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Peter Bradshaw is a British writer and film critic. He was educated at Cambridge University.

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Film review: The Informant!

This strange and interesting story should have been told without exclamation marks and other wackiness, says Peter Bradshaw An exclamation mark on the end of a title is a worrying sign. Lionel Bart doubled the pain with two, for his 1965 Robin Hood ...

From PETER BRADSHAW, Guardian Unlimited,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Lionel Bart,  Baz Luhrmann,  Steven Soderbergh,  Mark Whitacre,  Matt Damon

Film review: Ulysses

In 1967, the American film-maker Joseph Strick took a bold and high-minded stab at the ultimate unfilmable book: Joyce's Ulysses. Inevitably, it's a disappointment, though watched again now for this rerelease, it doesn't seem as much of a ...

From PETER BRADSHAW, Guardian Unlimited,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Milo O'Shea (actor),  John Malkovich,  John Huston

Film review: The First Day of the Rest of Your Life

Rémi Bezançon's family movie has been a huge box office hit on its home turf in France and the winner of many Césars: it is amiable enough, although I found it closer to a moderate TV drama than a feature film. It is a sort of intimate, episodic saga, ...

From PETER BRADSHAW, Guardian Unlimited,  19 Nov 2009

Film review: Examined Life

Taking its title from Socrates's famous maxim about the unexamined life not being worth living - though without discussing it in any way - Astra Taylor's freewheeling documentary interviews various philosophers as they stroll about various cities and ...

From PETER BRADSHAW, Guardian Unlimited,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Cornel West

Film review: The Sea Wall

Please activate cookies in order to turn autoplay off This glossy, soapy tale will inevitably trigger fond memories of the once controversial 1992 film The Lover, says Peter Bradshaw This glossy, soapy tale will inevitably trigger fond memories of the ...

From PETER BRADSHAW, Guardian Unlimited,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Isabelle Huppert

Film review: The Twilight Saga: New Moon

Developing as an actor … Kristen Stewart in The Twilight Saga: New Moon In the first Twilight film, lovely, young Bella Swan couldn't have sex with her vampire beau in case he got carried away and bit her. In this new one, on the other hand, Bella ...

From PETER BRADSHAW, Guardian Unlimited,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Kristen Stewart,  Chris Weitz,  Robert Pattinson,  Taylor Lautner,  Michael Sheen

Film review: A Serious Man

Midlife, midwest, male menopause … Michael Stuhlbarg and Sara Lennick in A Serious Man Joel and Ethan Coen have bookended the decade with a superb film at the very beginning, The Man Who Wasn't There (2001), and another two stormers at the end: their ...

From PETER BRADSHAW, Guardian Unlimited,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Ethan Coen,  Gary Larson,  Robert Crumb,  Terry Zwigoff,  Jimi Hendrix

Christmas 2009 going out guide: film

Please activate cookies in order to turn autoplay off Blockbusters don't come much bigger in our guide to the best films this Christmas State of the art … Avatar Zac Efron proves he's ready to graduate from high school in Richard Linklater's latest. He ...

From PETER BRADSHAW, Guardian Unlimited,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Zac Efron,  Richard Linklater,  Orson Welles,  Mercury,  Julius Caesar

Film review: The Magic Hour

There are interesting ­images and themes here, but I have to say that many ideas did not really come off, says Peter Bradshaw Poetic evocation of blindness … Buttermouth, from The Magic Hour The Magic Hour is a collaborative project, supported by the ...

From PETER BRADSHAW, Guardian Unlimited,  13 Nov 2009

Film review: Taking Woodstock

To establish career flexibility, or maybe just to serve up a little sorbet after ­red-meat pictures like Lust, Caution and Brokeback Mountain, director Ang Lee has tried his hand at some undemanding period fun. It's a bland, faintly pointless slice of ...

From PETER BRADSHAW, Guardian Unlimited,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Ang Lee,  Demetri Martin,  Imelda Staunton

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