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Viggo Mortensen

June 2024

  • ‘Stirrings in Tolkien land’ … Viggo Mortensen, Orlando Bloom and Ian McKellen in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, 2002

    Week in geek
    Hunt for Gollum: are Ian McKellen and Viggo Mortensen being quietly dropped?

  • Marisa Abela as Amy Winehouse in Back to Black and Dev Patel in Monkey Man.

    Best culture of 2024 so far
    The best films of 2024 in the UK so far

  • Viggo Mortensen and Vicky Krieps side by side on horseback.

    Wendy Ide's film of the week
    The Dead Don’t Hurt review – Vicky Krieps is a woman of substance in Viggo Mortensen’s offbeat western

  • Vicky Krieps in The Dead Don't Hurt

    Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
    The Dead Don’t Hurt review – love blossoms amid violence in Viggo Mortensen’s western

February 2024

  • Viggo Mortensen waits outside a building holding a gun

    Eureka review – Lisandro Alonso’s meditation on Indigenous life is striking but slow

  • Viggo Mortensen.

    ‘You play the cards you’re dealt’: is Viggo Mortensen Hollywood’s most versatile star?

September 2023

  • Sarah Jessica Parker with her real-life kitten in And Just Like That.

    Meet Catty Bradshaw! The stars who take home pets from sets

    SJP’s kitten! Sophie Turner’s dire wolf! Viggo Mortensen’s entire stable of horses! Some celebs just can’t say goodbye to their on-screen animals

May 2023

  • Eureka

    Eureka review – booze, bird souls and Viggo Mortensen in barmy yet rich experimental enigma

    The Argentinian director Lisandro Alonso is back with another rewardingly weird journey into the unknown

September 2022

  • Léa Seydoux, Viggo Mortensen and Kristen Stewart in Crimes of the Future.

    Mark Kermode's film of the week
    Crimes of the Future review – Cronenberg’s slightly creaky tribute​ ​to his own past

  • Juicy with meaning … Viggo Mortensen and Léa Seydoux in Crimes of the Future.

    Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
    Crimes of the Future review – Cronenberg’s post-pain, post-sex body horror sensation

July 2022

  • Viggo Mortensen and Colin Farrell in Thirteen Lives. Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures

    Thirteen Lives review – thrilling dramatisation of the Thailand cave rescue

  • Colin Farrell, Joel Edgerton and Viggo Mortensen in Thirteen Lives.

    Thirteen Lives review – Ron Howard’s Thai cave-rescue saga told with non-Hollywood heroics

December 2021

  • Gandalf holds his staff aloft in The Fellowship of the Rings.

    Fellowship of the Ring at 20: the film that revitalised and ruined Hollywood

    Peter Jackson’s first Lord of the Rings film was a stunning achievement but it introduced a new world of delayed and extended gratification

December 2020

  • Lance Henriksen in Falling.

    Falling review – Viggo Mortensen's powerful drama of a father with dementia

  • A family in pain … Lance Henriksen and Viggo Mortensen in Falling.

    Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
    Falling review – Viggo Mortensen casts a clear eye on dementia

November 2020

  • Lance Henriksen and Viggo Mortensen

    Viggo Mortensen on Falling star Lance Henriksen: ‘He’s like a wolf who might gobble you up’

    In the latter’s directorial debut, the pair play a father and son facing up to the older man’s dementia. It offers 80-year-old Henriksen the meatiest role of his astonishing career

July 2020

  • The Bafta-nominated Rachel Parris.

    On my radar
    On my radar: Rachel Parris on her cultural highlights

    The comedian and Mash Report star on Lemn Sissay’s memoir, Tank and the Bangas’ mindblowing hip-hop, and a very weird podcast

June 2020

  • Peter Bradshaw

    Phantom Cannes lineup a defiant statement of survival for festival that lives in the imagination

    Peter Bradshaw
    The Cannes 2020 branding may not mean much by the end of the year, but it’s a reminder of the wonderful alchemy that the festival can create

December 2019

  • Tom Hanks speaking on stage at the 11th Annual Governors Awards gala hosted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Dolby Theatre, Hollywood, 27 October 2019.

    The most anticipated movies of 2020
    The most exciting movies of 2020 – dramas

    Paul Thomas Anderson announces his new film, Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci play a long-term couple and Tom Hanks maximises his awards chances with three releases

May 2019

  • Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn

    Viggo Mortensen attacks Spain's far-right Vox over Aragorn tweet

    Actor says his Lord of the Rings character ‘advocates inclusion of the various races’
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