dec, 2022 @7:00 AM

Crimes of the Future review – Cronenberg’s slightly creaky tribute to his own past

The body horror auteur returns to favourite themes, if not the peak of his powers, as Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux and Kristen Stewart star in this playfully grisly tale of surgery as the new sex

Mark Kermode, Observer film critic

11, Sep, 2022 @7:00 AM

Crimes of the Future review – Cronenberg’s post-pain, post-sex body horror sensation

As he did with 90s hit Crash, the director creates a bizarre new society of sicko sybarites where pain is the ultimate pleasure and ‘surgery is the new sex’

Peter Bradshaw

07, Sep, 2022 @2:03 PM

What links Beavis and Butt-Head to Kristen Stewart, via David Cronenberg?

Ease yourself into the rabbit hole, with Douglas Coupland and the slacker generation

Larry Ryan

13, Aug, 2022 @12:00 PM

One Fine Morning review – Léa Seydoux sparkles in poignant drama

Mia Hansen-Løve returns to Paris with this powerful drama about a single mother torn between emotionally unavailable men

Peter Bradshaw

20, May, 2022 @8:22 AM

Cannes 2022: 10 movies to watch out for in this year’s festival | Peter Bradshaw

Austin Butler shakes his stuff as Elvis, Cronenberg gets creepy, Claire Denis takes on colonial agony and Hirokazu Kore-eda unwraps his first Korean-language film

Peter Bradshaw

16, May, 2022 @12:41 PM

France review – Léa Seydoux provides firm anchor for unsteady media satire

Bruno Dumont takes aim at 24-news culture but his tale of a star reporter features its fair share of ill-conceived plot points

Xan Brooks

16, Jul, 2021 @9:28 AM

Deception review – Arnaud Desplechin’s unbearably twee take on Philip Roth

The Cannes favourite may have worn out his charm with this insufferable story of the author’s multiple affairs

Peter Bradshaw

13, Jul, 2021 @6:45 PM

Cannes makes up for lost time with a thrilling auteur-packed lineup | Peter Bradshaw

After a year off, Leos Carax should have punters at each others’ throats – and Wes Anderson will boost the blood sugar

Peter Bradshaw

03, Jun, 2021 @2:09 PM

Off and running: can the No Time to Die trailer get us excited about Bond again?

He grunts, he kicks and shoots stuff because he wants to – and so do the women! After months of inaction, James Bond has no more time to sit still if his latest teaser is any guide

Stuart Heritage

03, Sep, 2020 @1:59 PM

How will a five-year-old daughter change James Bond's life?

According to a new report, No Time to Die sees Daniel Craig’s spy discovering he has a young child. Are CBeebies and car chases ever really compatible?

Stuart Heritage

08, Jun, 2020 @10:16 AM