From her to her early days as an indie mumblecore darling to the patriarchy and box-office smashing Barbie – we rate Gerwig’s finest work
December 2023
Greta Gerwig named jury president of the Cannes film festival 2024
The Oscar-nominated writer and director of Lady Bird and Barbie was praised by the festival for ‘breaking down barriers and elevating intelligence and humanism’
March 2020
The unstoppable rise of nosebleeds in cinema
From demystifying romance in Autumn de Wilde’s Emma to representing another type of period drama, bloody noses on screen aren’t drying up anytime soon
January 2020
How long can this nonsense of the Oscars failing to nominate female directors go on?
Ellen E Jones
This year’s Academy Awards show that diversity drives will only get us so far. Filmgoers and the industry must question what makes a film award-worthy
July 2019
'We’ve gone through a lot of trauma': why millennial stories are saving Hollywood
After decades of an older generation portraying the age-group inaccurately, a new wave of auteurs are shaking up the film industry
June 2019
Act your age: teens put the sheen on films about growing up
Like Eighth Grade, Boyhood and the new comedy Good Boys, the most authentic coming-of-age movies feature casts still in the throes of adolescence
May 2019
Booksmart star Beanie Feldstein: ‘Everyone said we didn’t belong in LA’
She was Lady Bird’s best friend and her brother Jonah Hill got a tattoo in her honour – meet the sparky star of this summer’s wildest high school comedy
February 2019
Steve Rose on film
Ben Is Back to Beautiful Boy: why the white male bombs at the box office
Troubled white men, in film and on Esquire’s new cover, are everywhere. Does anyone care?
December 2018
And the 2018 Braddies go to … Peter Bradshaw's films of the year
Top UK films 2018
The 50 best films of 2018 in the UK: the full list
October 2018
On my radar
On my radar: Kurt Vile’s cultural highlights
The singer-songwriter on the joys of John Prine, the black comedy of TV’s Vice Principals and psychedelic pulp fiction
September 2018
The movie bogeyman of the year? Fundamentalist religion
From The Miseducation of Cameron Post to Apostasy, a new generation of film-makers are railing against the strictures of scripture
July 2018
Rising star Beanie Feldstein: ‘Lady Bird opened my eyes to what film can do’
After Greta Gerwig’s acclaimed coming of age tale, the actor is set to star as Caitlin Moran’s fictional alter-ego in How to Build a Girl. Here she talks about her brother Jonah Hill and how she got that unusual name
June 2018
Best films of 2018 so far
The very best of 2018, from Black Panther rewriting the rules for superheroes, Gary Oldman going to war as Churchill, and Maxine Peake blazing her way through 70s sexism
April 2018
The best coming of age films
'When you grow up your heart dies': how the coming-of-age film got smart
From Gucci ads to Instagram fads: how the Wes Anderson aesthetic took over the world
March 2018
Box office analysis: UK
Peter Rabbit kicks Black Panther off the top of the UK box office
On Mother’s Day, let’s celebrate the pleasure of watching mums failing badly
Catherine Bennett
Box office analysis: UK
Black Panther gobbles up Red Sparrow at snow-disrupted UK box office
Oscars 2018: The Shape of Water and Frances McDormand steal the night – as it happened
