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Musicals

August 2024

  • Colman Domingo in Sing Sing.

    Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
    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
  • A woman (Julie Andrews) smiles as she looks at a bird in her hand

    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

    • Kneecap review – Irish-language hip-hop trio in fiercely riotous Belfast romp

    • Noah’s Ark review – Old Testament’s got talent in biblical kids’ animation

    • Mufasa: The Lion King, Snow White and Moana 2 trailers released

July 2024

  • Clockwise from top left: Bande à part (1964); Ratatouille (2009); Les Misérables (2019) and Amélie (2001).

    Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs
    Streaming: the best films set in Paris

    The Olympic host city is one of cinema’s favourite places, whether real or romanticised, in films ranging from Breathless to Ratatouille and La Haine
  • Louise Brealey arms outstretched, head back, mouth open, eyes closed, a blond styling doll head in one hand, in Chuck Chuck Baby.

    Chuck Chuck Baby review – joyous singalong celebration of female friendship

    ​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
  • Annabel Scholey and Louise Brealey with cheering women in blue uniforms, gloves and hairnets in background

    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

  • Terry Jones as Mr Creosote in Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life.

    Ranked
    Fantasia to Flesh and Fantasy, the Coens to Cavalcanti: anthology films – ranked!

  • Walt Disney Pictures Hollywood Special Screening of "the boys: the sherman brothers' story"<br>HOLLYWOOD, CA - MAY 19: Richard M. Sherman at Walt Disney Pictures special screening of "The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story" on May 19, 2009 at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Eric Charbonneau/Le Studio/Wireimage)

    Letter: Richard Sherman obituary

May 2024

  • Disney's "Mary Poppins" 40th Anniversary Edition DVD Launch Party - After-party<br>LOS ANGELES - NOVEMBER 30: Musical composer Richard Sherman conducts the band at the after-party for Disney's "Mary Poppins" 40th Anniversary Edition DVD Launch party and screening at Hollywood and Highland on November 30, 2004 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

    Richard Sherman obituary

  • Film Still: Emilia Pérez. Directed by Jacques Audiard

    Emilia Perez review – Jacques Audiard’s gangster trans musical barrels along in style

  • Fred Astaire in Three Little Words (1950)

    Ranked
    The greatest dancer of all time? Fred Astaire’s 20 best films – ranked!

  • Peter Bradshaw

    Roger Corman: cinema's pulp genius whose talent to shock was rocket fuel

    Peter Bradshaw

April 2024

  • Joker: Folie à Deux film still

    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

  • Glorious movie debut … Julie Andrews as Mary Poppins

    Mary Poppins review – Disney’s entertainment sugar rush possesses thermonuclear brilliance

  • This image released by Neon shows Sandra Hüller in a scene from "Anatomy of a Fall." (Neon via AP)

    Readers' reviews
    ‘You’ll believe a radioactive dinosaur can shoot fire’: readers’ picks for the 2024 Oscars

January 2024

  • West Side Story, 1957.<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Granger/REX/Shutterstock (8764687a) West Side Story, 1957. Chita Rivera And Ken Leroy In A Scene From 'West Side Story,' 1957. West Side Story, 1957.

    Chita Rivera obituary

    American actor, singer and dancer who found fame as Anita in the stage musical West Side Story
  • Taraji P Henson, Fantasia Barrino and Danielle Brooks in The Color Purple.

    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
  • Peter Bradshaw

    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
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