Meryl Streep

Why Don’t Look Up should win the best picture Oscar
By laying bare the roots of human folly, Adam McKay’s fun parable shows how entertainment can generate enlightenment
David Cox
17, Mar, 2022 @8:26 AM

Look away: why star-studded comet satire Don’t Look Up is a disaster | Charles Bramesco
Adam McKay’s celeb-packed Netflix comedy aims to be a farcical warning of climate change but broad potshots and a smug superiority tanks his message
Charles Bramesco
27, Dec, 2021 @7:05 AM

‘I’m not just coasting along’: Nicole Kidman on fame, family and what keeps her awake at night
Nicole Kidman is one of Hollywood’s most brilliant stars, but her everyday concerns are familiar to all of us. She talks candidly about sleepless nights, melancholy moments and why she still has so much to get done
Eva Wiseman
26, Dec, 2021 @10:00 AM

Adam McKay: ‘Leo sees Meryl as film royalty – he didn’t like seeing her with a lower back tattoo’
After politics in Vice and finance in The Big Short, director McKay is taking on the climate crisis in his star-studded ‘freakout’ satire Don’t Look Up
Steve Rose
13, Dec, 2021 @7:00 AM

Don’t Look Up review – slapstick apocalypse according to DiCaprio and Lawrence
Adam McKay’s laboured satire challenges political indifference to looming comet catastrophe but misses out on the comedy
Peter Bradshaw
08, Dec, 2021 @12:01 AM

Margaret Atwood and JM Coetzee demand release of jailed Iranian writers
A letter by PEN America, signed by dozens of high-profile writers and artistic figures, calls for Baktash Abtin, Keyvan Bajan, and Reza Khandan Mahabadi to be acquitted
Alison Flood
29, Sep, 2021 @4:17 PM

Death Becomes Her: Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn's schlocky pursuit of eternal youth
Two hyper-competitive frenemies seek the help of the dark arts to stay young in Robert Zemeckis’s 1992 comedy that became a cult classic
Nathania Gilson
08, Feb, 2021 @4:30 PM

Prime: indulge in Meryl Streep and Uma Thurman's ultra 2000s cross-faith romcom
Cheesy, PG-rated and unexpectedly moving, Prime is the kind of film that doubles as both comfort watch and thoughtful provocation
Ying-Di Yin
02, Feb, 2021 @1:30 AM

Let Them All Talk review – haughty Meryl Streep is queen of the high seas
Tensions arise between a celebrated writer and her coterie aboard a transatlantic liner in Steven Soderbergh’s charming but unfocused drama
Peter Bradshaw
03, Dec, 2020 @5:00 PM

The Prom review – is Ryan Murphy's musical the first film of the Biden era?
Taste the treacle as Nicole Kidman’s Broadway liberals rebuke a rural high school – and learn a few things about themselves
Peter Bradshaw
01, Dec, 2020 @3:00 PM

For One Knight Only: what we learned about Judi, Maggie, Ian and Derek in their Zoom knees-up
In an event for the theatrical charity Acting for Others, Dench, Smith, McKellen and Jacobi spoke about their highs and lows, superstitions and acting tips
Chris Wiegand
30, Nov, 2020 @9:37 AM

I May Destroy You, Mulan, Freeman and more: what's streaming in Australia in September
Docos on James Comey, the Murdochs and Cathy Freeman, plus three Meryl Streep films, are among the heavy hitters coming to platforms this month
Luke Buckmaster
04, Sep, 2020 @4:28 AM
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