The Wizard of the Kremlin review – Jude Law is Putin in adaptation of Kremlin spin doctor bestseller The rise of Vladimir Putin, chillingly played by Law, is portrayed through the eyes of a wily insider, but Paul Dano’s protagonist cuts a one-note figure

My review of The Wizard Of The Kremlin (dir. Olivier Assayas) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au... (it premiered at Venice last August and gets its UK release today)

The Blue Trail review – hypnotic tale of older-people rebellion in the Amazon in chilling dystopian fable A cross between road movie and sci-fi, this is a subversive and bittersweet story about a 77-year-old who refuses to be shipped off to a ‘colony’

My review of The Blue Trail (dir. Gabriel Mascaro) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ap...

Glenrothan review – Alan Cumming heads home in Brian Cox’s big-hearted brotherly drama Succession is the question as Cox directs and stars as a distillery boss tempting estranged brother Cumming back into the Highland fold

My review of Glenrothan (dir. Brian Cox) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ap...

Miroirs No 3 review – Christian Petzold’s elegantly unnerving mystery of grief and family dysfunction There’s a hint of PD James about this cuckoo in the nest story starring Paula Beer as a depressed pianist

My review of Miroirs No3 (dir. Christian Petzold) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ap...

Rebuilding review – Josh O’Connor stoically pieces a life back together after wildfire trauma After losing his property, O’Connor’s rancher finds himself relocated to a trailer park and starts the long road to healing in this subdued, sweet drama

My review of Rebuilding (dir. Max Walker-Silverman) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ap...

PETER BRADSHAW reviews MIRRORS No3 YouTube video by Peter Bradshaw

My vlog on Christian Petzold’s Mirrors No3 is up here, please click, watch, share and subscribe: youtu.be/Bd1jnelAsNc?...

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Tune in to Fi Glover and Jane Garvey on Times Radio this afternoon at 3:30pm to hear Joanna Scanlan talking about her performance in my Audible Original drama Mercy:
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PETER BRADSHAW reviews THE STRANGER YouTube video by Peter Bradshaw

My vlog on François Ozon’s The Stranger is up here, please click, watch, share and subscribe: youtu.be/VS8dVXaXI4o?...

Dracula review – Romania’s most reliable export is focus of knockabout cut-up satire Notionally about the vampire, Radu Jude’s new movie involves a bizarre troupe of actors doing a floor-show routine

My review of Dracula (dir. Radu Jude) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ap...

The Stranger review – lustrously beautiful and superbly realised modern take on the Camus classic François Ozon’s adaptation of the 1942 novella L’Etranger passionately honours the original text while bringing a contemporary perspective to its themes of empire and race

My review of The Stranger (dir. François Ozon) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ap...

Cannes looks beyond Hollywood as US film-makers mostly fail to make the grade The 79th edition of the influential festival boasts an auteur-heavy lineup – with one, very big, country conspicuous by its almost total absence

Some thoughts on the #Cannes selection: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ap...

PETER BRADSHAW reviews THE STRANGER YouTube video by Peter Bradshaw

My vlog on François Ozon’s The Stranger is up here, please click, watch, share and subscribe: youtu.be/VS8dVXaXI4o?...

PETER BRADSHAW reviews THE DRAMA (caution - spoilers) YouTube video by Peter Bradshaw

My vlog on Kristoffer Borgli’s The Drama is up here, please click, watch, share and subscribe youtu.be/Am99D-UhEQ8?...

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Book now for my appearance at the Tunbridge Wells Literary Festival on Tuesday May 5th at 7:30pm - reading from my short fiction collection The Body In The Mobile Library @twlitfest twlf.ssboxoffice.com/events/the-b...

Fuze review – Theo James and Aaron Taylor-Johnson face off in head-spinning London heist Diamonds might not be forever in a film centred around a massive, ticking bomb on a building site, which is equal parts violent and silly

My review of Fuze (dir. David Mackenzie) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ap...

The Drama review – Zendaya and Robert Pattinson’s controversial wedding film delivers on its promise A woman’s confession on the eve of her nuptials causes uproar in this insouciantly offensive provocation from the director of Dream Scenario

My review of The Drama (dir. Kristoffer Borgli) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

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Here’s the fab Joanna Scanlan on BBC Radio 4 Loose Ends talking to Stuart Maconie about my Audible drama Mercy www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0GGTQ9ZB...

Redoubt review – Denis Lavant is unforgettable as an oddball building a public shelter for obscure disaster John Skoog’s monochrome film is based on an art installation, and that shows in the pacing, but his central character is intriguing and utterly unique

My review of Redoubt (dir. John Skoog) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

Billy Idol Should Be Dead review – nostalgic docu-tribute to British postpunk’s rebel The self-destructive bad boy, now 70, looks back on his life with a humorous shrug in Jonas Åkerlund’s warmly sympathetic film

My review of Billy Idol Should Be Dead (dir. Jonas Åkerlund) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

Orwell: 2+2=5 review – documentary portrait doesn’t wholly add up Raoul Peck’s film about the Nineteen Eighty-Four novelist makes a compelling case for its continuing relevance but could ask more searching questions about its author

My review of Orwell 2+2=5 (dir. Raoul Peck) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

William Shakespeare’s Romeo+Juliet review – Baz Luhrmann’s joyful tragedy is still extravagantly full of life The 1990s love tragedy starring a young Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes is a tonic and a delight

My review of the re-release of William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet (1996) (dir. Baz Luhrmann) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

Pompei: Below the Clouds review – a ghostly yet luminous cinematic mosaic of Naples crowns a superb trio There is a real end-of-days quality to Gianfranco Rosi’s utterly distinctive documentary of war, violence, cynicism and the climate crisis in an uneasy city

My review of Pompei: Below The Clouds (dir. Gianfranco Rosi) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au... (it premiered at Venice last year and gets its UK release today)

Two Prosecutors review – a petrifying portrait of Stalinist insurrection Drawn from a suppressed story by gulag survivor Georgy Demidov, Sergei Loznitsa’s haunting film unravels a terrifying parable of bureaucratic evil

My review of Two Prosecutors (dir. Sergei Loznitsa) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma...

PETER BRADSHAW reviews TWO PROSECUTORS YouTube video by Peter Bradshaw

My vlog on Sergei Loznitsa’s Two Prosecutors is up here, please click, watch, share and subscribe: youtu.be/4JbMqMA1FlQ?...

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Chuck Norris was the rip-roaring king of 80s Friday night VHS fests The actor’s martial arts skills saw him rise to fame in the 70s, but he found his groove – and a legion of fans – destroying furniture, revving his Dodge and firing Magnums in the 80s

Some thoughts on the late Chuck Norris: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

Dead Man’s Wire review – Gus Van Sant calls the shots with surreal true-crime thriller Al Pacino, Colman Domingo and Myha’la excel in this gripping take on the events of 1977 when an Indianapolis businessman held his mortgage broker hostage

My review of Dead Man’s Wire (dir. Gus Van Sant) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se... (it premiered at Venice last year and gets its UK release today)

Midwinter Break review – sad, spiky and brilliantly acted portrait of rupture and rapture Polly Findlay’s barnstorming drama about interpersonal and religious tumult in late middle age is a triumph, swerving any sense of sentimentalism

My review of Midwinter Break (dir. Polly Findlay) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

La Grazia review – Paolo Sorrentino opens mighty window on Italian leader’s despair The director has rediscovered his voice working again with actor Toni Servillo, who plays a president looking back on a career of empty rectitude

My review of La Grazia (dir. Paolo Sorrentino) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au... (it premiered at Venice last year and gets its UK release today)