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The big presence at the Venice Film Festival's 90th birthday party was the streaming giant

This new French Netflix sitcom sets out to make profound and amusing statements about younger generations’ relationship with technology. It fails on both accounts

In normal circumstances this musical is the sort of thing that would have found a stage quickly enough and held on to it for months. These are not, however, normal circumstances

The Take That star is engaging, but a two hour 20 minute talk through his life story is quite the ask

He baffled and fascinated his critics, but the actor somehow became the absolute personification of insouciant cool

This satisfying breakfast is a stunning way to begin a day in the Highlands, providing sustenance abound for walks and loch spotting

In the north of Berlin, on the site of a little-visited former garden, lies one of the city’s best-kept historical secrets

Not for the first time, France's national football squad is going into a major tournament facing internal strife

A new exhibition reveals a previously hidden side to the landscape and marine master JMW Turner

Former home secretary Alan Johnson returns with a new novel and some dissenting thoughts on Brexit, Corbyn and Starmer

Sophie and the Giants are virtually unknown at home - but bona fide disco royalty elsewhere

Why video games may well be the first truly globalised medium

Microsoft's new software wants to stop us writing anything that’s unacceptable or offensive. But unacceptable and offensive to whom?

The word arrived in English in the 1500s from France along with the ‘bay-coloured cloths’ it described

Venice has produced few major writers – yet few places have inspired so many authors

The best children’s shows manage to entertain both the children and their parents, but this production tries too obviously to get both on side and satisfies neither

Following the attempted murder of Salman Rushdie the term chautauqua may well undergo a semantic shift, becoming synonymous not with the exercise of free speech, but with crazed attempts to repress it

City skylines of tower blocks, motorway networks, urban plazas - everywhere you look today there are traces of the Swiss-French architect

Many popular musical terms have their origins in West African languages – but ‘riff’ probably isn’t one of them

However you might choose to prepare broad beans, using the vegetable in a tortilla is an excellent way to go

The first of a new series on the hidden aspects of well-known cities explores the suburb of Catalonia’s capital that stays blissfully tourist-free

Authors and readers love live events. But will they survive the attack on Salman Rushdie?

After so many false starts, will this be the season Paris Saint-Germain finally attain their Holy Grail of the Champions League?

In 1992, Wales' most incendiary political rock band took to the stage of the Reading Festival for the first time

As a new collection in Vienna shows, the rich have stopped lending art to public galleries, and are opening their own spaces instead

A film about the female conductor of a major German orchestra is set to light up the awards season this year. Unfortunately, it's fiction

This list puts an emphasis on the perfectly formed pop single

A Spanish drama about the aftermath of a brutal gang rape is a little hard to take seriously

The National needs to be braver in its productions, but until then this is an amusing enough divertissement

An exhibition of Frank Brangwyn’s work at Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft is full of colour and life – like the artist himself

In fetishising the trainer, the devotee makes of it a transitional object: something that eases the troubling developmental stage between childhood and adulthood

Individually their fates were an immeasurable tragedy for two families, together they were a cause