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Sam Riley

January 2023

  • Haley Bennett and Sam Riley in She is Love

    She Is Love review – ex-pop star and ex-wife meet again in flimsy romcom

    Sam Riley and Haley Bennett are acrimonious exes staying at the same remote hotel in Jamie Adams’ directionless film that sees great talent go to waste

October 2022

  • ‘I didn’t even know who Ian was’ … Sam Riley in Contro

    How we made
    ‘People were panicking over whether I could do the Ian Curtis dance’: how we made Control

    ‘The first time we played She’s Lost Control they had around 150 Joy Division fans there. I ran to my trailer and vomited. One guy said to me: “You had better be good!”’

June 2020

  • Maleficent Mistress of Evil UK premiere in London<br>epa07908553 British actor/cast member Sam Riley attends the UK premiere of 'Maleficent: Mistress of Evil' in London, Britain, 09 October 2019. The film will be released in the UK on 18 October. EPA-EFE/NEIL HALL

    Sam Riley: 'The closer I got to fame, the more frightened I was of it'

  • Abrupt and maladroit ... Rosamund Pike in Radioactive.

    Radioactive review – Marie Curie biopic fast-forwards to Hiroshima

October 2019

  • null<br>Elle Fanning is Aurora, Angelina Jolie is Maleficent and Sam Riley is Diaval in Disney’s live-action MALEFICENT: MISTRESS OF EVIL

    Maleficent: Mistress of Evil review – panto fun is missing in action

    Angelina Jolie, Michelle Pfeiffer and Elle Fanning do their best to justify a second revisionist fairytale, but CGI battles replace narrative clarity

June 2019

  • Alice Lowe, Bill Nighy and Sam Riley in Sometimes Always Never.

    Sometime Always Never review – a triple-word score of a movie

    Bill Nighy is a Scrabble-obsessed father grieving for a missing son

October 2018

  • Happy New Year Colin Burstead film still

    Happy New Year, Colin Burstead review – Ben Wheatley contrives a simmering hothouse of misery

  • Sometimes Always Never film still

    Sometimes Always Never review – Bill Nighy spellbinding in Scrabble drama

February 2017

  • Sam Riley

    BBC’s SS-GB full of mixed messages

    Letters: The script for a television drama series containing the instructions, ‘Okay to mumble these next lines; they’re not important’ does not exist, and probably never will

January 2017

  • Celebrity Sightings in New York City - July 29, 2016<br>NEW YORK, NY - JULY 29: Maggie Gyllenhaal as a prostitute filming HBO's "Deuce" on July 29, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Steve Sands/GC Images)

    Unmissable culture of 2017
    Watch this! The must-see TV shows of 2017

    Get ready for the return of Twin Peaks, Stranger Things and Line of Duty – plus an explosive Idris Elba drama, an epic Game of Thrones and the last ever Girls

February 2016

  • Bella Heathcote, Suki Waterhouse, Lily James, Ellie Bamber and Millie Brady in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

    Pride and Prejudice and Zombies review – horror hybrid lacks bite

    Austen and the undead fail to raise the requisite laughs or shocks

March 2015

  • SUITE FRANCAISE

    Mark Kermode's film of the week
    Suite Française review – rewardingly complex and disarmingly compassionate

    This handsome adaptation of Irène Némirovsky’s epic novel vividly depicts French rural life under the Nazis

May 2014

  • Nick Frost adjusts his spectacles

    The best original photographs from the Observer
    Original Observer photography: May 2014

    This month’s gallery is packed with striking portraits. Nick Frost, Jack White, Ken Loach and Sam Riley all feature among the best photography commissioned by the Observer
  • Tom Cruise in The Edge of Tomorrow

    The Guardian film show
    The Guardian Film Show: The Edge of Tomorrow, Maleficent, Heaven is for Real and A Million Ways to Die in the West - video reviews

    Henry Barnes, Peter Bradshaw and Catherine Shoard review The Edge of Tomorrow, Maleficent, A Million Ways to Die in the West, Downhill and Heaven is for Real

  • Angelina Jolie, star of Maleficent

    Film talk
    Angelina Jolie on Maleficent: 'I was drawn to the evil' - video interview

    The stars of Disney's Maleficent, which tells the Sleeping Beauty story from the wicked witch's point of view, talk to Andrew Pulver

June 2013

  • michelle williams suite

    Trailer trash
    Trailer Trash

  • The Comedian

    This week's new films
    The Comedian, Byzantium, The Big Wedding: this week's new film releases

October 2012

  • Sam Riley and Garrett Hedlund as Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty in On the Road.

    On the Road – review

  • A composite image of the film's featured in the Guardian Film Show

    The Guardian film show
    The Guardian Film Show at the London film festival - video

September 2012

  • Sam Riley: the beat goes on…

    Having stunned us as Ian Curtis in Control, Sam Riley is now starring as Jack Kerouac in On the Road. Could he get any cooler? Tim Adams finds out

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