And the winner probably isn't: this season's 11 overlooked film performances
From Maggie Gyllenhaal’s anxiety-inducing teacher to Steven Yeun’s chilling villain, there’s a wealth of great acting that isn’t being recognised by votersWith Oscar nominations set to be announced in...
View ArticleRoma victory at Critics' Choice awards strengthens Oscar hopes
Alfonso Cuarón’s drama picks up four awards, while The Americans and The Marvelous Mrs Maisel dominate the TV section with three eachAlfonso Cuarón’s nostalgic evocation of a 1970s Mexican childhood...
View ArticleBest supportive wife: how female characters fare at the Oscars
This year, Amy Adams is set to face off against Claire Foy for their roles as wives of important men from history, a long-running Academy traditionIt is often said, only semi-jokingly, in Hollywood...
View ArticleVice review – ambitious, amusing, but confused portrait of Dick Cheney
Despite a wickedly deft performance from Christian Bale, Adam McKay’s film can’t settle on a consistent toneWith his last film, The Big Short, Adam McKay achieved the near-impossible: he made a...
View ArticleBaftas 2019: the after parties – in pictures
After the dust had settled on the big awards evening, the winners and their guests, plus assorted hangers-on, got down to the serious business of the nightContinue reading...
View ArticleThe Guardian view on Hollywood: once (twice, thrice) upon a time | Editorial
A new golden age of television has eclipsed Tinseltown’s reboots and sequels. Can America’s dream factory rise again?The UK release of Quentin Tarantino’s new film Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood comes...
View ArticleThe most exciting movies of 2020 – crime films and thrillers
The Sopranos gets a prequel, Jennifer Lawrence jumps back into action and Jim Broadbent stars as a real-life cabbie who stole a Goya in next year’s buzziest crime capers and thrillersMore of the most...
View ArticleThe most exciting movies of 2020 – biopics
Jennifer Hudson plays the queen of soul, Ethan Hawke tackles Tesla and Julianne Moore tells the story of Gloria SteinemMore of the most anticipated films of 2020Having wiped away her Catstoddler snot,...
View ArticleHair, glasses, Santa puppy T-shirt: get the Glenn Close Hillbilly Elegy look
She might be best described as Jeremy Kyle Mrs Doubtfire, but I predict Glenn Close’s character will be your next style icon. Here are her looks from the trailer – ranked!On the surface, Hillbilly...
View ArticleHillbilly Elegy review – Glenn Close's grouchy gran saves the day
A troubled teenager ends up at Yale Law School thanks to his eccentric grandmother in this adaptation of JD Vance’s bestselling memoirRon Howard’s new movie, based on the bestselling memoir by JD...
View ArticleHillbilly Elegy review – Glenn Close and Amy Adams trade Appalachian cliches
Close and Adams are all platitudes and prosthetics in Ron Howard’s hackneyed adaptation of a rags-to-riches memoir “Your people will have your back. That’s our code,” insists Yale law student JD Vance...
View ArticleHow Hillbilly Elegy tries and fails to show the 'real' America
Ron Howard’s misjudged adaptation of JD Vance’s bestselling memoir is both histrionic and boring – and too shallow to act as social commentaryBy now, a week after its release on Netflix, a critical...
View ArticleThe Woman in the Window review – broken thriller is barely worth a look
Amy Adams gives a flat performance as an agoraphobe unravelling a dull mystery in Joe Wright’s cursed misstep now being dumped on NetflixThe makers of the sub-Hitchcockian thriller The Woman in the...
View ArticleAmy Adams to make her West End debut in The Glass Menagerie
Hollywood actor will perform at Duke of York’s theatre, London, as Amanda Wingfield in one of Tennessee Williams’ most autobiographical playsThe Hollywood star Amy Adams is to make her West End theatre...
View ArticleDear Evan Hansen review – ghoulish Ben Platt sinks high school musical
The film adaptation of the Tony-winning musical can’t overcome its 27-year-old star’s creepy teen makeup and the story’s wobbly handling of mental healthThere are two major issues that Dear Evan...
View ArticleDear Evan Hansen review – satanically ingenious musical is suffocatingly ersatz
Story of lonely boy who feigns friendship with a dead peer has a smart premise but is wretchedly executedBy the end of its long running time, there’s something entirely unbearable about this pass-agg...
View ArticleThe Glass Menagerie review – Amy Adams’s West End debut fails to find its heart
Duke of York’s theatre, LondonTennessee Williams’s story of yearning, passion and despair never puts us under its spell in Jeremy Herrin’s productionTennessee Williams’s narrator begins by speaking of...
View ArticleThe week in theatre: The Glass Menagerie; Girl on an Altar; We Started to Sing
Duke of York’s; Kiln; Arcola, LondonAmy Adams’s star power fails to illuminate underpowered Tennessee Williams; Eileen Walsh burns bright as Clytemnestra; and Barbara Flynn and Robin Soans elevate a...
View ArticleOut of this world: Guardian writers on their favourite movies with aliens
To celebrate the release of Jordan Peele’s new UFO thriller Nope, critics have picked their top films about extra terrestrialsAn alien falls to earth, body-snatches a sex worker, and prowls the streets...
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