Zac Efron

The Greatest Beer Run Ever review – crass Vietnam jaunt falls flat

Zac Efron goes to great lengths for a few drinks with his buddies in Peter Farrelly’s formulaic latest

Wendy Ide

02, Oct, 2022 @11:30 AM

The Greatest Beer Run Ever review – Zac Efron’s charm can’t save Vietnam misfire

Green Book director Peter Farrelly makes an equally cliche-ridden follow-up, the true story of a man bringing beers to his army buddies

Charles Bramesco in Toronto

14, Sep, 2022 @5:57 PM

Firestarter review – soggy Stephen King remake struggles to ignite

Zac Efron tries his best in an otherwise regrettable retread of the horror author’s tale of a girl with superpowers

Benjamin Lee

13, May, 2022 @6:06 PM

Gold review – Zac Efron fries in a tough and tense outback thriller

Director-actor Anthony Hayes and his famous co-star deliver strong performances but this dystopian vision becomes gratingly thin

Luke Buckmaster

12, Jan, 2022 @4:30 PM

Dubai: A Riveting Mystery – Jessica Alba and Zac Efron’s new tourist ad continues a Captivating Saga

Tired of Tinseltown, the pair have turned instead to shilling for the UAE. Oddly, their YouTube advertorial micro-features are actually really good

Stuart Heritage

21, Oct, 2021 @12:47 PM

It’s time to stop making movies about Ted Bundy | Adrian Horton

The trailer for American Boogeyman, yet another film to cast a handsome actor as a serial killer, faces backlash. Who is asking for more Bundy content?

Adrian Horton

13, Jul, 2021 @8:43 PM

Hear me out: why Dirty Grandpa isn’t a bad movie

Continuing our series of writers defending films loathed by most is a plea to reconsider Robert De Niro’s smutty comedy

Catherine Shoard

17, May, 2021 @6:06 AM

Hear me out: why The Paperboy isn’t a bad movie

Continuing our series of writers highlighting unfairly criticised films is a defence of Lee Daniels’ starry and steamy noir

Guy Lodge

26, Apr, 2021 @6:18 AM

From Nitram to Penguin Bloom: Australian films to look out for in 2021

Jane Campion, Larissa Behrendt and Baz Luhrmann helm some of next year’s big releases, with stars including Zac Efron, Naomi Watts and Elisabeth Moss

Luke Buckmaster

25, Dec, 2020 @7:00 PM

If Zac Efron has a ‘dad bod’, what hope is there for the rest of us? | Priya Elan

The age of dad prefixes has surely run its course, says the Guardian’s deputy fashion editor Priya Elan

Priya Elan

27, Jul, 2020 @1:54 PM

Scoob review – scrappy animated reboot is a ruff ride

A messy and mystery-free relaunch of the classic animation tries, and fails, to update the formula, adding a charmless superhero spin