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 vlog on Chloë Zhao’s Hamnet is up here, please click, watch, share and subscribe: youtu.be/FwgldMmpW3U?...
PETER BRADSHAW reviews HAMNET
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January 8, 2026 at 1:18 PM
My vlog on Chloë Zhao’s Hamnet is up here, please click, watch, share and subscribe: youtu.be/FwgldMmpW3U?...
My vlog on Josh Safdie’s Marty Supreme is up here, please click, watch, share and subscribe: youtu.be/mMGfF8UhYfk?...
PETER BRADSHAW reviews MARTY SUPREME
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January 8, 2026 at 12:12 PM
My vlog on Josh Safdie’s Marty Supreme is up here, please click, watch, share and subscribe: youtu.be/mMGfF8UhYfk?...
Some thoughts on the late Béla Tarr: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...
With Sátántangó and Werckmeister Harmonies, Béla Tarr became the vividly disquieting master of spiritual desolation
The Hungarian director’s films moved slowly like vast gothic aircraft carrier-sized ships across dark seas, giving audiences a feeling of drunkenness and hangover at the same time
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January 6, 2026 at 7:19 PM
Some thoughts on the late Béla Tarr: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...
Reupping here my piece about Eva Schloss’s After Auschwitz www.theguardian.com/books/2016/s...
Books to give you hope: After Auschwitz by Eva Schloss
This extraordinary book by Anne Frank’s stepsister casts an unflinching gaze on the past and looks forward hopefully for humanity’s future
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January 4, 2026 at 7:37 PM
Reupping here my piece about Eva Schloss’s After Auschwitz www.theguardian.com/books/2016/s...
“It is vital to call out those politicians who wrap themselves in the British flag while cynically and dishonestly trashing their own country’s greatest city.” Excellent piece by Robert Shrimsley in the FT on the sinister trashing of London by the Far Right shorturl.at/N1GWv
The plot against London
Distorted attacks by the populist right are really about demography
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January 2, 2026 at 9:39 AM
“It is vital to call out those politicians who wrap themselves in the British flag while cynically and dishonestly trashing their own country’s greatest city.” Excellent piece by Robert Shrimsley in the FT on the sinister trashing of London by the Far Right shorturl.at/N1GWv
Great piece by Nadia Khomami on the 2025 crash in the celebrity economy: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
2025 was the year we grew tired of celebrity for celebrity’s sake | Nadia Khomami
Being blasted into space or taking over Venice no longer cuts it. The rich and famous are being punished for their conspicuous vacuity, says Guardian arts and culture correspondent Nadia Khomami
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December 31, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Great piece by Nadia Khomami on the 2025 crash in the celebrity economy: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Some thoughts on the late Brigitte Bardot: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...
Brigitte Bardot: the zeitgeist-force who was France’s most sensational export | Peter Bradshaw
Bardot titillated the world for five decades, but the controversy and voyeurism surrounding her shouldn’t overshadow an intriguing film career
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December 28, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Some thoughts on the late Brigitte Bardot: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...
My review of Song Sung Blue (dir. Craig Brewer) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...
Song Sung Blue review – Neil Diamond tribute act gets sweet treat of movie thanks to Jackman and Hudson
Film that follows a Milwaukee married couple as they rise to fame with a real-life band called Lightning and Thunder is undeniably entertaining
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December 27, 2025 at 7:16 AM
My review of Song Sung Blue (dir. Craig Brewer) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...
My review of Marty Supreme (dir. Josh Safdie) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...
Marty Supreme review – Timothée Chalamet a smash in spectacular screwball ping-pong nightmare
Following every dizzying spin of Chalamet’s table tennis hustler, Josh Safdie’s whip-crack comedy serves sensational shots – and a smart return by Gwyneth Paltrow
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December 27, 2025 at 7:08 AM
My review of Marty Supreme (dir. Josh Safdie) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...
How I made Renate Reinsve throw up: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...
Renate Reinsve on vomit-inducing reviews and 19-minute standing ovations: ‘You feel your face go stiff from smiling so long’
The Norwegian star was considering giving up acting to be a carpenter when Joachim Trier wrote The Worst Person in the World for her. Now the pair have teamed up again – but she refuses to get carried...
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December 21, 2025 at 3:30 PM
How I made Renate Reinsve throw up: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...
And so once again awards season comes to its ululating climax with the publication of the “Braddies”, my personal best-of-the-year in film: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...
And the 2025 Braddies go to … Peter Bradshaw’s film picks of the year
Now the Guardian’s Top 50 countdowns, as voted for by the whole film team, have announced their No 1s, here are our chief critic’s personal choices – in no particular order
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December 19, 2025 at 5:01 PM
And so once again awards season comes to its ululating climax with the publication of the “Braddies”, my personal best-of-the-year in film: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...
My review of Avatar: Fire And Ash (dir. James Cameron) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...
Avatar: Fire and Ash review – witchy new sex interest can’t save this gigantically dull hunk of nonsense
The third Avatar chapter erupts with volcanic world-building and thunderous action yet remains a vast, dazzling spectacle in search of an emotional arc
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December 19, 2025 at 7:47 AM
My review of Avatar: Fire And Ash (dir. James Cameron) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...
My review of The Housemaid (dir. Paul Feig) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...
The Housemaid review – Sydney Sweeney takes the job from hell in outrageous suspense thriller
Amanda Seyfried and Brandon Sklenar co-star as Sweeney’s secretive bosses in an upstate New York mansion, and director Paul Feig ramps up the sexual tension with evident gusto
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December 19, 2025 at 7:42 AM
My review of The Housemaid (dir. Paul Feig) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...
Brilliant piece by Andrew Pulver on the late Rob Reiner www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...
From Seinfeld to Shawshank, Rob Reiner changed Hollywood for ever
Reiner’s own films reshaped modern comedy and drama with their intelligence, empathy and range. But through his company, Castle Rock, he paved the way for Seinfeld, Sorkin and many more
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December 15, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Brilliant piece by Andrew Pulver on the late Rob Reiner www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...
My review of Preparation For The Next Life (dir. Bing Liu) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...
Preparation for the Next Life review – deeply felt story of love among the marginalised in New York
Bing Liu’s debut feature is an unflinching portrait of an undocumented Uyghur immigrant and a traumatised US veteran whose fragile connection is strained by their pasts
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December 12, 2025 at 7:55 AM
My review of Preparation For The Next Life (dir. Bing Liu) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...
My review of Silent Sherlock: Three Classic Cases (dirs. Maurice Elvey et al) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...
Silent Sherlock: Three Classic Cases review – on the hunt with Holmes in restored 1920s mysteries
From stealing a photo for the King of Bohemia to battling the Napoleon of crime on a clifftop, Holmes is witty and watchable in these early Conan Doyle-approved dramas
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December 12, 2025 at 7:46 AM
My review of Silent Sherlock: Three Classic Cases (dirs. Maurice Elvey et al) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...
My review of Goodbye June (dir. Kate Winslet) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...
Goodbye June review – Kate Winslet’s Christmas heartwarmer is like a two-hour John Lewis ad
Star turns from Helen Mirren, Andrea Riseborough and Toni Colette can’t stop cartoony sentimentality smothering this film directed by Winslet and written by her son Joe Anders
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December 12, 2025 at 7:41 AM
My review of Goodbye June (dir. Kate Winslet) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...
Some thoughts on the #GoldenGlobes nominations: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...
Sydney Sweeney, Richard Linklater and Emma Thompson are up for most egregious snub in the 2026 Golden Globe nominations
Linklater is missing from the best director list despite having two nominated films, and actors including Sydney Sweeney and Josh O’Connor are nowhere to be seen. It looks like Paul Thomas Anderson’s ...
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December 9, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Some thoughts on the #GoldenGlobes nominations: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...
Reupping here my review of Lee Shulman’s I am Martin Parr www.theguardian.com/film/2025/fe...
I Am Martin Parr review – enjoyable study of tragicomic Britain’s inspired photographer
Valuable documentary on the vigilant genius whose highly coloured 70s and 80s images revealed the white working class as never before
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December 7, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Reupping here my review of Lee Shulman’s I am Martin Parr www.theguardian.com/film/2025/fe...
Amazing article by George Monbiot on a breakthrough in his Earth Rover Programme and the new science of “soilsmology” - in theory a piece about soil shouldn’t be gripping but this is! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Over a pint in Oxford, we may have stumbled upon the holy grail of agriculture | George Monbiot
I knew that a revolution in our understanding of soil could change the world. Then came a eureka moment – and the birth of the Earth Rover Program, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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December 5, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Amazing article by George Monbiot on a breakthrough in his Earth Rover Programme and the new science of “soilsmology” - in theory a piece about soil shouldn’t be gripping but this is! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My vlog on Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just An Accident is up here, please click, watch, share and subscribe: youtu.be/AHUW734LDto?...
PETER BRADSHAW reviews IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT
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December 5, 2025 at 11:02 AM
My vlog on Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just An Accident is up here, please click, watch, share and subscribe: youtu.be/AHUW734LDto?...
My review of Folktales (dirs. Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...
Folktales review – taking on tyranny of social media as teens learn to live like hunter-gatherers
In this documentary, high schoolers camp out in subzero temperatures, making their own fires and driving sledges in the wild
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December 5, 2025 at 7:59 AM
My review of Folktales (dirs. Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...
My review of Magazine Dreams (dir. Elijah Bynum) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...
Magazine Dreams review – powerful bodybuilding drama dogged by star Jonathan Majors’ assault conviction
The actor was convicted in 2023 leaving this a film maudit, and though he is convincing, it only draws uncomfortable parallels with his own life
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December 5, 2025 at 7:53 AM
My review of Magazine Dreams (dir. Elijah Bynum) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...
My review of Prime Minister (dirs. Michelle Walshe, Lindsay Utz) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...
Prime Minister review – portrait of Jacinda Ardern shows a fully human being in charge for once
Documentary about New Zealand’s former leader records a shrewd but likable premier who did without the usual politician’s defences
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December 5, 2025 at 7:49 AM
My review of Prime Minister (dirs. Michelle Walshe, Lindsay Utz) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...
My review of Cover-Up (dirs. Laura Poitras, Mark Obenhaus) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...
Cover-Up review – atrocity exposer Seymour Hersh, journalist legend, gets a moment in the spotlight
Hersh’s record on uncovering the big stories, from My Lai to Abu Ghraib, speaks for itself. This documentary watches him at work: dogged, nonconformist and combative
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December 5, 2025 at 7:45 AM
My review of Cover-Up (dirs. Laura Poitras, Mark Obenhaus) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...