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Guardian film critic. My new Audible Original drama MERCY starring Joanna Scanlan is out now: www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0GGTQ9ZBY?sou…

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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My review of Hope (dir. Na Hong-jin) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma... (it premiered in Cannes earlier this year and gets its UK release today)
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Hope review – non-stop gonzo alien battling is top-quality entertainment
Na Hong-jin’s melee of running, chasing and shouting at the angry invaders is uproarious fun, mixing digital work with old-school spectacle
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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My review of Her Private Hell (dir. Nicolas Winding Refn) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma... (it premiered at Cannes earlier this year and gets its UK release today)
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Her Private Hell review – Nicolas Winding Refn’s shapeshifting fantasia is a dreamy swirl of strangeness
Refn’s film eludes definition as it moves through time and space, from doomy reality to strange dream worlds populated by quasi-Lynchian characters
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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My review of Sense And Sensibility (dir. Georgia Oakley) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/se...
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Sense and Sensibility review – Daisy Edgar-Jones leads sober-minded next-gen do-over of Austen romcom
With Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed-Miles as the Dashwood sisters, this fresh take on a beloved classic is not to be confused with Ang Lee’s
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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My review of Heart Of The Beast (dir. David Ayer) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/se...
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Heart of the Beast review – Brad Pitt survivalist dogmance serves up wilderness with side of cheese
Pitt and loyal hound Odin get stuck in remote Alaska in this serviceable adventure with hints of Jack London and Marley & Me
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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My review of Boorman And The Devil (dir. David Kittredge) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/se...
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Boorman and the Devil review – enjoyable re-evaluation of the disaster that was Exorcist II: The Heretic
John Boorman generously details the mortifying experience of making a sequel to 1973 hit horror The Exorcist, which was widely and unfairly panned
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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My review of the re-release of Manhunter (1986) (dir. Michael Mann) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/se...
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Manhunter review – Michael Mann serves up a bold and queasy starter to the serial killer spectacle
Before Anthony Hopkins’ Dr Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs, Brian Cox played a cannibalistic killer in Mann’s pioneering Red Dragon adaptation
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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My review of Forgotten island (dirs. Joel Crawford, Januel P. Mercado) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/se...
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Forgotten Island review – best friends forever trapped in frantic DreamWorks animation
This over-controlled adventure never takes a breath or a moment to let its characters come to life
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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
My review of De Gaulle: Résistance (dir. Antonin Baudry) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/au...
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De Gaulle: Résistance review – a galloping bromance for Churchill and France’s wartime hero
This biopic of the great Gallic general – which culminates at Bir Hakeim, in advance of a second film – is a fine, quietly amusing romp with a touch of classic 60s war films
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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
My review of Spa Weekend (dirs. Jon Lucas, Scott Moore) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/au...
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Spa Weekend review – female answer to The Hangover spreads the slush with the massage oil
Despite stars Leslie Mann, Anna Faris and Isla Fisher and the writers behind The Hangover, this tale of friends at a luxury hotel is a dud
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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Some thoughts on the late Tim Curry: www.theguardian.com/film/filmblo...
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Farewell, Dr Frank-N-Furter: why Tim Curry’s Rocky Horror Show will go on
The versatile stage performer will always be remembered for his defining film role in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, which turned him into an icon of 70s underground cinema and proto-punk
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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
My review of Teenage Sex And Death At Camp Miasma (dir. Jane Schoenbrun) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma... (it premiered at Cannes in May and gets its UK release today)
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Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma review – Gillian Anderson superb in queer slasher spectacular
Young indie film-maker Kris tracks down Anderson’s Final Girl for a remake of a beloved horror, to find fantasy and reality collapsed
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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
My review of A. Rimbaud (dir. Patrick Wang) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/au...
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A Rimbaud review – legendary poet’s unlikely transformation into entrepreneur is as odd as ever
Australian actor Blake Draper delivers a committed one-man performance tracking the writer as he morphs from enfant terrible to merchant
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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
My review of Coyote Vs Acme (dir. Dave Green) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/au...
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Coyote Vs Acme review – quirky comedy returns from the dead to flip Wile E Coyote’s slapstick-violent world
After being shelved as a tax-writeoff, this Looney Tunes reboot redraws the hapless hunter as the Erin Brockovich of the cartoon world
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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
My review of Steal This Story, Please! (dirs. Carl Deal, Tia Lessin) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/au...
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Steal This Story, Please! review – Amy Goodman, stalwart of the American left, shows her teeth
This comprehensive documentary about the Democracy Now! radio show host and seasoned investigative reporter takes in a massacre in East Timor, the actions of oil giants and a flustered Bill Clinton as...
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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
My review of Don’t Say Good Luck (dir. Julia Hart) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/au...
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Don’t Say Good Luck review – high-school musical weepie puts Sunny Sandler in the spotlight
A mother’s illness threatens to overshadow a stagestruck teen’s big break in a school production
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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
My review of The End Of Tom Six (dir. Tom Six) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/au...
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The End of Tom Six review – Human Centipede director delivers one last freaky flick
Now living with multiple sclerosis, Six rants about the masturbation film distributors won’t touch and the money mystery behind his horror hit
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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
My vlog on Frank Capra’s Meet John Doe (1941) is up here, please click, watch, share and subscribe: youtu.be/wlCwste5LWk?...
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PETER BRADSHAW reviews Ben Lerner’s TRANSCRIPTION and Frank Capra’s MEET JOHN DOE
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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
My review of The Summer Book (dir. Charlie McDowell) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/au...
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The Summer Book review – Glenn Close powers sweet-natured take on Tove Jansson’s grief classic
This sensitive adaptation of Jansson’s 1972 novel, set in the beatific Gulf of Finland, is a quiet treatise on life and death
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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
My review of Love Me Tender (dir. Anna Cazenave Cambet) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/au...
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Love Me Tender review – Vicky Krieps custody-battle drama is intelligent, sensual and bitter slice of life
Anna Cazenave Cambet’s adaptation of Constance Debré’s novel is a superbly acted and affecting – if restrained – portrait of child access and interpersonal strife
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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
My review of the re-release of Nadja (1994) (dir. Michael Almereyda) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/au...
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Nadja review – Dracula’s daughter is divine in dreamy lo-fi modern vampire tale of predatory sexuality
Michael Almereyda’s 1994 horror romance is an indie gem – with a cameo from executive producer David Lynch as a morgue attendant
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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
My review of Hunt For The Wilderpeople (2016) (dir. Taika Waititi) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/au...
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Hunt for the Wilderpeople review – Sam Neill is warm and wise in Taika Waititi’s goofily tremendous film
Waititi’s eccentric drama sends the late actor into the New Zealand wilderness with his young charge, angry authorities in hot pursuit
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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
My review of the re-release of Practical Magic (1998) (dir. Griffin Dunne) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/au...
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Practical Magic review – Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock’s 90s witchy fantasy still enchants
Preceding a long-awaited sequel, Griffin Dunne’s supernatural suburban romance gets a big-screen rerelease. With its romcom quirk, buttery cinematography and stabs of black comedy, it remains a zany g...
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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Amazing, unfiltered interview with Phil Collins from Decca Aitkemhead - Collins says that he is really into truecrime stuff about serial killers - but doesn’t discuss Patrick Bateman’s fan-worship www.thetimes.com/magazines/th...
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Phil Collins at 75: ‘My personal life? It’s a minefield’
Two years ago, he lay on his deathbed in a Swiss hospital. Now the mega-selling singer is open to the idea of a fourth wife. ‘I’d love to be in love again,’ he tells Decca Aitkenhead
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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
My review of the re-release of Billy Liar (1963) (dir. John Schlesinger) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...
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Billy Liar review – Tom Courtenay is superb in classic study of a young man and his quixotic dreams
Courtenay gives a beautiful performance as the undertaker’s clerk who nurses preposterous ambitions. But the film is too quick to surrender them
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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
My review of Wham! 10 Days In China (dir. Mike Christie) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...
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Wham! 10 Days in China review – pop meets politics in George and Andrew’s great leap east
The duo’s groundbreaking 1985 tour reveals a strange collision of pop stardom and communism, a re-edit of Lindsay Anderson’s efforts that got him fired
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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
My review of Spider-Man: Brand New Day (dir. Destin Daniel Cretton) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...
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Spider-Man: Brand New Day review – Zendaya saves Tom Holland’s semi-Cronenberg-style superhero
Now 30, Holland is back as the vexed webslinger in a sometimes shocking, occasionally sluggish new instalment opposite his Odyssey castmate
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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
My review of the re-release of Solo Sunny (1980) (dir. Konrad Wolf) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...
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Solo Sunny review – a rueful East German gem of ambition, loneliness and faded dreams
Konrad Wolf’s 1980 drama follows a singer trying to escape the drab compromises of GDR life, capturing the melancholy of thwarted ambition with warmth and wit
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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
My review of the re-release of Personal Problems (1980) (dir. Bill Gunn) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...
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Personal Problems review – an exhilarating lo-fi epic of Black working-class life in 80s New York
The director of Ganja & Hess, Bill Gunn, turns analogue video and improvisation into a work of startling intimacy, humour and emotional force
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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
My review of Tony (dir. Matt Johnson) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...
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Tony review – knives out in tasty reheat of Anthony Bourdain’s memoir
Dominic Sessa stars as a conceited yet vulnerable young chef alongside Antonio Banderas – but the feelgood factor is compromised by what we know of the author
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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
My vlog on Samuel Abrahams’s Lady is up here, please click, watch, share and subscribe: youtu.be/a9zGxEnD05s?...
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PETER BRADSHAW reviews LADY
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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
My vlog on Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke’s A Useful Ghost is up here, please click, watch, share and subscribe: youtu.be/QLjWQt72neA?...
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PETER BRADSHAW reviews A USEFUL GHOST
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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
My review of A Useful Ghost (dir. Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...
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A Useful Ghost review – exhilarating black comedy summons ghosts of Thai past via a haunted hoover
Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke’s stylish and unique movie features an unquiet spirit that inhabits a vacuum cleaner, before political interests intervene
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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
My review of The Dink (dir. Josh Greenbaum) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...
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The Dink review – Jake Johnson’s pickleball comedy serves up engagingly silly laughs
Johnson is delusional ex-tennis player The Hammer, who has to switch to the sport he loathes after injury
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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
My review of On The Sea (dir. Helen Walsh) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...
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On the Sea review – tender fishermen’s boat-based tale of forbidden love far from prying eyes
Away from the disapproval of their Welsh fishing community, two men embark on a passionate affair in Helen Walsh’s poignant drama
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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
My review of Ask E. Jean (dir. Ivy Meeropol) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...
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Ask E Jean review – Trump survivor turns out to be tougher than he thought as she fights on
Ivy Meeropol’s engrossing film follows as former star columnist E Jean Carroll, now in her 80s, battles through an unfinished series of legal disputes
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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
My review of the re-release of Nostalgia (1983) (dir. Andrei Tarkovsky) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...
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Nostalgia review – Tarkovsky’s yearning cine-poem is deeply mysterious and profound
In the Russian director’s Italy-set 1983 great, a scholar has an existential crisis while researching the life of a composer
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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
My review of the re-release of Nostalgia (1983) (dir. Andrei Tarkovsky) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...
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Nostalgia review – Tarkovsky’s yearning cine-poem is deeply mysterious and profound
In the Russian director’s Italy-set 1983 great, a scholar has an existential crisis while researching the life of a composer
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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
My review of The Odyssey (dir. Christopher Nolan) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...
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The Odyssey review – Nolan goes god-tier with breathtaking epic of men, monsters and moral metamorphosis
Doing full justice to the Homeric legend, Christopher Nolan amasses an epic cast to convey the true cost of war with film-making of thrilling ambition
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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
My review of A Year In London (dir. Flaminia Graziadei) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...
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A Year in London review – fashion student hits it off with her professor in frothy lesbian romcom
An Italian on an exchange to the glamorous UK capital gets involved with a sophisticated older woman in a tale of soap opera silliness
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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
My review of Synthetic Sincerity (dir. Marc Isaacs) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...
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Synthetic Sincerity review – Marc Isaacs’ AI interrogation grapples with identity and existence
A combination of fact and fiction leaves the celebrated documentarian’s puzzling project about software training wanting for depth
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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
My review of The Day She Returns (dir. Hong Sang-soo) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...
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The Day She Returns review – another Hong Sang-soo round of slow, reflective boozing really hits the spot
No film-maker shows more day-drinking than Hong, and this study of an actor returning from a career break is the same again – as mysteriously addictive as ever
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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
My review of Animal Farm (dir. Andy Serkis) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...
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Animal Farm review – Andy Serkis’ Orwell adaptation slaughters the classic farmyard satire with sugar
The passionate allegory on Stalinism is outrageously reduced to happy-ending panto in this defanged animation featuring the voices of Seth Rogen, Laverne Cox and Glenn Close
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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
My reviews of A Close Shave (1995) (dir. Nick Park) and A Matter Of Loaf And Death (2008) (dir. Nick Park) are up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...
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A Close Shave/A Matter of Loaf and Death review – Wallace and Gromit knit together a cracking double bill
These two half-hour classics of stop-motion pack in nods to more earnest cinema but are never distracted from producing pristinely beguiling family entertainment
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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
My vlog on Christopher Nolan’s The Osyssey is up here, please click, watch, share and subscribe: youtu.be/oPq_Cs68L8Q?...
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PETER BRADSHAW reviews THE ODYSSEY
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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Some thoughts on the late Sam Neill: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...
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Sam Neill was a warm, wry and unselfish star who twinkled so others could shine | Peter Bradshaw
His unshowy gifts, which discreetly carried arthouse drama and blockbuster adventures alike, never sucked a movie’s oxygen in to his own performance
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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
My review of The Last One For The Road (dir. Francesco Sossai) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...
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The Last One for the Road review – ageing-boozer tragicomedy offers drunken antics on the road to Venice
Two optimistic drinkers bumble around with a lovelorn student in tow in a depressing yet funny, faintly baffling tragicomedy
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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
My review of the re-release of The Girls (1978) (dir. Sumitra Peries) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...
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The Girls review – poignant coming-of-age romance is an understated gem of Sri Lankan cinema
Sumitra Peries’ poignant 1978 film about teenage sisters and thwarted romance is laden with passions that can’t be spoken aloud
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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
My review of the re-release of A Grand Day Out (1989) (dir. Nick Park) and The Wrong Trousers (1993) (dir. Nick Park) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...
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A Grand Day Out/The Wrong Trousers review – rereleased Nick Park classics are a complete treat
The first two Wallace and Gromit films see the pair blasting off for the moon in search of cheese, and trying to foil a heist by Feathers McGraw
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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
My vlog on Francisco Sossai’s The Last One For The Road is up here, please click, watch, share and subscribe: youtu.be/7rn3gi5HJk8?...
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PETER BRADSHAW reviews THE LAST ONE FOR THE ROAD
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Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
My first vlog from the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival is up here: youtu.be/BkPEAvlKjvs?... #kviff #kviff2026 @KVIFF
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PETER BRADSHAW at the KARLOVY VARY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2026 4/7/26
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