Jesse Eisenberg: ‘Do you look at me and think, God! What an indulgent prick?’
He writes, he acts – but the star of The Social Network isn’t comfortable with the fame that followed. How will he handle a gang of fans in a London park?
September 2015
Box office analysis: UK
Krays smash Legend muscles its way to top of UK box office
Box office analysis: UK
Straight Outta Compton is streets ahead at the UK box office
American Ultra review – stoner turns state killer to little comic effect
American Ultra review – galumphing stoner action comedy
The Guardian film show
The Guardian film show: American Ultra, Miss Julie, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl and No Escape – video reviews
American Ultra - video review
August 2015
American Ultra screenwriter blames film's failure on fear of originality
Max Landis has taken to Twitter to ask whether his action comedy’s underwhelming box office opening is a result of a tired landscape
American Ultra: should the amnesiac spy trope be forgotten?
From Bourne to Total Recall, the amnesiac spy trope has been used over and over to put the protagonist and viewer in the same boat. But is that getting old?
First look review
American Ultra review: bong ho action comedy puts Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart in a stupor
Jesse Eisenberg plays a stoned shop assistant with latent special agent skills in Nima Nourizadeh’s weak rip of The Bourne Identity
