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Anna Kendrick

October 2024

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    The terrifying true story behind Woman of the Hour: ‘He was born with half a soul’

  • Tony Hale as the quizmaster, and Anna Kendrick as Sheryl, in 70s clothes, in her film Woman of the Hour.

    Woman of the Hour review – Anna Kendrick’s 70s-set true crime thriller is a winner

  • Giancarlo Parretti, The Man Who Definitely Didn’t Steal Hollywood.

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    TV tonight: the truth about one of Hollywood’s most puzzling scandals

  • Anna Kendrick in a green-and-gold Paisley-style blouse and a black skirt

    ‘It feels very personal’: Anna Kendrick on coercion, not wanting children and making a movie about dating a killer

October 2023

  • (from left) Branch (Justin Timberlake) and Poppy (Anna Kendrick) in Trolls Band Together.

    Trolls Band Together review – a kooky, candyfloss-coloured boyband reunion

    Anna Kendrick and Justin Timberlake return to voice Poppy and Branch in the third, possibly loopiest, instalment of the monster franchise

September 2023

  • Vicky Krieps and Viggo Mortensen on the red carpet with other actors

    Toronto film festival 2023 roundup – solidarity, swearing, swimming and one standout film

  • A still from Woman of the Hour

    Woman of the Hour review – Anna Kendrick directs an unsettling thriller

January 2023

  • Anna Kendrick in Alice, Darling.

    Alice, Darling and the importance of showing emotional abuse on screen

    The new film starring Anna Kendrick is one of the few visual narratives to deftly handle the insidious effects of an emotionally abusive relationship
  • Film-maker Mary Nighy

    ‘How do you have authority? Not by screaming’: Mary Nighy on misogyny, famous parents and channelling Mary Poppins

    As the child of Bill Nighy and Diana Quick, she would be plonked in a rehearsal room after school – so it’s no surprise she’s stepping behind the camera. The film-maker talks about her extraordinary debut feature, Alice, Darling
  • Flinches at every ping from her phone … Anna Kendrick in Alice, Darling.

    Alice, Darling review – Anna Kendrick excels in abusive relationship thriller

    Kendrick impresses as a woman being deprived of emotional oxygen by a toxic boyfriend, though Mary Nighy’s film gets distracted by a subplot

December 2022

  • George Clooney and Vera Farmiga sitting at a bar

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    George Clooney’s Up in the Air had prescient insights about how to stay grounded

    The 2009 comedy-drama about a suave frequent flyer is laced with profound sentiments about travel, stability and love

September 2022

  • Wunmi Mosaku, Anna Kendrick and Kaniethiio Horn in Alice, Darling.

    First look review
    Alice, Darling review – Anna Kendrick compels in chilling relationship drama

    Toronto film festival: A career-best performance from the Oscar nominee anchors a smart and sensitive look at emotional abuse

February 2022

  • Anna Kendrick and Augie Jeong in Love Life

    Observer/Anthony Burgess prize for arts journalism 2022: Alice Hughes on Love Life

    Shortlisted entrant Alice Hughes reviews the BBC/HBO’s ‘close-to-flawless’ romcom, starring Anna Kendrick as a 20-something New Yorker searching for ‘the one’

April 2021

  • This image released by Netflix shows Shamier Anderson, from left, Anna Kendrick, Daniel Dae Kim and Toni Collette in a scene from “Stowaway.” (Netflix via AP)

    Stowaway review – a devastating dilemma drives tense Netflix sci-fi

    Anna Kendrick and Toni Collette star in a believably wrought drama about an oxygen emergency that ends up losing air in the finale

October 2020

  • Anna Kendrick and Jin Ha in Love Life

    TV review
    Love Life review – light romcom glides by on Anna Kendrick's charms

    There is nothing very deep or challenging to find in this tale of a 20-something’s romantic New York endeavours. But the comic writing is effortlessly good

May 2020

  • Anna Kendrick in Love Life, an easily binged watch.

    Love Life review – HBO Max launches with a patchy, low-key romcom

    The splashy new streaming platform kicks off with an easily binged if uneven show with Anna Kendrick as a woman whose relationships are analysed

October 2019

  • The Day Shall Come Press publicity film still

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    The Day Shall Come review – Desperate Feds take on cult in sly Chris Morris satire

    Nine years after his incendiary Four Lions, Morris returns with a movie about a tiny urban community and crooked FBI agents

March 2019

  • Márchant Davis in The Day Shall Come

    First look review
    The Day Shall Come review – Chris Morris returns with wild farce

    The mysterious writer-director travels to Miami for a short but sharp comedy about an idealistic preacher targeted by the FBI

September 2018

  • Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively in A Simple Favour.

    A Simple Favour review – delicious black comedy from Paul Feig

  • A Simple Favour - film still

    A Simple Favour review – sublimely silly battle of the moms

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