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Very sorry to read of the passing of Bernard Pruvost, who plays the fantastic Captain Van Der Weyden in Bruno Dumont's Li'l Quinquin, Coincoin, and The Empire and graces them with a singular touch of ingenuous lunacy: lesinrocks.com/cinema/mort-de…

My review of Life Is Beautiful (dir. Mohamed Jalaby) is up here: theguardian.com/film/2025/jul/…

My review of Jurassic World: Rebirth (dir. Gareth Edwards) is up here: theguardian.com/film/2025/jun/…

My review of An Ordinary Case (dir. Daniel Auteuil) is up here: theguardian.com/film/2025/jun/…

My review of Hot Milk (dir. Rebecca Lenkiewicz) is up here: theguardian.com/film/2025/feb/… (it premiered in Berlin this year and gets its UK release today)

This looks great!

Could this be the start of Emma’s fightback?

Sadly no

Tim Firth’s This Is My Family at Southwark Playhouse Elephant is glorious - superbly acted and sung, sweet, gentle, funny and joyful. If a British city ever gets another Olympics, for the opening ceremony they should just perform this all the way through

Next week in the Observer — Elena Ferrante: she's an estate agent from Chipping Norton

Reupping my review of François Ozon’s mushroom-meal death mystery When Autumn Falls, and its apparent resemblance to Ruth Rendell’s mushroom killer story Means Of Evil theguardian.com/film/2025/mar/…

New episode of the Rest is Entertainment out today, in which Richard Osman and I talk about the sensational Salt Path revelations - a story by which I am completely TRANSFIXED - as well as AI bands and the international format adventures of Hot Ones linktr.ee/therestisenter…

Pleased The Times and The Sunday Times has run my letter about The Salt Path scandal this morning.

Perhaps one side-effect of this story is that reviewers will stop using the gushing phrase "honest" ("bleakly honest", "hilariously honest" etc) about non-fiction books whose alleged honesty they are in no position to judge, having no independent knowledge of its subject

My review of the re-release of Nine Queens (2000) (dir. Fabián Bielinsky) is up here: theguardian.com/film/2025/jul/…

My review of Modigliani: Three Days On The Wing Of Madness (dir. Johnny Depp) is up here: theguardian.com/film/2025/jul/…

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

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

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

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