Saoirse Ronan

Tom Hanks says he couldn’t play gay role today ‘and rightly so’

The actor has said that neither Philadelphia nor Forrest Gump, for which he won Oscars in the 90s, would be made in a ‘modern realm of authenticity’

Catherine Shoard

16, Jun, 2022 @12:01 PM

The Tragedy of Macbeth review – Yaël Farber’s blood-curdling terror

Saoirse Ronan and James McArdle star in a production with emotional spark, palpable dread and a horrifying beauty

Arifa Akbar

14, Oct, 2021 @11:01 PM

Saoirse Ronan says Kim and Kanye inspired Almeida Macbeth roles

‘Modern power couple’ Kardashian and West were helpful in interpreting Macbeths, says actor

Nadia Khomami Arts and Culture correspondent

23, Sep, 2021 @11:27 AM

The best films of 2021 so far

Chloé Zhao hits the road, Carey Mulligan takes her revenge and Emma Stone refashions Cruella in the pick of this year’s films

Andrew Pulver

15, Jun, 2021 @8:52 AM

If anyone can really turn back time, Cher can | Rebecca Nicholson

Even an authorised film of the singer’s life is bound to eclipse the rest of the crop of musical biopics

Rebecca Nicholson

22, May, 2021 @2:00 PM

Saoirse Ronan to make UK stage debut in feminist Macbeth

Four-time Oscar nominee reunited with James McArdle in the Almeida theatre’s staging of the Shakespeare tragedy

Chris Wiegand

21, May, 2021 @6:00 AM

Ammonite review – a chilly love among the fossils

Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan’s 19th-century romance showcases their talents but doesn’t warm the heart

Mark Kermode Observer film critic

28, Mar, 2021 @7:00 AM

Ammonite review – Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan find love among the fossils | Peter Bradshaw's film of the week

Francis Lee’s sensational biopic of palaeontology pioneer Mary Anning reimagines her erotic encounter with a woman trapped in a stifling marriage

Peter Bradshaw

25, Mar, 2021 @11:58 AM

Ammonite is not the evolutionary leap for lesbian film it thinks it is

Francis Lee’s much-hyped film in fact belongs to a recent tradition of studiously tasteful, sexually fixated work in which lesbians are a world apart

Emma Madden

27, Oct, 2020 @8:00 AM

London film festival 2020: our critic's top 10 picks

From Frances McDormand in Nomadland to Riz Ahmed in Mogul Mowgli, the Guardian’s chief film critic chooses the ones to watch at this year’s BFI London film festival

Peter Bradshaw

06, Oct, 2020 @3:20 PM

Kate Winslet and Mark Wahlberg aim for Oscars at unusual Toronto film festival

An array of buzzy new films will be shown at a combination of socially distanced physical premieres and virtual screenings

Benjamin Lee

10, Sep, 2020 @4:20 AM

Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan fall in love in first Ammonite trailer

The Oscar-tipped period romance, from God’s Own Country director Francis Lee, has run into criticism for suggesting paleontologist Mary Anning was gay

Benjamin Lee

25, Aug, 2020 @1:52 PM