The 50 best TV shows of 2021, No 2: The White Lotus
An immaculate social satire featuring scabrous character studies, a murder-mystery and a shocking revenge scene
October 2021
Stream team
That Thing You Do!: Tom Hanks’ directorial debut is still an effervescent pop music romp
It’s less sex, drugs and rock’n’roll than sentimentality, but after 25 years there’s still joy to be found in the tale of a 60s era four-piece catapulted to stardom
September 2021
Trouble in paradise! The White Lotus cast – ranked by awfulness
Privileged, greedy, traitorous and pretending to be woke – the characters in HBO’s hotel drama hit new lows in villainy. But who was the worst?
August 2021
TV review
The White Lotus review – a magnificently monstrous look at how the other half live
The White Lotus is the best satire of wealth privilege on TV right now
July 2021
TV review
The White Lotus review – 2021’s best, and most uncomfortable, TV show
Enlightened creator Mike White’s Hawaii-set comedy drama offers up scathing social satire in a ballsy take-no-prisoners state of the nation series
May 2021
Cowboys review – progressive, predictable Montana trans tale
Cowboys review – Steve Zahn brings his A-game to warm Montana trans drama
April 2021
Teenage kicks
Steve Zahn’s teenage obsessions: ‘De Niro in The Deer Hunter was acting on a different level’
The actor and comedian discusses his early days in musical theatre, his love of U2 and his passion for fly fishing
July 2018
How we made
Ethan Hawke and Janeane Garofalo: how we made Reality Bites
‘I kept some vodka in my trailer freezer. It certainly didn’t hurt when it came to dancing My Sharona at the gas station’
August 2012
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days – review
The eponymous kid goes on summer holiday in this amiable entertainment that rattles along likably enough, writes Peter Bradshaw
May 2011
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules – review
Wanted: good home for unloved movies
February 2011
TV review
TV review: Treme
Lucy Mangan on last night's TV: Treme, The Wire creator David Simon's exploration of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, is a sprawling business
August 2010
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
The popular kids' book has become an undemanding and not especially impressive Hollywood comedy, says Peter Bradshaw
September 2009
Management
Management teams Jennifer Aniston with Woody Harrelson and Steve Zahn to lacklustre effect, says Philip French
Film blog
Look who's stalking
Anne Wollenberg: If a woman treated a man the way Steve Zahn treats Jennifer Aniston in Management, it would be Hollywood's idea of a horror movie. But this is a rom-com – so it's OK, right?
Management
As the film unspools you can feel the oxygen gradually leaving the room, says Peter Bradshaw
August 2009
A Perfect Getaway
A flawed but entertaining thriller about a couple enjoying a honeymoon in Hawaii, writes Peter Bradshaw
April 2008
Strange Wilderness
Philip French: The end of a trail of bad taste, envelope-pushing, adolescent comedies
