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Jason Bateman

July 2023

  • Rachel McAdams and Jason Bateman star in Game Night

    Stream team
    Game Night: a snot-laughing comical masterpiece that improves on every rewatch

    With its whipfast joke ratio, physical comedy and undeniable ensemble cast, this goofy, rollicking ride should be considered part of the US canon

April 2023

  • Ben Affleck as Nike CEO Phil Knight in Air.

    Air review – Ben Affleck and Matt Damon drop the ball in Michael Jordan shoe drama

    Affleck’s dramatisation of the bid to get Jordan to endorse Nike’s radical new sneaker almost ignores the most compelling character

May 2022

  • ‘A foul-mouthed, pint-sized moral conscience-cum-business whiz’ … Julia Garner as Ruth Langmore in Ozark.

    Farewell to Ozark – the most thrilling, rewarding crime show around

    In this near-perfect world of secrets, lies and cartel bosses, Laura Linney and Jason Bateman have been compelling to the Byrdes’ bitter end – but it’s Ruth who’s the show’s real hero

April 2022

  • Streaming - Whats on

    The seven best shows to stream this week
    From Gaslit to Ten Percent: the seven best shows to stream this week

    Julia Roberts stars in a drama about an all-too-prescient political scandal, and the British remake of Call My Agent! gets off to a celeb-studded start

January 2022

  • Jason Bateman.

    The G2 interview
    ‘I stayed at the party too long’: Ozark’s Jason Bateman on Arrested Development, smiling villains and his lost decade

    Forty years after his breakthrough role in Little House on the Prairie, the actor is thrilling TV audiences as a drug cartel money launderer. But he almost threw his career away

December 2020

  • Jason Bateman delivers the monologue.

    Saturday Night Live recap
    Saturday Night Live: Jason Bateman gets a monkey off his back

    Melissa Carone made an inevitable cold open – but it was a shame real-life Trumper Victoria Jackson didn’t return

May 2020

  • Ozark

    Jump the shark
    Ozark: how an unnecessary new arrival turned drama into soap opera

    The atmospheric crime thriller based around a family laundering cash for a drug cartel never held back on ridiculousness. But it met its tipping point in season three

April 2020

  • Save Me Too, created by and starring Lennie James.

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: Save Me Too, Ozark, Money Heist, Pen15 and more

    Lennie James’s brilliant stolen child thriller returns

January 2020

  • Jason Bateman in 2019

    Bate-and-switch: how Jason Bateman learned to embrace his dark side

    The comedic actor has followed impressively amoral work in The Gift and Ozark with a shocking new role in Stephen King thriller The Outsider

August 2018

  • Ozark season 2

    TV review
    Ozark: season 2 review – Netflix's backwoods-noir crime tale returns with more moral murk

    Jason Bateman and Laura Linney are getting down with the yokels in this second-season opener – and getting shot of an inconvenient dead body

July 2018

  • Say sorry... Roseanne Barr; Jason Bateman; Samantha Bee; Josh Homme; Rita Ora and Maya Jama.

    From Rita Ora to Roseanne: celebrity apologies, rated!

    More and more famous people are issuing public apologies for things they’ve done, said or tweeted. But what is the best way to say sorry?

March 2018

  • Rachel McAdams and Jason Bateman in Game Night.

    Game Night review – rivalry takes a dark turn

    Rachel McAdams and Jason Bateman star in a witty comedy about couple dynamics that turns into a game of dangerous one-upmanship

February 2018

  • Game Night

    Game Night review – playful comedy thriller will just about win you over

    A talented cast, including Jason Bateman, Rachel McAdams and Sharon Horgan, ensure that this hit-and-miss caper remains snappy, if forgettable, fun

January 2018

  • Elisabeth Moss in The Handmaid’s Tale, Aziz Ansari in Master of None and Nicole Kidman in Big Little Lies. Expect Big Little Lies to win, ahem, big.

    Golden Globes 2018: who will win – and who should win – the TV categories

    The small-screen categories suggest that it’ll be a big night for dystopian drama The Handmaid’s Tale and the A-list stars of Big Little Lies

November 2017

  • This image released by Sony Pictures shows Ansel Elgort, right, and Jamie Foxx in a scene from "Baby Driver," in theaters on Aug. 11. (Wilson Webb/Sony/TriStar Pictures via AP)

    Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs
    DVD reviews: Baby Driver, Cars 3, Office Christmas Party and more

    Edgar Wright’s boy racer film is all speed and no substance, while The Philadelphia Story shows that Hollywood comedies once valued both sexes

July 2017

  • The stars are: Ozark (Jason Bateman), American Made (Tom Cruise), and Shot Caller (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) -

    Men behaving badly: how the white middle-class everyman became 2017's antihero

    From Jason Bateman in Ozark to Tom Cruise in American Made, the summer belongs to the middle-aged suburbanite tempted by a life of crime
  • Laura Linney

    Laura Linney: 'Having a child later in life has been wonderful'

    She was a lying needy sister in Savages, an apple pie innocent in Tales of the City – and now, in Ozark, she’s fleeing Mexican drug barons. The star talks about Hugh Grant’s career, working with the wrong people, and the joys of late motherhood
  • Laura Linney and Jason Bateman in Ozark.

    TV review
    Ozark review – Jason Bateman and Laura Linney go wild in the country

    A mob accountant relocates his family to rural Missouri in this darkly comic new drama, which simmers with menace but brims with natural beauty

June 2017

  • Look here … from left: Glow, Poldark, Vlogglebox, Game of Thrones and The Tick.

    Summer arts preview 2017
    The unmissable TV shows of summer 2017

    Naomi Watts is a shrink in meltdown, William and Harry remember Diana – and Ed Sheeran feels the chill in Game of Thrones. It’s your complete summer TV and streaming guide

February 2017

  • Emily Blunt in The Girl on the Train.

    Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs
    The Girl on the Train; A Date for Mad Mary and more – review

    Emily Blunt’s performance far exceeds the bounds of a glossy thriller, while Seána Kerslake is a perfect match for an ex-con drama
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