Skip To Main Content
Nicholas Barber on Muck Rack

Nicholas Barber

Verified
  • Arts Journalist and Film Critic, BBC
London
As seen in: BBC, Bottom Line, Folha de S.Paulo, G1 Globo, MSN, MSN Australia, MSN Brasil, MSN UK, The New York Times, UOL, Yahoo Entertainment and
Freelance arts journalist & film critic for BBC Culture, The Economist, The Guardian, Screen International, The New York Times, The Wrap, IndieWire, Metro
Is this you? As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work. Claim your profile

Get in touch with Nicholas

Contact Nicholas, search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.

Learn more about Muck Rack

Actions

Share this page

Is this you?

As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.
Claim your profile

Articles

10 Of The Best Films To Watch This September

|
By Nicholas Barber Verified
| theculturenewspaper.com
From a Brad Pitt survival adventure with a canine co-star, to witchy sequel Practical Magic 2, starring Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock, here are the films to watch at the cinema this month. 1. Resident Evil Zach Cregger’s Weapons was one of 2025’s most acclaimed films, so in some ways it’s a surprise that he’s followed it up with a video game spin-off. But the writer-director told Empire that he has made “a Zach Cregger movie that just happens to be a Resident Evil movie”.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

Primetime to Flesh Impact: Six of the best Oscar contenders from the 2026 Venice film festival Original

|
By Nicholas Barber Verified
| BBC Verified
By Nicholas Barber12th September 2026 From a wild-eyed performance by Robert Pattinson to an Elon Musk documentary and a short film about Marilyn Monroe at 100, here are the Venice films attracting Oscars buzz. T The Venice International Film Festival is often a launchpad for films that rocket their way to Oscar glory. Over the past decade, these have included La La Land and The Shape of Water, Roma and The Brutalist, Joker and Frankenstein.
Open in Who Shared View Duplicates (2) Issue with article?

Five things you need to know about the new four-hour Elon Musk documentary Original

|
By Nicholas Barber Verified
| BBC Verified
By Nicholas Barber10th September 2026 The Venice Film Festival has hosted the premiere of major documentary-maker Alex Gibney's epic and provocative new profile of the richest man on Earth, which has been years in the making. Here are five key takeaways from the film. A Alex Gibney, the Oscar-winning director of Taxi to the Dark Side and Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, has made documentaries about some of the richest and most powerful people on Earth.
Open in Who Shared View Duplicates (2) Issue with article?
See all 956 licensed articles (1,122 Total)