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'You're my hero': Ben Stiller meets Volodymyr Zelenskiy on trip to Ukraine – video

The Hollywood actor met the Ukrainian president during a visit to Ukraine on World Refugee Day

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Published: 21 Jun 2022

How Severance became our favourite new mystery box TV show

Published: 29 Mar 2022
Patricia Arquette: ‘I’ve buried a lot of people I love’

Published: 8 Mar 2022

5 out of 5 stars.

TV review Severance review – Ben Stiller’s workplace fantasy might make your mind explode
5 out of 5 stars.

Adam Scott, Christopher Walken and Patricia Arquette star in an idiosyncratic, intelligent comedy-drama where workers’ brains are separated into work and home halves

Published: 18 Feb 2022

The Royal Tenenbaums at 20: Wes Anderson’s finest and funniest movie

The precise dysfunctional family film set a template for the writer-director’s ouevre and gave Gene Hackman and his on-screen offspring some of their greatest roles

Published: 14 Dec 2021

1 out of 5 stars.

Locked Down review – Anne Hathaway and Chiwetel Ejiofor's pandemic stinker
1 out of 5 stars.

Undeniable movie star charisma can’t save this torturous misfire about a couple who plan a heist during the London quarantine

Published: 12 Mar 2021

Stream team Extras: Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's take on celebrity is still irreverent, clever fun

As cringe-inducing as The Office, Extras lampoons Hollywood with great cheer while paying mournful tribute to failed dreams

Published: 13 May 2020
Jerry Stiller, star of Seinfeld and father of Ben, dies aged 92

Comedian who formed a popular duo with his wife, Anne Meara, has died of natural causes

Published: 11 May 2020

Saturday Night Live recap Saturday Night Live: Stiller’s Cohen crosses Hader’s Jordan

Trump’s sad-sack ex-lawyer is rich territory and John Mulaney a fine host: this is the best of the season

Published: 3 Mar 2019

‘We were total weirdos’: Ben Stiller on re-forming his 80s band, Capital Punishment

The Hollywood star had virtually forgotten about the bizarre album he recorded in 1981. Then a record label got in touch …

Published: 8 Nov 2018

Saturday Night Live: the most memorable cameos of the Trump era

With Matt Damon taking on the role Brett Kavanaugh, who else has proved most successful in the show’s A-list White House?

Published: 2 Oct 2018

How we made Ethan Hawke and Janeane Garofalo: how we made Reality Bites

‘I kept some vodka in my trailer freezer. It certainly didn’t hurt when it came to dancing My Sharona at the gas station’

Published: 24 Jul 2018

Saturday Night Live: the 10 best skits from the most political season yet

The first full season under Trump brought a string of celeb-packed cold opens and sketches that responded to the #MeToo allegations

Published: 22 May 2018

Saturday Night Live recap Saturday Night Live recap: Robert De Niro as Robert Mueller … crowd goes wild

‘Have you ever used a lie detector before?’ Mueller asks Michael Cohen, played by Ben Stiller. ‘I’ll start with some easy ones. How’d you like that pee-pee tape?’

Published: 15 Apr 2018

4 out of 5 stars.

Brad’s Status review – crisp cringe comedy
4 out of 5 stars.

Ben Stiller is on top form as a father experiencing peer pressure during a tour of prospective colleges for his son

Published: 7 Jan 2018
4 out of 5 stars.

Brad's Status review – Ben Stiller wrestles with the green-eyed monster
4 out of 5 stars.

This downbeat yet moving comedy of midlife existential angst explores why we hate it when our friends become successful

Published: 4 Jan 2018

Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs DVD reviews: Fast and Furious 8; Churchill; A Man Called Ove; and more

The fast-car franchise takes more corners than chances, while Brian Cox’s Winston is already overshadowed by Gary Oldman

Published: 3:00 AM
4 out of 5 stars.

The Meyerowitz Stories review – family at war
4 out of 5 stars.

Dustin Hoffman is the domineering father setting his adult children at each other’s throats in Noah Baumbach’s dry comedy

Published: 2:59 AM

3 out of 5 stars.

First look review Brad's Status review – Ben Stiller has first world problems in mixed, minor comedy
3 out of 5 stars.

The perils of social media jealousy are intriguingly explored in this well-observed tale but an inane voiceover and overwhelming sense of familiarity prove distracting

Published: 9 Sep 2017

Ben Stiller and Christine Taylor to separate after 17 years of marriage

Actors were married in May 2000 and have two children, who they said will remain their priority

Published: 26 May 2017

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