The Artful Dodger review – this Dickens sequel is fast, furious and really great fun
Thomas Brodie-Sangster’s nimble-fingered rogue reunites with Fagin in a penal colony in Australia for a glorious romp full of stolen jewels and hacked off limbs
November 2023
The Artful Dodger review – this zippy Dickensian spin-off is a very good time
Thomas Brodie-Sangster and David Thewlis are great fun in this new take on Oliver Twist, which sees the young pickpocket move to Australia
August 2022
TV review
The Sandman review – Neil Gaiman has created 2022’s single greatest hour of TV drama
This dark, engrossing comic book adaptation is utterly lavish, and features an emotional depth that’s almost unheard of in fantasy epics. It should delight fans and newcomers alike
December 2021
TV tonight
TV tonight: it’s the Insecure finale – and no one expects a happy ending
The last ever episode of Issa Rae’s Emmy-winning comedy. Plus: Worzel Gummidge gets twitchy. Here’s what to watch this evening
Observer TV reviews
The week in TV: Landscapers; The Great; You Don’t Know Me; How to Make It on OnlyFans
Olivia Colman and David Thewlis are superb as a pair of unlikely murderers on the run; The Great laughs in the face of history; and there’s only one real hero in You Don’t Know Me
TV review
Landscapers review – Olivia Colman and David Thewlis stun as killer couple on the run
TV tonight
TV tonight: Olivia Colman and David Thewlis star as two killers on the run
David Thewlis on new show Landscapers and the misogyny of Naked: ‘I find it much tougher to watch today’
November 2021
Naked review – one of British cinema’s great monsters
David Thewlis’s lost soul, raging around London in Mike Leigh’s fiercely bleak masterwork, is even more disturbing 28 years on
August 2021
Shooting Martha by David Thewlis review – clunky film-world farce
The actor’s new novel is set in a world of egotistical film directors and desperate actors, but the showbiz satire is often wide of the mark
July 2021
The best original photographs from the Observer
Original Observer Photography
The fastest British woman in history, the return of the music festival, and a collection of canines – the best photography commissioned by the Observer in July 2021
Observer New Review Q&A
David Thewlis: ‘It does get to you, spending more waking hours as a character than oneself’
The actor on his new novel about an irascible director, his faux-feud with Christopher Eccleston and his ‘secret’ marriage
The Dumb Waiter review – Thewlis and Mays’s supreme double act beefs up Pinter’s menace
David Thewlis and Daniel Mays add rich new shades to the over-familiar 1957 two-hander in this filmed adaptation
May 2021
Mark Kermode's film of the week
Rare Beasts review – Billie Piper’s deliciously dark and deadpan anti-romcom
Rare Beasts review – masterful Billie Piper rips up the romcom rulebook
February 2021
Hear me out
Hear me out: why The Island of Dr Moreau isn't a bad movie
Continuing our series of writers recommending maligned films is a defense of the troubled 1996 adaptation of the HG Wells cautionary tale
October 2020
Eternal Beauty review – a bold but jarring sketch of schizophrenia
