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Peter Bradshaw

Peter Bradshaw is the Guardian's film critic

October 2024

  • Mother and adult daughter sit on a bed, with childhood toys visible

    A Long Journey Home review – family pressures reach boiling point in a shocking documentary

  • She sits at a typewriter in a wood-panelled office, looking contemplative

    In Her Place review – true-crime drama of a court worker fascinated by author in the dock

  • Portraits of Dangerous Women

    Portraits of Dangerous Women review – dog car crash sets off baffling and peculiar drama

  • YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (1974) PETER BOYLE, GENE WILDER YFS1 001-02<br>BKK2W2 YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (1974) PETER BOYLE, GENE WILDER YFS1 001-02

    Young Frankenstein review – Mel Brooks monster comedy is wonderfully alive as ever

  • An Inspector Calls review – Alastair Sim drawing room drama brilliantly exposes its era’s hypocrisies

  • Daniel Day-Lewis’s return to acting is welcome news – but being directed by his son might prove tricky

    Peter Bradshaw
  • Children of the Cult review – fierce doc about the Osho commune survivors

September 2024

  • Complicated attitude to settling down … in The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea.

    Whisky growl, granite jaw and unflappable charisma: Kris Kristofferson was perfect as a lover or a fighter

    Peter Bradshaw
  • A dusty, eerie place … Adam David Thompson as Joseph and Riley Dandy as Sidney in Things Will Be Different

    Things Will Be Different review – time travel thriller as a robber tries escape with the cash

  • Brandon Wilson and  Ethan Herisse in Nickel Boys.

    First look review
    Nickel Boys review – Colson Whitehead novel becomes intensely moving story of a racist reform school

  • Maggie Smith with Robert Stephens in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.

    Maggie Smith was the grandest of grandes dames – and a true cinematic superstar

    Peter Bradshaw
  • Ranked
    Maggie Smith's 20 best films – ranked!

  • The Outrun review – Saoirse Ronan is mesmerising in sobering addiction drama

  • My Old Ass review – Aubrey Plaza adds texture to comedy of teen meeting future self

  • The Teacher review – a Palestinian educator is troubled by his radical past

  • Paul McCartney and Wings: One Hand Clapping review – restored rockumentary is pure pleasure

  • The Fall review – startling imagery abounds in Tarsem Singh’s cult Gilliamesque epic

  • Bill Douglas: My Best Friend review – inspirational and tender portrait of a brilliant director

  • On Falling review – the strip mining of an online warehouse worker’s sanity

  • Why reaction to Lionsgate’s AI film deal reminds me of the Campaign for Real Ale

    Peter Bradshaw
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