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I Rarely Wake Up Dreaming review – inspired satirical challenge from frontline of the culture war
By Peter BradshawLocarno film festivalA queer person attempting to leave Ukraine when the war starts finds their gender identity is an issue in this bold, brilliant and challenging film
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/09/i-rarely-wake-up-dreaming-review
#Film #Warfilms #Dramafilms #Ukraine #Festivals #Culture #Europe #Worldnews #Gender #TheGuardian #PeterBradshaw
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I Rarely Wake Up Dreaming review – inspired satirical challenge from frontline of the culture war
By Peter BradshawLocarno film festivalA queer person attempting to leave Ukraine when the war starts finds their gender identity is an issue in this bold, brilliant and challenging film
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/09/i-rarely-wake-up-dreaming-review
#Film #Warfilms #Dramafilms #Ukraine #Festivals #Culture #Europe #Worldnews #Gender #TheGuardian #PeterBradshaw
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Practical Magic review – Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock’s 90s witchy fantasy still enchants
By Peter BradshawPreceding 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 gem
#Film #Romancefilms #Comedyfilms #Sciencefictionandfantasyfilms #SandraBullock #NicoleKidman #Filmadaptations #Books #Comedy #Culture #TheGuardian #PeterBradshaw
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Practical Magic review – Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock’s 90s witchy fantasy still enchants
By Peter BradshawPreceding 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 gem
#Film #Romancefilms #Comedyfilms #Sciencefictionandfantasyfilms #SandraBullock #NicoleKidman #Filmadaptations #Books #Comedy #Culture #TheGuardian #PeterBradshaw
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Hunt for the Wilderpeople review – Sam Neill is warm and wise in Taika Waititi’s goofily tremendous film
By Peter BradshawWaititi’s eccentric drama sends the late actor into the New Zealand wilderness with his young charge, angry authorities in hot pursuit
#Film #Comedyfilms #SamNeill #TaikaWaititi #NewZealand #Worldnews #Culture #Comedy #AsiaPacific #TheGuardian #PeterBradshaw
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Hunt for the Wilderpeople review – Sam Neill is warm and wise in Taika Waititi’s goofily tremendous film
By Peter BradshawWaititi’s eccentric drama sends the late actor into the New Zealand wilderness with his young charge, angry authorities in hot pursuit
#Film #Comedyfilms #SamNeill #TaikaWaititi #NewZealand #Worldnews #Culture #Comedy #AsiaPacific #TheGuardian #PeterBradshaw
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Nadja review – Dracula’s daughter is divine in dreamy lo-fi modern vampire tale of predatory sexuality
By Peter BradshawMichael Almereyda’s 1994 horror romance is an indie gem – with a cameo from executive producer David Lynch as a morgue attendant
#Film #Horrorfilms #DavidLynch #JaredHarris #Culture #TheGuardian #PeterBradshaw
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Nadja review – Dracula’s daughter is divine in dreamy lo-fi modern vampire tale of predatory sexuality
By Peter BradshawMichael Almereyda’s 1994 horror romance is an indie gem – with a cameo from executive producer David Lynch as a morgue attendant
#Film #Horrorfilms #DavidLynch #JaredHarris #Culture #TheGuardian #PeterBradshaw
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Love Me Tender review – Vicky Krieps custody-battle drama is intelligent, sensual and bitter slice of life
By Peter BradshawAnna Cazenave Cambet’s adaptation of Constance Debré’s novel is a superbly acted and affecting – if restrained – portrait of child access and interpersonal strife
#Film #Dramafilms #Family #Parentsandparenting #France #Divorce #Culture #Europe #Lifeandstyle #Worldnews #TheGuardian #PeterBradshaw
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Love Me Tender review – Vicky Krieps custody-battle drama is intelligent, sensual and bitter slice of life
By Peter BradshawAnna Cazenave Cambet’s adaptation of Constance Debré’s novel is a superbly acted and affecting – if restrained – portrait of child access and interpersonal strife
#Film #Dramafilms #Family #Parentsandparenting #France #Divorce #Culture #Europe #Lifeandstyle #Worldnews #TheGuardian #PeterBradshaw
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The Summer Book review – Glenn Close powers sweet-natured take on Tove Jansson’s kids’ classic
By Peter BradshawThis sensitive adaptation of Jansson’s 1972 novel, set in the beatific Gulf of Finland, is a quiet treatise on life and death
#Film #Dramafilms #Filmadaptations #ToveJansson #GlennClose #Sweden #Family #Bereavement #Books #Culture #Europe #Lifeandstyle #Worldnews #TheGuardian #PeterBradshaw
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The Summer Book review – Glenn Close powers sweet-natured take on Tove Jansson’s kids’ classic
By Peter BradshawThis sensitive adaptation of Jansson’s 1972 novel, set in the beatific Gulf of Finland, is a quiet treatise on life and death
#Film #Dramafilms #Filmadaptations #ToveJansson #GlennClose #Sweden #Family #Bereavement #Books #Culture #Europe #Lifeandstyle #Worldnews #TheGuardian #PeterBradshaw
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Tony review – knives out in tasty reheat of Anthony Bourdain’s memoir
By Peter BradshawDominic 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
#Film #Biopics #AnthonyBourdain #Culture #Food #TheGuardian #PeterBradshaw
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Billy Liar review – Tom Courtenay is superb in classic study of a young man and his quixotic dreams
By Peter BradshawCourtenay gives a beautiful performance as the undertaker’s clerk who nurses preposterous ambitions. But the film is too quick to surrender them
#Film #Dramafilms #Filmadaptations #KeithWaterhouse #TomCourtenay #JulieChristie #Books #Culture #TheGuardian #PeterBradshaw
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Personal Problems review – an exhilarating lo-fi epic of Black working-class life in 80s New York
By Peter BradshawThe director of Ganja & Hess, Bill Gunn, turns analogue video and improvisation into a work of startling intimacy, humour and emotional force
#Film #Dramafilms #NewYork #Race #Television #Culture #Televisionradio #USnews #Worldnews #TheGuardian #PeterBradshaw
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Solo Sunny review – a rueful East German gem of ambition, loneliness and faded dreams
By Peter BradshawKonrad 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
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jul/29/solo-sunny-review-konrad-wolf
#Film #Dramafilms #Germany #Music #Culture #Europe #Worldnews #Mubi #TheGuardian #PeterBradshaw
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Spider-Man: Brand New Day review – Zendaya saves Tom Holland’s semi-Cronenberg-style superhero
By Peter BradshawNow 30, Holland is back as the vexed webslinger in a sometimes shocking, occasionally sluggish new instalment opposite his Odyssey castmate
#Film #Culture #Superheromovies #TomHolland #Zendaya #TheGuardian #PeterBradshaw
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Wham! 10 Days in China review – pop meets politics in George and Andrew’s great leap east
By Peter BradshawThe 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
#Film #Documentaryfilms #GeorgeMichael #Musicdocumentary #LindsayAnderson #Culture #Music #TheGuardian #PeterBradshaw
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‘Unbearably sexy in his rodenty way’: Benedict Cumberbatch’s 20 best films – ranked!
By Peter BradshawTo mark the two-time Oscar nominee’s recent 50th birthday, we rate his finest screen roles – from hyper-British patricians and seething serpents, to ghastly Yanks, tragic codebreakers and sci-fi scoundrels
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jul/23/benedict-cumberbatch-20-best-films-ranked
#Film #BenedictCumberbatch #Comedyfilms #Romancefilms #Thrillers #Filmadaptations #Books #Comedy #Culture #TheGuardian #PeterBradshaw
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Nostalgia review – Tarkovsky’s yearning cine-poem is deeply mysterious and profound
By Peter BradshawA scholar has an existential crisis while researching the life of a composer in the Russian director’s Italy-set 1983 masterwork
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jul/22/nostalgia-review-andrei-tarkovsky
#Film #Dramafilms #AndreiTarkovsky #Italy #Russia #Culture #Europe #Worldnews #TheGuardian #PeterBradshaw
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Ask E Jean review – Trump survivor turns out to be tougher than he thought as she fights on
By Peter BradshawIvy Meeropol’s engrossing film follows former star columnist E Jean Carroll, now in her 80s, battles through an unfinished series of legal disputes
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jul/22/ask-e-jean-review-carroll-donald-trump
#Film #Documentaryfilms #EJeanCarroll #DonaldTrump #Culture #USnews #TheGuardian #PeterBradshaw
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On the Sea review – tender fishermen’s boat-based tale of forbidden love far from prying eyes
By Peter BradshawAway from the disapproval of their Welsh fishing community, two men embark on a passionate affair in Helen Walsh’s poignant drama
#Film #Dramafilms #LGBTQrights #Wales #Culture #Romancefilms #TheGuardian #PeterBradshaw
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The Dink review – pickleball comedy serves up engagingly silly laughs
By Peter BradshawJake Johnson is delusional ex-tennis player The Hammer, who has to switch to the sport he loathes after injury
#Film #Comedyfilms #Tennis #AndyRoddick #JohnMcEnroe #BenStiller #EdHarris #Comedy #Culture #Sport #TheGuardian #PeterBradshaw
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A Useful Ghost review – exhilarating black comedy summons ghosts of Thai past via a haunted hoover
By Peter BradshawRatchapoom Boonbunchachoke’s stylish and unique movie features an unquiet spirit that inhabits a vacuum cleaner, before political interests intervene
#Film #Dramafilms #Sciencefictionandfantasyfilms #Thailand #AsiaPacific #Culture #Worldnews #TheGuardian #PeterBradshaw
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Flavours of Iraq review – vivid childhood memories of 80s Baghdad from writer in Paris exile
By Peter BradshawPowerful animation portrays experiences of a French-Iraqi journalist Feurat Alani, with anecdotes about his father, a prominent leftist exile
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jul/20/flavours-of-iraq-review-animation
#Film #Documentaryfilms #Animationinfilm #Iraq #France #Culture #SaddamHussein #TheGuardian #PeterBradshaw
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A Sudden Flicker of Light by David Thomson review – a brilliantly eccentric history of the movies
By Peter BradshawFrom the golden age of Hollywood to harder times today, this is a rapturous account of more than a century of cinema
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The Odyssey review – Nolan goes god-tier with breathtaking epic of men, monsters and moral metamorphosis
By Peter BradshawDoing 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
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jul/15/the-odyssey-review-christopher-nolan-matt-damon
#Film #TheOdyssey #ChristopherNolan #Homer #MattDamon #AnneHathaway #TomHolland #LupitaNyongo #ElliotPage #SamanthaMorton #CharlizeTheron #Zendaya #RobertPattinson #Books #Culture #Dramafilms #TheGuardian #PeterBradshaw
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The Odyssey review – Nolan goes god-tier with breathtaking epic of men, monsters and moral metamorphosis
By Peter BradshawDoing 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
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jul/15/the-odyssey-review-christopher-nolan-matt-damon
#Film #TheOdyssey #ChristopherNolan #Homer #MattDamon #AnneHathaway #TomHolland #LupitaNyongo #ElliotPage #SamanthaMorton #CharlizeTheron #Zendaya #RobertPattinson #Books #Culture #Dramafilms #TheGuardian #PeterBradshaw
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A Close Shave/A Matter of Loaf and Death review – Wallace and Gromit knit together a cracking double bill
By Peter BradshawThese two half-hour classics of stop-motion pack in nods to more earnest cinema but are never distracted from producing pristinely beguiling family entertainment
#Film #Animationinfilm #Aardman #WallaceGromit #Comedyfilms #Actionandadventurefilms #Thrillers #AnimationonTV #Comedy #Culture #Televisionradio #Television #TheGuardian #PeterBradshaw
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Animal Farm review – Andy Serkis’ Orwell adaptation slaughters the classic farmyard satire with sugar
By Peter BradshawThe 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
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jul/15/animal-farm-review-orwell-animation
#Film #Animationinfilm #AndySerkis #Filmadaptations #GeorgeOrwell #SethRogen #GlennClose #Books #Culture #TheGuardian #PeterBradshaw
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Animal Farm review – Andy Serkis’ Orwell adaptation slaughters the classic farmyard satire with sugar
By Peter BradshawThe 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
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jul/15/animal-farm-review-orwell-animation
#Film #Animationinfilm #AndySerkis #Filmadaptations #GeorgeOrwell #SethRogen #GlennClose #Books #Culture #TheGuardian #PeterBradshaw
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The Day She Returns review – another round of slow, reflective boozing really hits the spot
By Peter BradshawNo film-maker shows more day-drinking than Hong Sang-soo, and this study of an actor returning from a career break is the same again – as mysteriously addictive as ever
#Film #Dramafilms #SouthKorea #AsiaPacific #Culture #Worldnews #TheGuardian #PeterBradshaw
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Synthetic Sincerity review – Marc Isaacs’ AI interrogation grapples with identity and existence
By Peter BradshawA combination of fact and fiction leaves the celebrated documentarian’s puzzling project about software training wanting for depth
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jul/14/synthetic-sincerity-review-marc-isaacs-ai
#Film #Documentaryfilms #Dramafilms #Culture #AIartificialintelligence #Computing #Technology #TheGuardian #PeterBradshaw
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Synthetic Sincerity review – Marc Isaacs’ AI interrogation grapples with identity and existence
By Peter BradshawA combination of fact and fiction leaves the celebrated documentarian’s puzzling project about software training wanting for depth
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jul/14/synthetic-sincerity-review-marc-isaacs-ai
#Film #Documentaryfilms #Dramafilms #Culture #AIartificialintelligence #Computing #Technology #TheGuardian #PeterBradshaw
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A Year in London review – fashion student hits it off with her professor in frothy lesbian romcom
By Peter BradshawAn Italian on an exchange to the glamorous UK capital gets involved with a sophisticated older woman in a tale of soap opera silliness
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jul/13/a-year-in-london-review
#Film #Romancefilms #LGBTQrights #Culture #TheGuardian #PeterBradshaw
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Sam Neill was a warm, wry and unselfish star who twinkled so others could shine | Peter Bradshaw
By Peter BradshawHis unshowy gifts, which discreetly carried arthouse drama and blockbuster adventures alike, never sucked a movie’s oxygen in to his own performance
#SamNeill #Film #Culture #JurassicPark #ThePiano #NewZealand #Worldnews #TheGuardian #PeterBradshaw
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Channel 4 Orders ‘Hunting Alice Bell’ From Writing Team Including David Baddiel & Peter Bradshaw; Alexandra Roach & Rudi Dharmalingam Among Cast
#News #AlexandraRoach #Channel4 #ClapperboardStudios #DavidBaddiel #HuntingAliceBell #PeterBradshaw #RudiDharmalingamhttps://deadline.com/2025/09/channel-4-orders-hunting-alice-bell-alexandra-roach-casting-1236503066/
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Channel 4 Orders ‘Hunting Alice Bell’ From Writing Team Including David Baddiel & Peter Bradshaw; Alexandra Roach & Rudi Dharmalingam Among Cast
#News #AlexandraRoach #Channel4 #ClapperboardStudios #DavidBaddiel #HuntingAliceBell #PeterBradshaw #RudiDharmalingamhttps://deadline.com/2025/09/channel-4-orders-hunting-alice-bell-alexandra-roach-casting-1236503066/
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Quentin Tarantino – „Jackie Brown“ (1997)
Mit „Jackie Brown“ lieferte Quentin Tarantino 1997 einen Film ab, der in seiner Filmografie inzwischen wirkt wie ein zurückgehaltenes, geheimes Juwel. Nach dem riesigen Erfolg von „Pulp Fiction“ (1994) entschied er sich bewusst dafür, keinen weiteren selbstgeschriebenen Pulp-Thriller zu drehen, sondern Elmore Leonards Roman „Rum Punch“ zu adaptieren. Das Ergebnis ist ein faszinierendes, fast elegisches Stück Kino, das tief in die amerikanische Popkultur der 1970er eintaucht – und zugleich ein persönliches Statement ist. (ARTE)
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Quentin Tarantino – „Jackie Brown“ (1997)
Mit „Jackie Brown“ lieferte Quentin Tarantino 1997 einen Film ab, der in seiner Filmografie inzwischen wirkt wie ein zurückgehaltenes, geheimes Juwel. Nach dem riesigen Erfolg von „Pulp Fiction“ (1994) entschied er sich bewusst dafür, keinen weiteren selbstgeschriebenen Pulp-Thriller zu drehen, sondern Elmore Leonards Roman „Rum Punch“ zu adaptieren. Das Ergebnis ist ein faszinierendes, fast elegisches Stück Kino, das tief in die amerikanische Popkultur der 1970er eintaucht – und zugleich ein persönliches Statement ist. (ARTE)
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I watched Training Day after seeing this review by Peter Bradshaw. Met expectations fully. 👌 Denzel is on fire here (probably his best performance?), so is Hawke and the movie is so tight from start to finish that I never felt like checking my phone in between.
#movies #PeterBradshaw #TrainingDay #DenzelWashington #EthanHawke
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I watched Training Day after seeing this review by Peter Bradshaw. Met expectations fully. 👌 Denzel is on fire here (probably his best performance?), so is Hawke and the movie is so tight from start to finish that I never felt like checking my phone in between.
#movies #PeterBradshaw #TrainingDay #DenzelWashington #EthanHawke
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Cinema this autumn looks sicker, and healthier, than ever
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/aug/22/cinema-this-autumn-sicker-healthier-than-ever-barbenheimer-strikes?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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I'm not surprised Peter Bradshaw is defending bad film reviews - he's the worst film critic. https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/mar/09/good-film-reviews-bad-ones-seth-rogen
#PeterBradshaw #FilmCritics #TheGuardian