Kate Moss and I are turning 50 – and it has inspired me to make a new start
Emma Beddington
The coverage of the model’s birthday celebrations has led me to reflect on my tendency to compare myself to others. Perhaps it’s time to take a different tack, writes Emma Beddington
From Penélope Cruz to Teyana Taylor: the season’s most overlooked movie performances
While actors like Lily Gladstone and Cillian Murphy might lead the race, there are other performances worth rewarding
Biopic woman: move over Napoleon, Ferrari and Oppenheimer … here come the wives
From Ridley Scott’s Napoleon to Michael Mann’s Ferrari, this has been a year of biopics about men, by men. But it’s the female powerhouses who deserve equal billing
December 2023
Ferrari review – fast cars, slow storytelling from Michael Mann
‘They thought racing movies never made money’: Michael Mann’s 30-year quest to bring Ferrari to the screen
September 2023
Vanishing act: what happens when stars don’t show up for the red carpet?
As the Sag-Aftra strikes roll on, film schedules are being torn up and A-listers are ditching promotional duties. But what’s a film festival without the talent?
August 2023
Ferrari review – Michael Mann’s watchable race-car drama rarely puts pedal to metal
Adam Driver plays an Enzo Ferrari whose racing days are over, bumbling between his wife, his mistress and bankruptcy in a film that only comes to life during the crash scenes
L’immensità review – Penélope Cruz stars in turbulent family drama set in 70s Rome
A mother and her eldest child negotiate parallel realms of unhappiness in Emanuele Crialese’s semi-autobiographical coming-of-age drama
Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
L’Immensità review – desperation and secret yearning in 1970s Rome
Emanuele Crialese’s drama of family dysfunction, starring Penélope Cruz, offers moments of glorious escapist fantasy
December 2022
Best films 2022
Best films of 2022 in the UK: No 3 – Parallel Mothers
Pedro Almodóvar teams up with Penélope Cruz again for his most political film yet, weaving Spanish history and modern motherhood in a cocktail of comedy, thriller and melodrama
August 2022
Official Competition review – Penélope Cruz is a deadpan dream in wicked film-world satire
Official Competition review – Penélope Cruz on fire in delicious movie industry satire
June 2022
Best culture of 2022 so far
The best films of 2022 so far
Tilda Swinton aces Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s dreamy fable, director Clio Barnard’s forbidden affair and Catherine Clinch in The Quiet Girl rank in the pick of this year’s films
April 2022
Ranked
Penélope Cruz’s 20 best films – ranked!
On her 48th birthday, we look through the work of the charismatic Spanish film star, who was Oscar nominated this year for Parallel Mothers
March 2022
What can we learn from this year’s honest Oscars ballots?
The annual tradition, where anonymous voters reveal their picks with brutal honesty, shows some likely winners for Sunday’s ceremony
February 2022
Oscars nominations 2022: the full list
From Dune to The Power of the Dog, all the nominations for the 94th Academy Awards, which take place on 27 March
January 2022
Parallel Mothers review – Penélope Cruz sets the tone in buoyant Almodóvar drama
Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
Parallel Mothers review – Almodóvar delivers an emotional bundle of joy
The Guardian view on remembering the Spanish civil war: the work must go on
Pedro Almodóvar on Spain’s tragic past: ‘You can’t ask people to forget’
