Paul Greengrass

Forget Batgirl, where’s Superman Lives? The inside stories of Hollywood’s biggest abandoned films
Eliot Ness hunts a killer, Nicolas Cage plays the Man of Steel and Marilyn Monroe is The Girl in Pink Tights in films that were never released. A writer, a producer and a film expert tell the movies’ hidden histories
Lizzy Dening
12, Aug, 2022 @10:00 AM

From United 93 to Worth: how Hollywood grappled with 9/11
In the two decades since the terror attack on New York City, films and TV shows have tried to revisit or reflect on a culturally traumatic event
Adrian Horton
10, Sep, 2021 @5:37 PM

News of the World review – Tom Hanks fights fake news in the wild west
Paul Greengrass’s hybrid western, which has depth, beauty, topical resonance – and a mesmerising rising star
Mark Kermode Observer film critic
14, Feb, 2021 @8:00 AM

News of the World review – Tom Hanks rides straight down the middle in Paul Greengrass western | Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
Hanks’s former Confederate captain tries to help Helena Zengel’s terrified orphan across lawless post-civil war Texas in this Paul Greengrass western that rarely comes alive
Peter Bradshaw
05, Feb, 2021 @7:00 AM

Ten female directors make 2021 Baftas shortlist
Of the 20 films in director category, half have a female director or co-director, but there’s little love for Da 5 Bloods or Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Catherine Shoard
04, Feb, 2021 @4:57 PM

War epics, airmen and young Sopranos: essential films for 2020
Daniel Craig bows out as Bond, the original Ghostbusters make a slimy return and Dickens gets a razor-sharp reboot – our preview of movie highlights this year
Peter Bradshaw
01, Jan, 2020 @9:00 AM

The most exciting movies of 2020 – dramas
Paul Thomas Anderson announces his new film, Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci play a long-term couple and Tom Hanks maximises his awards chances with three releases
Guardian Film
30, Dec, 2019 @2:47 PM

Utøya: July 22 – Is it right to make movies out of real-life acts of terrorism?
Two recent films portray events surrounding the horrific 2011 massacre in Norway. But do they really honour the victims?
Steve Rose
22, Oct, 2018 @8:59 AM

22 July review – Paul Greengrass’s tough telling of the Breivik massacre
The focus on the survivors of the 2011 Norwegian murders fails to give the docudrama new insights
Simran Hans
14, Oct, 2018 @7:00 AM

Massacre at the movies: why must cinema torture the young?
From Utoya to The Hate U Give, a new wave of films offer an unflinching vision of violence against children. What does the bloodletting tell us about how we live now?
Danny Leigh
12, Oct, 2018 @8:00 AM

22 July review – Paul Greengrass's potent Anders Breivik docudrama
Greengrass’s reconstruction of the 2011 terror attack in Oslo is well-intentioned, committed and intelligent, albeit conventional
Peter Bradshaw
04, Oct, 2018 @9:35 AM

Utøya survivor: Anders Breivik massacre films 'don't tell full story'
Victim’s sister speaks out over Paul Greengrass’s acclaimed movie 22 July
Vanessa Thorpe, Arts and Media Correspondent
22, Sep, 2018 @2:00 PM
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