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Paul Thomas Anderson

January 2025

  • From left, Brie Larson in Elektra, Harriet Walter in Brian and Maggie, Malachi Kirby in A Thousand Blows, Louise Bourgeois’s spider, and one of Leigh Bowery’s costumes.

    2025 culture preview
    From Edvard Munch to Central Cee: Observer critics choose their cultural highlights for 2025

    From Thom Yorke’s Shakespearean score to 25 years of Tate Modern, Bridget Jones to Leigh Bowery, our writers anticipate the most exciting shows, releases and events of the year

December 2024

  • Composite image showing (from left) Chloé Zhao, Luca Guadagnino, and Claire Denis

    2025 culture preview
    Auteurs assemble! Why 2025 offers a banquet of movies by cinema’s great creators

  • music

    2025 culture preview
    Toyboys, divas and Bridget Jones: the films to look forward to in 2025

June 2024

  • Leonardo DiCaprio in Titanic, Simba in The Lion King and Nancy Allen in Blow Out.

    ‘It always destroys me’: our writers on their saddest movie deaths

    As Julia Louis-Dreyfus tackles the death of her on-screen daughter in recent fantastical drama Tuesday, Guardian writers look back at the death scenes that ruined them

May 2024

  • The Matrix.

    Party like it’s 1999: 10 movies that encapsulate one of the greatest years for cinema

    It was the year when arthouse brains met Hollywood brawn. But what made the last 12 months of the 90s so special? These films tell the story

December 2022

  • ‘I know it was you that made me do the Dunkaccino rap.’

    Ranked
    The best New Year’s Eve scenes – ranked

  • Cooper Hoffman and Alana Haim in Licorice Pizza

    Best films 2022
    Best films of 2022 in the UK: No 5 – Licorice Pizza

June 2022

  • Philip Baker Hall as Jimmy Gator, with Melinda Dillon as his wife, Rose, in Magnolia, 1999.

    Philip Baker Hall obituary

  • From left: Tilda Swinton in Memoria, Adeel Akhtar and Claire Rushbrook in Ali & Ava, Catherine Clinch in The Quiet Girl.

    Best culture of 2022 so far
    The best films of 2022 so far

April 2022

  • Mark Wahlberg<br>In this publicity image released by Paramount Pictures, Mark Wahlberg, is shown in a scene from, "The Fighter." Wahlberg was nominated for a Golden Globe for best actor in a motion picture drama, Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010, for his role in "The Fighter." The Golden Globe awards will air on Jan. 16 on NBC. (AP Photo/Paramount Pictures, Jojo Whilden)

    Ranked
    Mark Wahlberg’s 20 best films – ranked!

    From Transformers to Daddy’s Home, Marky Mark’s made some stinkers, so hopefully the actor will find redemption in Catholic drama Father Stu. And we’ll forgive him everything for Boogie Nights

March 2022

  • Licorice Pizza.

    Best picture Oscar hustings
    Why Licorice Pizza should win the best picture Oscar

  • Best actor and best supporting actor nominees Kodi Smit-McPhee and Benedict Cumberbatch in The Power of the Dog.

    Peter Bradshaw’s Bafta 2022 predictions – who will win and who should win?

February 2022

  • FILE - In this Feb. 21, 2015 file photo, an Oscar statue appears outside the Dolby Theatre for the 87th Academy Awards in Los Angeles. (Photo by Matt Sayles/Invision/AP, File)

    Oscars nominations 2022: the full list

  • Hidetoshi Nishijima and Toko Miura in Drive My Car, Ruth Negga, Olivia Colman in The Lost Daughter, Anders Danielsen Lie and Renate Reinsve in The Worst Person in the World, Dev Patel in The Green Knight.

    My award goes to... our film critics reveal their personal Oscars shortlists

January 2022

  • Alana Haim and Cooper Hoffman in Licorice Pizza.

    Mark Kermode's film of the week
    Licorice Pizza – Paul Thomas Anderson’s joyously nostalgic coming-of-age tale

  • Down the rabbithole

    Down the rabbit hole
    What links Licorice Pizza to The Gong Show?

December 2021

  • Cooper Hoffman and Alana Haim in Licorice Pizza

    The Guide newsletter
    The Guide #15: all the films, TV and music to get excited about in 2022

  • Licorice Pizza - film still

    ‘Being in love is the most difficult challenge of your life’: Paul Thomas Anderson and Alana Haim on making Licorice Pizza

  • Matthew Macfadyen, as Tom Wambsgans, speaks on the phone at a wedding in Tuscany, Italy

    The Guide newsletter
    The Guide #13: ranking Succession’s power players after that Tuscan finale

  • Abstact purple vector background pattern<br>composite for films to watch in Australia over the holidays - Boxing Day release films

    Licorice Pizza, The Matrix and Macbeth: new films to watch in Australia over the holidays

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