The star's understudy at the Barbican is Dwane Walcott, an excellent actor. He will deserve recognition for bravery if he has to step inThe theatre world, like the movie world, has loads of …
Anna Kendrick is extraordinary in this two-hander raking over the coals of a relationship: it's a lean, mean, musical machine
Hilla Medalia captures ballroom dancer Pierre Dulaine as he uses fancy footwork to bring together Palestinian and Jewish children Continue reading...
Younger people don't get Sir Tom's new play, so he's had to rewrite The Hard Problem to make it Quite Easy. But some things just can't be changed Continue reading...
Austrian actor Klaus Maria Brandauer's portrayal convulses Krapp's face with shock and repressed despair Continue reading...
O2 Arena, LondonEveryone wants the Pythons to do the classic stuff and so they did in a staggeringly lucrative reunion show that is unlikely to make any convertsShare your own Monty Python s…
It is one of Woody Allen's finest films, a screwball thriller written and shot as he battled Mia Farrow in court and faced accusations of child abuse. As Bullets Over Broadway hits the stag…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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 Rief…
At 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...
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…
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 the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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:…