Dumb Money review – GameStop drama makes for a fun financial romp
The 2021 Reddit vs Wall Street saga gets a fast and fizzy big screen adaptation with an ensemble cast including Paul Dano and Seth Rogen
May 2023
To Catch a Killer review – Shailene Woodley sniper thriller like mid-season CSI
This flat-footed serial-killer hunt, co-starring Ben Mendelsohn, is full of underwritten cops who seem to have no real idea what they’re doing
August 2021
Shailene Woodley: ‘Authenticity is my love language’
Despite being only 29, Shailene Woodley already has 25 years’ acting experience under her belt. Here, the star of Big Little Lies and Divergent talks about being free-willed, her hippy passions and her late-night calls with Kate Winslet
July 2021
The best original photographs from the Observer
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The Last Letter from Your Lover review – sappy romance is nothing to write home about
March 2021
The Mauritanian review – fence-sitting Guantánamo drama provides few answers
This painfully worthy adaptation of former inmate Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s diary stars only good guys, and is hand-wringingly self congratulatory
August 2020
Endings, Beginnings review – seriously middling
Shailene Woodley is caught between two smouldering, bearded stools in a well-meaning drama that lacks storytelling nous
March 2019
Steve Rose on film
Dying of the light: why Hollywood needs to get over its obsession with terminally ill teens
Five Feet Apart is the latest film about doomed young heartthrobs – a trope rife in popular culture since Romeo and Juliet
May 2018
Adrift review – shipshape Shailene Woodley keeps survival drama buoyant
The Divergent star puts in a career-best performance in this lost-at-sea tale
January 2018
First thoughts
It’s easy to sneer at Hollywood doing politics but the Golden Globes nailed it
Abi Wilkinson
Instead of simply speaking out themselves, Hollywood celebrities raised the profiles of real-life activists, writes freelance journalist Abi Wilkinson
March 2017
Screen bites
Has the satire and humour of Big Little Lies been lost in translation?
Ella Donald
The Australian novel has been adapted for US screens, leaving behind both Sydney’s northern beaches and the nuance
Observer TV reviews
The week in TV: Big Little Lies; War Child; The Replacement and more
A big-name cast added to the bewildering dazzle of Sky Atlantic’s new drama, while the story of child refugees broke hearts on Channel 4
Stream lover
From When We Rise to Big Little Lies: the best of film and TV streaming in Australia in March
David Bowie cult classics, Korean arthouse thrillers, and Aussie soap opera favourites, here’s what’s coming to streaming services in Australia this month
December 2016
Snowden review – hair-raisingly taut and intense
Joseph Gordon-Levitt gives an intelligent, alert performance as whistleblower Edward Snowden, in Oliver Stone’s best work since the 90s
October 2016
Shailene Woodley explains her North Dakota oil pipeline protest
Actor arrested after protesting against construction of $3.7bn oil pipeline says the work risks contaminating Native American sacred sites
Actor Shailene Woodley livestreams own arrest – video
Actor Shailene Woodley is arrested for trespassing at a protest at the Standing Rock oil pipeline in North Dakota on Monday.
Shailene Woodley arrested while protesting North Dakota oil pipeline
Actor was arrested along with 26 others demonstrating against construction of a pipeline to transport fracked crude oil near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation
September 2016
First look review
Snowden review: Oliver Stone turns true thrills into dated Hollywood fodder
The director’s dramatic retelling of the NSA whistleblower’s rise to infamy boasts a strong central performance from Joseph Gordon-Levitt but its attempts to pander to a multiplex crowd are misjudged
August 2016
Shailene Woodley to star in film about 'craziest OkCupid date ever'
The Divergent actor will star in No Baggage, a romantic comedy based on the true story of an online date that involved travelling to eight countries in 21 days
July 2016
Divergent: Ascendant descending to TV, reports say
Lionsgate’s troubled franchise starring Shailene Woodley as a rogue agent fighting an oppressive regime won’t be released in cinemas, according to Variety
