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 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
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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...
My review of the re-release of Night Of The Juggler (1980) (dir. Robert Butler) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
Night of the Juggler review – full-throttle 1980s pulp shocker crammed with nonstop gonzo mayhem
While the standards of good taste are very much of its time, this crime thriller is a ride of fender mangling car chases, over-the-top punch ups and nutso action
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November 14, 2025 at 7:30 AM
My review of the re-release of Night Of The Juggler (1980) (dir. Robert Butler) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
My review of Christmas Karma (dir. Gurinder Chadha) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
Christmas Karma review – Dickens adaptation has as much Yuletide spirit as a dead rat in the eggnog
Gurinder Chadha’s leaden update of the hardy seasonal chestnut with Kunal Nayyar is joyless and nausea-inducing
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November 14, 2025 at 7:26 AM
My review of Christmas Karma (dir. Gurinder Chadha) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
My review of Park Avenue (dir. Gaby Dellal) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
Park Avenue review – Fiona Shaw is fearless in upmarket New York mother-daughter relationship drama
Having left her husband, Shaw’s daughter moves in with her at the Manhattan apartment she grew up in and soon tensions arise – wry, sweet, melancholic but somewhat insubstantial
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November 14, 2025 at 7:23 AM
My review of Park Avenue (dir. Gaby Dellal) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
My vlog on Lynne Ramsay’s Die My Love is up here, please click, watch, share and subscribe youtu.be/FVGhGxDWULI?...
PETER BRADSHAW reviews DIE MY LOVE
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November 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM
My vlog on Lynne Ramsay’s Die My Love is up here, please click, watch, share and subscribe youtu.be/FVGhGxDWULI?...
My review of Dragonfly (dir. Paul Andrew Williams) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju... (it premiered at Tribeca earlier this year and gets its UK release today)
Dragonfly review – haunting, genre-defying drama of lonely city living
Brenda Blethyn and Andrea Riseborough, along with a very alarming dog, are superb as two neighbours thrown together by their neglected circumstances
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November 7, 2025 at 8:14 AM
My review of Dragonfly (dir. Paul Andrew Williams) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju... (it premiered at Tribeca earlier this year and gets its UK release today)
My review of Die My Love (dir. Lynne Ramsay) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma...
Die My Love review – Jennifer Lawrence excels in intensely sensual study of a woman in meltdown
Lawrence excels as a woman whose bipolar disorder is exacerbated by husband Robert Pattinson’s infidelity, with super-strength direction from Lynne Ramsay
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November 7, 2025 at 8:10 AM
My review of Die My Love (dir. Lynne Ramsay) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma...
My review of Don’t Trip (dir. Alex Kugelman) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
Don’t Trip review – lo-fi comedy shocker sets out to find the horror in Hollywood
What starts as a compelling satire of the film industry turns into an unconvincing schlocky mess that even Fred Melamed can’t save
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November 7, 2025 at 8:05 AM
My review of Don’t Trip (dir. Alex Kugelman) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
My review of Predator: Badlands (dir. Dan Trachtenberg) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
Predator: Badlands review – a pointless but unkillable franchise that has started to eat itself
The toothy villain is humanised and made sympathetic in this disappointing horror sci-fi – at which point it ceases to be the Predator
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November 7, 2025 at 8:00 AM
My review of Predator: Badlands (dir. Dan Trachtenberg) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
My review of Colossal Wreck (dir. Josh Appignanesi) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
Colossal Wreck review – sharp-eyed dispatch from the Kubrickian weirdness of Dubai during Cop28
Josh Appignanesi’s documentary follows the film-maker to the Kubrickian city built on oil money as it hosts the 2023 climate change summit
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November 7, 2025 at 7:52 AM
My review of Colossal Wreck (dir. Josh Appignanesi) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
My review of The Marbles (dir. David Wilkinson) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
The Marbles review – thoughtful outline of case for giving the Parthenon marbles back to Greece
David Wilkinson’s personal exploration of the issues open-mindedly examines both sides of a contentious political debate
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November 7, 2025 at 7:49 AM
My review of The Marbles (dir. David Wilkinson) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...