Wednesday: Netflix have absolutely smashed this fantastic Addams Family revamp
From brilliant gothic direction to casting that is absolutely perfect (Catherine Zeta-Jones as Morticia!), this series focusing on the creepy clan’s daughter is an utter joy
December 2021
The Royal Tenenbaums at 20: Wes Anderson’s finest and funniest movie
The precise dysfunctional family film set a template for the writer-director’s ouevre and gave Gene Hackman and his on-screen offspring some of their greatest roles
July 2021
Life and death looked straight in the eye: the legacy of Tony McGrath
The Observer’s picture editor from 1981 to 1993, who has died aged 80, saw photographic reportage as an agent of change. He first started taking photos for the paper in 1968, covering war, famine and the icons of his age
August 2020
The Witches at 30: a horror film for children that continues to terrify
Nicolas Roeg’s cruel adaptation of Roald Dahl’s tale of bloodthirsty child-killers remains a remarkably sadistic studio film for kids
April 2020
The top 25 most compelling Hollywood autobiographies – ranked!
Inspiring, addictive and occasionally gasp-worthy – to mark the publication of Woody Allen’s Apropos of Nothing, we arrange the best Tinseltown memoirs in order of excellence
February 2020
Waiting for Anya review – soapy second world war melodrama
Stranger Things’ Noah Schnapp stars in a gorgeous-looking but unemotional adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s novel
November 2019
Polar Squad review – John Cleese dials it up for lukewarm anti-fracking fable
Jeremy Renner’s arctic fox takes on an evil entrepreneur in this wryly funny but politically toothless environmental tale
May 2019
John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum review – the art of action
The spectacular third instalment in Keanu Reeves’s fighting franchise overwhelms with opulent martial arts set pieces
John Wick: Chapter 3: Parabellum review – franchise bloat for Keanu Reeves' hitman
Third chunk of the ultraviolent series has its customary of balletic violence and delusional grandeur, but its no longer so light on its feet
Anjelica Huston defends Woody Allen and Roman Polanski
Actor says she would work with Allen again ‘in a second’ and that Polanski had ‘paid his price’ for his behaviour
February 2019
Observer picture archive
Observer picture archive: Anjelica Huston, 22 February 1969
Tony McGrath photographed the teenager destined for fame.
November 2018
How we made
Anjelica Huston: how we made The Addams Family
‘I based Morticia on Jerry Hall. We’re still friends’
November 2014
Watch Me review – Anjelica Huston’s revealing account of her A-list friends
Anjelica Huston: ‘I wanted a perfect romance and a lovely husband’
October 2014
Celebrity authors find family sagas a winning formula
Celebrity memoir roundup
August 2014
A Story Lately Told review – Anjelica Huston dissects her glamorous life with a dispassionate eye
She has had a privileged life, but Anjelica Huston leaves the reader under no illusions in this accomplished memoir, writes Sophia Martelli
January 2014
A Story Lately Told: Coming of Age in Ireland, London and New York by Anjelica Huston – review
Macho and egotistical John Huston dominates Anjelica's vividly written, fascinating memoir. By Sam Leith
December 2013
A Story Lately Told by Anjelica Huston – review
The first volume of Anjelica Huston's memoirs is compelling, thoughtful, starry reading, writes Alexander Larman
November 2013
Critical eye
Book reviews roundup: The Valley of Amazement, The Letters of John F Kennedy, A Story Lately Told
What the critics thought of The Valley of Amazement by Amy Tan, The Letters of John F Kennedy edited by Martin W Sandler, A Story Lately Told by Anjelica Huston
