Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 review – James Gunn’s fun and energetic threequel
Chris Pratt has fully grown into a hunky action-lead, but Dave Bautista’s beefy Drax is the scene stealer as he flexes his comedy chops
September 2022
The Score review – Johnny Flynn and Will Poulter do gangland musical comedy
As two amateurish crims waiting out for a deal with more serious operators, Flynn and Poulter play soul-baring geezers who break into startling arias of longing
April 2022
On my radar
On my radar: Will Poulter’s cultural highlights
The actor on his globe-spanning appetite, his love of Kojey Radical and his admiration for how comedian Bo Burnham dealt with the misery of lockdown
November 2021
The best original photographs from the Observer
Original Observer Photography
The ‘nose’ of Chanel, team lunches and live music – the best photographs commissioned by the Observer in November 2021
May 2019
Black Mirror: the five best episodes so far
Black Mirror is back. From an 80s lesbian romance to a murderous choose-your-own adventure, here are the essential dystopian stories you must watch before the new season drops next week
September 2018
Will Poulter: ‘I'm a white, straight, middle-class male. I'm aware I take things for granted’
The actor’s latest role is in The Little Stranger, a film that twitches with tension about class – which resonates with his own upbringing
January 2018
It’s the alternative Oscars…
Ahead of the official Academy nominations on Tuesday, Observer critics pick their own shortlists
July 2017
First look review
Detroit review – Kathryn Bigelow rages against brutal chapter in US race struggle
Amid the erupting 1967 Detroit riots, John Boyega plays a security guard drawn in to a grotesque showdown with racist cops at the Algiers Motel
April 2017
Detroit trailer: John Boyega in Kathryn Bigelow's Oscar-buzzed riot drama
The Oscar-winning director’s first film since Zero Dark Thirty tells the story of the 1967 riots, which became one of the most violent revolts in US history
August 2016
Kids in Love review – gap-year angst
Privileged youth and tedious superficiality rule in this thin drama
Kids in Love review – sweet and sincere YA romance
Chris Foggin’s first feature casts a fondly satirical eye on a young and privileged west London crowd
Kids In Love: why are today’s young movie bohemians so posh?
The London-set coming-of-age drama desperately wants to be radical, but it’s characters are too comfortably-off to be convincing
January 2016
The Revenant review – a walk on the wild side
Leonardo DiCaprio gives his all in Alejandro González Iñárritu’s visceral, icebound survival story
May 2015
Big shoes to fill: Will Poulter may clown around as Pennywise in It adaptation
Star of The Maze Runner could play a shape-shifting nastie in Cary Fukunawa’s two-part take on Stephen King’s child-killing horror icon
April 2015
Glassland review – knockout performances, almost flawless drama
Toni Collette nails her role brilliantly in this devastating study of the troubled relationship between an alcoholic mother and her taxi-driver son
October 2014
The Maze Runner review – ‘The Prisoner meets The Last Starfighter with giant spiders’
Poor dialogue is redeemed by fine action sequences in this latest addition to the young adult dystopian thriller genre, writes Mark Kermode
The Maze Runner review – jog on
Celibate chiselled YAs in awful future dystopia battle to prove they are exceptional and divergent. Again, writes Peter Bradshaw
Will Poulter: ‘Hanging out in Soho House LA, that’s my worst nightmare’
He’s one of Vanity Fair’s anointed youth, a hot studio favourite appearing in a Hollywood blockbuster, but Londoner Will Poulter remains refreshingly grounded, writes Tom Lamont
September 2014
First look review
The Maze Runner review – the acting's great. Shame about the rest of it
This adaptation of James Dashner’s YA novel is good in parts, but the clunky design and awful sound make it seem like it’s been cobbled together for TV
May 2014
Plastic review – umpteen snores
Crime doesn't pay if this mish-mash of boobs, guns and a fake credit card scam is anything to go by, writes Mark Kermode
