Lights, camera, comfy furnishings: why the ‘beige chic’ of Nancy Meyers is having a revival
Ranked
Aliens, artists and Abscam: Amy Adams’ 20 best performances – ranked!
July 2024
Observer New Review Q&A
Eva Longoria: ‘People are still discovering Desperate Housewives. Thematically, it’s timeless’
The Devil Wears Prada sequel in the works about declining advertising revenues for print media
May 2024
Audiobook of the week
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett audiobook review – Meryl Streep narrates a bittersweet tale of first love
Meryl Streep: it’s ‘hardest thing’ for men to see themselves in female characters
‘Explosive’ secret list of abusers set to upstage women’s big week at Cannes film festival
Stream team
From meet-cute to marriage breakdown: Streep and Nicholson shine in Nora Ephron’s bittersweet Heartburn
January 2024
Red-carpet fashion makes a bold comeback at Golden Globes
Outfits that shone at Sunday’s event were more traditionally beautiful than the meme-bait of yore
September 2023
‘Can they reincarnate me?’: Meryl Streep discusses options for Mamma Mia! 3
The multi Oscar-winner and her co-stars in the hit 2008 Abba musical have revealed their enthusiasm for a second sequel – despite Streep’s character having died
August 2023
TV review
Only Murders In the Building season three review – Meryl Streep helps make the best season ever
It’s more fun, the chemistry between the amateur sleuths almost crackles, and the guests are stellar. As Streep puts in her beautiful performances, you want to punch the air
March 2023
Digested week
Digested week: I heart New Yorkers for being united in vitriol
Emma Brockes
TV review
Extrapolations review – even Meryl Streep can’t save this convoluted eco drama
September 2022
Darling, you were dreadful! The best (and worst) big-screen performances of all time
What makes cinema acting great – or awful? As Harry Styles raises eyebrows in two new films, our film critics name the portrayals that really blew them away
March 2022
Best picture Oscar hustings
Why Don’t Look Up should win the best picture Oscar
By laying bare the roots of human folly, Adam McKay’s fun parable shows how entertainment can generate enlightenment
December 2021
Look away: why star-studded comet satire Don’t Look Up is a disaster
Charles Bramesco
‘I’m not just coasting along’: Nicole Kidman on fame, family and what keeps her awake at night
Adam McKay: ‘Leo sees Meryl as film royalty – he didn’t like seeing her with a lower back tattoo’
Don’t Look Up review – slapstick apocalypse according to DiCaprio and Lawrence
September 2021
Margaret Atwood and JM Coetzee demand release of jailed Iranian writers
A letter by PEN America, signed by dozens of high-profile writers and artistic figures, calls for Baktash Abtin, Keyvan Bajan, and Reza Khandan Mahabadi to be acquitted