The Veil review – Elisabeth Moss muddles through creaky spy series
The actor struggles with a distractingly unbelievable British accent in Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight’s tiresome espionage drama
December 2023
Next Goal Wins review – Michael Fassbender funnies it up in Taika Waititi’s football yarn
Waititi has made some strange casting decisions in his amiable comedy about the real-life travails of the American Samoa team and hothead coach Thomas Rongen
September 2023
First look review
Next Goal Wins review – Taika Waititi’s football comedy is strikingly unfunny
A miscast Michael Fassbender plays a coach trying to save a team of underdogs in a lacklustre fact-based string-puller
August 2022
The seven best films to watch on TV this week
The Assistant to The Invisible Man: the seven best films to watch on TV this week
Julia Garner stars in a disturbing fictionalisation of Weinstein’s crimes, while an exceptional Elisabeth Moss gives us the best version of HG Wells’s sci-fi classic ever
July 2022
Mad Men at 15: how the genius advertising drama foresaw the death of the American dream
From the micro-aggressions toward Black, female and LGBTQ characters to its depiction of a worrying narcissist named Donald, this forward-thinking drama was a warning from history
April 2022
TV review
Shining Girls review – Elisabeth Moss is perfect for this time-hopping thriller
Ferociously intense, remarkably nuanced and completely unflinching, Moss excels as a traumatised, time-slipping newspaper worker on the trail of a serial killer
The seven best shows to stream this week
From Gaslit to Ten Percent: the seven best shows to stream this week
Julia Roberts stars in a drama about an all-too-prescient political scandal, and the British remake of Call My Agent! gets off to a celeb-studded start
Sorted
Ten Australian accents by foreign actors, from worst to best – sorted
Jude Law, Elisabeth Moss, Benedict Cumberbatch and Kate Winslet give their all. But who nails it – and who fails dismally?
August 2021
The Handmaid’s Tale: will the TV hit break its cycle of cruelty?
Season four of the drama based on Margaret Atwood’s novel has seen Elisabeth Moss’s June in near-constant peril. However, it seems her latent rage could be the thing that sets her free
July 2021
The French Dispatch review – Wes Anderson’s ode to print journalism is a periodic delight
Amazing visuals, lots of laughs and an A-list cast – including Bill Murray – make Anderson’s tribute to the New Yorker a real treat
June 2021
TV review
The Handmaid’s Tale season four review – hope at last in the most harrowing show on TV
Elisabeth Moss has always made this impressive if horrifying TV. But as the new series turns June into queen of the rebels, it has a shot of new life
December 2020
From Nitram to Penguin Bloom: Australian films to look out for in 2021
Death! Dancing! Drinking! The best movie moments of 2020
November 2020
Tristram Kenton at the Guardian
Before they were famous, part two: stars' early stage roles – in pictures
Lockdown culture
Culture to cheer you up during the second lockdown: part two
October 2020
Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
Shirley review – Elisabeth Moss gets under a horror writer's skin
Moss bristles with malevolence as a fictionalised version of Shirley Jackson but the film’s early menace fizzles out
September 2020
Knock before entering: stars in their dressing rooms – in pictures
Photographer Simon Annand has been snapping actors backstage for almost four decades. His latest book, Time to Act, is a collection of more than 200 portraits of some of the world’s greatest performers. Here are 12 of the best
June 2020
History remixed: the rise of the anachronistic female lead
The lives of women from history, from Catherine the Great to Shirley Jackson, are being brought to the screen with a radical focus on character over facts
Phantom Cannes lineup a defiant statement of survival for festival that lives in the imagination
Peter Bradshaw
The Cannes 2020 branding may not mean much by the end of the year, but it’s a reminder of the wonderful alchemy that the festival can create
'She puts you into a dream': inside a thrilling film about Shirley Jackson
Shirley, a film by Josephine Decker, transforms the life of the notorious horror author into a dark psychodrama of her own making
