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Peter Bradshaw

Peter Bradshaw is the Guardian's film critic

16 April 2025

  • As if he is perplexed by the script … Steve Coogan and penguin in The Penguin Lessons.

    The Penguin Lessons review – Steve Coogan seabird comedy drama tries to sell feelgood mood

  • Neil Young: Coastal

    Neil Young: Coastal review – music legend on the road, filmed by his wife Daryl Hannah

14 April 2025

  • Eclipse, Tom Conti & Gay Hamilton film still

    Eclipse review – Tom Conti stars in intriguing but elusive 70s tale of a mysterious death

  • The Balcony Movie

    The Balcony Movie review – funny/sad film that offers a view into strangers’ lives

10 April 2025

  • Benicio del Toro, Michael Cera and Mia Threapleton in Wes Anderson's The Phoenician Scheme.

    Pillion, Phoenician and Panahi: superb lineup set to extend Cannes’ Oscar-sweeping streak

    Peter Bradshaw
    After a tricky few years, the world’s pre-eminent film festival has come roaring back and is set to feature new work by Kelly Reichardt, another Joachim Trier drama starring Renate Reinsve and Cannes icons the Dardenne brothers
  • Sinners.

    Sinners review – Ryan Coogler’s deep-south gonzo horror down at the crossroads

    Michael B Jordan plays a double role in Coogler’s intriguing period tale of anti-heroic brothers making their way into much wilder country

    • Babe review – tale of the talking sheep-pig a charming relic of its time

    • Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
      One to One: John and Yoko review – Kevin Macdonald’s immersive collage is a pop culture fever dream

    • The Return review – Juliette Binoche and Ralph Fiennes bring fierce class to elemental Odyssey adaptation

9 April 2025

  • Dreamin’ Wild.

    Dreamin’ Wild review – Walton Goggins and Casey Affleck are rediscovered 70s rockers in late-life fame drama

    Goggins and Affleck play Donnie and Joe Emerson, whose album wins acclaim decades after it was made, but it’s rather a mono film

8 April 2025

  • How ruthless can he be? … Rami Malek as Charles Heller.

    The Amateur review – Rami Malek takes action-hero baby steps as CIA analyst out for revenge

    Malek gives an eccentric performance as a nerdy agent who wants his superior Laurence Fishburne to retrain him as an assassin

3 April 2025

  • Toni Collette in Muriel's Wedding.

    Muriel’s Wedding review – Toni Collette is outstanding in the film that brought Abba back

    Brilliantly led by Collette, PJ Hogan’s 1994 story of a lovable loser was the feelgood sensation that rescued the band’s reputation – how can you resist it?

2 April 2025

  • Toby Jones (left) and Harry Lawtey in Mr Burton.

    Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
    Mr Burton review – the teacher who inspired and encouraged screen legend Richard Burton

    Toby Jones plays the spaniel-eyed schoolmaster setting Harry Lawtey’s needy young pupil on course for haughty international stardom
  • Pure pleasure … a still from Balomania.

    Balomania review – those magnificent Brazilians and their flying balloons

    Documentary follows the baloeiros, who illegally build and release huge decorated balloons in cities, from where they can travel hundreds of miles
  • Powerful impression … Val Kilmer in Willow.

    Val Kilmer: an ethereally handsome actor who evolved into droll self-awareness

    Peter Bradshaw
    Kilmer, who has died aged 65, made his name with Top Gun and The Doors – but his exceptional talents were often under-appreciated by the mainstream film industry

1 April 2025

  • Cast of new Beatles films, l to r, Harris Dickinson (John Lennon), Paul Mescal (Paul McCartney), Barry Keoghan (Ringo Starr), and Joseph Quinn (George Harrison).

    Help! Why are none of the new Beatles cast from Liverpool?

    Peter Bradshaw
  • The Most Precious of Cargoes.

    The Most Precious of Cargoes review – postmodern Holocaust fairytale is dreamy curiosity

31 March 2025

  • You Only Live Twice.

    Yes, Helen Mirren, James Bond is profoundly sexist. But more than a telling off, he needs a face-off

    Peter Bradshaw
    Outdated attitudes to women are so deep in 007’s DNA that it couldn’t be a female role, but a female villain could shake him into the 21st century
  • Lyndsey Marshal and Aston McAuley in Restless.

    Restless review – relatable real-life horror in nightmare neighbour thriller

    Writer and director Jed Hart’s debut psycho-thriller is very nearly a decent film but is let down by a script that goes completely awry
  • Dearbhla Molloy, Gaetan Garcia, Fionnula Flanagan, Stella McCusker and Paddy Glynn in Four Mothers.

    Four Mothers review – remake of Mid-August Lunch moves to Dublin and brings out queer subtext

    Irish-set remake of Italian film about a bachelor who cares for his elderly mum never quite matches the charm of the original, despite occasional shimmers
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