‘Fo’ shiz, homie!’: Michelle Williams’ impression of Justin Timberlake is Britney’s greatest revenge
Stuart Heritage
For the audiobook of Spears’s The Woman in Me, Williams delivers Timberlake’s cringeworthy lines even more scathingly and excruciatingly than they are written
July 2023
Edinburgh film festival announces lineup after seeing off closure threat
Having survived the collapse of its parent organisation, the festival returns with a slimmed-down event
April 2023
Director Kelly Reichardt: ‘Keep in mind, I don’t have my finger on any pulse’
The film-maker behind First Cow discusses her new Michelle Williams-starring drama Showing Up and the difficulties of making art in this climate
March 2023
Best picture Oscar hustings
Why The Fabelmans should win the best picture Oscar
Steven Spielberg’s autobiographical ode to film-making is expertly assembled, shrewdly scripted and full of feeling. It deserves a golden statue
January 2023
Mark Kermode's film of the week
The Fabelmans review – Spielberg’s lavish love letter to cinema
Michelle Williams and Paul Dano are spot on as the budding film-maker’s parents, yet the director’s childhood memoir plays to the awards gallery rather than to his fans
‘Girls today aren’t prey. They are victorious’: Michelle Williams on #MeToo, money and playing Spielberg’s mum
The actor is putting all her experiences into an Oscar-nominated turn as the director’s formidable mother. She talks about the dramatic changes she’s witnessed in Hollywood and beyond
Weekend
Actor Michelle Williams, Marina Hyde on Nadhim Zahawi’s career, and Sam Wollaston plays pickleball – podcast
The Fabelmans review – Spielberg’s beguiling ode to a life made by movies will leave you on a high
Oscar nominations 2023: the full list
December 2022
Best films US 2022
Best movies of 2022 in the US: No 6 – The Fabelmans
Steven Spielberg’s thorny family drama gave us unusual insight into how the world’s most famous director came to be
November 2022
From Fellini to Spielberg: an enduring obsession with the memoir movie
Steven Spielberg is just the latest film-maker to look back on his childhood following in the footsteps of Terrence Malick and Federico Fellini
September 2022
From The Whale to The Fabelmans: where does this year’s Oscar race stand?
With fall festivals coming to a close and with most of the big films having premiered, this year’s potential winners and losers are starting to take shape
Toronto film festival 2022 roundup – Spielberg, Mendes and a deep, joyous love of cinema
Steven Spielberg and Sam Mendes offered paeans to the silver screen, Viola Davis dazzled as a gung-ho warrior and Daniel Craig brought the house down
First look review
The Fabelmans review – Steven Spielberg’s sweet but sanitised personal drama
Toronto film festival: the director goes back to his childhood for an endearing, if overlong, film with an Oscar-tipped Michelle Williams as his mother
May 2022
Showing Up review – Kelly Reichardt’s indie art drama is downbeat but diverting
Cannes 2022: 10 movies to watch out for in this year’s festival
September 2021
Venom: Let There Be Carnage review – middling monster mush
Tom Hardy returns as the conflicted antihero in an admirably light-hearted but utterly disposable sequel
January 2020
Why Michelle Williams is the real winner of this year's Golden Globes
Ryan Gilbey
Supersized sleeves: stars opt for big puffs at the Golden Globes
November 2019
After the Wedding review – soapy saga of privilege and philanthropy
Michelle Williams’s free-spirited fundraiser runs into trouble in New York society
