Parthenope review – Paolo Sorrentino contrives a facile, bikini-clad self-parody
The heroine is a victim of her own beauty in this exercise in languorous image-making that is too conceited to allow any emotional investment
March 2024
Stars in disguise: behind the scenes with Gary Oldman, Jennifer Lopez and Jerry Lewis – in pictures
Gary Oldman as Cary Grant, J-Lo doing the tango … The photographs of Funny Bones director Peter Chelsom capture his actors in a different light
December 2023
Slow Horses to Ghosts: it’s Guardian readers’ best TV of 2023
Observer TV reviews
The week in TV: The Couple Next Door; Slow Horses; Being Kae Tempest; The Doll Fctory – review
November 2023
TV review
Slow Horses season three review – Kristin Scott Thomas is absolutely top-notch
As ever, this grubby spy thriller is an utter pleasure. It’s big, bold, daft and sees Scott Thomas on brilliantly droll form – alongside a joyously shambolic Gary Oldman
Gary Oldman: cinema’s master of disguise returns as Slow Horses’ seedy spook
As the Oscar-winning actor returns to his filthy desk as Jackson Lamb in the Apple TV+ espionage thriller, we look at the man behind many masks
The watcher
Slow Horses: it’s wild how good Gary Oldman’s spy thriller is
From its cast of acting royalty – Kristin Scott Thomas! – to the excellent dialogue, this drama just whizzes by. It’s a hugely fun, totally charming watch that gets everything right
September 2023
The reader interview
Tricky: ‘I was less nervous going to prison than I was getting on stage’
Author Mick Herron: ‘I’d have made an awful spy. I don’t have a smartphone or wifi’
January 2023
How we made
Ray Winstone and Gary Oldman on Nil By Mouth: ‘It’s a tough watch’
‘It’s a harrowing film, perhaps not one for a Saturday night with a pizza. But it’s stood the test of time – and that’s down to the genius of Gary Oldman’
December 2022
‘In real life, you don’t touch the trigger until you plan on squeezing’: what actual spies think of TV thrillers
Too much sex and gunfights, far too little paperwork … espionage shows aren’t exactly a masterclass in realism. Ex-agents reveal what they get right and wrong
November 2022
Nil By Mouth review – Gary Oldman’s overwhelming study of family violence
It’s unsurprising the actor has yet to direct another film after giving so much to this blistering debut, acted at full tilt by a remarkable cast
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
‘I want my work to be invisible’: Hollywood’s prosthetics maestros share their secrets
How makeup masters lay the foundation for award-worthy performances, from transforming Bradley Cooper into Bernstein to helping Brendan Fraser play a very obese man in The Whale
August 2022
Exposing Muybridge review – fascinating portrait of ornery photography pioneer
While we wait for a biopic, this is an intriguing doc about the man whose photographs of bodies in motion sparked cinema’s development
April 2022
TV review
Slow Horses review – Gary Oldman will give you deja vu
This thriller about washed-up spies is certainly tense, but it feels like we’ve seen the Tinker Tailor actor – and co-star Kristin Scott Thomas – play these roles before
May 2021
Hear me out
Hear me out: why 2014’s Robocop isn’t a bad movie
The Woman in the Window review – broken thriller is barely worth a look
March 2021
Comfort food: the Oscars nominations are not nearly as radical as they think they are
