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Peter Bradshaw

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Peter Bradshaw is the Guardian's film critic

June 2026

  • Prod DB A© La Folie des Hommes - Pink Pictures Ltd. / DR PINK NARCISSUS (PINK NARCISSUS) de James Bidgood 1971 USA avec Bobby Kendall imagerie homosexuelle, Narcisse, cinema Gay, kitsch, homme nu, miroir, refletPNRNKB Prod DB A© La Folie des Hommes - Pink Pictures Ltd. / DR PINK NARCISSUS (PINK NARCISSUS) de James Bidgood 1971 USA A shirtless person lies on their side in bed under pink and blue lighting, with ornate mirrors visible in the background

    Pink Narcissus review – garish colour and dreamlike images in a homoerotic vision of 60s New York

  • Three people in skis walk across snow toward a crevassed glacier face

    Time and Water review – Iceland’s doomed glacier tells its own story of climate disaster

  • ET picking his favourite Spielberg DVD

    The best Steven Spielberg films, chosen by directors, critics and super-fans: ‘pure popcorn perfection’

  • Actors in 18th-century costumes and wigs sit in a garden drinking

    Savage House review – Claire Foy and Richard E Grant sell it hard in bewigged 18th-century caper

  • The Misfits review – Marilyn Monroe is fascinatingly sad in John Huston’s desolate western

  • Madfabulous review – Callum Scott Howells shines as flamboyant aristocrat in hedonistic period romp

  • Virginia Woolf’s Night and Day review – dreamy adaptation reaches for the stars

  • Planet Israel review – valuable personal documentary about Israel/Palestine conflict

  • Acting review – Cheek by Jowl masterclass in how to strut and fret upon the Shakespearean stage

  • Köln 75 review – how a legendary jazz-improv show was cajoled into being by a German teenager

  • Power BalladPaul Rudd as Rick and Nick Jonas as Danny in Power Ballad. Photo Credit: David Cleary

    Power Ballad review – Nick Jonas and Paul Rudd star in terrific comedy of bromance and betrayal

    Irish writer-director John Carney brilliantly brings together Rudd’s washed up wedding-singer and Jonas’s insecure ex-boyband superstar
  • Chiwetel Ejiofor in a brown shirt stands in a doorway looking at a sparse yellow-lit room

    Backrooms review – Kane Parsons’ icily disturbing horror rewrites the genre rulebook

    Debut from 20-year-old director examines memory, reality and fear after Chiwetel Ejiofor accesses an infinite series of hidden rooms that all feel creepily askew
  • Three young men point guns at each other in a tense standoff by the water

    Bullet in the Head review – John Woo’s Vietnam war fever dream is an explosive masterpiece

    The Hong Kong action master’s deliriously violent 1990 epic fuses gangland thriller, war movie and tragic melodrama into a spectacular vision of greed and moral collapse
  • Cristian Mungiu in a tuxedo holds up the Palme d'Or trophy in its presentation case

    double quotation markCannes got it wrong this year by awarding Palme d’Or to Cristian Mungiu’s very moderate Fjord

    Peter Bradshaw
    Film about a couple on trial for child abuse isn’t a patch on the director’s previous Palme winner, while other disappointing films seemed to grab the jury’s attention
  • A man and woman embrace a young child while looking through a dark window frame

    The Birthday Party review – grimly compulsive unhappy occasion in deepest France

  • Yana Radeva in The Dreamed Adventure.

    The Dreamed Adventure review – beautiful but opaque Bulgarian tale of digging up the past

  • A group of young soldiers huddle together, looking down at a central figure who laughs with his mouth wide open

    Coward review – soldiers find escapism and romance in wartime theatrical troupe

  • Sheep in the Box.

    Little glitz and underperforming auteurs: how Cannes 2026 went – and who will win

  • The Black Ball.

    The Black Ball review – the complicated secrets of gay sexuality in Spain are brilliantly told

  • Eagles of the Republic Press publicity film still

    Eagles of the Republic review – seductive thriller of corruption and compromise in post-Mubarak Egypt

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