Review

The play's 90 minutes pass effortlessly enough, but ultimately one was left feeling it was much ado about nothing

The Baltic state is bursting with creative brilliance. Art fans in the west need to catch up

With its charming campery, the plot of this 1940s Spanish crime drama is a breath of fresh air

Any attempt to explain this play will not do it justice. Just go and see it. It is simply wonderful

This production has gotten Soho Place off to a marvellously, pun intended, good start

It's a period film. It's a monster movie. It's a martial arts picture. It's Brotherhood Of The Wolf and its improbable global cult status is long overdue

Ásgeir, as he is mononymously known, is a household name in Iceland for his warm soundscapes

The divisive filmmaker's latest shows how modern-day Russia was formed out of the ashes of empire

This adaptation of a Japanese children’s fantasy suggests the RSC will do whatever is necessary to get its finances back in order after the pandemic

This is an important play, beautifully acted and performed

She Said stands out and a French drama also shines at the London Film Festival

The Swedish star surely claims the crown as the most uninhibited woman in pop

A new exhibition explores the relationship between the artist and the photographer

Netflix's retelling of a French tragedy depicts the humanity of events with a beautiful rawness

Juliet Stevenson is on spellbinding form in the title role of this long-awaited West End transfer

It’s a pleasure to see David Tennant back on stage, even if it has turned out Nazi again

As opposition to Putin grows inside Russia, a timely photographic exhibition revisits sites of protest against the old Soviet Union

A new exhibition at the Imperial War Museum raises a question about the limits of art

A new historical drama brings to life the story of a German duchess turned Austrian empress

Pearl Cleage’s homage to the steamy plays of Tennessee Williams seems awfully contrived

The home secretary would benefit from seeing this story of a family fleeing their native Afghanistan

Denmark’s biggest literary celebrity returns to the remote peninsula where she grew up

A new Spanish Netflix dramedy reimagines cancer storytelling with style, wit and grace

There’s a lot about determinedly right-on people that invites ridicule, but Jonathan Spector's play misses the mark

At a time when British theatre is curiously apathetic, this sumptuous revival reminds us what it should be doing: rallying for decency

The Velvet Underground are the ultimate New York band. Yet in their brief lifespan and their afterlife as one of music’s enduring cults, they had a European heart

Michael Winterbottom's telling of Boris Johnson's pandemic begs the question: when is the general public ready to consume recent real-life events on screen?

A hit almost a decade ago, this production now feels like a joke in very poor taste

Waleed Akhtar is a writer prepared to address issues head-on and with enormous clarity and courage

This production challenges politics, our values and the dystopia we are beginning to call normal with style and intelligence

It's a show filled with obvious and patronising themes. In trying to take on too much, it feels almost punitively long

Witty, cathartic and darkly funny, Sharon Horgan’s Irish revenge comedy proves hell hath no fury like a sister scorned