Peter Bradshaw
The Guardian
United Kingdom
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Dazed and Confused review – Richard Linklater’s joyously evocative hangout movie
Rereleased for its 30th anniversary, this is a seemingly aimless but actually brilliantly controlled movie about Texan kids in 1976 → Read More
Fremont review – fortune cookie writer looking for love in deadpan migrant drama
Hints of early Jim Jarmusch in Babak Jalali’s dreamy fourth feature, with fine supporting turns from The Bear’s Jeremy Allen White and Gregg Turkington → Read More
The Pigeon Tunnel review – inside the extraordinary life of John le Carré
Errol Morris’s gentle interview allows the mesmeric writer to hold forth on how his relationship with dodgy dad Ronnie informed his life as a spy and novelist → Read More
Brief Encounters/The Long Farewell review – complex, poetic digressions in the USSR
These two striking, improvisatory remasters by Kira Muratova resemble early Polanski, and establish the late director as a fiercely intelligent auteur → Read More
Bratan review – warm-hearted road movie is all about the journey
Director Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov’s debut feature about two young brothers attempting to find their errant father is a deeply humane story about family and responsibility → Read More
A Haunting in Venice review – Branagh’s Agatha Christie whodunnit given horror makeover
No amount of spooky jump-scares can save Kenneth Branagh’s latest Christie adaptation, which wastes its atmospheric setting and stellar cast → Read More
The Dead Don’t Hurt review – love blossoms amid violence in Viggo Mortensen’s western
The star directs, writes, composes and acts in this beautifully shot and sombre film about an old-school hero in a 19th-century frontier community fraught with tragedy → Read More
La Ronde review – a classic, dizzying dance of sex and adventure that leaves a lingering sadness
Max Ophüls’s 1950 tale of dalliances in early-20th-century Viennese cafe society is a tantalising waltz of licentiousness and emptiness → Read More
Origin review – a heartfelt look at a journalist challenging the concept of race
There are solid performances in this dramatisation of Isabel Wilkerson’s attempt to explain racism as an aspect of the caste system, but it may have been better as a documentary → Read More
Past Lives review – a must-see story of lost loves, childhood crushes and changing identities
Celine Song’s feature debut is delicate and sophisticated and yet also somehow simple and direct → Read More
Green Border review – gripping story of refugees’ fight for survival in the forest
Venice film festival: Agnieszka Holland’s brutal and timely drama shines a dark spotlight on the horrors faced by refugees in the exclusion zone between Poland and Belarus → Read More
Priscilla review – Sofia Coppola paints an absorbing, intimate portrait of Elvis’s wife
Based on Priscilla Presley’s memoir, the film shows how a naive schoolgirl became trapped behind the gates of Graceland in a bizarrely co-dependent relationship → Read More
Evil Does Not Exist review – Ryu Hamaguchi’s enigmatic eco-parable eschews easy explanation
Venice film festival: Compositional quirks and unhurried direction turn this tale of a Tokyo company buying up land near a pristine lake into a complex and mysterious drama → Read More
The Killer review – terrific David Fincher thriller about a philosophising hitman
Michael Fassbender is perfect in the main role of a yoga-loving assassin who discourses on everything from morality to the Smiths → Read More
The Beast review – Léa Seydoux’s audacious drama throbs with fear
Disaster appears imminent as Seydoux and an impressive George MacKay meet across three different eras in what is maybe Bertrand Bonello’s best movie yet → Read More
Maestro review – Bradley Cooper’s head-flingingly heartfelt Leonard Bernstein biopic
Cooper’s impersonation of the great composer is eerily exact, and gets to the heart of the sacrifices great artists feel they need to make → Read More
Hoard review – a haunting study of loneliness and thwarted sexuality
Luna Carmoon’s deeply strange and compelling study of hysteria shows the ways in which childhood trauma can bloom in adult life → Read More
Finally Dawn review – Lily James shines in exuberant romantic melodrama
James is the Liz Taylor-ish diva claiming a young star-struck girl as her new best friend in Saverio Constanzo’s tale set in 1950s Rome → Read More
Poor Things review – Emma Stone has a sexual adventure in Yorgos Lanthimos’s virtuoso comic epic
Stone gives a hilarious, beyond-next-level performance as Bella Baxter, the experimental subject of a troubled Victorian anatomist, in Lanthimos’s toweringly bizarre comedy → Read More
All of Us Strangers review – Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott tremendous in a beautiful fantasy-romance
Scott, Mescal and Claire Foy shine in a drama about a screenwriter who visits his childhood home to find his parents, who were killed in a car crash, still living there → Read More