The Exorcist: Believer review – Ellen Burstyn returns for schlocky sequel
Halloween rebooter David Gordon Green resurrects the cursed franchise for a gloopy new chapter which criminally wastes its returning scream queen
September 2023
The Exorcist review – Friedkin’s head-swivelling horror is still diabolically inspired
First look review
Mother, Couch! review – a first-rate cast gets lost in a second-rate muddle
October 2021
The Last Picture Show at 50: a melancholic ode to the ghost town
The bleak 1971 drama is an enduring look at a dying small town that finds moments of humanity in among the sadness
July 2021
The Exorcist: Ellen Burstyn to reprise role in new $400m trilogy
Universal has picked up the rights to an ambitious new continuation of the Oscar-winning horror
January 2021
Shock, no awe: how grim drama Pieces of a Woman fails to portray trauma
The Oscar-tipped Netflix drama centers on a harrowing and effective scene of loss yet its attempt to deal with the fallout fails to ring true
Cinema legend Ellen Burstyn: 'It was never my intention to be a movie star'
As she prepares to smash an Oscar record, the great actor talks about drawing on her own suffering, missing her violent mother – and surviving the Hollywood ‘hamburger machine’
Pieces of a Woman review – Vanessa Kirby excels in outstanding study of grief
This unflinching tale of neonatal death is a highly personal project for director Kornél Mundruczó and writer Kata Wéber
December 2020
Pieces of a Woman review – vehement but inauthentic childbirth drama
Kornél Mundruczó’s film, starring Vanessa Kirby and Shia LaBeouf as a young couple hit by tragedy, combines high trauma and horribly unconvincing stretches
October 2020
Requiem for a Dream at 20: Aronofsky's nightmare still haunts
The auteur’s bold and brutal 2000 adaptation of Hubert Selby Jr’s cultish novel about addiction remains an indelible and shocking act of provocation
September 2020
Pieces of a Woman director: gender neutral awards 'a logical move'
Hungarian film-maker Kornél Mundruczó backs up Tilda Swinton and Cate Blanchett, saying it was a step towards genuine equality
April 2018
Ellen Burstyn: 'Women on screen were prostitutes or victims – I wanted to embody a hero'
At 85, the award-winning actor is preparing for her directorial debut and starring in a new film. She talks about Trump, feminism and the accident on The Exorcist set that still leaves a bitter taste
