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Rooney Mara

February 2024

  • Small Things Like These star Cillian Murphy, right, on the red carpet with Matt Damon, one of the film’s financial backers.

    Berlin film festival 2024 roundup – tasty treats and the odd potboiler

    A careworn Cillian Murphy excelled, Atlantics director Mati Diop returned, astronaut Adam Sandler had us drifting off, and kitchen dramas continued to sizzle

March 2023

  • ‘I admire its imagination of how cinema could respond to #MeToo’ … Claire Foy and Rooney Mara star in Women Talking.

    Best picture Oscar hustings
    Why Women Talking should win the best picture Oscar

    Let’s be real: its nomination for best movie was the win. But Sarah Polley’s film is predicated on action, a #MeToo film that questions with the aim of moving forward

February 2023

  • Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Judith Ivey, Sheila McCarthy, Michelle McLeod and Jessie Buckley in Women Talking.

    Mark Kermode's film of the week
    Women Talking review – a stellar ensemble energises Sarah Polley’s timeless parable​

  • Thinks its way into the darkest spaces of survival … Women Talking.

    Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
    Women Talking review – ensemble drama forefronts female experience of violence

December 2022

  • Sparks fly … Therese Belivet’s (Rooney Mara) store clerk meets Carol (Cate Blanchett) for the first time.

    Leave Elf on the shelf: why Carol should be at the top of everyone’s Christmas movie list

    Todd Haynes’ bittersweet jewel has glam Cate Blanchett and ingenue Rooney Mara falling in love in the tinselly 50s, a must for sophisticated festive film fans

October 2022

  • Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara in Cannes, 2015

    Portraits by Chris Floyd: from Sheridan Smith to civil rights icon Claudette Colvin – in pictures

    In his latest book, Not Just Pictures to be published by Reel Art Press, the celebrated British photographer shares more than 250 images of extraordinary people: Hollywood stars, artists, actors, athletes and musicians. Here, he tells the stories behind some of those shots

September 2022

  • The cast of Women Talking.

    First look review
    Women Talking review – Sarah Polley’s moving Mennonite #MeToo drama

    Toronto film festival: The actor turned director brings strong performances from a talky female ensemble, including Claire Foy and Jessie Buckley

March 2022

  • Basically supercharged … Cate Blanchett, left, and Bradley Cooper in Nightmare Alley.

    Best picture Oscar hustings
    Why Nightmare Alley should win the best picture Oscar

    Guillermo del Toro’s freaky bizarro noir is more than a well-dressed genre exercise, as Bradley Cooper and Cate Blanchett offer an acting masterclass

January 2022

  • Bradley Cooper, with Rooney Mara, in Nightmare Alley.

    Nightmare Alley review – a neo-noir knockout from Guillermo del Toro

    Bradley Cooper plays a carnival conman drawn into a dark underworld in this dazzling drama from the Mexican director
  • Bradley Cooper in Nightmare Alley.

    Nightmare Alley review – Guillermo del Toro’s fairground of fear is a class act

    Bradley Cooper and Cate Blanchett lead us into the sleazy world of carnivals, with gruesomely enjoyable performances and freaky twists
  • Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's who is set to be played by Rooney Mara.

    Rooney Mara set to play Audrey Hepburn in new biopic

    The forthcoming film about movie star, humanitarian and style icon Hepburn will be directed by the Call Me By Your Name film-maker Luca Guadagnino

December 2021

  • Cate Blanchett and Bradley Cooper in Nightmare Alley.

    Nightmare Alley review – Guillermo del Toro’s trickster thriller is light on treats

    Bradley Cooper leads a starry cast as an ambitious grifter in a sumptuously made noir that can’t quite grip us tightly enough

September 2020

  • Rooney Mara and Joaquin Phoenix at the 2020 Oscars in February.

    Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara name their baby son River

    Director Victor Kossakovsky, who worked with Phoenix on new film Gunda, says couple’s first child is named after Joaquin’s late brother, actor River Phoenix

March 2018

  • Rooney Mara in Mary Magdalene

    Mary Magdalene review – a tasteful RE lesson

    Despite Rooney Mara’s best efforts, there’s nothing much about Mary in this earnest attempt to restore the saint’s reputation

February 2018

  • Mary Magdalene film still

    Mary Magdalene review – toothless attempt to overturn Sunday school myths

    Rooney Mara brings her customary intensity to the title role as Jesus’ ‘favourite pupil’, but the result is a bit too solemn to be a convincing reinvention

January 2018

  • Laura Dern and Isabel Nelisse appear in <em>The Tale</em> by Jennifer Fox, an official selection of the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by Kyle Kaplan. All photos are copyrighted and may be used by press only for the purpose of news or editorial coverage of Sundance Institute programs. Photos must be accompanied by a credit to the photographer and/or ‘Courtesy of Sundance Institute.’ Unauthorized use, alteration, reproduction or sale of logos and/or photos is strictly prohibited.

    Sundance 2018: #MeToo movement set to colour first post-Weinstein festival

    Films on sexual abuse and gender equality and a star-studded rally for ‘respect’ will headline a festival instilling tighter security measures
  • Rooney Mara and Casey Affleck appear in <i>A Ghost Story</i> by David Lowery, an official selection of the NEXT program at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. © 2016 Sundance Institute | photo by Andrew Droz Palermo.

    Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs
    DVD and download reviews: A Ghost Story; I Am Not a Witch; It; Dina; The Rehearsal

    A man in a white sheet goes cosmic, a Welsh-Zambian newcomer blazes a witchy trail, and a Stephen King adaptation provides scary comforts
  • Don Herzfeldt’s World of Tomorrow Episode Two.

    Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs
    DVD and download reviews: World of Tomorrow Episode Two; Good Time; Detroit; Una

    A philosophical animated short offers beautiful brain-teasing, Robert Pattinson excels in a heist thriller, and Kathryn Bigelow revisits a riot

December 2017

  • Intimate emotional depth ... Casey Affleck in A Ghost Story.

    Best culture 2017
    The 50 top films of 2017: No 9 A Ghost Story

  • Braddie nominees Get Out, Call Me By Your Name, Blade Runner 2049, The Death of Stalin, The Florida Project and Moonlight

    Film blog
    The Braddies 2017: Peter Bradshaw nominates his films of the year

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