Essays & reportage
23 April 2020
It’s an unsettling time to watch Stanley Kramer’s classic, On the Beach
Books & arts
1 April 2020
Cinema | Dealt with harshly by many critics, this remake has its strengths
Books & arts
6 March 2020
Cinema | Autumn de Wilde takes just enough liberties with Jane Austen’s classic
Books & arts
20 February 2020
Music | Marriage Story takes film music into new territory
Summer season
18 February 2020
Cinema | Our reviewer recalls her first meeting with the director of Parasite
Books & arts
14 February 2020
Tom Hanks and Matthew Rhys brilliantly capture real-life characters in this engrossing film
Essays & reportage
10 December 2019
Inspired by Nellie Melba, Judith Anderson carved out a career on stage and screen
Books & arts
22 November 2019
Books | As Disney+ sets out to teach Netflix and others about streaming video, the chief executive of Walt Disney’s company shares lessons learned on the way to the top
Books & arts
19 November 2019
Cinema | The Irishman and The Report reviewed
Books & arts
11 November 2019
Cinema | The King confirms David Michôd as a major director
Books & arts
14 October 2019
Cinema | Two very different films about family life
Books & arts
26 September 2019
Cinema | Ambitious storytelling from directors Rodd Rathjen, Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego
Books & arts
13 September 2019
Cinema | Rachel Ward makes the most of a stellar cast
Books & arts
13 September 2019
Cinema | Jennifer Kent imagines an epic journey in The Nightingale
Books & arts
9 August 2019
Cinema | The mob turns nasty in Diego Maradona and The Final Quarter
Books & arts
1 August 2019
Books | American filmmakers viewed England through the lens of contemporary history
Books & arts
24 July 2019
Screenings across the world are attracting new friends for Australia, reports the film’s co-writer and producer
Books & arts
6 July 2019
South Korean cinema maintains the rage with Burning and Parasite
Books & arts
28 June 2019
Cinema | French director Agnès Varda viewed the world with a mixture of curiosity and compassion
Books & arts
26 June 2019
Cinema | Happy as Lazzaro is the latest work from a highly original talent
Books & arts
20 June 2019
Cinema | To mine Shakespeare’s life and work successfully, filmmakers need to find something new
Books & arts
5 April 2019
Cinema | Bill Nighy delivers a characteristically ambiguous performance in Sometimes Always Never
Books & arts
12 March 2019
Cinema | Stan & Ollie looks at what came after the comedy
Recovered Lives
8 March 2019
Sylvia Breamer (1897–1943)
Books & arts
2 March 2019
Cinema | Familiar scenes at the Oscars, and At Eternity’s Gate reviewed
Books & arts
6 February 2019
Cinema | Two remarkable women receive two great portrayals in Mary Queen of Scots
Books & arts
4 February 2019
Cinema | Green Book and Loro reviewed, and a second look at The Favourite
Books & arts
3 January 2019
Cinema | Julie Rigg reviews Adam McKay’s Vice and Pawel Pawlikowski’s Cold War
Books & arts
3 January 2019
Cinema | Somewhere between her time and ours, Queen Anne takes to the screen in The Favourite
Books & arts
6 December 2018
Cinema | The Children Act succeeds because of its ideas as much as its narrative