‘Quite a scrap’: David Leland on the fight that Tim Roth started to get cast in Made in Britain
The screenwriter of Alan Clarke’s classic drama, who died in December, describes how the untried young actor secured his approval
December 2023
Wish You Were Here director David Leland dies aged 82
The British film-maker also wrote the landmark TV play Made in Britain, starring Tim Roth, and won an Emmy award for Band of Brothers
November 2023
Punch review – queer coming-of-age story packs emotional left hook
Beautifully acted by a young cast, this first feature from Welby Ings is a delicately balanced combination of compelling boxing movie and touching teenage drama
February 2023
Last King of the Cross review – true crime series too polished for its own good
Based on John Ibrahim’s memoir and starring Tim Roth as a crime boss, this drama about Sydney’s ‘mecca of sin’ is full of forgettable machismo
October 2022
Cormac Roth, musician and son of Tim Roth, dies aged 25
The guitarist and composer was diagnosed with stage 3 germ cell cancer in November 2021
August 2022
The Misfits review – feeble heist tale wastes actors’ time and yours
Pierce Brosnan and Tim Roth are among the actors cheapening their reputations with half-baked tale of noble robbers in caricatured nation of ‘Jazeristan’
June 2022
There Are No Saints review – Schrader script is schlocky revenge thriller
Bergman Island review – Mia Hansen-Løve’s Baltic millefeuille
May 2022
Bergman Island review – marital woes revealed on a trip to Ingmar Bergman territory
Real and imaginary marriage discontents bleed into each other when a director and his screenwriter spouse go on retreat to the great auteur’s island home
January 2022
First look review
Resurrection review – Rebecca Hall rises above misfiring thriller
There’s a reliably effective star turn in an otherwise uneven film about a woman haunted by the trauma of her youth
September 2021
Venice film festival 2021 roundup – a formidably good year on the Lido
Sundown review – Tim Roth a wonderfully relaxed sociopath in Venice’s funniest film
June 2021
Cannes makes up for lost time with a thrilling auteur-packed lineup
Peter Bradshaw
After a year off, Leos Carax should have punters at each others’ throats – and Wes Anderson will boost the blood sugar
January 2021
Hear me out
Hear me out: why Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes isn't a bad movie
The latest in our series of writers standing up for loathed films is an impassioned defence of the 2001 take on the 60s classic
December 2020
TV review
Tin Star: Liverpool review – murder and mayhem on Merseyside
Tim Roth and his family are hellbent on unleashing glorious revenge in the final season of the Sky Atlantic drama
November 2019
Luce review - provocative examination of race in America
A young black man is lauded by his school as a model student
June 2019
Outside the multiplex: the best smaller films to see in the US this summer
From a troubling film about race in America to a shocking documentary about China’s one child policy, this season offers more than just superhero sequels
April 2019
First look review
Luce review – tough, provocative thriller crackles with tension
Naomi Watts and Tim Roth play adopted parents of a black all-star high schooler accused of nefarious acts in an electrifying, uncomfortable film about racial stereotypes
January 2019
Observer TV reviews
The week in TV: A Year of British Murder; Tin Star; Horizon and more
Tim Roth: ‘As messy as your life can be, there has to be a window you can escape through'