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September 2024
TV review
Slow Horses season four review – Gary Oldman roars like a bear dipped in chip fat
The faultlessly directed spy thriller is back with an even more stellar cast – and its lead actor’s role evolving into something that is occasionally quietly beautiful
May 2024
Two Tickets to Greece review – a holiday you may want to cut short
Two Tickets to Greece review – insufferable women-on-holiday comedy is no Shirley Valentine
November 2023
TV review
Slow Horses season three review – Kristin Scott Thomas is absolutely top-notch
As ever, this grubby spy thriller is an utter pleasure. It’s big, bold, daft and sees Scott Thomas on brilliantly droll form – alongside a joyously shambolic Gary Oldman
The watcher
Slow Horses: it’s wild how good Gary Oldman’s spy thriller is
From its cast of acting royalty – Kristin Scott Thomas! – to the excellent dialogue, this drama just whizzes by. It’s a hugely fun, totally charming watch that gets everything right
The week in theatre: King Lear; Lyonesse; Pied Piper – review
Kenneth Branagh savours Lear’s words rather too much; Kristin Scott Thomas and co are left high and dry in Cornwall; but at BAC, a beatbox Pied Piper you would follow anywhere…
October 2023
Lyonesse review – Kristin Scott Thomas charms in messy #MeToo tale
Starry cast including Lily James and Doon Mackichan are tossed around in a plot that never gets hold of its many concerns
September 2023
First look review
North Star review – Kristin Scott Thomas makes a ho-hum directorial debut
There are impressive performances from Sienna Miller and Emily Beecham but this comedy drama of sisters coming together for a wedding is forgettable
April 2022
TV review
Slow Horses review – Gary Oldman will give you deja vu
This thriller about washed-up spies is certainly tense, but it feels like we’ve seen the Tinker Tailor actor – and co-star Kristin Scott Thomas – play these roles before
January 2021
Hear me out
Hear me out: why Only God Forgives isn't a bad movie
In the first of a new series of writers defending mostly loathed films, a plea to reconsider Nicolas Winding Refn’s gory follow-up to Drive
October 2020
Rebecca review – perfectly watchable romp
Kristin Scott Thomas is a flawless Mrs Danvers in Ben Wheatley’s conventional take on the Du Maurier classic
Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
Rebecca review – overdressed and underpowered romantic thriller
Ben Wheatley’s take on the Daphne du Maurier story has moments of spectacle and disquiet but hunky Armie Hammer is miscast as the troubled widower
Tristram Kenton at the Guardian
Pause for the camera: the best of Harold Pinter – in pictures
Revisit the work of one of Britain’s greatest playwrights in the month that he would have turned 90
September 2020
The Outside Dog and The Hand of God review – chintz and terror from Alan Bennett
Call me by my dead wife's name: can Netflix persuade us we need another Rebecca?
August 2020
Tristram Kenton at the Guardian
Seagulls and samovars: the best of Chekhov, with Dench, McKellen and more – in pictures
In a new series, we open up Guardian photographer Tristram Kenton’s archive of stage photos. This week: Anton Chekhov productions with a cast including the Redgraves, Dominic West and Chiwetel Ejiofor
July 2020
In Her Hands review – all about the musical boy genius, again
A sulky young pianist is talent-spotted at a Paris station in this dull drama that is enlivened by Kristin Scott Thomas and the charismatic Karidja Touré
June 2020
Kristin Scott Thomas: ‘I want action. I want desert, camels and 600 extras’
Kristin Scott Thomas can thank lockdown for one thing: it’s made her stay put. But now she is craving the bright lights and buzz of a film set. By Sophie Heawood
April 2020
Jodie Comer to star in new BBC production of Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
The series has already begun filming at Elstree, following distancing guidelines, and will feature 10 of the original monologues as well as two new ones written by Bennett
March 2020
Mark Kermode's film of the week
Military Wives review – on song with chalk-and-cheese Kristin Scott Thomas and Sharon Horgan
This crowd-pleasing comedy drama from the director of The Full Monty hits all the right notes
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