Club Zero review – not much to chew on in this baffling non-satire
Jessica Hausner’s baffling film, which avoids spelling out its obvious subject, focuses on a group of schoolgirls encouraged to live without food
January 2023
From Barbie to Creed III: the 2023 films Guardian writers are most excited about
The next 12 months offers a wide range of tantalising new movies. Here are the ones our critics are most intrigued about
December 2022
Blueback review – Tim Winton adaptation hammers home its climate message
Mia Wasikowska plays a marine biologist in the latest Australian film about interspecies mateship, which is broadly appealing – if a little on the nose
June 2022
Bergman Island review – Mia Hansen-Løve’s Baltic millefeuille
The writer-director’s drama about a relationship between two film-makers is an engaging autobiographical tease
May 2022
Bergman Island review – marital woes revealed on a trip to Ingmar Bergman territory
Real and imaginary marriage discontents bleed into each other when a director and his screenwriter spouse go on retreat to the great auteur’s island home
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
September 2020
Mark Kermode's film of the week
The Devil All the Time review – deliciously ripe gothic melodrama
Antonio Campos delivers a star-studded, darkly comic psychological thriller set in the postwar American Bible belt
December 2019
From The Final Quarter to Judy & Punch: the best Australian films of 2019
Plus Jennifer Kent’s elegant and brutal colonial drama, Lupita Nyong’o battling zombies, and the best biopic since Chopper
November 2019
Mia Wasikowska on Judy & Punch and gendered violence: 'How do you break that cycle?'
The actor’s new film – a feminist take on the puppet show – is a dark revenge tale for the #MeToo age
Mirrah Foulkes’s 17th-century-set debut feature is a mouth-puckeringly tart treatise on mob mentality and male aggression
Observer New Review Q&A
Mia Wasikowska: ‘After a while acting leaves you feeling hollow'
The Australian star of Alice in Wonderland on her new film, a feminist take on Punch and Judy, and why her costumes need pockets
September 2019
First look review
Blackbird review – Sarandon and Winslet's lifeless death drama
A terminally ill matriarch gathers her family together before she ends her life in a starry, but flat, drama that lacks insight and compelling conflict
July 2019
Lord of the Flies review – confronting the carnage of toxic masculinity
Mia Wasikowska and Contessa Treffone provide no easy answers in a stage production that flips Golding’s classic novel on its head
February 2019
Piercing review – perverse desires perverted
Nicolas Pesce is inspired by Italian sexploitation horror-thrillers of the 70s in this outre film about a man whose murderous desires are thwarted
January 2019
From Miss Fisher to Michelle Payne: 10 Australian films to look forward to in 2019
Mia Wasikowska, Miranda Tapsell, Richard Roxburgh and Alia Shawkat feature in forthcoming films from Mirrah Foulkes, Wayne Blair, Kriv Stenders and Sophie Hyde
January 2018
Zosia? Timothée? How to say the names of Hollywood’s superstars
The most exciting action and thriller films of 2018
December 2016
The most exciting period and historical films of 2017
In the latest in our 10-part series on movie treats to look forward to, we run through the period dramas coming to screens next year
May 2016
Alice Through the Looking Glass review – HG Wells meets Hogwarts
Alice Through the Looking Glass review – large as life and twice as phoney
