Films starring Emma Stone

Kinds of Kindness review – a salacious, sun-bleached fable

By David Jenkins

Yorgos Lanthimos returns with his merry band to explore – in triptych form – all the funny and sick ways in which we entrap ourselves inside psychological prisons of our own making.

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Poor Things review – Lanthimos at his most playful and comedic

By Savina Petkova

Emma Stone gives a career-defining performance in Yorgos Lanthimos’ opulent provocation about the human body as a nexus for pleasure and pain.

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Cruella

By Hannah Strong

Emma Stone plays the fur-loving fashionista in this overlong and largely uninspired origin story.

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Zombieland: Double Tap

By David Jenkins

A tiresome folly that rejoins us with the characters of a mildly successful 2009 horror-comedy which absolutely no-one remembers.

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The Favourite

By David Jenkins

Olivia Colman is sublime as Queen Anne in Yorgos Lanthimos’ absurdist period tragicomedy.

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Battle of the Sexes

By David Jenkins

Emma Stone and Steve Carell go head-to-head in this fascinating true story of sport and sexism.

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La La Land

By Christina Newland

Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling are a match made in old-school movie heaven in this dazzling musical.

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Irrational Man

By David Ehrlich

Joaquin Phoenix and Emma Stone go back to school in this charmingly off-kilter comedy-thriller from Woody Allen.

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Birdman

By Adam Woodward

Michael Keaton soars in director Alejandro González Iñárritu’s triumphant return to form.

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Magic in the Moonlight

By David Ehrlich

Woody Allen effortlessly does Woody Allen in a lightweight, none-too-hilarious period comedy.

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The Amazing Spider-Man 2

By Chris Blohm

Your friendly neighbourhood web-slinger returns for more of the same, albeit with much less charm.

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The Amazing Spider-Man

By Matt Bochenski

Despite a few comic book movie trappings, The Amazing Spider-Man is a major success story.

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