Peter Bradshaw
@peterbradshaw1.bsky.social
Guardian film critic. My new book, The Body In The Mobile Library And Other Stories is out now. Kindly click on the link: https://amzn.eu/d/3ZFMXjo
My review of Blue Moon (dir. Richard Linklater) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc... (it premiered at Berlin and London earlier this year and gets its UK release today)
Blue Moon review – Ethan Hawke is terrific in Richard Linklater’s bitter Broadway breakup drama
Hawke plays with campy brilliance and criminal combover the lyricist Lorenz Hart as he spirals into vinegary jilted despair after his split from Richard Rodgers
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November 28, 2025 at 9:32 AM
My review of Blue Moon (dir. Richard Linklater) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc... (it premiered at Berlin and London earlier this year and gets its UK release today)
My review of Pillion (dir. Harry Lighton) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma... (it premiered at Cannes in May and gets its UK release today)
Pillion review – 50 shades of BDSM Wallace and Gromit in brilliant Bromley biker romance
Alexander Skarsgård and Harry Melling play unlikely lovers in this sweet and extremely revealing first-time drama from Harry Lighton, adapted from Adam Mars-Jones’ Box Hill
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November 28, 2025 at 9:29 AM
My review of Pillion (dir. Harry Lighton) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma... (it premiered at Cannes in May and gets its UK release today)
My review of The Thing With Feathers (dir. Dylan Southern) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
The Thing With Feathers review – well-intentioned adaptation of Max Porter novella about grief
Benedict Cumberbatch gives an honest performance, but this is too self-conscious to challenge or work through loss with same power as the book
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November 28, 2025 at 9:24 AM
My review of The Thing With Feathers (dir. Dylan Southern) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
My review of Still Pushing Pineapples (dir. Kim Hopkins) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
Still Pushing Pineapples review – Black Lace trouper on sad disco circuit from Blackpool to Benidorm
Kim Hopkins’ documentary follows Dene Michael, of 1980s novelty pop act Black Lace, as he belts out the band’s hits – though it misses out a key part of his life
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November 28, 2025 at 9:21 AM
My review of Still Pushing Pineapples (dir. Kim Hopkins) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
My review of Dracula: A Love Tale (dir. Luc Besson) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
Dracula review – Luc Besson’s romantic reimagining of Gothic classic is ridiculous but watchable
While we don’t necessarily need another film version of Bram Stoker’s story, Besson’s has ambition and panache, and Caleb Landry Jones and Christoph Waltz are perfectly cast
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November 28, 2025 at 9:16 AM
My review of Dracula: A Love Tale (dir. Luc Besson) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
My review of Zootropolis 2 (dirs. Jared Bush, Byron Howard) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
Zootropolis 2 review – just-about-passable family comedy sequel might as well be AI generated
Follow-up to 2016 animation about talking animals living in a utopia is a soulless film-by-numbers affair filled with corporately approved jokes
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November 28, 2025 at 9:09 AM
My review of Zootropolis 2 (dirs. Jared Bush, Byron Howard) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
My review of Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (dir. Rian Johnson) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery review – Josh O’Connor excels in another deadpan delight
Daniel Craig is joined by a sparkling array of talent including O’Connor, Glenn Close and Josh Brolin in this latest murder mystery with a religious undercurrent
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November 28, 2025 at 9:05 AM
My review of Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (dir. Rian Johnson) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
My review of Christy (dir. David Michôd) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
Christy review – Sydney Sweeney pummels a boxing pioneer’s story into lifeless cliche
Underpowered David Michôd film fails to land the story of the groundbreaking 90s female boxing champion and the horrendous abuse she faced at home
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November 28, 2025 at 9:02 AM
My review of Christy (dir. David Michôd) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
My review of Sirāt (dir. Olivier Laxe) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
Sirāt review – rave in the desert leads to exasperating quest in the sands of Morocco
Oliver Laxe’s Cannes prize winner about a father’s search for his missing daughter starts impressively then descends into Pythonesque perdition
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November 28, 2025 at 8:57 AM
My review of Sirāt (dir. Olivier Laxe) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
My vlog on Richard Linklater’s Blue Moon is up here, please click, watch, share and subscribe: youtu.be/2WIqXhanlXI?...
PETER BRADSHAW reviews BLUE MOON
YouTube video by Peter Bradshaw
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November 27, 2025 at 3:29 PM
My vlog on Richard Linklater’s Blue Moon is up here, please click, watch, share and subscribe: youtu.be/2WIqXhanlXI?...
My review of One Shot With Ed Sheeran (dir. Philip Barantini) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
One Shot With Ed Sheeran review – well-planned spontaneity from all-smiling singer
Philip Barantini’s single-take special follows the star mooching around Manhattan, guitar ever ready for ad hoc turns, ahead of his evening show
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November 21, 2025 at 8:05 AM
My review of One Shot With Ed Sheeran (dir. Philip Barantini) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
My review of Fiume O Morte! (dir. Igor Bezinović) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
Fiume o Morte! review – darkly comic reconstruction of D’Annunzio’s Yugoslavian coup
Igor Bezinović uses local residents of what is now Rijeka in Croatia to re-stage the vainglorious Italian protofascist’s ragtag takeover of the Adriatic port city
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November 21, 2025 at 7:56 AM
My review of Fiume O Morte! (dir. Igor Bezinović) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
My review of Apple Cider Vinegar (dir. Sofie Benoot) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
Apple Cider Vinegar review – a kidney stone leads into whimsical geology doc
Sofie Benoot’s film opens out from the film-maker’s medical problem to a diverting reflection on humankind’s deep roots in ancient minerals
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November 21, 2025 at 7:48 AM
My review of Apple Cider Vinegar (dir. Sofie Benoot) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
My review of Wicked: For Good (dir. Jon M. Chu) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
Wicked: For Good review – Cynthia Erivo sweeps the field in explosive second chunk of Oz prequel
Bringing her black-belt screen presence to the role of Elphaba, Erivo leads a fine cast in a zingily scored conclusion to the hit origin story
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November 21, 2025 at 7:29 AM
My review of Wicked: For Good (dir. Jon M. Chu) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
My review of The Ice Tower (dir. Lucile Hadžihalilović) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/fe...
The Ice Tower review – Marion Cotillard focus of obsession and idolisation in death-wish fairytale
Cotillard plays a movie actor starring in a production of The Snow Queen in Lucile Hadžihalilović’s unwholesome story of yearning
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November 21, 2025 at 7:25 AM
My review of The Ice Tower (dir. Lucile Hadžihalilović) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/fe...
My review of The Session Man (dir. Michael Treen) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
The Session Man review – Mick Jagger joins look at amazing life of keyboards ace Nicky Hopkins
The pianist played with the Beatles, the Stones, the Who and more, but remains little known beyond insider circles. This loving doc asks why – but leaves some questions unanswered
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November 21, 2025 at 7:21 AM
My review of The Session Man (dir. Michael Treen) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
My review of the re-release of The Saragossa Manuscript (1965) (dir. Wojciech Has) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
The Saragossa Manuscript review – cult Polish period-costume comedy is outrageous head-spinner
Wojciech Has’s slice of 1960s surrealism is set in 18th-century Spain, as an officer careens through farcical encounters and erotic episodes in a wild ride that could be a series of Monty Python sketc...
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November 21, 2025 at 7:16 AM
My review of the re-release of The Saragossa Manuscript (1965) (dir. Wojciech Has) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
My review of The Thing With Feathers (dir. Dylan Southern) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
The Thing With Feathers review – well-intentioned adaptation of Max Porter novella about grief
Benedict Cumberbatch gives an honest performance, but this is too self-conscious to challenge or work through loss with same power as the book
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November 21, 2025 at 7:12 AM
My review of The Thing With Feathers (dir. Dylan Southern) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
My vlog on Lucile Hadžihalilović’s The Ice Tower is up here, please click, watch, share and subscribe: youtu.be/iDIq_1L4llw?...
PETER BRADSHAW reviews THE ICE TOWER
YouTube video by Peter Bradshaw
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November 20, 2025 at 4:09 PM
My vlog on Lucile Hadžihalilović’s The Ice Tower is up here, please click, watch, share and subscribe: youtu.be/iDIq_1L4llw?...
My vlog on Edgar Wright’s The Running Man is up here, please click, watch, share and subscribe: youtu.be/FSSaNib-IiY?...
November 15, 2025 at 11:23 AM
My vlog on Edgar Wright’s The Running Man is up here, please click, watch, share and subscribe: youtu.be/FSSaNib-IiY?...
My review of Nuremberg (dir. James Vanderbilt) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
Nuremberg review – Russell Crowe is top notch as an on-trial Göring but Rami Malek lets side down
Crowe is wittily cast as the pompous Nazi in this tale from behind the scenes at the Nuremberg trials, but Malek is deeply silly as army psychiatrist Douglas Kelley
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November 14, 2025 at 9:35 AM
My review of Nuremberg (dir. James Vanderbilt) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
My review of The Running Man (dir. Edgar Wright) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
The Running Man review – Glen Powell sprints through fun update of Stephen King future-shock sci-fi satire
Full-tilt chase sequences, a punk aesthetic and a sugar-rush soundtrack, means there is plenty of enjoyment to be had as Edgar Wright goes back to King’s original 1982 novel
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November 14, 2025 at 7:56 AM
My review of The Running Man (dir. Edgar Wright) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
My review of Alpha (dir. Julia Ducournau) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma... (it premiered at Cannes in May and gets its UK release today)
Alpha review – Julia Ducournau’s disjointed body horror is an absolute gamma
The winner of the Palme d’Or for Titane delivers a true turkey: the tonally inept tale of a girl with a dodgy tattoo and a disease that turns people to marble
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November 14, 2025 at 7:52 AM
My review of Alpha (dir. Julia Ducournau) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma... (it premiered at Cannes in May and gets its UK release today)
My review of Jay Kelly (dir. Noah Baumbach) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au... (it premiered in Venice in August and gets its UK release today)
Jay Kelly review – even a George Clooney sizzle reel can’t save this dire Noah Baumbach effort
The affable star plays an affable star assessing his life and career at a Tuscan film festival in a wildly sentimental and self-indulgent piece of cine-narcissism
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November 14, 2025 at 7:39 AM
My review of Jay Kelly (dir. Noah Baumbach) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au... (it premiered in Venice in August and gets its UK release today)
My review of Anthony Hopkins’s memoir We Did OK, Kid is up here: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
We Did OK, Kid: A Memoir by Anthony Hopkins review – a legend with a temper
The Oscar-winning actor’s autobiography combines vulnerability with bloody-mindedness and belligerence
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November 14, 2025 at 7:33 AM
My review of Anthony Hopkins’s memoir We Did OK, Kid is up here: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...