Will Smith

Emancipation

By David Jenkins

Will Smith brings stern dramatic heft to an enslaved man making a dash for freedom in Antoine Fuqua’s tonally mish-mashed action drama.

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How Men in Black subverted blockbuster tropes to become box office gold

By Callie Petch

Twenty-five years ago Barry Sonnenfeld's workplace action-comedy broke the rules and launched an iconic franchise.

King Richard

By Leila Latif

Reinaldo Marcus Green gets the best out of Will Smith in this biopic of Venus and Serena Williams’ father and coach.

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Bad Boys for Life

By Adam Woodward

This is not a review of Bad Boys for Life. This is a requiem for Bad Boys.

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Gemini Man, duplicates and crises of masculinity

By Kambole Campbell

Ang Lee’s sci-fi thriller explores male intimacy and dependency through a time-honoured trope.

Gemini Man

By Hannah Strong

Will Smith goes mano-a-mano with his younger self in director Ang Lee’s exhilarating action spectacle.

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Aladdin

By David Jenkins

This ultra-glossy ‘live action’ remake of Disney’s 1992 mega hit cleaves too closely to the original to justify its existence.

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Get a double dose of Will Smith in the Gemini Man trailer

By Charles Bramesco

The actor plays both an assassin and his target in Ang Lee’s latest epic.

Who should play the Genie in the live-action Aladdin?

By Eve Watling

Will Smith is reportedly in talks to take over from Robin Williams in the iconic role.

Will Bright be Will Smith’s ticket back to the top?

By Little White Lies

A tiny teaser for David Ayer’s fantasy/cop flick hybrid has dropped.

Collateral Beauty

By Elena Lazic

The man once self-described as Mr Box Office heads up yet another slushy, contrived dud.

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Remember when Hollywood was obsessed with TV cartoons?

By Greg Evans

This curious ’90s phenomenon brought us animated versions of everything from Beetlejuice to Men in Black.

Suicide Squad

By Adam Woodward

DC’s freak show rodeo is an undercooked, cartoonish romp that reveals a great deal about modern moviemaking.

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Good to be bad – why supervillains are here to stay

By Victoria Luxford

The hype around Suicide Squad suggests audiences are keen to see more of their favourite comic-book antiheroes.

Is this Will Smith’s greatest performance?

By Henry Heffer

We wend our way back to 1993 to heap praise on Fred Schepisi’s Six Degrees of Separation.

Focus

By Chris Blohm

Despite the chemistry between Will Smith and Margot Robbie, this is little more than a crass Elmore Leonard knock-off.

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