Penélope Cruz
Streaming: Pedro Almodóvar’s The Human Voice and other A-list shorts
The Spanish auteur’s joyous half-hour film The Human Voice, now on Mubi, makes you wish that more top directors would occasionally keep it brief
Guy Lodge
24, Jul, 2021 @7:00 AM
Winona Ryder can defend Johnny Depp - but it doesn’t tell us much
Ryder has spoken out for Depp after his ex-wife Amber Heard’s abuse claims – claims Depp strongly denies. The truth is, we can never know what goes on in other people’s relationships
Hadley Freeman
17, Mar, 2020 @10:00 AM
The 50 best films of 2019 in the US: No 10 – Pain and Glory
Antonio Banderas plays a stand-in for Pedro Almodóvar in the director’s serious-minded and moving late-career meditation on mortality, memory, regret and desire
Andrew Pulver
09, Dec, 2019 @11:27 AM
The 50 best films of 2019 in the UK: No 10 – Pain and Glory
Antonio Banderas plays a stand-in for Pedro Almodóvar in the director’s serious-minded and moving late-career meditation on mortality, memory, regret and desire
Andrew Pulver
09, Dec, 2019 @6:00 AM
Pain and Glory – bittersweet perfection from Pedro Almodóvar
Antonio Banderas is superb as a stand-in for the Spanish director
Mark Kermode, Observer film critic
25, Aug, 2019 @7:00 AM
Antonio Banderas: I had to kill my old self for Almodóvar role
Actor says making Pain and Glory about director’s life helped him reassess his career
Vanessa Thorpe Arts and media correspondent
18, May, 2019 @2:12 PM
Everybody Knows review – Cruz and Bardem star in full-bodied melodrama
Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem star in Asghar Farhadi’s kidnap drama
Wendy Ide
10, Mar, 2019 @6:59 AM
Escobar review – drug lord biopic is flabby and muddled
Javier Bardem struggles manfully with a prosthetic belly while Penélope Cruz is sidelined in this confused film
Mike McCahill
14, Sep, 2018 @9:00 AM
Everybody Knows review – Cruz and Bardem pull no punches in heavyweight kidnap drama
Iranian director Farhadi opens Cannes with a film that explores the unhealed wound at the heart of a Spanish family with pitiless efficiency and sheer muscular flair
Peter Bradshaw
08, May, 2018 @9:56 PM
The Assassination of Gianni Versace review – a grim portrait of gay life
In his follow-up to The People v OJ Simpson, Ryan Murphy spins the designer’s murder into a compelling story of deceit, ambition and what it meant to be gay at the turn of the century
Jake Nevins
17, Jan, 2018 @11:30 AM
Murder on the Orient Express review – delicious whodunnit fun
Kenneth Branagh’s lavish, all-star take on the Agatha Christie classic is endearingly nostalgic
Simran Hans
05, Nov, 2017 @8:00 AM
Kenneth Branagh: ‘I want you to smell the steam of the Orient Express’
The actor-director’s latest film, Murder on the Orient Express, boasts a stellar cast, including Branagh himself as Poirot. He discusses magnificent moustaches, moral brooding and the passion of Agatha Christie
Sarah Crompton
27, Oct, 2017 @10:00 AM
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