Louise Brealey shines as a woman who thinks she’s stuck with a job in a chicken factory and a cheating husband in Janis Pugh’s uplifting debut feature set in north Wales
Chuck Chuck Baby review – emotionally charged musical drama rules the roost
Louise Brealey plays Helen, a chicken factory worker who gets a second chance at love, in Janis Pugh’s uplifting crowdpleaser
June 2024
Ranked
Fantasia to Flesh and Fantasy, the Coens to Cavalcanti: anthology films – ranked!
Letter: Richard Sherman obituary
May 2024
Richard Sherman obituary
Emilia Perez review – Jacques Audiard’s gangster trans musical barrels along in style
Ranked
The greatest dancer of all time? Fred Astaire’s 20 best films – ranked!
Roger Corman: cinema's pulp genius whose talent to shock was rocket fuel
Peter Bradshaw
April 2024
Joker: Folie à Deux: trailer for Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga musical sequel released
The sequel sees Phoenix’s Arthur Fleck in Arkham Asylum and Lady Gaga as Harley Quinn, who is initially a psychiatrist assigned to treat him
March 2024
Mary Poppins review – Disney’s entertainment sugar rush possesses thermonuclear brilliance
Readers' reviews
‘You’ll believe a radioactive dinosaur can shoot fire’: readers’ picks for the 2024 Oscars
January 2024
Chita Rivera obituary
The Color Purple review – off-note musical take on Alice Walker’s novel
Norman Jewison: a staggering array of work from Hollywood’s master craftsman
Peter Bradshaw
Mean Girls – the Plastics are back in plodding musical remake
‘I had to stop therapy. I needed the pain’: Fantasia Barrino on trauma, triumph and filming The Color Purple
Back to school: why we keep returning to Mean Girls
‘Hell no to my fears’: actor Danielle Brooks on making her mark
Mean Girls review – high-school sadism comedy as sugar-rush movie musical
