Your Christmas or Mine 2 review – sequel to culture-clash romcom has little to add
He’s posh, she’s not. This cosy, chirpy comedy, starring Asa Butterfield, hits the ski slopes for a forgettable festive sequel
December 2022
Your Christmas or Mine? review – ho ho ho-hum festive Britcom
A young couple end up with each other’s family for Christmas in a middling assortment of sitcom cliches and laboured farce
October 2022
Mark Kermode's film of the week
Flux Gourmet review – Peter Strickland’s deliciously bonkers tale of art, desire and gut pain
Conjuror of the bizarre Strickland outdoes himself with this tale of a sonic performance collective who stick microphones into food – and other places
April 2022
Choose or Die review – gory Netflix video game horror
There’s a surprisingly nasty edge to this tolerable yet derivative wannabe franchise-starter about a cursed game from the 80s
February 2022
Flux Gourmet review – poet of the weird Peter Strickland moves farther from reality
Gwendoline Christie and Asa Butterfield star in this stylish and deeply odd confection about ‘sonic cooking’
August 2021
Modesty pouches and masturbation montages: the making of Sex Education
The rude, raucous and revolutionary comedy is back for another term. The stars and creators reveal how it became one of Netflix’s biggest British hits
July 2021
Singing celebrities make film urging Britons to get Covid jab
David Walliams, Jim Broadbent, Nicola Roberts and Asa Butterfield among stars performing in short film
January 2021
Observer New Review Q&A
Asa Butterfield: 'Sex Education reassures people they’re not weird or alone'
The actor on filming the third series of the hit Netflix comedy, being taught cinema history by Scorsese – and the perils of toilet-training his cat
January 2020
TV review
Sex Education season two review – fast, funny and still not for the faint-hearted
The watcher
Sex Education: a teen classic that’s both horny and morally good
December 2019
Sex Education's Asa Butterfield: 'I feel more confident talking about sex'
2019 in TV
The 50 best TV shows of 2019: the full list
September 2019
First look review
Greed review – Steve Coogan gleams in knockabout satire of the mega-rich
Michael Winterbottom’s entertaining mockumentary about a high-street fashion tycoon presents a hideous carnival of obscene wealth, vanity and moral squalor
January 2019
'Take care of your actors': the intimacy director keeping Netflix’s sex scenes safe
The teen comedy Sex Education has been praised for its sex-positive bedroom portrayals. Its secret weapon? An intimacy co-ordinator and her copy of The Lesbian Kama Sutra
Sex Education: in praise of the raunchy yet heartfelt Netflix comedy
The critically acclaimed series combines teen comedy tropes with remarkable honesty, offering a fully fleshed portrait of how high schoolers deal with sex and consent today
TV review
Sex Education review – a horny teen comedy … and so much more
This Netflix show about life for the son of a sex therapist could so easily have been embarrassing. Instead, it is a glorious, heartfelt, eye-wateringly funny creation
February 2018
Journey’s End review – handsome first world war drama
Journey's End review – horror, humour and humanity in the trenches
February 2017
The Space Between Us review – cosmically mawkish teen romance
This tale of interplanetary young love falls apart upon take-off with a storyline that offers no surprises and fetishises its protagonist’s debilitating illness
October 2016
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children review – return to Burtonworld
A young adult novel of time loops and paranormal teenagers is adapted in classic Tim Burton fashion
