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Stellan Skarsgård

July 2024

  • Stellan Skarsgård in What Remains. © CAA Media / Courtesy Everett Collection

    What Remains review – sky squid confounds Stellan Skarsgård in true-life Scandi noir

    Skarsgård and his son Gustaf sparkle in Ran Huang’s rarefied film, but can’t rescue this weirdly hallucinatory murder mystery from falling flat

June 2024

  • Stellan Skarsgård.

    ‘In Europe, everyone’s screaming kill, kill, kill’: Stellan Skarsgård on Sweden, ‘silly’ Scandi noir and security

    The Swedish actor is playing a bamboozled police officer in What Remains, a film written by his wife and starring one of his sons. He looks back on mixing Marvel with arthouse, taking risks with Lars von Trier and Sweden joining Nato

February 2024

  • Timothée Chalamet as Paul and Zendaya as Chani in Dune: Part Two.

    Dune: Part Two review – second half of hallucinatory sci-fi epic is staggering spectacle

    Denis Villeneuve’s monumental adaptation expands its extraordinary world of shimmering strangeness. It’s impossible to imagine anyone doing it better

September 2023

  • Meryl Streep and Amanda Seyfried in Mamma Mia! (2008).

    ‘Can they reincarnate me?’: Meryl Streep discusses options for Mamma Mia! 3

    The multi Oscar-winner and her co-stars in the hit 2008 Abba musical have revealed their enthusiasm for a second sequel – despite Streep’s character having died

August 2023

  • Bedside manner … Stellan Skarsgård and Emily Watson in Breaking the Waves.

    Breaking the Waves review – Emily Watson adds brilliance to von Trier’s windup of a movie

    In Lars von Trier’s otherwise ridiculous film, Watson brings generous substance to a punishing role as a dangerously selfless wife

December 2021

  • Hope.

    Hope review – sensitive study of the grief that lies behind a cancer diagnosis

    Stellan Skarsgård plays a man whose attention has been more focused on his career than his family wrestles with accepting his wife’s terminal illness

November 2021

  • 'Hope' photocall, Stockholm, Sweden - 14 Oct 2020<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by IBL/REX/Shutterstock (10954229b) Stellan Skarsgard 'Hope' photocall, Stockholm, Sweden - 14 Oct 2020

    The reader interview
    Stellan Skarsgård: ‘My tips for fatherhood? Don’t lie. Even about Santa Claus’

  • Stellan Skarsgård, who will take on your questions.

    The reader interview
    Post your questions for Stellan Skarsgård

October 2021

  • Timothée Chalamet and Rebecca Ferguson in Dune.

    Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
    Dune review – Denis Villeneuve’s awe-inspiring epic is a moment of triumph

    Villeneuve’s take on the sci-fi classic starring Timothée Chalamet, Oscar Isaac and Zendaya has been given room to breathe, creating a colossal spectacle

September 2021

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    First look review
    Dune review – blockbuster cinema at its dizzying, dazzling best

    Denis Villeneuve’s slow-burn space opera fuses the arthouse and the multiplex to create an epic of otherworldly brilliance

January 2020

  • ‘I’d never had any girl take an interest in me before acting’: Stellan Skarsgård.

    This much I know
    Stellan Skarsgård: ‘I don’t give advice to my children’

    The actor, 68, tells James McMahon about dreaming of being a diplomat, smashing telephones with skill and the days before Marvel ruled the world

December 2019

  • How bad was it? Worse than you thought – so much worse … Chernobyl.

    2019 in TV
    The 50 best TV shows of 2019: No 3 – Chernobyl

    This tale of the 1986 Soviet nuclear meltdown combined disaster movie and conspiracy thriller into a near-perfect example of TV making

September 2019

  • The Painted Bird.

    The Painted Bird review – savage, searing three-hour tour of hell

    Stellan Skarsgård, Harvey Keitel and Udo Kier star in this phantasmagorical horror about eastern Europe that saw half the Venice audience walk out. I couldn’t look away

July 2018

  • Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again Universal press publicity film still

    Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again review – feta fever dream sequel is weirdly irresistible

  • Cher and Meryl Streep

    Mamma Mia 2 makers hope to repeat box office success

September 2017

  • Stellan Skarsgård: ‘It’s kind of silly, isn’t it?’

    Borg vs McEnroe’s Stellan Skarsgård: ‘I’ve been changing diapers for 40 years’

    He’s both one of Sweden’s most prolific actors and the father of eight kids – including actors Alexander and Bill. So it’s no surprise that – despite starring in the nail-biting tennis drama – he doesn’t have much time for sport

February 2017

  • Stellan Skarsgard and Nina Hoss in Return to Montauk.

    Return to Montauk review – beached affair takes time to connect

    Past lovers Nina Hoss and Stellan Skarsgård border on the unlovable in this slow-paced drama, but Volker Schlöndorff’s film rewards patience for its final twist

May 2016

  • Shia Labeouf and John McEnroe

    Shia LaBeouf to play John McEnroe in movie of Wimbledon legend's 1980 battle with Borg

    Titled Borg vs McEnroe, Janus Metz Pedersen’s film will feature newcomer Sverrir Gudnason as Björn Borg and Stellan Skarsgård as the laidback Swede’s coach
  • Stellan Skarsgard is excellent as a Russian gangster in Our Kind of Traitor.

    Our Kind of Traitor review – spy thriller without the wow

    Though solid enough, this John le Carré adaptation has too little tension and too many visual cliches
  • Troubled couple … Ewan McGregor and Naomie Harris.

    Our Kind of Traitor review – Ewan McGregor gets smart in Le Carré potboiler

    This is meat-and-potatoes Le Carré given a generic spy-movie treatment, but still it reels you in
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