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Can We Talk About How Nia DaCosta Has Made Five Movies, And They're All Amazing?

Five movies, and every last one is fantastic. That's Nia DaCosta for you.

Cinemablend

The 15 best films of 2025, from Mickey 17 to One Battle After Another

THE COUNTDOWN: This was a cinematic year of vampires, clones, restless mothers, maybe-ETs and Leonardo DiCaprio struggling to remember complex revolutionary passwords. Clarisse Loughrey has counted down the very best

The Independent UK

Wagner Moura to lead Ibsen update in unique European festival collaboration

Brazilian actor will star in A Trial – after An Enemy of the People, which examines modern political and environmental conflicts

The Guardian - UK

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Euronews Culture's Film of the Week: 'Hedda’ - A dazzling tale of a quest for freedom and power

Nia DaCosta's 'Hedda', out on Prime Video, is a modern and audacious retelling of Henrik Ibsen's 1891 play, about a disillusioned woman's quest for social and financial advancement.

Euronews

New Prime Video movie Hedda made me ask myself some difficult questions, but none as tricky as what I asked its cast

New romantic drama Hedda left me with a lot of food for thought, so I asked the Prime Video movie's cast the toughest questions of the bunch.

TechRadar

7 top new movies to stream this week on Netflix, Prime Video and HBO Max (Oct. 28-Nov. 3)

These are the top new movies you can watch this week across streaming services, including "Jurassic World Rebirth" and more.

Tom’s Guide

New releases on Prime Video: 3 shows and movies you need to watch this week (Oct. 27-Nov. 2)

Our guide to all the new shows and movies coming to Prime Video this week as November creeps in.

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Tessa Thompson on playing on of theatre’s most iconic leading ladies: “It was such a gift and an honor” [EXCLUSIVE]

'Hedda' is a must-see!

The Mary Sue

Stars of The Marvels director's new movie say it was like watching a dream come true on set of the Prime Video period drama: "She's made bigger things, but she always had a yearning to make this"

Exclusive: Imogen Poots and Nina Hoss praise "chilled out" Hedda director Nia DaCosta

Total Film

Tessa Thompson finds her own 'Hedda'

In Nia DaCosta’s “Hedda,” Tessa Thompson’s titular socialite sows chaos

The Independent UK

New Prime Video movie Hedda isn't just this year's Saltburn – it’s cooler, more calculated and serious fun

Hedda is more than the original play or a Saltburn wannabe, and Nia DaCosta's craft makes all the difference

TechRadar

‘She does terrible things’: what can a Marvel director do with Ibsen’s ruthless heroine Hedda Gabler?

She made her name with a horror reboot and a mega-budget Marvel. So what drew Nia DaCosta to the dour Norwegian’s work? We meet the film-maker and Tessa Thompson, who plays Hedda as a sexy, sultry, machiavellian mess

The Guardian - UK

Tessa Thompson: 'Taika Waititi's a huge infant with a bank account — it's terrifying'

The actor reminisced about her Thor colleagues Chris Hemsworth and Tom Hiddleston while promoting her new project at the London Film Festival

Evening Standard

Tessa Thompson on becoming a very different Hedda Gabler: ‘People say she’s terrible – I feel protective of her’

INTERVIEW: The classic Ibsen play led by one of theatre’s most complicated female characters has been reimagined by filmmaker Nia DaCosta, with the breakout star of ‘Thor: Ragnarok’ in the titular role. Both women, along with actor Nina Hoss, speak to Annabel Nugent about replicating the story’s classic beats with…

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The Conversation

A violent dystopian thriller, KPop Demon Hunters and an updated Ibsen play: what to see this week

No one wants to see a good Jedi turn bad, but that’s exactly what happens to Luke Skywalker actor Mark Hamill in The Long Walk, an adaptation of a Stephen King story of the same name. Hamill plays the terrifying major who presides over a group of young men taking…

The Conversation

The Lady from the Sea: a fierce play that shies from the wonderful unknowability of Henrik Ibsen’s original

Henrik Ibsen’s 19th-century play about a woman caught between a stormy past and respectable present has been reimagined for the 21st century in a new production at the Bridge Theatre, London.

The Guardian - US

Hedda review – Ibsen gets a Saltburn makeover in Amazon’s ill-advised romp

Nia DaCosta ups the nastiness of Hedda Gabler in a stylish but over-egged adaptation with lead Tessa Thompson losing the film to a standout Nina Hoss

Total Film

Thor star and The Marvels director's new Prime Video movie unveils its first trailer – and it looks like a deliciously queer mix of Saltburn and The Great Gatsby

Nia DaCosta turns Henrik Ibsen's classic works into a punky period drama centered on a lesbian love triangle

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The Guardian - UK

Hedda review – Lily Allen leads a helter-skelter take on Ibsen’s tragedy

Allen is convincing as the bored newlywed but Matthew Dunster’s version gets lost between our time and Ibsen’s

Evening Standard

Alicia Vikander to make West End debut in Henrik Ibsen’s The Lady from the Sea

The Oscar winner, 36, admitted she was both ‘thrilled’ and daunted by the challenge, admitting: ‘... it's my first time on stage as an adult’

Evening Standard

My Master Builder at Wyndham’s Theatre review: Ewan McGregor's first stage appearance in 17 years is a dud

2/5 This play boasts a glib, howlingly pretentious script and a drippy central character in McGregor’s architect Henry Solness

The Guardian - UK

My Master Builder review – Ewan McGregor’s cheating starchitect is torn down

Ibsen is moved to the Hamptons in Lila Raicek’s play, co-starring Kate Fleetwood and Elizabeth Debicki, about the destruction wreaked by adultery

The Guardian - UK

Ghosts review – gasps and laughter greet this modern revamp of Ibsen’s shocker

Gary Owen’s retelling changes the names and themes from the original, but retains the toxic power as a stellar cast negotiate the myriad secrets and suspicions

The Independent UK

Ghosts is a fiercely witty reworking of Henrik Ibsen’s tale of incest and love

4/5 As the play’s sulky heir, Callum Scott Howells delivers a tour de force performance

Evening Standard

Ghosts at the Lyric Hammersmith review: horribly funny and dark tale of incest

4/5 Victoria Smurfit and Callum Scott Howells star in this scorching update to Henrik Ibsen’s play

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