Freud’s Last Session review – what-if meeting of minds with Anthony Hopkins as the master analyst
Best culture of 2024 so far
The best films of 2024 in the UK so far
April 2024
Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver review – Zack Snyder’s bombastically fun sequel
The divisive director’s sci-fi follow-up is both original and derivative and will be unlikely to convert anyone, but there’s something charming about its sincerity
January 2024
One Life review – stirring tale of the ‘British Schindler’ predictably told
James Hawes’s workmanlike biopic of Nicholas Winton, who saved 669 children from the Nazis, is lifted by a stellar cast
One Life marketing materials altered following Jewish backlash
The promotional terms for the biopic of ‘British Schindler’ Nicholas Winton have been amended following criticism of the term ‘central European’ to describe the children he saved
Nicholas Winton saved my father from the Nazis – here’s how One Life betrays him
Matthew Reisz
The new film about the British humanitarian who rescued 669 Czech Jewish children sticks to a feelgood script, and misses the more compelling reality
December 2023
‘The worst meeting I have ever had’: why a Kindertransport hero rejected a film about his life
As One Life is released, producer says that Nicholas Winton – the ‘British Schindler’ who saved 669 children – was reluctant for his story to be told
Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
One Life review – Anthony Hopkins in extraordinary true story of ‘British Schindler’
Hopkins stars as Nicholas Winton, who rescued 669 Jewish children from the Nazis – alongside Helena Bonham Carter on mighty form
‘It will always be less hellish than the reality’: why cinema keeps returning to the Holocaust
Kindertransport success of ‘Britain’s Schindler’ celebrated in new film and exhibition
How Nicholas Winton saved 669 children (and counting) from the Holocaust: ‘He became everybody’s grandfather’
September 2023
First look review
One Life review – Anthony Hopkins moves in stirring second world war drama
The two-time Oscar winner makes a convincing play for a third statuette in the powerful story of Nicholas Winton, who saved Jewish children before the war began
July 2023
Kate Winslet, Emily Blunt and Olivia Colman movies headed to Toronto film festival
Despite the actors’ strike limiting promotional activity, a bumper lineup of Oscar-tipped films is set to premiere in September
June 2023
‘Mine’s lobster and champagne’: Judi Dench reveals secret onstage supper at Shakespeare play
Chris Hemsworth thinks Thor has become ‘too silly’ – if superheroes are turning on Marvel, is endgame nigh?
Stuart Heritage
February 2023
Freudian trip: psychoanalyst’s London home recreated in Dublin for major film
Freud’s Last Session, starring Anthony Hopkins, will feature a replica of the famous couch
November 2022
Armageddon Time review – worlds collide in terrific coming-of-age drama
Anthony Hopkins on film stardom at 84: ‘He said, Oh my God. You’re really strange!’
October 2022
Bram Stoker’s Dracula review – Gary Oldman is Pierrot from hell in blood-red 90s take
Francis Ford Coppola’s 1992 all-star retelling features an outstanding performance from Gary Oldman as the tormented count
September 2022
The Son review – laceratingly painful drama of familial fear and loathing
Florian Zeller’s follow-up to The Father features a tremendous performance from Hugh Jackman, as a divorced lawyer who agrees to look after his troubled offspring
