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Peter Bradshaw

Peter Bradshaw is the Guardian's film critic

  • Tom Hanks in Forrest Gump (1994).

    Forrest Gump review – Tom Hanks’ chocolate box hero still gets under your skin

    Robert Zemeckis’s re-released fantasy is entirely ridiculous, hokey-sentimental and politically naive, but it’s superbly paced and expertly acted
  • Annabel Scholey and Louise Brealey with cheering women in blue uniforms, gloves and hairnets in background

    Chuck Chuck Baby review – emotionally charged musical drama rules the roost

    Louise Brealey plays Helen, a chicken factory worker who gets a second chance at love, in Janis Pugh’s uplifting crowdpleaser
  • Close-up of woman and daughter

    Janet Planet review – mother-daughter relationship unfolds in dreamy summer haze

    Julianne Nicholson stars in playwright Annie Baker’s languidly charming and tasteful debut feature about a girl’s increasingly fraught holiday at home
  • On the road … Richard Roundtree and June Squibb in Thelma.

    Thelma review – June Squibb is marvellous in sweet mobility scooter revenge caper

  • Lucas Kankava and Mzia Arabuli in Crossing.

    Crossing review – search for estranged trans niece becomes emotional Istanbul journey

  • FILE - Shelley Duvall is shown on Oct. 27, 1983, in Los Angeles. Duvall, whose wide-eyed, winsome presence was a mainstay in the films of Robert Altman and who co-starred in Stanley Kubrick's “The Shining,” has died. She was 75. (AP Photo/Doug Pizac, File)

    Shelley Duvall was a sublime and subversive screen presence

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    The unique and often misunderstood actor, who has died at the age of 75, was frequently at her best with Robert Altman and memorably terrorised by Stanley Kubrick
  • A dramatic historical tableau … (from l to r) Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, Maya Lasker-Wallfisch, Kai Höss and Hans Jürgen Höss in The Commandant’s Shadow.

    The Commandant’s Shadow review – family of Auschwitz commander bring healing to death-camp survivor

    The son and grandson of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss appear in Daniela Volker’s engrossing documentary, a companion piece to Zone of Interest
  • HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS, Ryland Brickson Cole Tews (right), 2022. © SRH / Courtesy Everett Collection<br>2WRAPN2 HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS, Ryland Brickson Cole Tews (right), 2022. © SRH / Courtesy Everett Collection

    Hundreds of Beavers review – Gold Rush-style spoof silent comedy fires gags at warp speed

    Combining Chaplin, Keaton and Looney Tunes, the utter silliness of this movie pastiche, with an army of full-sized beavers, will win you over
  • Sasha Lane as Lily and Glen Powell as Tyler in Twisters.

    Twisters review – Glen Powell and Daisy Edgar-Jones find whirlwind romance in weather-hacking 90s sequel

  • Night fever … Lee Sun-kyun and Jung Yu-mi in Sleep.

    Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
    Sleep review – marriage unravels in gleeful Korean somnambulist psycho-chiller

  • Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum in Fly Me To the Moon.

    Fly Me to the Moon review – slinky Scarlett Johansson in cynical moon-landing conspiracy comedy

    This misjudged and unfunny romcom about how the US government planned to fake the moon landing in case the real one tanked undermines the Apollo 11 achievement
  • a still from Bushman, with Paul Eyam Nzie Okpokam as Gabriel and Elaine Featherstone as Alma.

    Bushman review – amazing real-time evocation of a Nigerian’s life in 70s America

    Paul Eyam Nzie Okpokam plays a lightly fictionalised version of himself in David Schickele’s restored 1971 film reflecting on race and nationality
  • Broodingly obsessed … The Fifth Seal.

    The Fifth Seal review – a spiky political cabaret of cruelty and fear

    Zoltán Fábri’s 1976 film follows military veteran Karoly in wartime Hungary as he asks fellow drinkers in a bar what they would choose: be the slave master or the slave
  • Stunts and stereotypes … John Hannah, Rachel Weisz and Brendan Fraser in The Mummy.

    The Mummy review – Brendan Fraser’s action-adventure is as lovably goofy as ever

  • Driven by guilt … Hackman in The Conversation

    The Conversation review – Gene Hackman is unforgettable in Coppola’s paranoid classic

  • Julio Torres and Tilda Swinton in Problemista

    Problemista review – quirky hipster comedy lets Tilda Swinton go for the laughs

    Swinton almost, but not quite, rescues this film by SNL star Julio Torres with its Wes Anderson-esque onslaught of cutesy kookiness
  • Reunited … from left, John Ashton, Eddie Murphy and Judge Reinhold in Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F.

    Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F review – fish-out-of-water Eddie Murphy chases past glories

  • Orlando, My Political Biography

    Orlando, My Political Biography review – Woolf’s trans hero gets a 21st-century mashup

  • Despicable Me 4.

    Despicable Me 4 review – Gru goes into witness protection to keep Minion magic alive

    Steve Carell’s everyvillain starts a dull new life but nemesis Will Ferrell’s Maxime Le Mal has other ideas

June 2024

  • Nicole Kidman as Brooke Harwood and Zac Efron as Chris Cole in A Family Affair.

    A Family Affair review – Nicole Kidman’s hot age-gap romance quickly goes cold

    Zac Efron plays a heartless airhead movie star who is much too hastily transformed into Kidman’s Mr Perfect
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