Charles Shyer, who has died aged 83, co-wrote a string of bubbly and often female-focused comedies with his second wife, Nancy Meyers. The couple, so
Category: Films
More fizzle than pop: the limits of Nicole Kidman’s erotic drama Babygirl
Arguably the most transgressive scene in Babygirl, A24’s erotic drama from the Dutch writer and director Halina Reijn that has Nicole Kidman on the awards
Maria review – Angelina Jolie’s Callas commands the screen as a great diva in decline
Angelina Jolie declaims an imperious performance as opera star Maria Callas in this strange, sad, mordantly witty film from screenwriter Steven Knight and director Pablo
A Real Pain review – Jesse Eisenberg’s sauntering Holocaust tour comedy is a masterpiece
With no great fanfare, Jesse Eisenberg has just given us a masterpiece. This is an effortlessly witty, fluent and astringent comedy with a very serious
Babygirl review – Nicole Kidman sex-positive erotic thriller fails to bring the menace
Cosy crime is one thing. Is this a cosy erotic thriller? An apparently super-transgressive exercise in workplace sub/dom role play but that is weirdly without
Pepe review – inside the beautiful mind of Pablo Escobar’s hippo
Nelson Carlo de Los Santos Arias is the Dominican film-maker whose 2017 feature debut Cocote I found challenging and intriguing. Now he has created a
Standing on the Shoulders of Kitties: The Bubbles and the Shitrockers Story review – goofs on tour
Trailer Park Boys is a long-running, multiplatform Canadian sitcom that non-Canadians with a taste for bawdy comedy may know if they’ve let Netflix’s algorithm churn
The Damned review – atmospheric period chiller twists the knife on Iceland fishers
Every film ought to have a signature image, and slow-burn supernatural chiller The Damned has a doozy: a body washed ashore shows unexpected signs of
From F1 to Mickey 17: the 2025 films Guardian writers are most excited about
Father, Mother, Sister, Brother View image in fullscreen Jim Jarmusch prefers to work at an unhurried pace, but perhaps it’s no coincidence that his longest
Get Away review – Nick Frost ramps up the ridiculousness in comedy horror
The trouble with Nick Frost’s knowingly cartoonish and silly comedy paying homage to folk horrors such as The Wicker Man and Midsommar is that Frost