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Jeffrey Wright

June 2024

  • Marisa Abela as Amy Winehouse in Back to Black and Dev Patel in Monkey Man.

    Best culture of 2024 so far
    The best films of 2024 in the UK so far

    Seduced by Sam Taylor-Johnson’s woozy Amy Winehouse biopic and kicked into tomorrow by Dev Patel’s Monkey Man, we replay six fantastic months of film

February 2024

  • A lifetime swimming against the tide … Jeffrey Wright as Thelonious ‘Monk’ Ellison in American Fiction.

    Best picture Oscar hustings
    Why American Fiction should win the best picture Oscar

  • Jeffrey Wright as Thelonious ‘Monk’ Ellison in American Fiction.AMERICAN FICTION An Orion Pictures Release Photo credit: Claire Folger © 2023 Orion Releasing LLC. All Rights Reserved.

    American Fiction review – satisfyingly prickly satire on race and hypocrisy in the literary world

January 2024

  • Jeffrey Wright as Thelonious ‘Monk’ Ellison in American Fiction.

    American Fiction review – entertaining comedy collision of race, class and envy

    This enjoyable meta-level adaptation of Percival Everett’s 2001 novel Erasure tackles black-victimhood stereotypes, showcasing Jeffrey Wright and Issa Rae as rival writers
  • Jeffrey Wright as Thelonious ‘Monk’ Ellison in American Fiction.

    How Cord Jefferson turned a novel about race into American Fiction – the year’s buzziest comedy

    The Oscar-nominated film is a biting satire of the publishing industry’s obsession with stereotypical ‘Black’ stories
  • Jeffrey Wright: ‘It’s the first time that I’ve had this level of support for a film that I’ve been so central to.’

    Jeffrey Wright on finally being up for the best actor Oscar: ‘I was frustrated, but I’m not frustrated now’

    As Thelonious ‘Monk’ Ellison in American Fiction, Wright is finally in the running for a best actor Oscar – while also challenging mainstream presentations of Black life

May 2023

  • Steve Carell in Asteroid City.

    Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
    Asteroid City review – Wes Anderson’s 1950s sci-fi is an exhilarating triumph of pure style

    This tale of earth-shattering events in a space-obsessed desert town leans nicely into its own artificiality, and every delicious, microscopic detail is a delight

February 2022

  • Robert Pattinson in The Batman.

    The Batman review – Robert Pattinson’s emo hero elevates gloomy reboot

    Matt Reeves’ film is spectacular and well-cast but an intriguing saga of corruption devolves into a tiresome third act

October 2021

  • Tilda Swinton in The French Dispatch

    The French Dispatch review – exasperating Wes Anderson portmanteau picture

  • Jeffrey Wright

    Jeffrey Wright: ‘There’s a relentless, grotesque debasement of language in the US’

May 2020

  • Ashton Sanders and Jeffrey Wright in All Day and a Night, a weightier alternative to the average Netflix original.

    All Day and a Night review – stylish Netflix father-son crime drama

    Moonlight’s Ashton Sanders gives a compelling lead performance as a young man trying to escape his father’s shadow

September 2019

  • Steve Rose

    The Goldfinch: would it have worked better as a TV show?

    Steve Rose
    The film distills the odyssey of the novel into a movie. Its cast and director discuss making the ‘daunting’ adaptation

August 2015

  • Amy Schumer , Chuck Schumer<br>Actress Amy Schumer becomes emotional during a news conference while her distant cousin, New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, looks on in New York, Monday, Aug. 3, 2015. The Schumers are teaming up to try and enact gun control regulations. They cited the recent shooting in a Louisiana movie theater that killed two women and injured nine others during a screening of the movie “Trainwreck” starring Amy Schumer. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

    Amy Schumer calls for tighter gun control after Trainwreck shootings

    Comic teams up with her cousin, New York senator Charles Schumer, behind plan to limit access to weapons for criminals and people with mental illness

July 2015

  • Amy Schumer

    Amy Schumer and other Trainwreck stars react to Lafayette shooting

    Schumer, Wendell Pierce and Patton Oswalt among those expressing sadness after gunman opens fire with semi-automatic handgun during screening in Lafayette cinema

April 2013

  • Top 32 Character actors

    Top 23 character actors in film

    Tilda Swinton, Michael Shannon, Ken Jeong: who are the best character actors in film?

January 2009

  • Josh Brolin at the New York Film Critics Circle awards

    Shreveport prosecutors drop charges against Brolin and Wright

    W actors were arrested last July following an alleged altercation at a bar in the Louisiana city

July 2008

  • Actor Josh Brolin

    Cast members of George Bush biopic arrested in Louisiana

    Actors Josh Brolin and Jeffrey Wright, along with five members of the crew, were arrested early Saturday near the location of filming

July 2000

  • Jeffrey Wright

    Mark Morris

    ...the classically trained actor who steals the show in the new Shaft movie

October 1999

  • Look back with Ang

    Ang Lee was once Taiwan's Woody Allen, a director of smart, offbeat movies until Sense and Sensibility transformed him into a Hollywood player. His latest movie, Ride With the Devil, a take on American history, opens the London Film Festival next month

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