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
Thanks to The Guardian and Alexi Duggins for this lovely preview of my Audible drama Mercy - “A compelling listen”! Click on the link: www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0GGTQ9ZB...
January 17, 2026 at 9:05 AM
Thanks to The Guardian and Alexi Duggins for this lovely preview of my Audible drama Mercy - “A compelling listen”! Click on the link: www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0GGTQ9ZB...
My review of The Voice Of Hind Rajab (dir. Kaouther Ben Hania) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se... (it premiered at Venice last year and gets its UK release today)
The Voice of Hind Rajab review – docufiction is fierce, vehement and heart-shattering
In an audacious move, director Kaouther Ben Hania reconstructs the killing of the five-year-old in Gaza using her real voice as she is bombarded by the Israeli army
www.theguardian.com
January 16, 2026 at 8:23 AM
My review of The Voice Of Hind Rajab (dir. Kaouther Ben Hania) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se... (it premiered at Venice last year and gets its UK release today)
My review of Escape (dir. Masao Adachi) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...
Escape review – notorious Japanese revolutionary tells story of country’s most wanted criminal
Director Masao Adachi – formerly of the Japanese Red Army – on the infamous Satoshi Kirishima, who went on the run in 1975 after a series of corporate bombings
www.theguardian.com
January 16, 2026 at 8:18 AM
My review of Escape (dir. Masao Adachi) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...
My review of 28 Years Later; The Bone Temple (dir. Nia DaCosta) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple review – Ralph Fiennes is phenomenal in best chapter yet of zombie horror
A murderous Clockwork-Orangey gang take on the zombies in this gruesome and energised fourquel. It’s the finest of the 28 franchise by a blood-curdling mile
www.theguardian.com
January 16, 2026 at 8:13 AM
My review of 28 Years Later; The Bone Temple (dir. Nia DaCosta) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...
My review of Bulk (dir. Ben Wheatley) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...
Bulk review – Ben Wheatley’s quirky sci-fi brings small-budget charm to big questions
Wheatley’s engaging tale sends Sam Riley’s tough-guy reporter to the home of a reclusive oligarch who has invented a ‘Brain Collider’
www.theguardian.com
January 16, 2026 at 8:09 AM
My review of Bulk (dir. Ben Wheatley) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...
My review of Rental Family (dir. Hikari) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...
Rental Family review – Brendan Fraser seeks meaning in pointless Japanese role-play drama
Fraser plays a hapless Tokyo-based actor working for a firm that offers bespoke therapeutic role-play services in director Hikari’s silly and saccharine film
www.theguardian.com
January 16, 2026 at 8:05 AM
My review of Rental Family (dir. Hikari) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...
I’m excited to share that my Audible Original drama Mercy starring Joanna Scanlan is available for download now - click on the link: www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0GGTQ9ZB...
January 15, 2026 at 9:26 AM
I’m excited to share that my Audible Original drama Mercy starring Joanna Scanlan is available for download now - click on the link: www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0GGTQ9ZB...
Reposted by Peter Bradshaw
My story about Michael Haneke’s films and @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social originally published in Paris Fantastique @confingopublishing.bsky.social is now online at Barcelona Review www.barcelonareview.com/114/e_nr.html
NICHOLAS ROYLE: MICHAEL HANEKE’S FILMS RANKED
www.barcelonareview.com
January 12, 2026 at 12:05 PM
My story about Michael Haneke’s films and @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social originally published in Paris Fantastique @confingopublishing.bsky.social is now online at Barcelona Review www.barcelonareview.com/114/e_nr.html
My review of Hamnet (dir. Chloé Zhao) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...
Hamnet review – Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley beguile and captivate in audacious Shakespearean tragedy
Chloé Zhao’s film version of Maggie O’Farrell’s myth-making novel powerfully reimagines the agonising loss of a child as the source of Hamlet’s grand stage drama
www.theguardian.com
January 9, 2026 at 7:41 AM
My review of Hamnet (dir. Chloé Zhao) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...
My review of the re-release of Labyrinth (1986) (dir. Jim Henson) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...
Labyrinth review – Jim Henson and David Bowie make beguiling magic in charmingly eccentric 80s classic
Jennifer Connelly plays a teenager having whimsical Alice in Wonderland-ish adventures in this 1986 family fantasy
www.theguardian.com
January 9, 2026 at 7:33 AM
My review of the re-release of Labyrinth (1986) (dir. Jim Henson) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...
My vlog on Chloë Zhao’s Hamnet is up here, please click, watch, share and subscribe: youtu.be/FwgldMmpW3U?...
PETER BRADSHAW reviews HAMNET
YouTube video by Peter Bradshaw
youtu.be
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
YouTube video by Peter Bradshaw
youtu.be
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
www.theguardian.com
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
www.theguardian.com
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
shorturl.at
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
www.theguardian.com
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
www.theguardian.com
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
www.theguardian.com
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
www.theguardian.com
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...
www.theguardian.com
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
www.theguardian.com
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
www.theguardian.com
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
www.theguardian.com
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
www.theguardian.com
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
www.theguardian.com
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...