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 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...
My review of Train Dreams (dir. Clint Bentley) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
Train Dreams review – Joel Edgerton superb in Malickian story of trees, grief and railroads
A logger clears a path for change in this sunset-hour-tastic adaptation by Clint Bentley – clearly a director of considerable power and feeling
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November 7, 2025 at 7:46 AM
My review of Train Dreams (dir. Clint Bentley) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
My review of The Choral (dir. Nicholas Hytner) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
The Choral review – Ralph Fiennes leads the choir in impressively unsentimental Alan Bennett fable
Genteel manners of first world war story about repressed passion delivered with surprising sexual candour
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November 7, 2025 at 7:42 AM
My review of The Choral (dir. Nicholas Hytner) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
My review of Anemone (dir. Ronan Day-Lewis) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
Anemone review – Daniel Day-Lewis is endlessly watchable as ex-soldier living with guilt
It is a pleasure to see Day-Lewis back on screen, and he dominates a movie of big scenes and big performances, co-written with and directed by his son
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November 7, 2025 at 7:37 AM
My review of Anemone (dir. Ronan Day-Lewis) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
Some thoughts on the late Pauline Collins: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
Shirley Valentine gave Pauline Collins a role to match her talent. She seized it with style and glee
The film for which the actor, who has died aged 85, is best-remembered is also that in which she was afforded most airtime. If only more film-makers had managed to channel her warm, sharp charm
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November 7, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Some thoughts on the late Pauline Collins: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
Some thoughts on the late Peter Watkins www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
Peter Watkins: an English film-making revolutionary from a tradition of uncompromising radicalism
In films such as The War Game, Culloden and Punishment Park, Watkins pioneered the mock-documentary form and used it to make his historical dramas and up-to-the-minute dystopias all equally immediate ...
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November 3, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Some thoughts on the late Peter Watkins www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
My review of Kontinental ‘25 (dir. Radu Jude) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/fe... (it premiered at Berlin this year and gets its UK release today)
Kontinental ’25 review – scattergun satire on a tour of Romania’s social ills
A bailiff has an identity crisis after a tragedy in Radu Jude’s new film, a scornful polemic on 21st-century Europe set between hope and despair
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October 31, 2025 at 8:00 AM
My review of Kontinental ‘25 (dir. Radu Jude) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/fe... (it premiered at Berlin this year and gets its UK release today)
My review of Canuto’s Transformation (dirs. Ariel Kuaray Ortega, Ernesto de Carvalho) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
Canuto’s Transformation review – did a man really turn into a jaguar in Brazil’s remote forest?
Ariel Kuaray Ortega’s complex docufiction sifts through the mysterious story of a man who, during the military tyranny, is said to have become a big cat
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October 31, 2025 at 7:57 AM
My review of Canuto’s Transformation (dirs. Ariel Kuaray Ortega, Ernesto de Carvalho) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
My review of Palestine 36 (dir. Annemarie Jacir) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
Palestine 36 review – impassioned epic set during the Arab revolt against British colonial rule
Annemarie Jacir’s emotionally stirring drama follows a year of brutal conflict in the Middle East with a huge cast of characters caught up in the turmoil
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October 31, 2025 at 7:52 AM
My review of Palestine 36 (dir. Annemarie Jacir) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
My review of Kenny Dalglish (dir. Asif Kapadia) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
Kenny Dalglish review – Liverpool’s everyman football hero who took the city’s woes on his shoulders
Asif Kapadia’s film draws an absorbing portrait of the Liverpool legend whose career was blighted by the Heysel stadium and Hillsborough disasters
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October 31, 2025 at 7:48 AM
My review of Kenny Dalglish (dir. Asif Kapadia) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
My review of Facing War (dir. Tommy Gulliksen) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
Facing War review – cool customer of a Nato secretary general marshals world on the brink
Gripping documentary follows Jens Stoltenberg through his final year as Nato chief – balancing diplomacy, egos and all-out war with unnerving calm
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October 31, 2025 at 7:43 AM
My review of Facing War (dir. Tommy Gulliksen) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
My review of Relay (dir. David Mackenzie) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
Relay review – Riz Ahmed turns potential whistleblowers in smart and twisty surveillance thriller
With a great script from Justin Piasecki this David Mackenzie-directed movie is pleasingly old fashioned, complete with Hitchcockian set piece
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October 31, 2025 at 7:39 AM
My review of Relay (dir. David Mackenzie) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
My review of Bugonia (dir. Yorgos Lanthimos) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au... (it premiered at Venice this year and gets its UK release today)
Bugonia review – Emma Stone might be an alien in Yorgos Lanthimos’s macabre conspiracy theory comedy
Jesse Plemons delivers an efficient punch as the fanatical Teddy who abducts Stone’s dead-eyed corporate ice queen in Lanthimos’s Korean remake
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October 31, 2025 at 7:35 AM
My review of Bugonia (dir. Yorgos Lanthimos) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au... (it premiered at Venice this year and gets its UK release today)
On the occasion of Laura Mulvey’s honorary fellowship at @BFI here is a vlog on King Vidor’s Duel In The Sun and Stella Dallas, the subjects of Mulvey’s 1975 essay Visual Pleasure And Narrative Cinema - please click, watch, share and subscribe youtu.be/hqFRi9gEvuk?...
PETER BRADSHAW reviews DUEL IN THE SUN and STELLA DALLAS
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October 30, 2025 at 7:34 AM
On the occasion of Laura Mulvey’s honorary fellowship at @BFI here is a vlog on King Vidor’s Duel In The Sun and Stella Dallas, the subjects of Mulvey’s 1975 essay Visual Pleasure And Narrative Cinema - please click, watch, share and subscribe youtu.be/hqFRi9gEvuk?...
My vlog on Yorgos Lanthimos’s Bugonia is up here, please click, watch, share and subscribe: youtu.be/c3ROgFZYqt4?...
PETER BRADSHAW reviews BUGONIA
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October 30, 2025 at 7:31 AM
My vlog on Yorgos Lanthimos’s Bugonia is up here, please click, watch, share and subscribe: youtu.be/c3ROgFZYqt4?...
Reupping here my review of Kristina Lindström and Kristian Petri’s film
The Most Beautiful Boy In The World about the late Björn Andrésen www.theguardian.com/film/2021/ju...
The Most Beautiful Boy In The World about the late Björn Andrésen www.theguardian.com/film/2021/ju...
The Most Beautiful Boy in the World review – devastating exposé of showbiz abuse
Luchino Visconti emerges badly from this desperately sad documentary about the exploitation of his Death in Venice child star Björn Andrésen
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October 28, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Reupping here my review of Kristina Lindström and Kristian Petri’s film
The Most Beautiful Boy In The World about the late Björn Andrésen www.theguardian.com/film/2021/ju...
The Most Beautiful Boy In The World about the late Björn Andrésen www.theguardian.com/film/2021/ju...
My review of Levers (dir. Rhayne Vermette) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
Levers review – gloom-laden experimental eclipse drama about the play of light and darkness
An opaque, inert film by Canadian director Rhayne Vermette despite its scrupulously intended meanings
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October 24, 2025 at 7:07 AM
My review of Levers (dir. Rhayne Vermette) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
My review of Love+War (dirs. Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
Love+War review – Lynsey Addario’s courageous photojournalism shines out in occasionally odd study
The Pulitzer prize-winner has worked across the developing world, braved war zones and been taken hostage in Libya, but do we really need a tour of her beautiful home?
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October 24, 2025 at 6:58 AM
My review of Love+War (dirs. Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
My review of The Spin (dir. Michael Head) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
The Spin review – laughter and vinyl in wacky Irish road movie as pals try to save their record store
Bizarre dialogue riffs add flavour to this likable film about two friends on a road trip to track down some super rare records
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October 24, 2025 at 6:52 AM
My review of The Spin (dir. Michael Head) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...