{"id":546372,"date":"2026-04-23T12:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T12:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/546372\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T12:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T12:24:07","slug":"anne-hathaway-channels-taylor-swift-in-a-triumph-of-style-over-substance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/546372\/","title":{"rendered":"Anne Hathaway channels Taylor Swift in a triumph of style over substance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some of these moments \u2013 not least those in which Mary performs songs from her ice-cool, post-Enya repertoire, written for the film by Jack Antonoff, Charli XCX<\/a> and FKA Twigs \u2013 look and sound gorgeous. Imagine Taylor Swift 10 years hence, in her Catholic electro-goth era: all basques, toile, dominatrix boots and halo-like headgear. Hathaway nails this fragile art-pop queen persona, while Coel\u2019s loopier performance is at times faintly reminiscent, in ways both good and bad, of Rik Mayall.<\/p>\n

But what\u2019s it all for? Lowery\u2019s films often dance along the line between the mythic and the metaphysical \u2013 A Ghost Story, The Green Knight<\/a>, and his heinously underrated Peter Pan & Wendy<\/a> did so magnificently \u2013 but this is the first in which the dance itself feels like all that there is.<\/p>\n

Is Mother Mary a comment on modern stardom? Or the study of an intense, broken relationship? Or is it just an excuse for two hours of sculptural close-ups and artfully creepy tableaux? As you watch, you find yourself continually grabbing at meaning but, like a ghost, your fingers slip straight through.<\/p>\n

15 cert, 112 mins. In cinemas from April 25<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some of these moments \u2013 not least those in which Mary performs songs from her ice-cool, post-Enya repertoire,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[9018,5343,168438,96,187567,188036,2332,188037,2839,188035,263,172462,177960,56,54,55,157732],"class_list":{"0":"post-546372","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-anne-hathaway","9":"tag-culture","10":"tag-culture-editors-choice","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-fame-and-fortune","13":"tag-fashion-and-film","14":"tag-film","15":"tag-les-miserables-tv","16":"tag-movies","17":"tag-musical-films","18":"tag-review","19":"tag-robbie-collin","20":"tag-thriller-movies","21":"tag-uk","22":"tag-united-kingdom","23":"tag-unitedkingdom","24":"tag-us-content"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}