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Jennifer Jason Leigh

June 2024

  • Danny DeVito, Chris Pine and Annette Bening in Poolman.

    Poolman review – Chris Pine makes splash of totally wrong kind in shambolic stoner comedy

    Pine writes, directs and stars – alongside Danny DeVito and Annette Bening – in this rambling comedy mystery about a shaggy, quirky pool attendant

March 2024

  • Jude Law and Jennifer Jason Leigh in Existenz

    Stream team
    Existenz: David Cronenberg’s video game thriller gets under the skin

    Released fresh after The Matrix, Existenz sees Jude Law and Jennifer Jason Leigh pursued by assassins in a virtual reality game that toys with the subconscious

January 2022

  • Kristine Froseth and Jon Bernthal appear in <em>Sharp Stick</em> by Lena Dunham, an official selection of the Premieres section at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute. All photos are copyrighted and may be used by press only for the purpose of news or editorial coverage of Sundance Institute programs. Photos must be accompanied by a credit to the photographer and/or 'Courtesy of Sundance Institute.' Unauthorized use, alteration, reproduction or sale of logos and/or photos is strictly prohibited.

    First look review
    Sharp Stick review – Lena Dunham’s comeback is a misjudged experiment

    The Girls co-creator’s first feature since 2011 on a 26-year-old’s sexual awakening has flashes of brilliance but is hobbled by infantilization

June 2021

  • Awake: (L-R) Lucius Hoyos as Noah, Gina Rodriguez as Jill, Ariana Greenblatt as Matilda. Cr. Peter H. Stranks/NETFLIX © 2021

    Awake review – Netflix’s Bird Box-lite thriller is a real snooze

    Gina Rodriguez can’t save a silly and unintentionally amusing apocalyptic tale about a mysterious affliction that means people are no longer able to sleep

May 2021

  • Amy Adams in The Woman in the Window.

    The Woman in the Window review – broken thriller is barely worth a look

    Amy Adams gives a flat performance as an agoraphobe unravelling a dull mystery in Joe Wright’s cursed misstep now being dumped on Netflix

December 2020

  • About to run amok … Andrea Riseborough in Possessor.

    Brandon Cronenberg on gougings, knifings and pokerings: 'CGI is too floaty and unreal'

    The horror director is back with a sci-fi shocker about mind-robbing assassins going on violent killing sprees. He tells our writer why digital effects just don’t cut the eyeball

December 2018

  • Matthew McConaughey (Finalized);Richie Merritt (Finalized)<br>Richie Merritt (White Boy Rick, left) and Matthew McConaughey (Richard Wershe Sr.) star in Columbia Pictures' and Studio 8's WHITE BOY RICK.

    White Boy Rick review – bland young gun biopic

    Matthew McConaughey and Jennifer Jason Leigh can’t save this uninvolving drama set in crime-ridden 80s Detroit

June 2018

  • Jennifer Jason Leigh in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles

    The G2 interview
    ‘I have countless stories’: Jennifer Jason Leigh on lucky breaks, lotharios and late motherhood

    The famously private actor opens up about Quentin Tarantino, Woody Allen, her difficult family – and how her role in Patrick Melrose got under her skin

March 2016

  • Jennifer Jason Leigh was snubbed by the Oscars for Georgia in 1996.

    Five best moments
    Jennifer Jason Leigh: five best moments

    With major roles in Anomalisa and The Hateful Eight, Leigh is receiving the comeback she has long deserved but what have been her finest performances

January 2016

  • Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Tim Roth in The Hateful Eight

    Mark Kermode's film of the week
    The Hateful Eight review – hard to hate but tough to love

    Quentin Tarantino’s western fizzes with his usual exuberant violence and grotesque characters, but lacks originality and heart
  • National Board of Review Awards Gala, New York, America - 05 Jan 2016<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Variety/REX/Shutterstock (5510675bb) Jennifer Jason Leigh National Board of Review Awards Gala, New York, America - 05 Jan 2016

    30 minutes with …
    Jennifer Jason Leigh: 'Until Tarantino, I had forgotten who I was as an actress'

    The Hateful Eight and Anomalisa actor on why she thought she was out of touch, and how to wash fake brains out of your hair
  • Jennifer Jason Leigh

    Jennifer Jason Leigh: ‘I've been at this precipice so many times'

    She was the queen of 90s film noir, starring in Single White Female and Short Cuts. Now Leigh is back with two of the biggest, bravest roles of her career. Could this be her year?

October 2015

  • Luis Silva in Golden Lion winner From Afar.

    Cinema now
    Cinema’s hot 25: what will you be watching?

    Virtual reality, 70mm film, digital streaming, the new Star Wars – read on for the biggest things in cinema in the coming months

September 2015

  • Duke Johnson and Charlie Kaufman.

    Charlie Kaufman on weirdness, failure and his new puppet noir

  • Kristen Stewart on the red carpet at the Equals premiere.

    Venice film festival – plenty of punch to disturb the peace

May 2015

  • Samuel L Jackson, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Kurtt Russell in The Hateful Eight.

    First image from Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight revealed

    Entertainment Weekly cover features Samuel L Jackson, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Kurt Russell, stars of the film-maker’s new western

October 2014

  • Jennifer Jason Leigh.

    Jennifer Jason Leigh saddles up for Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight

    Actor set to take lead female role in Tarantino’s revisionist Wyoming western, opposite rumoured co-stars Bruce Dern, Tim Roth and Samuel L Jackson

June 2014

  • Jennifer Jason Leigh in Mrs Parker and the Vicious Circle

    Reel history
    Mrs Parker and the Vicious Circle: does it get under Dorothy's skin?

    Alex von Tunzelmann: This Dorothy Parker biopic captures the enigmatic nature of its subject well – but fails to stitch chunks of her sublime writing together into a satisfying narrative

February 2008

  • Biographical dictionary of film
    Jennifer Jason Leigh

    An extraordinary, unstable, shy actress, you never know quite where you are with her. I hope she goes on for ever

December 2007

  • Film blog
    The road to the Oscars: Who will claim best actress?

    In a year when big female roles were thin on the ground, the best actress category will feature several performances which would otherwise be overlooked

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