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Guardian film critic. My new book, The Body In The Mobile Library And Other Stories is out now. Kindly click on the link: https://amzn.eu/d/3ZFMXjo
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My review of Dragonfly (dir. Paul Andrew Williams) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju... #tribeca #TribecaFilmFestival #Tribeca2025

My review of The Encampments (dirs. Kei Pritsker, Michael T. Workman) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...

My review of Goebbels And The Führer (dir. Joachim Lang) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...

My review of the re-release of The Quatermass Xperiment (1955) (dir. Val Guest) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...

My review of the re-release of Showgirls (1995) (dir. Paul Verhoeven) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...

My review of Ballerina (dir. Len Wiseman) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...

So sad to hear about Edmund White - I once had dinner with him and Lucretia Stewart in London when he hilariously showed what happened when he once gulped a glass of olive oil thinking it was white wine

My vlog on Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Conformist (1970) is up here: youtu.be/1Qf12rHPJwE?... I am introducing a special screening next Monday 9th June at the Ultimate Picture Palace in Oxford - please come! uppcinema.com/show/the-con...

My vlog on Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme is up here, please click, watch, share and subscribe: youtu.be/aQUGiGtBTzw?...

My vlog on Jesse Armstrong’s Mountainhead is up here, please click, watch, share and subscribe: youtu.be/OQCZH6R3kUQ?...

My review of Along Came Love (dir. Katell Quillévéré) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma...

My review of the re-release of Darling (1965) (dir. John Schlesinger) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma...

Fantastic to read tonight from The Body In The Mobile Library at Newcastle’s glorious The Lit & Phil as part of its 200th birthday celebrations - it’s great and Newcastle is great!

On Monday 9th June, I shall be introducing a special screening of Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Conformist at Oxford’s excellent Ultimate Picture Palace - come along! uppcinema.com/show/the-con...

Calling everyone in the great city of Newcastle! I shall be at the @litandphil.bsky.social this Wednesday 28th at 6pm, reading from my short fiction collection The Body In The Mobile Library And Other Stories - and chatting about the writing life. Come along! www.litandphil.org.uk/event/peter-...

Some thoughts on the late Marcel Ophuls: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma...

Some thoughts on the prizes at #Cannes www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma... #Cannes2025 #cannes #CannesFilmFestival2025 #CannesFilmFestival #Cannes78

My review of The Mastermind (dir. Kelly Reichardt) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma... #Cannes2025 #cannes #CannesFilmFestival2025 #CannesFilmFestival #Cannes78

My review of Mountainhead (dir. Jesse Armstrong) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma...

Here’s my emotional final vlog from #Cannes2025 - please click, watch, share and subscribe: youtu.be/SNpDDdFrRNQ?...

My review of The Young Mother’s Home (dirs. Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma... #Cannes2025 #Cannes #CannesFilmFestival2025 #CannesFilmFestival #Cannes78

Here are my #Cannes prize predictions - an absolutely infallible guide to who is going to win what www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma... #Cannes2025 #Cannes #CannesFilmFestival2025 #CannesFilmFestival #Cannes78

My new vlog from #Cannes is up here, in which I return to the unedifying subject of food youtu.be/66PB7pZ_Sro?... #Cannes2025 #Cannes #CannesFilmFestival2025 #CannesFilmFestival #Cannes78

My review of Sentimental Value (dir. Joachim Trier) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma... #Cannes2025 #Cannes #CannesFilmFestival2025 #CannesFilmFestival #Cannes78

My review of Romería (dir. Carla Simón) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma... #Cannes2025 #Cannes #CannesFilmFestival2025 #CannesFilmFestival #Cannes78

My review of Yes (dir. Nadiv Lapid) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma... #Cannes2025 #Cannes #CannesFilmFestival2025 #CannesFilmFestival #Cannes78

My review of Woman And Child (dir. Saeed Roustaee) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma... #Cannes2025 #Cannes #CannesFilmFestival2025 #CannesFilmFestival #Cannes78

My review of The History Of Sound (dir. Oliver Hermanus) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma... #Cannes2025 #Cannes #CannesFilmFestival2025 #CannesFilmFestival #Cannes78

My review of Vie Privée (dir. Rebecca Zlotowski) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma... #Cannes2025 #Cannes #CannesFilmFestival2025 #CannesFilmFestival #Cannes78

My vlog on Day Eight of #Cannes is up here, please click, watch, share and subscribe: youtu.be/AcYN5fcdcks?... #Cannes2025 #Cannes #CannesFilmFestival2025 #CannesFilmFestival #Cannes78

My review of Eleanor The Great (dir. Scarlett Johansson) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma... #Cannes2025 #Cannes #CannesFilmFestival2025 #CannesFilmFestival #Cannes78

My review of A Simple Accident (dir. Jafar Panahi) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma... #Cannes2025 #Cannes #CannesFilmFestival2025 #CannesFilmFestival #Cannes78

My review of The Secret Agent (dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma... #Cannes2025 #Cannes #CannesFilmFestival2025 #CannesFilmFestival #Cannes78

Just overheard an American producer talking about Dr Who and pronouncing “Dalek” to rhyme with “Alec” #Cannes2025 #Cannes #CannesFilmFestival2025 #CannesFilmFestival #Cannes78

My review of Highest 2 Lowest (dir. Spike Lee) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma... #Cannes2025 #Cannes #CannesFilmFestival2025 #CannesFilmFestival #Cannes78

My review of Alpha (dir. Julia Ducournau) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma... #Cannes2025 #Cannes #CannesFilmFestival2025 #CannesFilmFestival #Cannes78

My vlog from day seven of #Cannes is up here, please click, watch, share and subscribe: youtu.be/gt3jLL22qYc #Cannes2025 #Cannes #CannesFilmFestival2025 #CannesFilmFestival #Cannes78

My review of Urchin (dir. Harris Dickinson) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma... #Cannes2025 #Cannes #CannesFilmFestival2025 #CannesFilmFestival #Cannes78

My review of My Father’s Shadow (dir. Akinola Davies Jr) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma... #Cannes2025 #Cannes #CannesFilmFestival2025 #CannesFilmFestival #Cannes78

My review of The Love That Remains (dir. Hlynur Pálmason) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma... #Cannes2025 #Cannes #CannesFilmFestival2025 #CannesFilmFestival #Cannes78

My vlog on Harry Lighton’s Pillion is up here, please click, watch, share and subscribe: youtu.be/CdCUT0Gd20s?... #Cannes2025 #Cannes #CannesFilmFestival2025 #CannesFilmFestival #Cannes78

My review of The Phoenician Scheme (dir. Wes Anderson) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma... #Cannes2025 #Cannes #CannesFilmFestival2025 #CannesFilmFestival #Cannes78

My review of Die My Love (dir. Lynne Ramsay) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma... #Cannes2025 #Cannes #CannesFilmFestival2025 #CannesFilmFestival #Cannes78

My review of Nouvelle Vague (dir. Richard Linklater) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma... #Cannes2025 #Cannes #CannesFilmFestival2025 #CannesFilmFestival2025 #Cannes78

My vlog from Day Five of #Cannes is up here, please click, watch, share and subscribe: youtu.be/gBpYZ4nZXMw?...

My review of Eddington (dir. Ari Aster) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma... #Cannes #CannesFilmFestival #CannesFilmFestival2025 #Cannes2025 #Cannes78

My review of Bono: Stories Of Surrender (dir. Andrew Dominik) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma... #Cannes2025 #Cannes #CannesFilmFestival2025 #CannesFilmFestival #Cannes78

My review of The Chronology Of Water (dir. Kristen Stewart) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma... #Cannes2025 #Cannes #CannesFilmFestival #CannesFilmFestival2025 #Cannes78

My vlog on Day Four of #Cannes is up here, please click, watch, share and subscribe: youtu.be/dkwGIEkUcT4?... #CannesFilmFestival2025 #CannesFilmFestival #Cannes2025 #Cannes78

My vlog from Day Three of #Cannes2025 is up here, please click, watch, share and subscribe: youtu.be/8f6a6pZXQY4?... #CannesFilmFestival #Cannes2025 #Cannes #Cannes78