Sam Claflin
Peaky Blinders recap: series six, episode five – an explosive return to form
The pace of the show has been super-charged as the end looms for the gangster drama. But first: garotting and a smattering of treachery
Michael Hogan
27, Mar, 2022 @9:00 PM
Peaky Blinders recap: series six, episode four – is Tommy his own worst enemy?
As the series moved beyond the halfway point, tragedy continued to stalk the Shelby family – alongside a little brotherly bonding and fascism coming to the fore
Michael Hogan
20, Mar, 2022 @10:00 PM
Book of Love review – charmless romcom is a waste of potential
Sam Claflin plays an uptight novelist on a Mexican book tour in a romantic comedy short on romance and comedy
Benjamin Lee
04, Feb, 2022 @5:11 PM
Every Breath You Take review – Casey Affleck fires blanks in trashy psychodrama
The Oscar-winner gives a sluggish performance as a grief-stricken psychiatrist in this shallow psychological thriller
Cath Clarke
21, Jul, 2021 @11:00 AM
Enola Holmes review – Sherlock's rebellious kid sister is on the case
Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown is cheeky young Enola searching for her missing mum in this amiable, starry mystery movie
Peter Bradshaw
22, Sep, 2020 @3:00 PM
Love Wedding Repeat review – laboured Netflix romcom farce
A low-budget and lowbrow comedy repeats events at a wedding with slight differences but can’t turn an intriguing set-up into something worthwhile
Benjamin Lee
10, Apr, 2020 @7:01 AM
The Nightingale review – gut-churning colonial rape-revenge drama
In Jennifer Kent’s follow-up to The Babadook, set in 19th-century Tasmania, an Irishwoman seeks payback after being brutally gang-raped by British troops
Peter Bradshaw
29, Nov, 2019 @11:00 AM
This charming monster: how Peaky Blinders took on Mosley
TV drama’s creator had to walk a fine line in depicting 1930s fascist leader in fifth series
Sarah Hughes
10, Aug, 2019 @12:00 PM
The Corrupted review – lively gangland pulp in the shadow of the London Olympics
Sam Claflin stars in a striking-looking film set in east London, but it’s all sold short by ropey storytelling and dodgy dialogue
Mike McCahill
10, May, 2019 @5:53 PM
Adrift review – shipshape Shailene Woodley keeps survival drama buoyant
The Divergent star puts in a career-best performance in this lost-at-sea tale
Jordan Hoffman
31, May, 2018 @1:00 PM
Journey’s End review – handsome first world war drama
Sam Claflin steals the plaudits as a brooding captain in this taut, if stagey, ensemble film set in a trench
Simran Hans
04, Feb, 2018 @8:00 AM
Journey's End review – horror, humour and humanity in the trenches
This new version of RC Sherriff’s classic play about the futility and slaughter of the first world war is powerful, passionate and superbly acted
Peter Bradshaw
01, Feb, 2018 @9:00 AM
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