Guy Lodge
@guylodge.bsky.social
Chief film critic, Variety. Beneath this glassy surface, a world of gliding monsters.
This film’s predecessor was the single worst thing I’ve ever seen in Venice, but it looks like they’ve found a new low! m.youtube.com/watch?v=sF4O...
Run Hide Fight: Infidels | Official Trailer
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What a deeply bizarre movie. variety.com/2026/film/ne...
‘One Night Only’ Review: Monica Barbaro and Callum Turner Are Too Hot for This Sexless Sex Comedy
Will Gluck's 'One Night Only’ is a dystopian romcom that, despite the best efforts of Callum Turner and Monica Barbaro, is too creepy to be cute.
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A broadsheet article about the Venice Film Festival in which the only two journalistic sources quoted are Jeff Wells and Sasha Stone.
To serve up a Competition lineup with just one female director, when Maggie Gyllenhaal is your jury president, is quite unfortunate.
Seeing a lot of negative Moana reviews but no “Moana, Mo’ Problems” headlines, which strikes me as an opportunity missed.
A midyear report from me and my fellow chief critic Owen Gleiberman. Movies: still good! variety.com/lists/best-m...
The Best Movies of 2026 (So Far)
The news isn’t just that movies are alive but that they’re (almost) (kind of) thriving.
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I appreciate the general sentiment of this but please don’t randomly call me of an afternoon and ask me to help you meal plan, I’m quite busy
“Tis I do?” is not getting any better as a tagline the longer I stare at it
Nobody made a better film at Cannes this year than Ryusuke Hamaguchi with ALL OF A SUDDEN, and as it happens, nobody wrote a better piece of criticism at Cannes than @jessicakiang.bsky.social on that same movie. Read it and quite literally weep. variety.com/2026/film/re...
‘All of a Sudden’ Review: Virginie Efira and Tao Okamoto Forge a Life-Changing Friendship in Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Life-Giving Drama
Virginie Efira and Tao Okamoto star in Ryusuke Hamaguchi's "All of a Sudden," a transcendently talkative film about care and conversation.
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And if I said a few days ago that it’s this year’s EMILIA PEREZ variety.com/2026/film/ne...
Netflix Nears Deal on ‘La Bola Negra’ After Cannes Bidding War (EXCLUSIVE)
Following its buzzy Cannes premiere, Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo’s 'La Bola Negra' ('The Black Ball') is selling to Netflix.
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Cute that you think your bag is going to get its own seat at a sold-out Cannes screening, do you want to put it on the floor or should I
A Cannes review thread. Starting with Quinzaine opener BUTTERFLY JAM, which, well, is no BEANPOLE, even as it amply demonstrates why Kantemir Balagov is the really real deal. variety.com/2026/film/re...
‘Butterfly Jam’ Review: Barry Keoghan and Riley Keough Are Circassian Siblings in Kantemir Balagov’s Vibrant but Unruly Community Portrait
Starring Barry Keoghan, Riley Keough and Harry Melling, Kantemir Balagov's 'Butterfly Jam' confirms his extraordinary formal capabilities.
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With absolute confidence, I can make my first Oscar prediction of this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
A French Légion d’Honneur for whoever the nerd is who got the Cannes ticketing site working this breezily
Perfect example of why this rule change is a good move, and long overdue. Restricting it to just major festival winners often quite arbitrarily chosen by juries isn’t ideal, but it’s a start — the idea of the category as a kind of nationality-based cinematic Olympics is way outdated.
Jessica Kiang@jessicakiang.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe welcome changes to the International Oscar category come one year too late for our beloved 2025 Golden Bear DREAMS (d. Dag Johan Haugerud). It may not have overtaken the Norwegian SENTIMENTAL VALUE juggernaut, but it would have given it a run for its kroner. See it if you haven't!
So thrilled to have one of my favourite current critics, @bealoayza.bsky.social, now writing at Variety, among her other illustrious outlets. More from her at Cannes soon, but for now, here she is being both witty and authoritative on a title I can’t fit into this tweet. variety.com/2026/film/re...
‘That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Tears of the Azure Sea’ Review: A Franchise Bonus Primarily for Fans
Yasuhito Kikuchi's 'That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Tears of the Azure Sea' is an anime franchise extension largely just for fans.
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There are so many much more fun things you could have titled THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA 2, but that’s what they went with, and much like the film, I guess it’ll do. Streep’s line deliveries, again, are the real prize — but there isn’t much rewatch value here. My review: variety.com/2026/film/ne...
‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’ Review: Hotly Anticipated Sequel Is Breezily Diverting Fan Service and, Well, That’s All
Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci return for David Frankel's serviceable sequel 'The Devil Wears Prada 2.'
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There are so many much more fun things you could have titled THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA 2, but that’s what they went with, and much like the film, I guess it’ll do. Streep’s line deliveries, again, are the real prize — but there isn’t much rewatch value here. My review: variety.com/2026/film/ne...
‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’ Review: Hotly Anticipated Sequel Is Breezily Diverting Fan Service and, Well, That’s All
Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci return for David Frankel's serviceable sequel 'The Devil Wears Prada 2.'
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Our UHD release of Almodóvar's early work MATADOR is already SOLD OUT on our site, although copies are still available at other retailers. Our dual-format LE comes with booklet writing by @guylodge.bsky.social and reversible art - plus critic José Arroyo + Jonathan Ross' ep on Almodóvar.
A shame that APEX has gone straight to Netflix, because it’s very much a multiplex movie, and a fun, well-made one too. variety.com/2026/film/ne...
‘Apex’ Review: Man Is the Predator in a Rip-Roaring Outdoor Duel Between Charlize Theron and Taron Egerton
Starring Charlize Theron and Taron Egerton, Baltasar Kormákur's short, taut, spectacularly shot thriller 'Apex' premieres on Netflix.
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Leaving aside the fact that the first allegations were in 1993 — and that “intimate” is about the last adjective I’d apply to MICHAEL — the use of the present tense in “who Michael is” is doing a lot of work here.
Red carpet interviewer to Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci: “Is it amazing to be reunited?” Streep, sounding weary: “Sure is, it’s like Whatsisname and Tennille.”
Need to stop over-abbreviating in my diary as I briefly wondered why I had a 6pm appointment with the Department of Work and Pensions rather than The Devil Wears Prada 2.
“Nicole! I loved you in Birth!” “And now, my child, it’s time to love me in death.”
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 4mo agoNicole Kidman reveals she is training to become a death doula to ‘provide solace and care’ to dying
Maybe Film Twitter is already abuzz about this, but has anybody else noticed that Markus Schleinzer’s MICHAEL (2011) falls at the exact midpoint of the timeline between Nora Ephron’s MICHAEL (1996) and Antoine Fuqua’s MICHAEL (2026)
Variety’s @guylodge.bsky.social returns for two films that faced similar controversies over their supposedly "irresponsible" use of child actors: Jonathan Glazer’s 2004 drama BIRTH and Sandra Wollner’s little-seen 2020 sci-fi provocation THE TROUBLE WITH BEING BORN open.spotify.com/episode/5vhC...
