Sunday, March 2, 2014
The iconic French film-maker has died aged 91, a month after the premiere of his last film. Peter Bradshaw looks back over a career marked by intellectual engagement and impish humour, and w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:21AMThursday, February 13, 2014
Nimble-footed stars such as Nick Frost, Chris O'Dowd and Olivia Colman step lively in a comedy that doesn't quite fill the floorThis comedy never quite relaxes or relaxes or convinces or com…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:01PMThursday, January 9, 2014
Beth B looks at something you might call Burlesque 2.0, building on the naughty showgirl personae with political satireThe noble mission of burlesque is to reclaim erotic cabaret from t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:00PMThursday, November 7, 2013
Members of the BalletBoyz dance company provide the choreography in this uneven film about danceHere is a lo-fi indie about dance that won the best UK feature award at last year's Raindance …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:00PMThursday, October 10, 2013
Jim Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan confront the state of their sagging marriage in this Hanif Kureishi-penned drama. But how depressed is it supposed to make us?It should in theory be pos…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:30AMThursday, August 29, 2013
There is some funny and highly incorrect material here but I could have done without the home-movie footageKevin Hart is the Philadelphia-born standup who might be vaguely familiar from movi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:16PMThursday, March 7, 2013
The quality of the acting can't salvage a self-conscious family drama about a lonely 11-year-oldSince its debut in the Critics' Week section of last year's Cannes film festival, Rufus Norris…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:44PMThursday, January 10, 2013
Tom Hooper's film is a colossal effort – after 158 minutes, you really have experienced something. It's just not clear whatLike a diabolically potent combination of Lionel Bart and Leni Ri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:01AMWednesday, October 17, 2012
At the prompting of Guardian readers, film critic Peter Bradshaw revisits Richard Brooks's 1958 adaptation, which delivers a homosexual hero paralysed with self-hatredI haven't seen Sarah Es…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:50PMAt the prompting of Guardian readers, film critic Peter Bradshaw revisits Richard Brooks's 1958 adaptation, which delivers a homosexual hero paralysed with self-hatred Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:50PMWednesday, September 5, 2012
Set in a fantasy theatre world, Tom Stoppard and Joe Wright's bold adaptation – starring Keira Knightley and Jude Law – sacrifices the novel's poignancy for creative flairIn Tolstoy, the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:43AMThursday, December 22, 2011
Graham Linehan's stage adaptation of The Ladykillers succeeds where the Coen brothers failed: it's actually funny, says Peter BradshawGraham Linehan's new stage-adaptation of the classic 195…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:34AMThursday, September 1, 2011
Terrence Malick's 1978 masterpiece is a fantastically rewarding experience, and it contains ideas and themes that would re-emerge in The Tree of LifeThis was the film that Terrence Malick ma…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:10PMThursday, August 25, 2011
This adaptation of Kevin Sampson's 90s-novel about the Britpop era could have been great, but it's let down by shoddy dialogue and leaden pacingKevin Sampson has adapted his own 1999 novel a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:15PMMonday, August 8, 2011
This gripping thriller, part of the BFI's Bogarde retrospective, daringly smashed through 1961's homosexual taboos, but has weathered best as a study of blackmail and paranoiaAs part of a re…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:42AMThursday, August 4, 2011
Jean Renoir's 1955 film, now on re-release, shows a palette and compositional sense that appear to be influenced by his fatherThe world of the Moulin Rouge and the cancan conjured up in Jean…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:01PMThursday, June 23, 2011
The autobiography of Pete Postlethwaite, once called 'the best actor in the world' by Steven SpielbergIn the year or so leading up to his death from cancer this year, Pete Postlethwaite had …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:05AMFriday, June 3, 2011
O2 Arena, LondonThe great master of observational comedy is back. This was Jerry Seinfeld's first show in the UK in 12 years, and he arrived in the midst of a live comedy boom in full swing:…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:57PMThursday, June 2, 2011
A resurgence in the popularity of the ukulele could rekindle our bizarre affection for the oddball singer-comedianBritain has apparently gone mad for ukuleles. An extraordinary resurgence in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:52AMTuesday, May 3, 2011
The origins of cinema, a prize-winning book reveals, are closely linked to the conjurors and spiritualists of the early 20th centuryOver the past few months, I have been on a judging panel w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:22AMThursday, April 21, 2011
A heartfelt 3D tribute by Wim Wenders to Pina Bausch, the late modern ballet choreographer. By Peter BradshawWim Wenders's deeply intelligent 3D tribute to the work of the modern dance chore…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:00PMThursday, January 20, 2011
Natalie Portman excels in this gripping ballet psychodrama from Darren Aronofsky. Peter Bradshaw applauds a film about fear, love and hatredFantastically deranged at all times, Darren Arono…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:59AMThursday, June 24, 2010
Clever and funny, Chris Rock's film about the hairstyles of African-American women makes the cut Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:30PM 
