Private Life

My streaming gem: why you should watch Private Life

Continuing our series of writers highlighting underappreciated films: a bittersweet comedy drama about infertility

Ann Lee

12, Jun, 2020 @6:15 AM

The 100 best films of the 21st century

Gangsters, superheroes, schoolkids, lovers, slaves, peasants, techies, Tenenbaums and freefalling astronauts – they’re all here in our countdown of cinema’s best movies since 2000

Peter Bradshaw, Cath Clarke, Andrew Pulver and Catherine Shoard

13, Sep, 2019 @5:00 AM

How today's female directors broke out of 'movie jail'

Not one woman was nominated for this year’s best director Oscar. But some of the hottest forthcoming movies are female-led – so has gender discrimination in the industry been busted?

Steve Rose

31, Jan, 2019 @1:02 PM

My Oscar goes to... Our film critics reveal their personal shortlists

Ahead of the official Academy nominations, the Observer’s critics pick their own winners

Mark Kermode, Wendy Ide, Simran Hans and Guy Lodge

20, Jan, 2019 @9:00 AM

The 50 best films of 2018: No 5 – Private Life

Kathryn Hahn and Paul Giamatti were excellent as a sympathetic New York couple struggling to have a baby in Tamara Jenkins’s intensely personal drama

Peter Bradshaw

17, Dec, 2018 @6:00 AM

Mutant bears, flying heads and chainsaw duels: the best movie moments of 2018

Guardian writers pick their favourite bits of cinema from the year all the way from a vomiting Oscar Wilde in The Happy Prince to a terrifying accident in Hereditary

Jordan Hoffman, Jake Nevins, Zach Vasquez, Pamela Hutchinson, Steve Rose, Benjamin Lee, Catherine Shoard, Amy Nicholson, Gwilym Mumford, Andrew Pulver, Peter Bradshaw, Charles Bramesco, Wendy Ide and Guy Lodge

14, Dec, 2018 @8:00 AM

The 50 best movies of 2018 in the US: the full list

A heartfelt Mexican drama leads our critics’ pick of the top films released in America this year – adding to tales about off-grid survival, toxic relationships, confused schoolkids and game-changing superheroes

04, Dec, 2018 @12:00 PM

'Having a child is a distraction from your own mortality': Kathryn Hahn and Tamara Jenkins on their IVF film

Hahn stars in Jenkins’ new comedy about a couple struggling with infertility. They talk about whether feminism and the media should shoulder some blame for encouraging women to wait before reproducing – and why their film shouldn’t be dismissed as a chick flick

Catherine Shoard

15, Nov, 2018 @4:27 PM

Private Life review – Netflix fertility comedy is painfully funny

Paul Giamatti and Kathryn Hahn are terrific as fortysomething New Yorkers struggling with IVF in Tamara Jenkins’ intelligent, uncomfortable film

Cath Clarke

05, Oct, 2018 @11:46 AM

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