Story of lonely boy who feigns friendship with a dead peer has a smart premise but is wretchedly executed
September 2021
First look review
Dear Evan Hansen review – ghoulish Ben Platt sinks high school musical
Amy Adams to make her West End debut in The Glass Menagerie
May 2021
The 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 Netflix
November 2020
How 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 commentary
Hillbilly 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
Hillbilly 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 memoir
October 2020
Trailer review
Hair, 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!
January 2020
The most anticipated movies of 2020
The 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 Steinem
December 2019
The most anticipated movies of 2020
The 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 thrillers
August 2019
The 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?
February 2019
Baftas 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 night
January 2019
Vice review – ambitious, amusing, but confused portrait of Dick Cheney
Best supportive wife: how female characters fare at the Oscars