Review

Hans Coper fled the Nazis - and found a post-war state ready to sponsor art as it rebuilt the country

Forty years since his first feature film, Steven Soderbergh has rarely been better

Hollywood on the Tiber lifts the lid of Rome’s riotous postwar film industry

The imaginative liberties on show here are the trademark of director Thomas Ostermeier

Marjorie Watson-Williams changed her name to Paule Vézelay, her home city from Bristol to Paris... and then set about changing art

Hayley Atwell can’t save a witless update of Much Ado About Nothing

Francis Picabia was derided for wartime nudes with a worryingly Aryan aspect. But a new exhibition of later work suggests we may need to re-evaluate him

Robert De Niro, in his first regular television role, is extremely entertaining in Netflix's pacey riff on hypermodern cyberwarfare

The third instalment of Mike White's acclaimed series is back with its usual love of mystery, lurking lust and dark humour

The populist commentator’s book on UK universities is filled with unoriginal argument, cherry-picked evidence and enormous self-regard. If he truly believes what he’s written, the only suitable response is pity

The ancient city of Palmyra was shattered by Islamic State. Now a Syrian artist is rebuilding it on her computer

Tim Fehlbaum takes a journalistic approach to his account of the terrorist massacre at the 1972 Munich Olympics

The man who played Freddie Mercury stuns in an Oedipus revival

Starring Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Mike Leigh’s comedy drama is an artistic masterclass in what cinema can do

Brady Corbet’s all-consuming portrayal of László Tóth’s life and work is epic in form, theme and ambition

There were at least six orchestras at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Eighty years after the camp’s liberation, most of their music has been lost to history. Can conductor Leo Geyer change that?

A revival of two of his best-loved plays from the 1950s have plenty to say today

At the start of the 20th century, Paris and Barcelona were united by modernist art. Then came a shocking, public suicide

In this audacious biopic, Timothée Chalamet brilliantly captures the spirit of the original disruptor, Bob Dylan

How prewar Germany turned an embassy close to Buckingham Palace into a temple to Hitler’s ideology

A new exhibition recalls the litany of catastrophe that has afflicted the world for centuries

As Jesse Eisenberg’s second outing as writer-director, this plangent reflection of the legacy of the Holocaust is a tremendous accomplishment

John Crowley's beautiful film doesn't shy away from the gut-wrenching reality of cancer, instead it embraces it

This adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s 2019 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel deserves – at minimum – an Oscar nomination for best picture

These are the shows to hunker down with over the coming year

2025 will be tough for podcasters, and that could be no bad thing

2025 looks like being an outstanding year for art

We’ll need mechanisms in place to keep us sane and what better mechanism is there to achieve that than getting stuck in to a really good book?

A defunct commodities exchange in Paris, owned by a billionaire, is the setting for an exhibition of a radical art movement that used lowly materials to react against consumerism

The Little Foxes confirms Anne-Marie Duff as a true great

The almost unbelievable artistic riches of renaissance Florence form the basis of an unmissable exhibition

The story of a family’s French holiday interrupted by the apocalypse tops our round-up of the best books of 2024