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Football's authorities need to pay more attention to players' physical and mental burnout, says ROB HUGHES

From a fresh perspective on a classic French tale to a tense drama set on a freezing Russian train, our movie picks for the first third of 2022

Netflix's A Classic Horror Story deserves a wider audience, says MEGAN NOLAN

CLAUDIA PRITCHARD enjoys a European journey in the company of a German genius.

SOPHIA DEBOICK on the traditional songs of celebration continuing to be sung across Europe

2022 promises more great fiction by women and writers of diverse nationalities and backgrounds

James Graham’s plays feel as if they’re about little more than actors regurgitating vast quantities of Wikipedia, says TIM WALKER

The play is as chaotic as the times we are living in, and offers some much needed laughter.

WILL SELF on the French far-right politician who emerged from a Jewish background.

On Christmas Eve 33 years ago, he died a criminal, but perhaps Hans Gruber should've been remembered for something else...

PETER TRUDGILL on the rich seam of history behind Costa Rica’s languages.

Food writer JOSH BARRIE brings readers a recipe from Wales with French roots. And, if done right, it resembles a Christmas tree.

The new festive release from Netflix is unwatchable. Perhaps all involved in the production had some serious tax bills to pay, wonders MEGAN NOLAN.

CHARLIE CONNELLY rounds up the best titles of 2021 and names one absolute favourite.

Powerful and poignant, the production is the National Theatre at its best.

Producer Bill Kenwright understands that the theatre is a place to laugh, and no more so than after this last year.

Intelligent, genuine and in control, Brussels has sprouted the future of European pop as we approach 2022.

Choral music can bring communities together and lift the soul - if religion is involved then that's fine too. But with Church attendance numbers dropping every year, is it time for some different hymns?

An exhibition of photos by Sefton Samuels evokes memories of football, long before the monied Premier League took over.

The Cameroonian soccer player has his eyes set firmly on the prize, writes ROB HUGHES.

Board games have grown up. The big issues of our age can now be played out on tabletops, and one popular game even predicted the USA’s messy exit from Afghanistan.

The master satirist’s complicated relationship with his European contemporaries is explored in a stunning exhibition in London’s Tate Britain.

Still, after 8000 years, Maltese music is centred around cultural eclecticism and originality.

WILL SELF on the naming of the Omicron variant.

Wolff was almost impossible to mistake for anyone else. Yet, he was in The Sun's obituary section.

PETER TRUDGILL on a law that displeased many people in the Czech Republic.

Food writer JOSH BARRIE brings readers a recipe to warm them this winter.

CHARLIE CONNELLY rounds up some of the best titles to give as stocking fillers – and put you in your loved ones’ good books.

This mesmerising and captivating production is as breathtaking as the film.

The highly accomplished actor drones on and provides a bore of a performance.

The Brazilian player defies age. He started with nothing and now plays for millions, still captaining his country 102 captaincies later.

The concept is fashionable yet controversial, exerting a romantic appeal on some and exerting deep atavistic fears in others. But at its essence, rewilding is a simple necessity.