Peter Bradshaw

Late Shift review – pressure is on in badly understaffed hospital as compassion shines through Leonie Benesch brings a credible presence as Floria, a nurse crushed under an intolerable workload in frantic medical drama

My review of Late Shift (dir. Petra Volpe) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...

Savages review – indigenous teen and baby orangutan take on developers in Borneo In this stop-motion animation from the director of My Life As a Courgette, our heroes stan up to deforestation with likable courage

My review of Savages (dir. Claude Barras) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...

2000 Meters to Andriivka review – war in Ukraine as an eerie, pin-sharp waking nightmare In his heartwrenching followup to 20 Days in Mariupol, photojournalist Mstyslav Chernov is embedded with the 3rd Assault Brigade during a gruelling counteroffensive

My review of 2000 Meters To Andriivka (Mstyslav Chernov) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...

Bring Her Back review – Philippou brothers bring all manner of scares to creepy custody battle The Australian twins seal their position as dark chiefs of modern horror in story of an orphan trying to save his stepsister from a villainous Sally Hawkins

My review of Bring Her Back (dirs. Danny Philippou, Michael Philippou) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...

My Beautiful Laundrette review – landmark critique of Thatcher’s Britain with a larky Ealing air Rerelease of funny-sad tale of a laundry madeover by a young south Asian man and his love interest (Daniel Day-Lewis) is a unique subversion of 1980s UK politics

My review of the re-release of My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) (dir. Stephen Frears) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...

The Naked Gun review – Liam Neeson deadpans impeccably in outrageously amusing spoof reboot Neeson plays the son of Leslie Nielsen’s Lt Frank Drebin, appearing opposite Pamela Anderson in this enjoyable, at times very bizarre, spoof of 80s LA action movies

My review of The Naked Gun (dir. Akiva Schaffer) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...

YouTube video by Peter Bradshaw PETER BRADSHAW reviews THE NAKED GUN

My vlog on Akiva Schaffer’s The Naked Gun is up here, so click, watch, share and subscribe: youtu.be/WUgRmLkJqHI?...

YouTube video by Peter Bradshaw PETER BRADSHAW reviews BRING HER BACK

My vlog on the Philippou brothers’ Bring Her Back is up here, please click, watch, share and subscribe: youtu.be/DzaSSS8PLV0?...

The Narrow Road to the Deep North first look review – Jacob Elordi’s war epic is big, bold and deeply pleasurable Packed with both complicated love affairs and terribly poignant second world war scenes, it adds up to fervent television indeed

Reupping here my review of Justin Kurzel’s Narrow Road To The Deep North: www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Dying review – the biggest conductor meltdown since Cate Blanchett’s Tár Lars Eidinger plays the man embarking on a major orchestral project, but whose professional status is threatened by family turmoil behind the scenes

My review of Dying (dir. Matthias Glasner) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2024/fe... (it premiered at Berlin last year and gets its UK release today)

What Does That Nature Say to You review – funny and complex Korean dad-boyfriend standoff Hong Sang-soo makes a genuinely intriguing addition to his booze- and conversation-fuelled oeuvre

My review of What Does That Nature Say To You? (dir. Hong Sang-soo) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...

The Fantastic Four: First Steps review – Marvel regains buoyancy with wacky superhero family sitcom In a retro-futurist version of early 1960s New York, Mr Fantastic and Sue Storm are living together as a dysfunctional family with the Human Torch and the Thing – with a baby on the way

My review of The Fantastic Four: First Steps (dir. Matt Shakman) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...

Toxic review – stylishly blank look at fashion’s real victims Saule Bliuvaite’s debut feature follows two Lithuanian teens seduced by a ‘modelling school’ promising to take them away from their tough home town

My review of Toxic (dir. Saule Bliuvaite) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...

Gazer review – ineffably creepy and unbearably tense noir chiller A fascinatingly uneasy debut from Ryan J Sloan has hints of Lynch and Cronenberg with star and co-writer Ariella Mastroianni radiating suppressed anguish and rage

My review of Gazer (dir. Ryan J. Sloan) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...

Amadeus review – F Murray Abraham mesmerises as Mozart’s lizardly frenemy in Miloš Forman’s masterpiece Abraham’s gorgeous villainy as the bland court composer eclipsed by Tom Hulce’s nitrogen-voiced genius Mozart is a treat

My review of the re-release of Amadeus (1984) (dir. Milos Forman) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...

YouTube video by Peter Bradshaw PETER BRADSHAW reviews AMADEUS

My vlog on Milos Forman’s Amadeus is up here, please click, watch, share and subscribe: youtu.be/tmzGeIPq8jo?...

YouTube video by Peter Bradshaw PETER BRADSHAW reviews THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS

My vlog on Matt Shakman’s The Fantastic Four: First Steps is up here, please click, watch, share and subscribe: youtu.be/V2XjD1wNi_o?...

Fake statements from Andy and/or Megan Byron have become a weird new genre of fan fiction

Barry Lyndon review – Kubrick's intimate epic of utter lucidity Stanley Kubrick’s hypnotic masterpiece looks just as good 40 years on, as it follows the fluctuating fortunes of Ryan O’Neal’s humble Irish hero

My review of Barry Lyndon (1975) (dir. Stanley Kubrick) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2016/ju...

The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire review – the legacy of a dissident and inspirational surrealist author Brief film looks at the intense flowering of essays by the Caribbean feminist and anti-imperialist who saw surrealism as a revolutionary mode

My review of The Ballad Of Suzanne Césaire (dir. Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...

Four Letters of Love review Sugary story of destiny and dreams slowly brings together two troubled young people and a prize painting

My review of Four Letters Of Love (dir. Polly Steele) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...

Friendship review – male inadequacy barbecued in Tim Robinson and Paul Rudd’s comedy bromance Robinson is magnificently cringeworthy as a man in thrall to his cool neighbour Rudd in Andrew DeYoung’s film, as divisive as a Vimto-Marmite cocktail

My review of Friendship (dir. Andrew DeYoung) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...

Smurfs review – Rihanna is star turn of the new generation of floppy-hatted blue elves James Corden and John Goodman join the singer voicing the Belgian creatures in this uninspired, unengaging kids’ animation

My review of Smurfs (dir. Chris Miller) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...

Human Traffic review – one-crazy-night 90s clubbing comedy provides euphoric rush of nostalgia This loved-up ensemble piece is cheerfully apolitical, pro-drugs and pro-hedonism – and features a very funny film debut from Danny Dyer

My review of the re-release of Human Traffic (1999) (dir. Justin Kerrigan) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...

My vlog on Andrew DeYoung’s Friendship is up here, please click, watch, share and subscribe: youtu.be/E8XHa15tf6s?...

YouTube video by Peter Bradshaw PETER BRADSHAW reviews BARRY LYNDON

My vlog on Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon is up here, please click, watch, share and subscribe: youtu.be/0wQYol3TlT4?...

Quatermass 2 review – Hammer turns up the heat in enjoyable alien invader sequel The brusque, unsmiling American rocket scientist returns with a bigger budget and more action alongside an entertaining turn from Sid James as an inebriated journalist

My review of the re-release of Quatermass 2 (1957) (dir. Val Guest) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...

Superman review – is it a bust? Is it a pain? James Gunn’s dim reboot is both The Man of Steel – played with square-faced soullessness by David Corenswet – has an uninteresting crisis of confidence in Gunn’s cluttered, pointless franchise restarter

My review of Superman (dir. James Gunn) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...

Pavements review – US indie rockers and their dream director run four ideas at once Alex Ross Perry’s intriguing documentary about 90s band Pavement runs four concepts at once, whose effect is to obscure clarity

My review of Pavements (dir. Alex Ross Perry) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...

Apocalypse in the Tropics review – how Brazilian politics succumbed to rightwing fundamentalism Petra Costa explains how screeching evangelical Christian leaders have become kingmakers to all politicians in a chilling documentary that shows democracy on the brink

My review of Apocalypse In The Tropics (dir. Petra Costa) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...