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‘The Good Boss’ jabs a smug CEO who hides his incompetence behind a smile

Javier Bardem stars in the wickedly warped Spanish film as a charmer with no clue that he’s a creep.

Chicago Sun-Times

Movie review: ‘The Good Boss’ a satisfying sendup of workplace hypocrisy

In “The Good Boss,” Javier Bardem plays Blanco, owner of a factory that manufactures scales. Blanco lectures his employees about “balance” and “equity” and even more things evocative of scales. He espouses balance in all things, and yet he has so much more than most others. More than anything, Blanco…

Boston Herald

Penelope Cruz 'threw herself to the floor and started screaming' after award shock

Penelope Cruz and her husband Javier Bardmen may have lost out to Jessica Chastain and Will Smith at this year’s Oscar awards, but it didn't stop them screaming

Daily Mirror

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Javier Bardem on schadenfreude in satire

The Oscar winner spoke to Salon about his latest movie, shooting "Dune 2," how acting is like a salad and more

Salon

Sally Potter on making a film about violence with Chris Rock: ‘He is aware of what happens when a man feels humiliated’

In Look at Me, Rock is thrown to the floor by Javier Bardem. Potter discusses male anger in her film and the similarities between that and Rock’s real-life experience of being slapped by Will Smith at the Oscars

The Guardian - UK

Q&A: Bardem is excited for US arrival of 'The Good Boss'

Javier Bardem is confident that audiences in America will enjoy “The Good Boss” as much as those in Spain when the film arrives in the U.S. later this month

The Independent UK

The BBC’s new series Marriage: Why are we all so fascinated by marriage dramas?

We’re all nosy as heck about how others live their lives

Evening Standard

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Dune 2: everything there is to know about the franchise, from Zendaya and Denis Villeneuve to Florence Pugh

New arrivals fear not: there’s still plenty of time to catch up on where we are with the interstellar action-film

Evening Standard

You need to watch the best James Bond movie of the century on Netflix ASAP

This 2012 thriller is a stunning piece of popcorn entertainment. Now that it's available again on Netflix, you need to stream it ASAP.

Inverse

The Good Boss review – Javier Bardem bosses it in unsubtle Spanish satire

The star delivers a masterclass in reptilian charm as the unscrupulous head of a provincial firm in Fernando León de Aranoa’s tragicomedy

The Guardian - UK

From The Good Boss to The Kid Laroi: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

Whether you want a wry look at the workplace or some youthful, Bieber-assisted pop-rap, our critics have you covered for the next seven days

The Guardian - UK

The Good Boss review – Javier Bardem excels in soapy workplace satire

The Spanish star epitomises managerial banality as the lecherous, casually racist factory boss Blanco whose meddling in employees’ affairs finally sees him come unstuck

The Guardian - UK

Penélope Cruz’s 20 best films – ranked!

On her 48th birthday, we look through the work of the charismatic Spanish film star, who was Oscar nominated this year for Parallel Mothers

The Guardian - UK

Kathy Lamkin dead: Texas Chainsaw Massacre actress dies after 'short illness'

Actress Kathy Lamkin, who starred alongside Javier Bardem’s hitman Anton Chigurh in 2007 Western hit No Country For Old Men, died after a short illness

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The Guardian - UK

Pedro Almodóvar on Will Smith at the Oscars: ‘The devil, in fact, doesn’t exist’

The Spanish director’s Oscars diary relays five hours at the ‘freezing’ Dolby theatre and disparages Denzel Washington’s advice to Smith

ABC News

Chris Rock's Jada Pinkett Smith joke infuriated Will Smith but it's unlikely to be the last awkward joke at the Oscars

Clips of the moment Will Smith stormed the stage to hit presenter Chris Rock after a joke about his wife Jada Pinkett Smith have lit up the internet, prompting heated discussion about Smith's actions — but also, the commentary that sparked it.

The Guardian - US

What can we learn from this year’s honest Oscars ballots?

The annual tradition, where anonymous voters reveal their picks with brutal honesty, shows some likely winners for Sunday’s ceremony

Tribune News Service

Javier Bardem on his Oscar nomination for ‘Being the Ricardos’ and how Desi Arnaz ‘opened door for foreigners’ to be represented

Javier Bardem has lots of love for “I Love Lucy” star Desi Arnaz.

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Salon

Power of Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons

Is the real-life couple, both nominated for their first Oscars, next in line for Hollywood royalty?

Asharq Al-Awsat

How Spanish Cinema Hit the Big Time

With a Golden Bear for Spanish director Carla Simon and four compatriots nominated for Oscars, including superstars Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz, Spanish cinema has now begun to captivate a global audience. When Bardem and Cruz, who have been married for over a decade, were both tapped for Oscars, the…

The Independent UK

Javier Bardem recalls the time he worked as a stripper

‘I was so nervous, I called my mom and my sister to accompany me to my striptease number,’ actor said

The Independent UK

Javier Bardem recalls the time he worked as a stripper

‘I was so nervous, I called my mom and my sister to accompany me to my striptease number,’ actor said

Chicago Tribune

‘Lucy and Desi’ review: Amy Poehler’s doc can’t best an earlier movie from Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz’s own daughter

With the premiere of the documentary “Lucy and Desi” directed by Amy Poehler on Amazon, the streaming platform is home now to three projects about Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. It joins the release this past fall of the embarrassingly bad biopic from Aaron Sorkin (“Being the Ricardos” starring Nicole…

The Independent UK

‘The Good Boss’ starring Bardem big winner at Spain's Goyas

Fernando León de Aranoa’s “The Good Boss” has beenthe big winner of Spain’s most prestigious film awards, winning six prizess including best picture and best actor for Javier Bardem

The Independent UK

Oscars 2022: Two couples make Oscar history – and household tension – as both partners are nominated

Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz, and Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons, are all nominated

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