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Guy Lodge

Guy Lodge is an Observer film columnist and the chief UK film critic for Variety

August 2024

  • Will Smith in I Am Legend, WALL·E. and Anya Taylor-Joy in Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga.

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    Streaming: Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga and the best post-apocalyptic films

    George Miller’s latest dystopian instalment follows a well-trodden end-of-the-world path, from the stark ruins of The Road to Pixar’s smartest film, WALL-E

July 2024

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

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    Streaming: the best films set in Paris

  • Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman in Deadpool & Wolverine.

    Deadpool’s obnoxious gay panic humour is a tiresome schoolyard taunt

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  • Composite of screen shots from summer films

    From steamy summertime romances to spring-break chaos: the 20 best films about holidays

  • Glen Powell – in a dark green shirt the same colour as his blazer and with a slightly wavy fringe, a bit oiled and slicked back – grins in front of the cutoff letters "E" and "R" at the Twisters premiere in Los Angeles

    Glen Powell: meet the new Hollywood A-lister who can do heart-throb, goofball or action hero

June 2024

  • L-r: Molly Ringwald in Pretty in Pink, Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze in Ghost and Rob Lowe in Behind the Candelabra.

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    Streaming: the best of the Brat Packers

    Two 80s teen dramas made overnight stars of a band of young actors including Molly Ringwald, Demi Moore and Rob Lowe – and Andrew McCarthy, whose new documentary looks back on those years
  • David Naughton in An American Werewolf in London (1981); Kong in Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024); Shauna Macdonald in The Descent (2005).

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    Streaming: Godzilla, Kong and the best monster movies

    We look at what makes a great creature feature – from Jaws and Gremlins to low-budget indies like The Descent
  • Reese Witherspoon in Election; John Travolta in Primary Colors; Bobi Wine: The People's President.

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    Streaming: the best films about elections

    From The Manchurian Candidate and Primary Colors to Uganda’s Bobi Wine: The People’s President, the high-stakes drama of voting season lends itself to film-making

May 2024

  • Adam Driver in Francis Ford Coppola’s passion project Megalopolis.

    The Fall Guy to Megalopolis: is 2024 the year of the box-office megaflop?

  • Dev Patel in Monkey Man, Isabelle Huppert in Elle, and Jamie Foxx in Django Unchained.

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    Streaming: Monkey Man and the best revenge movies

April 2024

  • Clockwise from left: Tom Hanks, Rosie O’Donnell and Madonna in A League of Their Own (1992), Robert De Niro in Raging Bull (1980), Bend It Like Beckham (2002), Hoop Dreams (1994), Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait (2006).

    Game, set and match: the 20 best sports movies

  • Emily Blunt Devil Wears Prada Mary Poppins Sicario

    Art meets action: how Emily Blunt became Britain’s biggest Hollywood star

  • Four images together, clockwise from top left: John Galliano standing in a doorway; Audrey Tautou in Coco Before Chanel; Audrey Hepburn in Funny Face; Ben Stiller in Zoolander.

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    Streaming: High & Low: John Galliano and the best films about fashion

  • Clockwise from top left: 'foodie foreplay' with Juliette Binocheand Benoît Magimel in The Taste of Things; Marc Anthony, Tony Shalhoub and Stanley Tucci in Big Night; Babette's Feast; the 'pure sensory spectacle' of Eat, Drink, Man, Woman.

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    Streaming: The Taste of Things and the best films about food

March 2024

  • A line of people walking across sand dunes

    ‘I wanted to humanise those lost in the statistics’: four directors on their new movies depicting refugee journeys

    How does it feel to risk trafficking and torture to seek a better life in a strange land? Directors including Matteo Garrone and Milad Alami are tackling one of the most pressing issues of our time
  • Isabelle Huppert

    Isabelle Huppert: ‘I was never the woman behind the man… the only place I could take was the main place’

    As she prepares to play Mary, Queen of Scots, the French actor talks about her extraordinary career, and why she’d love to make a film in the UK – or play a Marvel villain
  • Four-picture composite of Only Yesterday; Andrew Scott in All of Us Strangers; Matthew Perry, centre, in 17 Again; Sonsoles Aranguren and Lola Cardona in El Sur.

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    Streaming: All of Us Strangers and the best films that revisit childhood

    Andrew Haigh’s profoundly moving ghost story follows in a bittersweet line of dramas, from Only Yesterday to Aftersun, in which a character is transported back to their early years

February 2024

  • Clockwise from top left: Sidney Poitier in To Sir, With Love (1967); Parker Sevak and Maggie Gyllenhaal in The Kindergarten Teacher (2018); Robert Donat in 'genre grandaddy' Goodbye, Mr Chips (1939); Paul Giamatti and Dominic Sessa in The Holdovers (2023). Paul Giamatti and Dominic Sessa

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    Streaming: The Holdovers and the best films about teachers

    From Robert Donat’s heart-breaking Mr Chips to the real-life Mr Bachmann, Judi Dench’s venomous schoolmarm to Paul Giamatti’s classics stickler in The Holdovers, teachers great and awful make for inspirational cinema
  • Paul Mescal

    Paul Mescal – from lockdown TV crush to emblem of sad-eyed masculinity

    At only 28, the Irish actor has his third tilt at a Bafta in Sunday’s ceremony for his role in All of Us Strangers. But he’s not hungry for mainstream celebrity life
  • From left: Kirk Douglas as Vincent van Gogh in Vincente Minnelli's ‘unabashedly gorgeous' Lust For Life (1956); ‘raw, restless' Jeffrey Wright in the title role in Julian Schnabel's Basquiat (1996); the Swedish artist and mystic Hilma af Klint in Halina Ryschka's documentary Beyond the Visible (2019).

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    Streaming: the best films about artists

    From Wim Wenders’ recent Anselm Kiefer documentary to Kirk Douglas’s tortured Van Gogh and Derek Jarman’s erotic ode to Caravaggio, cinema loves a brush with genius
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