PETER BRADSHAW - Film Critic

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James Ellis Deakins

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🗓️ 25 March 2026

⏱️ 71 minutes

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SEASON 2 - EPISODE 186 - Peter Bradshaw - Film Critic

In this episode of the Team Deakins Podcast, we speak with Peter Bradshaw, the film critic at The Guardian. We normally talk about making movies with our guests, but with Peter, we talk about watching and reviewing them instead. We learn how Peter became a film critic after being successfully sued by conservative MP Alan Clark for satire, and he shares how he thinks about criticism in general. Peter reflects on the learning curve of becoming a film critic, and we discuss how his job has changed with the proliferation of social media. Later, Peter shares how he balances the subjectivity of his own personal point-of-view of a film with the objective facts surrounding it in his reviews, and we learn which movies Peter realized, years later, he was wrong about. Peter also makes the case of cinema's competitiveness in modern life, and he shares which movies he watched growing up that sparked his love and appreciation for the movies. Plus, we reflect on living in a world where everything and everyone gets reviewed.

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to season two of the Team Deacons podcast, a collection of informal conversations
0:10.1	between Roger and James Deacons and a guest.
0:13.7	We never know where the conversation will take us, so listen in and see where it goes.
0:22.0	This episode is brought to you by Picture Shop, whose colorists have created looks for many of
0:28.6	the world's biggest films, acclaim series, and celebrated independent and festival projects.
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0:38.4	to the artists behind the camera
0:40.2	who trust us to help shape their final vision.
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1:32.4	Today we're speaking with a writer and film critic.
1:38.6	Currently, he's the chief film critic at The Guardian and is a contributing editor at Esquire magazine.
1:39.7	We're pleased to welcome Peter Bradshaw.
1:42.9	Peter, thank you for doing this. Hey, Peter. Thank you for having them. My goodness. This is great. It is great. I'm thrilled. Yes, thank you. We'd love to start with our question, which is, how did you get to where you are today? And were you always into films? Did you find them later? Did you want to be a writer? What was your story?
2:02.6	My goodness, that is such a good question. And it's a question I ask myself every day. In the immortal words of talking heads, how did I get here? What on earth am I doing?
2:14.3	The answer to, did I always love movies? The answer is yes. I mean, from my earliest youth, I loved
2:19.8	movies and I found them to be like an amazing luxury that everyone can afford, basically. They're
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