Sing Sing review – Colman Domingo is larger than life in big-hearted prison drama
Inspired by a project that uses the arts for rehabilitation, this is an uplifting, energetic film – but Domingo’s showy performance is a little out of place
Mary Poppins at 60: a dazzling Disney masterpiece that hasn’t lost its shine
Julie Andrews makes for a pitch-perfect lead in a studio-saving hit that offers a spoonful of sugar with a side of salt
Louise Brealey shines as a woman who thinks she’s stuck with a job in a chicken factory and a cheating husband in Janis Pugh’s uplifting debut feature set in north Wales
Chuck Chuck Baby review – emotionally charged musical drama rules the roost
Louise Brealey plays Helen, a chicken factory worker who gets a second chance at love, in Janis Pugh’s uplifting crowdpleaser
June 2024
Ranked
Fantasia to Flesh and Fantasy, the Coens to Cavalcanti: anthology films – ranked!
Letter: Richard Sherman obituary
May 2024
Richard Sherman obituary
Emilia Perez review – Jacques Audiard’s gangster trans musical barrels along in style
Ranked
The greatest dancer of all time? Fred Astaire’s 20 best films – ranked!
Roger Corman: cinema's pulp genius whose talent to shock was rocket fuel
Peter Bradshaw
April 2024
Joker: Folie à Deux: trailer for Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga musical sequel released
The sequel sees Phoenix’s Arthur Fleck in Arkham Asylum and Lady Gaga as Harley Quinn, who is initially a psychiatrist assigned to treat him
March 2024
Mary Poppins review – Disney’s entertainment sugar rush possesses thermonuclear brilliance
Readers' reviews
‘You’ll believe a radioactive dinosaur can shoot fire’: readers’ picks for the 2024 Oscars
January 2024
Chita Rivera obituary
American actor, singer and dancer who found fame as Anita in the stage musical West Side Story
The Color Purple review – off-note musical take on Alice Walker’s novel
Director Blitz Bazawule turns the Pulitzer prize-winning saga of rape and racism into a nostalgic, tonally jarring song and dance spectacle
Norman Jewison: a staggering array of work from Hollywood’s master craftsman
Peter Bradshaw
The virtuoso Canadian helped craft much of postwar Hollywood cinema, directing Sidney Poitier in In the Heat of the Night, Topol in Fiddler on the Roof and Cher in Moonstruck