The Humans review – Thanksgiving family drama turns apocalyptic
An eerie set and creepy camerawork ramp up the paranoia in Stephen Karam’s supremely effective adaptation of his play
Top US films 2021
The 50 best films of 2021 in the US, No 8: The Humans
A family Thanksgiving goes awry in Stephen Karam’s adaptation of his award-winning play with a standout turn from Amy Schumer
Nightmare Alley review – Guillermo del Toro’s trickster thriller is light on treats
Bradley Cooper leads a starry cast as an ambitious grifter in a sumptuously made noir that can’t quite grip us tightly enough
September 2021
First look review
The Humans review – masterly family drama transfers from stage to screen
Stephen Karam’s Tony-winning play makes the leap to film with ease, an intimate – at times uncomfortably so – look at a family at Thanksgiving
April 2021
Oscars 2022: who might triumph at next year’s ceremony?
After a year of delays, the next 12 months offers a wealth of big, awards-aiming movies from intimate dramas to historical epics
March 2021
Teenage kicks
Richard Jenkins: ‘Oh my God, Connery was so cool. I thought Goldfinger was the greatest film ever made’
The Last Shift – Richard Jenkins lifts mismatched buddy film
December 2019
The most anticipated movies of 2020
The most exciting movies of 2020 – crime films and thrillers
The Sopranos gets a prequel, Jennifer Lawrence jumps back into action and Jim Broadbent stars as a real-life cabbie who stole a Goya in next year’s buzziest crime capers and thrillers
February 2018
The Shape of Water review – an operatic plunge into Guillermo del Toro's immersive cinema
Sally Hawkins gives a career-best performance as a mute who falls for a sea creature in this ravishing romantic fantasy where The Twilight Zone meets Puccini
December 2017
Top US films 2017
The 50 top films of 2017 in the US: No 7 The Shape of Water
Guillermo del Toro’s dark fairytale continues our countdown, with Sally Hawkins starring in a disturbing and thrilling romance that is the director’s best film to date
November 2017
Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water is a much-needed ode to the 'other'
The acclaimed director’s Oscar-buzzed fantasy brings together a group of people sidelined by society and their quest makes for unexpected resonance in 2017
February 2016
Bone Tomahawk review – a Western horror destined for cult status
Kurt Russell heads a posse in this pulpy twist on John Ford’s The Searchers which is hide-under-your-seat scary
October 2014
Bereaved academic drama The Visitor to become Broadway musical
The Visitor, which was released in 2007 and starred Richard Jenkins as an isolated economics professor who befriends two illegal immigrants from Syria and Senegal, is set to get the song-and-dance treatment
August 2014
God's Pocket review – John Slattery swaps Mad Men for the mean streets
Philip Seymour Hoffman's final film is a gritty adaptation of a Pete Dexter novel that's shot through with black comedy, writes Jonathan Romney
July 2014
30 minutes with …
God's Pocket star Richard Jenkins: 'This just wasn't a kissable face'
The veteran character actor talks to Ryan Gilbey about joyless screen sex, getting trailer envy and working with Philip Seymour Hoffman on one of the late actor's last films
April 2012
The Cabin in the Woods – review
This clever meta-horror asks what human need is fed by seeing hot youths get slaughtered, but forgets to be properly scary, writes Peter Bradshaw
