‘Sexy, sweaty and surprising – with a really big ending’: readers’ best films of 2024 so far
From jazzy anime to an unfilmable sci-fi epic, a poignant film without dialogue and the silliest LGBTQ+ movie you’ll ever see
March 2024
M Emmet Walsh obituary
M Emmet Walsh was both a mesmerising everyman and an indelible gargoyle. How I’ll miss those poached-egg eyes
Peter Bradshaw
M Emmet Walsh, Blade Runner, Blood Simple and Knives Out actor, dies aged 88
Drive-Away Dolls review – Ethan Coen’s lesbian crime caper gets stuck in first gear
Drive-Away Dolls review – Ethan Coen’s lesbian road trip is a cheerfully nonsensical caper
‘Women have libidos too!’: Ethan Coen and wife Tricia Cooke on their raunchy new lesbian road movie
February 2024
Drive-Away Dolls review – Ethan Coen sets off in a wild new direction
The writer-director splits from his brother and joins wife Tricia Cooke for a bawdy and brilliant road trip caper about two lesbian friends caught up in crime
January 2024
The Underdoggs review – Snoop Dogg turns kids’ team coach in wholesome sports comedy
Snoop plays a former sports star who takes on losing pee-wee outfit in a charming comedy that has more than a passing resemblance to Bad News Bears
July 2023
‘Singular, eccentric visions’: Lee Friedlander’s photography seen through the eyes of Joel Coen
The celebrated film-maker saw something of himself in the work of the American photographer. Now he’s curated a new book and exhibition
January 2023
Ranked
Frances McDormand’s 10 best performances – ranked!
Shortly to be seen on our screens in Women Talking, the actor is enjoying a fruitful – and Oscar-hauling – career third act, creating work that is empathic, political, and often doesn’t look like acting at all
December 2022
Ranked
The best New Year’s Eve scenes – ranked
We trawl acres of celluloid for the best New Year’s Eves, from romcoms and musicals to gangster flicks and comedies, from parties-for-two to hellishly elaborate dance sequences
May 2022
Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble in Mind review – Ethan Coen’s amazing tribute to the Killer
The Coen brother goes solo to put together a documentary about the shamanic wild man of early rock’n’roll, who reinvented himself as a country and gospel act
January 2022
Macbeth movies have been foul and fair – Joel Coen’s is a stunner
Tilda Swinton: ‘My ambition was always about having a house by the sea and some dogs’
December 2021
Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
The Tragedy of Macbeth review – Denzel Washington delivers a noirish nightmare
Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand hit top form in Joel Coen’s austere reimagining of Shakespeare’s Scottish bloodbath
Licorice Pizza, The Matrix and Macbeth: new films to watch in Australia over the holidays
Oscar potentials, indie gems and blockbuster revivals: here’s our guide to what to watch on Boxing Day 2021 and beyond
Observer New Review Q&A
Actor Kathryn Hunter: ‘I gravitated towards male roles because men are given more interesting things to do’
Best films of 2021
The 50 best films of 2021 in the UK, No 10: The Tragedy of Macbeth
‘A post-menopausal Macbeth’: Joel Coen on tackling Shakespeare with Frances McDormand
