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Tom Burke

May 2024

  • USA. Anya Taylor-Joy in (C)Warner Bros. Pictures new film: Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024). Plot: The origin story of renegade warrior Furiosa before she teamed up with Mad Max in 'Fury Road'. Ref: LMK110-J10651-120424 Supplied by LMKMEDIA. Editorial Only. Landmark Media is not the copyright owner of these Film or TV stills but provides a service only for recognised Media outlets. pictures@lmkmedia.com<br>2X0RXFY USA. Anya Taylor-Joy in (C)Warner Bros. Pictures new film: Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024). Plot: The origin story of renegade warrior Furiosa before she teamed up with Mad Max in 'Fury Road'. Ref: LMK110-J10651-120424 Supplied by LMKMEDIA. Editorial Only. Landmark Media is not the copyright owner of these Film or TV stills but provides a service only for recognised Media outlets. pictures@lmkmedia.com

    Wendy Ide's film of the week
    Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga review – renegade warrior Anya Taylor-Joy ignites thunderous action prequel

    George Miller’s world-building spectacle is an assault on the senses that’s given a human heart by its remarkable star
  • Actor Tom Burke photographed at the Guardian offices, March 2024. First use film &amp; music

    ‘I did a lot of yelling’: Tom Burke on socks, controversy and Mad Max

    Yes, there were more flame-throwers, but working on Furiosa was pretty similar to starring in Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir, says the actor. So how does he duck the crossfire that comes with playing JK Rowling’s Strike?
  • Furiosa : A Mad Max Saga.

    Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga review – Anya Taylor-Joy is tremendous as chase resumes

    Taylor-Joy makes a fantastic action heroine, facing down a hilariously evil Chris Hemsworth in signature high-speed fights

August 2023

  • Roger Evans and Tom Burke in Klokkenluider.

    Klokkenluider review – tough-guy actor Neil Maskell directs brooding black comedy

    There is something of In Bruges about this Belgium-set tale of whistleblowers in hiding, with a little bit of David Brent

December 2022

  • Kíla Lord Cassidy, Tom Burke and Florence Pugh in The Wonder.

    Best films 2022
    Best movies of 2022 in the US: No 7 – The Wonder

    A strange and beautiful period drama full of mystery and miracles – and Florence Pugh is a wonder herself, with a bristling, transfixing performance
  • ‘Eerie, remarkable’ … Kíla Lord Cassidy, Tom Burke and Florence Pugh in The Wonder

    Best films 2022
    Best films of 2022 in the UK: No 8 – The Wonder

    A strange and beautiful period drama full of mystery and miracles – Florence Pugh is a wonder herself, with a bristling, transfixing performance
  • Cormoran Strike (Tom Burke) and Robin Ellacott (Holliday Grainger) in Strike: Troubled Blood

    TV review
    Strike: Troubled Blood review – the show’s real hook: will Robin and Strike finally get together?

    Never mind the murder investigation: the will-they won’t-they relationship between the two detectives is the beating heart of this Robert Galbraith (AKA JK Rowling) adaptation

November 2022

  • Florence Pugh and Kíla Lord Cassidy in The Wonder

    The Wonder review – Florence Pugh’s passionate reckoning with a horrific miracle

    Pugh drives forward Sebastián Lelio’s haunting adaptation of Emma Donoghue’s story of divine possession

October 2022

  • Tom Burke leaning on a weathered wall

    Observer New Review Q&A
    Tom Burke: ‘Alan Rickman was like family, really’

    The actor on tapping into his sinister side for Joanna Hogg’s Sundance hit The Souvenir, losing godfather Alan Rickman, and growing sideburns for new film The Wonder

April 2022

  • Ruth Wilson and Tom Burke in True Things.

    Mark Kermode's film of the week
    True Things review – seductively dangerous liaisons in Ramsgate

    Ruth Wilson is brilliant as a benefits officer who develops an unhealthy attraction to a charsimatic stranger in Harry Wootliff’s assured psychological drama

March 2022

  • TRUE THINGS, from left: Ruth Wilson, Tom Burke, 2021. © Samuel Goldwyn Films /Courtesy Everett Collection<br>2HWWE7D TRUE THINGS, from left: Ruth Wilson, Tom Burke, 2021. © Samuel Goldwyn Films /Courtesy Everett Collection

    True Things review – eroticism and unfulfilled yearning in a seaside town

    Ruth Wilson and Tom Burke are formidable in this tale of emotional self-harm, but elements of the film remain unconvincing

September 2021

  • True Things

    First look review
    True Things review – Ruth Wilson and Tom Burke’s erotic flop

    Venice has played host to the premiere of Harry Wootliff’s oddly bog-standard story of a Ramsgate benefits officer wooed by a love-rat

November 2020

  • Getting his due … Gary Oldman as Herman Mankiewicz.

    Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
    Mank review – David Fincher swooningly revisits myth of Citizen Kane

    Gary Oldman plays cynical screenwriter Herman J Mankiewicz in a gorgeously shot film that both revels in Hollywood’s golden age and exposes its corruption

December 2019

  • Compelling … Tom Burke and Honor Swinton Byrne.

    Top UK films 2019
    The 50 best films of 2019 in the UK: No 5 – The Souvenir

  • An inch-perfect recreation ... Honor Swinton Byrne and Tom Burke in The Souvenir.

    Top US films 2019
    The 50 best films of 2019 in the US: No 6 – The Souvenir

September 2019

  • Tom Burke and Honor Swinton Byrne in The Souvenir.

    Mark Kermode's film of the week
    The Souvenir – Joanna Hogg’s most intimate film to date

    Tom Burke and Honor Swinton Byrne star in this tender tale of a relationship built on deceit

May 2019

  • Rosmersholm by Ibsen, , Writer - Henrik Ibsen, Director - Ian Rickson, Set and Costume designer - Rae Smith, Lighting - Neil Austin, Duke of Yorks Theatre, West end, London, 2019, Credit: Johan Persson/

    Rosmersholm review – Atwell and Burke are breathtaking in Ibsen masterpiece

    Duncan Macmillan’s deft but daring tweaks underline the majesty of this sexually charged study of faith and heartbreak

January 2019

  • Tom Burke and Honor Swinton Byrne in The Souvenir.

    The Souvenir review – Joanna Hogg back on form with sly, disconcerting drama

    Hogg’s disconcerting drama, unveiled at Sundance, challenges insecure film student Honor Swinton Byrne to navigate the murky depths of class and privilege

October 2018

  • Don Carlos

    Don Carlos review – Tom Burke strikes out with Schiller's tale of intrigue and incest

    The actor and director Gadi Roll launch their new company with a frustrating take on the drama set in the 16th-century Spanish court

November 2012

  • Actor Tom Burke

    Why we're watching …
    Why we're watching… Tom Burke

    The 31-year-old actor from The Hour on filming a Thai boxing thriller in Bangkok
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