Reviews
Elizabeth Is Missing, BBC One review - a tender but tough-minded drama about ageing and loss
Sunday, 08 December 2019
In films, as in life, unreliable narrators are not hard to find. But there is something remarkable about the unreliable narrator of Elizabeth is Missing, BBC One’s newest feature length drama. Its protagonist, Maud (Glenda Jackson), is unreliable in the extreme – confused, forgetful and emotionally wounded.
Lucy in the Sky review - Portman falls from orbit
Sunday, 08 December 2019
Best-known for his TV series Legion and Fargo, director Noah Hawley makes the leap to the big screen with an existential space drama based on true events, starring Natalie Portman.
Reissue CDs Weekly: Dave Godin's Deep Soul...
Sunday, 08 December 2019
“I was just released from the hospital…the doctor told me that the medicine can’t do me no good. They told me what I have is beyond medical science…...
So Long, My Son review - an intimate Chinese epic
Saturday, 07 December 2019
Two young boys play by the water. Soon, one is dead. This enigmatic tragedy is the core of a four-decade Chinese saga of grief, guilt and love, at...
Rick Wakeman’s Grumpy Old Christmas Show, Cadogan...
Saturday, 07 December 2019
The cape, the banked-up synths and the glam have gone. Rick Wakeman’s Grumpy Old Christmas Show consists of just the man, his piano and his stories...
My Baby, Concorde 2, Brighton review - Dutch three-piece deliver trance dance power
The best band you've never heard of set the night alight once again |
Haas Hommage à Bridget Riley, London Sinfonietta, Lubman, QEH review - vibrant abstraction
Big commission complements a great Hayward Gallery exhibition to near-perfection |
Giri/Haji, Series Finale, BBC Two review - a thriller, but much more besides
Bravura climax for Joe Barton's ingenious drama |
Honey Boy review - coming to terms with dad
Shia LaBeouf draws on childhood in bold family portrait |
Ravens: Spassky vs. Fischer, Hampstead Theatre review - it's game over for this chess play
The Cold War 'Match of the Century' fails to translate into compelling drama |
ABBA: Super Troupers The Exhibition, O2 - one for the supergroup's completists
Some interesting nuggets unearthed |
Tynan, Clayton, Murray, Aurora Orchestra, Dean, Wigmore Hall review - Britten lives!
Words and music powerfully aligned in old favourites and a new discovery |
Ordinary Love review - small but (almost) perfectly formed
Northern Irish film tugs truthfully, unflinchingly at the heart |
Svetlana Zakharova, Modanse, London Coliseum review - impeccably chic but soul-less
The Bolshoi star looks great but delivers zero emotion in new ballet about Coco Chanel |
Motherless Brooklyn review – tic tec
Edward Norton brings his long-awaited adaptation of the noir novel to the screen |
IDLES, Barrowland, Glasgow review - rowdy and raucous, but with heart
The Bristol band's Glasgow gig provided noise and a party spirit |
A Christmas Carol, Old Vic Theatre review - the festive favourite mixes gloom with merriment
A vigorous Paterson Joseph meets the Christmas spirits |
The Boy Friend, Menier Chocolate Factory review - fun but featherweight
Period confection in three acts could use pruning |
Coppélia, Royal Ballet review - a real charmer
Overdue revival of a sunny favourite |
The Family Secret, Channel 4 review - lives destroyed by historic sexual abuse
Revelations from 25 years ago wreak havoc in Anna Hall's devastating film |
Midnight Movie, Royal Court review - sleepless and digital
New autobiographical play about night thoughts on bodies real and digital |
Takaya: Lone Wolf, BBC Four review - enigmatic predator baffles boffins
Outcast of the islands poses intriguing questions about animal behaviour |
Kolesnikov, Tsoy, Currie, Walton, Wigmore Hall review - mesmerising sonorities
Every note made to count in Bartók, Britten and Ravel |
The Chemical Brothers, O2 review - eye-boggling monster rave-up
Giants of electronic dance music play their largest UK gig to a rapturous response |
Schiff, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Fischer, Barbican review – generosity and geniality
Post-imperial Beethoven and convivial Dvořák from two Hungarian masters |
The Nightingale review – revenge without redemption
Colonial tragedy set in 19th-century Tasmania misses the mark |
Bat for Lashes, St Bartholomew’s Church, Brighton review – a heartfelt homecoming
Natasha Khan conjures LA pop myths and South Coast ghosts |
Family Total Immersion: Lift Off!, BBC SO, Glassberg, Barbican review – 50th anniversary tribute to Apollo 11
Varied and dynamic event given input here from receptive young critics |
Andy Parsons, Stamford Corn Exchange review - politics and the art of persuasion
Cheering antidote to Brexit blues |
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