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Brandon Cronenberg on gougings, knifings and pokerings: 'CGI is too floaty and unreal'

The horror director is back with a sci-fi shocker about mind-robbing assassins going on violent killing sprees. He tells our writer why digital effects just don’t cut the eyeball

Published: 7 Dec 2020

4 out of 5 stars.

Mark Kermode's film of the week Possessor review – mind-and-body-snatching thrills from Brandon Cronenberg
4 out of 5 stars.

Published: 29 Nov 2020
4 out of 5 stars.

Crash review – Cronenberg's auto eroticism still has impact
4 out of 5 stars.

Published: 27 Nov 2020

3 out of 5 stars.

Disappearance at Clifton Hill review – dark tale of childhood trauma
3 out of 5 stars.

David Cronenberg makes a startling appearance as a frogman in this bizarre psycho-melodrama set near Niagara Falls

Published: 17 Jul 2020

Film blog Ian Holm: a virtuoso actor of steel, sinew – and charm

Alien, Lord of the Rings, Chariots of Fire and so many more extraordinary performances in classic films – what an exemplary career the actor Ian Holm, who has died aged 88, leaves behind

Published: 19 Jun 2020

David Cronenberg: 'Movies were made for sex'

The acclaimed film-maker goes in front of the camera for a new thriller and talks about age, sex and how difficult he finds it to get funding for a new project

Published: 27 Feb 2020

The most anticipated movies of 2020 The most exciting movies of 2020 – dramas

Paul Thomas Anderson announces his new film, Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci play a long-term couple and Tom Hanks maximises his awards chances with three releases

Published: 30 Dec 2019

Steve Rose on film The Incredibles 2’s Screenslaver: the most controversial film villain ever?

The evils of screens and high-tech mind control are fought off in Pixar’s latest. But the rest of cinema doesn’t want to know

Published: 2 Jul 2018

Amber Heard sues London Fields producer over body-double sex scenes

The actor accuses the film’s producer of secretly filming ‘pornographic’ scenes with a body double that she claims violated a nudity clause in her contract

Published: 3 Apr 2017

Observer New Review Q&A Mathieu Amalric: ‘Cinema has a way of transforming itself’

The French star on playing a Bond villain, learning from Spielberg and calling the shots in his erotic thriller The Blue Room

Published: 4 Sep 2016
Liz Jensen: Seeing The Ninth Life of Louis Drax on screen is like meeting an eerie stranger

Fourteen years after my kid in a coma first appeared at the kitchen table, the film – starring Jamie Dornan, Sarah Gadon and Aaron Paul – is to appear at last

Published: 2 Sep 2016

4 out of 5 stars.

Mark Kermode's film of the week Tale of Tales review – bawdy and fantastical
4 out of 5 stars.

Inspired by 17th-century Italian fairytales, Matteo Garrone’s thrilling circus of sex and violence is definitely not one for the children

Published: 19 Jun 2016

The 10 best ... The 10 best films about films

With Fellini’s flamboyant 8½ back in cinemas this week, here are the 10 best self-referential movies

Published: 1 May 2015

Film blog Men with no name: the return of the existential hero

From Sean Penn’s The Gunman to Michael Mann’s Blackhat, the thinking man’s action hero is back, and attempting to put the art back in Sartre

Published: 16 Mar 2015

David Cronenberg backs 'legitimate' film critics over bloggers

Director suggests professional print and web film critics are being undermined by self-appointed reviewers

Published: 6 Jan 2015

Consumed by David Cronenberg review – body horror and techno lust in director's debut novel

Fans of Cronenberg's films will find a similarly queasy appeal in his first book, a weirdly romantic but utterly depraved tale of sex, technology and conspiracy, writes Steven Poole

Published: 8 Oct 2014

4 out of 5 stars.

Mark Kermode's film of the week Maps to the Stars review – David Cronenberg enters the dark heart of Hollywood
4 out of 5 stars.

A towering performance by Julianne Moore drives the Canadian director’s study of the terrors of Tinseltown, writes Mark Kermode

Published: 28 Sep 2014
The Hlcarpenter.com film show The Hlcarpenter.com Film Show: Maps to the Stars, Ida, I Origins and The Equalizer - video reviews

The film team review this week's releases, including David Cronenberg's toxic Hollywood takedown and Denzel Washington's bout of violent score-settling

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Published: 26 Sep 2014
5 out of 5 stars.

Maps to the Stars review – David Cronenberg at his Jacobean best
5 out of 5 stars.

An ensemble comedy of cruelty that satirises the Hollywood film factory and echoes the excesses of Sunset Blvd, writes Peter Bradshaw

Published: 25 Sep 2014
John Cusack: ‘Hollywood is a whorehouse and people go mad’

Henry Barnes: After 25 years as a star, John Cusack has seen the movie industry’s dark side close up – from its misogyny to its treatment of young actors. His new film, Maps to the Stars, is brutally honest, he says

Published: 25 Sep 2014

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