Willem Dafoe
Inside review – Willem Dafoe’s thief suffers for his art
Dafoe excels as an art thief trapped inside a super-rich art collector’s apartment in this claustrophobic fiction feature debut from Vasilis Katsoupis
Peter Bradshaw
20, Feb, 2023 @6:00 PM
Spider-Man at 20: the superhero film that changed blockbuster cinema
Sam Raimi’s charming, if patchy, 2002 adventure showed that mass audiences were eager for a new kind of superhero and the industry never looked back
Guy Lodge
03, May, 2022 @1:43 PM
Why Nightmare Alley should win the best picture Oscar
Guillermo del Toro’s freaky bizarro noir is more than a well-dressed genre exercise, as Bradley Cooper and Cate Blanchett offer an acting masterclass
Andrew Pulver
23, Mar, 2022 @8:00 AM
‘Rivers run through us’: Willem Dafoe and Robert Macfarlane on why they made a film of the world’s great waterways
Made by the same team that shot Mountain, including director Jennifer Peedom, this stunning documentary captures the great power and beauty of rivers – and how vulnerable they are to a modern world they helped create
Steve Rose
18, Mar, 2022 @8:00 AM
River review – spectacular montage-doc goes to work on gushing waters
Revisiting a formula that worked well in Mountain, director Jennifer Peedom lets Willem Dafoe’s voiceover run away with bland generalities
Peter Bradshaw
16, Mar, 2022 @1:00 PM
Saturday Night Live: Willem Dafoe makes the most of first time as host
The actor is a game lead for a mixed episode that includes sketches featuring Beauty and the Beast and a new R&B song
Zach Vasquez
30, Jan, 2022 @2:37 PM
Willem Dafoe’s 20 best films – ranked!
As his new film Nightmare Alley hits cinemas, the possessor of Hollywood’s most piercing stare gets the ranked treatment
Andrew Pulver
20, Jan, 2022 @12:00 PM
Nightmare Alley review – Guillermo del Toro’s trickster thriller is light on treats
Bradley Cooper leads a starry cast as an ambitious grifter in a sumptuously made noir that can’t quite grip us tightly enough
Benjamin Lee
06, Dec, 2021 @7:59 PM
Siberia review – Willem Dafoe and Abel Ferrara on fine freaky form
Dafoe has gravitas as a barkeep on a journey of delusion and epiphany in Ferrara’s glacial, woozy dream-odyssey
Peter Bradshaw
23, Sep, 2021 @6:00 AM
Hear me out: why Speed 2: Cruise Control isn't a bad movie
The latest in our series of writers sticking up for maligned movies is a defense of the Sandra Bullock-starring action sequel
Scott Jordan Harris
26, Mar, 2021 @6:17 AM
Zack Snyder's Justice League review – four hours of geek-pleasing grandeur | Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
Affleck and Cavill are as insipid as ever but this new cut adds operatic colour to vapid original – and a bold new ending
Peter Bradshaw
17, Mar, 2021 @10:03 AM
Brothers in Arms review – Platoon's veterans hold their audience hostage
Gruelling, macho and punishingly dull: welcome to the making-of documentary about Oliver Stone’s Vietnam classic
Ellen E Jones
01, Oct, 2020 @9:00 AM
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