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Alfred Molina

August 2024

  • This image released by Apple TV shows Matt Damon, left, and Casey Affleck in a scene from "The Instigators." (Apple TV+ via AP)

    The Instigators review – Matt Damon and Casey Affleck can’t save underpowered heist comedy

    The Ocean’s Eleven veterans star in this Boston-set caper about a broke ex-marine and a moody ex-con hired to rob the mayor’s victory party

April 2024

  • Steve Carell and Alison Pill. Credit to Marc J. Franklin

    Uncle Vanya review – Steve Carell leads excellent cast in Chekhov reimagining

    The star makes a convincing Broadway debut in a tragicomic winner staged with thought and deft flashes of modernity

November 2022

  • Steve Carell in The Patient.

    The seven best shows to stream this week
    The Patient to Willow: the seven best shows to stream this week

    Steve Carell and Domnhall Gleeson star in a gripping doctor-patient thriller, while Warwick Davis is off on another quest as the beloved sorcerer

November 2021

  • Benedict Cumberbatch and Tom Holland in the forthcoming Spider-Man: No Way Home

    Week in geek
    Why are Spider-Man: No Way Home’s supervillains so strangely unfamiliar?

    Are Electro and Sandman ghosts or from another dimension? Why is Doctor Strange acting weird? And who is the sixth member of the Sinister Six? The newly released trailer is tantalisingly full of clues

March 2021

  • ‘I am flabbergasted by what I get to do for a living.’ David Oyelowo (right) and Alfred Molina.

    Double acts
    'My father thought actors were one step above cat burglars!': Alfred Molina meets David Oyelowo

    The actors talk about applause, auditions, how they fell in love with the theatre – and the extraordinary high of delivering the perfect line

September 2020

  • A still from The Water Man.

    First look review
    The Water Man review – David Oyelowo's charming directorial debut

    The star’s first foray into film-making is a sweet, if flawed, attempt to recapture the spirit of 80s kids adventures buoyed by a charismatic turn from Lonnie Chavis

April 2020

February 2020

  • Alfred Molina as André in The Father at Pasadena Playhouse, LA.

    The Father review - Alfred Molina is tremendous in Florian Zeller’s tragic farce

    The actor brings out the dark humour in Zeller’s modern classic about a man with dementia, fluctuating from absurdity to despair in a heartbeat

November 2019

  • Iced fun … Anna and Elsa in Frozen II.

    Frozen II review – a charming return but the thaw's setting in

    Beloved heroine Elsa has a great new song as she heads into the enchanted forest in this funny, likable but underpowered sequel. Is it time to let her go?

August 2017

  • Gary Oldham and Alfred Molina as Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell in Prick Up Your Ears.

    Prick Up Your Ears review – Stephen Frears' terrific testament to murdered playwright Joe Orton

    Rereleased 50 years after Orton’s death, this Frears-directed 1987 biopic sees Gary Oldman and Alfred Molina in utterly convincing form

November 2016

  • Alfred Molina.

    My family values
    Alfred Molina: ‘My mother and I had a few moments that were like the third act of Aida’

    The actor talks about his London schooldays, his tempestuous relationship with his mother and caring for his wife, Jill Gascoine, who has Alzheimer’s

September 2016

  • Alfred Molina.

    On my radar
    On my radar: Alfred Molina’s cultural highlights

    The stage and screen actor on the secret life of Eugene O’Neill, the singer Mayer Hawthorne, All About Eve and his favourite Los Angeles eaterie

July 2015

  • Oscar Isaac as Nick Wasicsko in Show Me a Hero.

    Trailer watch
    Trailer watch: Oscar Isaac stars in David Simon's HBO drama Show Me a Hero

    The six-part miniseries about a New York mayor in the 1970s is from David Simon, creator of The Wire, and is directed by Paul Haggis

June 2015

  • Selma, DVD reviews

    Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs
    Selma; Love Is Strange; Taken 3; Wild Tales; The Green Prince; Far From the Madding Crowd; Umberto D – review

    David Oyelowo produces a career-defining performance as Martin Luther King, while prejudice and ruthlessness collude in Love Is Strange

April 2015

  • Ruffalo soldier.

    Five best moments
    Mark Ruffalo: five best moments

    The finest scenes of the Oscar-nominated actor, who is reprising his role as the tortured and rather irritable Bruce Banner in Avengers: Age of Ultron

February 2015

  • Love Is Strange - 2014

    Mark Kermode's film of the week
    Love Is Strange review – ‘quietly beguiling’

    An ageing gay couple are forced by circumstances to live apart in Ira Sachs’s restrained and believable film
  • 140x84 trailpic for Love is Strange - video review

    Love is Strange - video review

    In this extract from the Guardian Film Show, our critics review Ira Sachs's drama about a gay couple – played by John Lithgow and Alfred Molina – separated soon after their wedding

  • John Lithgow in Love Is Strange

    Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
    Love Is Strange review – a same-sex marriage sucker-punched by catastrophe

    John Lithgow and Alfred Molina star as a gay couple forced to live apart in Ira Sachs’s film composed in a minor key

January 2015

  • Alfred Molina at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival.

    Alfred Molina: ‘I’ll do anything. I’m a bit of a slut that way’

    Rory Carroll: The Love is Strange star is game for most roles – just don’t ask him to diet, run or jump. He talks about ageing, his wife Jill Gascoine’s struggle with Alzheimer’s and why he gives ‘good foreign’
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