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Peter Bradshaw

Peter Bradshaw is the Guardian's film critic

February 2025

  • D is for Distance.

    D Is for Distance review – tender portrait of parents battling for their son’s medication

    Only medical cannabis can stop Louis’ epileptic seizures, but the NHS refuses to supply it. Chris Petit and Emma Matthews have turned their fight into a film

30 January 2025

  • a man touches a woman's cheek

    From Godard to Coppola, Van Sant to Anger, Marianne Faithfull was a dazzling magnet for film-makers

    Peter Bradshaw
  • Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy in Before Sunrise.

    Before Sunrise review – Richard Linklater’s brief encounter defies romantic convention

  • Wackfest … Gabriel LaBelle, Kaia Gerber and Cory Michael Smithin Saturday Night.

    Saturday Night review – unbearably self-indulgent sketch of an iconic comedy show

  • Natural prose-poetry … Edna O’Brien in 1971.

    Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story review – engaging study of a life less ordinary

28 January 2025

  • Michael C. Pitt mirror - Day of the Fight - press film still

    Day of the Fight review – boxer sets out to beat his demons in Kubrick-referencing drama

  • BY THE STREAM - press film still

    By the Stream review – Hong Sang-soo’s likably restrained pastoral comedy of campus life

27 January 2025

  • Zodiac Killer Project

    First look review
    Zodiac Killer Project review – true crime critique rescues aborted documentary

    Charlie Shackleton’s would-be film about the serial killer salvages success with this funny and insightful work

26 January 2025

  • Swann Arlaud appears in Sukkwan Island by Vladimir de Fontenay, an official selection of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by Haut et Court – Maipo Film – Versus Production – Good Chaos – RTBF

    First look review
    Sukkwan Island review – a survival drama takes an ill-advised left-turn

    Anatomy Of A Fall’s Swann Arlaud plays a father who gets caught in a dangerous situation with his son in a well-made yet frustrating misfire

23 January 2025

  • Michelle Dockery as a deputy US marshal, sitting in the cockpit of the plane

    Flight Risk review – Mel Gibson serves up white-knuckle fun in airplane suspense thriller

  • The big winner? … Karla Sofía Gascón as the title character in Emilia Pérez.

    Oscars groupthink pushes Emilia Pérez, the weakest nominee, to a record-breaking lead

    Peter Bradshaw

22 January 2025

  • Stray Dog.

    Stray Dog/High and Low review – Kurosawa lifts crime drama to astonishing new peaks

  • Lucy Liu in Steven Soderbergh’s Presence.

    Presence review – Soderbergh’s ghost’s-eye movie plays it cool with an unhappy family

17 January 2025

  • Joan Plowright in Tea With Mussolini.

    ‘A nice little cameo that Judi Dench hasn’t got her paws on’: in fact, Joan Plowright’s screen career blossomed with age

    Peter Bradshaw
  • Miffed? … Jon Voight, Mel Gibson and Sylvester Stallone.

    You’re really spoiling us: Trump miscasts Gibson, Stallone and Voight by making them mere ambassadors

    Peter Bradshaw

16 January 2025

  • Metaphysical murder … Sheryl Lee and Kyle Maclachlan in 1992’s Twin Peaks - Fire Walk With Me.

    David Lynch: the great American surrealist who made experimentalism mainstream

    Peter Bradshaw
  • Horror icon … Caroline Munro (right) in Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter.

    Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter review – swashbuckling Hammer horror still has bite

15 January 2025

  • Julia Garner, Matilda Firth and Christopher Abbott in Wolf Man

    Wolf Man review – fear-free update of the lupine myth lacks bite and believability

    Leigh Whannell’s unfocused follow-up to The Invisible Man is a howling disappointment, misjudged and dull
  • Ralph Fiennes stars as Cardinal Lawrence in director Edward Berger's CONCLAVE, a Focus Features release. Credit: Courtesy of Focus Features. © 2024 All Rights Reserved.

    Baftas 2025: Conclave leads a pack of underdog tales – and Kneecap may already have won

    Peter Bradshaw
    The wonderfully watchable pope-voting movie has 12 righteous nominations – but films about defiant outsiders have clearly captured voters’ imaginations
  • Noémie Merlant in Emmanuelle.

    Emmanuelle review – 70s odyssey of saucy self awakening gets a Hong Kong-set makeover

    Noémie Merlant, Naomi Watts and Will Sharpe languish in a luxurious hotel in Audrey Diwan’s self-conscious remake of the classic French softcore drama
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