The Beast review – Léa Seydoux mesmerises in wildly ambitious sci-fi romance
May 2024
‘I identified with those worries’: George MacKay on masculinity, misogyny and playing an incel
First look review
The Second Act review – Quentin Dupieux’s likable meta comedy of actors’ private lives
February 2024
Dune: Part Two review – second half of hallucinatory sci-fi epic is staggering spectacle
Denis Villeneuve’s monumental adaptation expands its extraordinary world of shimmering strangeness. It’s impossible to imagine anyone doing it better
September 2023
Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
The Beast review – Léa Seydoux’s audacious drama throbs with fear
Disaster appears imminent as Seydoux and an impressive George MacKay meet across three different eras in what is maybe Bertrand Bonello’s best movie yet
June 2023
Best culture of 2023 so far
The best films of 2023 so far
Cate Blanchett’s unravelling conductor, Spielberg’s semi-memoir and the stop-motion tale of a shell wearing shoes all feature in the pick of the year released in the UK to date
April 2023
Mark Kermode's film of the week
One Fine Morning review – Mia Hansen-Løve’s moving tale of love and loss
In the role of a lifetime, Léa Seydoux plays a widowed single mum caught between new romance and the failing mind of her father in the French director’s deeply personal Cannes prize winner
January 2023
France review – Léa Seydoux’s celebrity journalist becomes the story
A hardened news reporter is forced to reassess her life in Bruno Dumont’s watchable if laboured media satire
December 2022
Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
France review – TV presenter Léa Seydoux is mesmeric in intriguing media satire
The star and the film’s intentional blankness add a layer of interest to Bruno Dumont’s loose reverie about a journalist experiencing an emotional breakdown
September 2022
Mark Kermode's film of the week
Crimes of the Future review – Cronenberg’s slightly creaky tribute to his own past
Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
Crimes of the Future review – Cronenberg’s post-pain, post-sex body horror sensation
August 2022
Down the rabbit hole
What links Beavis and Butt-Head to Kristen Stewart, via David Cronenberg?
Ease yourself into the rabbit hole, with Douglas Coupland and the slacker generation
May 2022
One Fine Morning review – Léa Seydoux sparkles in poignant drama
Cannes 2022: 10 movies to watch out for in this year’s festival
September 2021
James Bond: royal premiere for Daniel Craig's final film in the franchise No Time To Die – video
We’ve been expecting you, Mr Bond … No Time to Die premieres in London – in pictures
July 2021
France review – Léa Seydoux provides firm anchor for unsteady media satire
Deception review – Arnaud Desplechin’s unbearably twee take on Philip Roth
June 2021
Cannes makes up for lost time with a thrilling auteur-packed lineup
Peter Bradshaw
After a year off, Leos Carax should have punters at each others’ throats – and Wes Anderson will boost the blood sugar
