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Simran Hans

Simran Hans is a culture writer and former film critic for the Observer

May 2024

  • The Matrix.

    Party like it’s 1999: 10 movies that encapsulate one of the greatest years for cinema

  • George MacKay.

    ‘I identified with those worries’: George MacKay on masculinity, misogyny and playing an incel

January 2024

  • Aubrey Gorden.

    ‘I’m big in a lot of ways’: activist Aubrey Gordon on reclaiming fatness in a new film about her life

    The Maintenance Phase podcaster was an anonymous blogger before her open letter on fatness went viral. Now the subject of Jeanie Finlay’s documentary Your Fat Friend, she hopes it can reshape the way we discuss bodies

April 2023

  • Target engaged … an image from How to Blow Up a Pipeline.

    Is eco-terrorism now self-defence? Inside explosive film How to Blow Up a Pipeline

    Peaceful protest hasn’t stopped the climate crisis, so what should happen next? The makers of a new nerve-jangling film about eight young saboteurs talk about oil, extreme action and morality

February 2023

  • Arlo Parks

    Arlo Parks on burnout, boundaries and budding romance: ‘I have to remind myself to take it easy’

    Her debut became a pandemic smash and won the Mercury prize. But after her schedule left her ‘dangerously low’, Parks cancelled shows to prioritise self-care – and the love story behind her fizzing new album

July 2022

  • Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing

    If you watch only one film … the greatest movies by the greatest directors

    Some directors come with such huge back catalogues that it can be hard to know where to start. Enter our film critics, who suggest the best routes in to the works of some of our most prolific film-makers

20 March 2022

  • X film still

    X review – Bump’n’grindhouse from horror director Ti West

  • Police officers unglue lawyer Farhana Yamin from the pavement outside Shell’s London HQ, 2019.

    Rebellion review – XR documentary makes clear case for direct action

  • Regina Hall, left, and Amber Gray in Master.

    Master review – sinister tale of academic prejudice

  • The Phantom of the Open

    The Phantom of the Open review – in praise of the world’s worst sportsman

19 March 2022

  • Yllka Gashi in Hive.

    Hive review – inspiring Kosovan feminist drama

    Yllka Gashi excels as a woman confronting misogyny as she strives to establish a village food business

6 March 2022

  • Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz.

    Lucy and Desi review – Amy Poehler still loves Lucille Ball in feelgood documentary

    With special access to family archives, the Parks and Recreation star explores the life of the 50s comedy trailblazer and her husband, Desi Arnaz
  • Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and joe Cole in Against the Ice.

    Against the Ice review – plodding Arctic survival story

    An explorer’s bid to prove that Greenland belongs to the Danes proves a tough haul in this glacial adventure set in 1909
  • Don Letts on the New York subway in 1981.

    Rebel Dread review – an engaging portrait of Don Letts

    An enjoyable study of the musician, DJ and film-maker could do with fewer talking heads and more joyful tales from Letts himself

5 March 2022

  • Zoë Kravitz as Catwoman and Robert Pattinson as Batman.

    The Batman review – Robert Pattinson’s brooding caped crusader has a lot on his mind

    Pattinson is appealingly conflicted, and Zoë Kravitz’s Catwoman adds bite, but Matt Reeves’s noirish reboot underwhelms

February 2022

  • Tyne Daly (left) as Dorothea and Elisabeth Henry as Greta in A Bread Factory: Part One.

    A Bread Factory: Parts One and Two review – Patrick Wang’s cheeky small-town arts comedy

    Tyne Daly stars in this fun, surreal double feature about the fight for the soul of a community arts space
  • Here Before, Wildcard Distribution

    Here Before review – promising Irish almost-horror with Andrea Riseborough

    Riseborough plays a grieving mother obsessed with a neighbour’s daughter in Stacey Gregg’s eerie debut

    • Dog review – PTSD road trip with Channing Tatum and new best friend

    • Jackass Forever review – pranksters’ return is strangely poignant

    • My award goes to... our film critics reveal their personal Oscars shortlists

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