Matthew d’Ancona
04 March 2026
What Ken Burns’s new documentary tells us about America
Ken Burns, the great documentary-maker, returns with a masterful study of the American revolution. The resonances for the present day are hard to miss
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The enduring influence of Tracey Emin
Tracey Emin: A Second Life establishes beyond doubt her significance in British artistic history
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A scandal that leads everywhere and infects everything
The Epstein revelations have provoked fury around the world. That anger could spell the end of the ‘Epstein class’. But it could also have much darker consequences
Read the full article21 February 2026
The Secret Agent's carnival of death
Wagner Moura is magnificent in a Brazilian thriller that’s a stone-cold masterpiece
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“Wuthering Heights” is a camp triumph
Emerald Fennell’s third film is far from a well-behaved literary adaptation, but it's thoroughly enjoyable
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The God delusions of Jeffrey Epstein’s secret brotherhood
The paedophile fixer’s depraved, narcissistic, super-rich circle have come to believe that they are beyond mortality and morals
Read the full article07 February 2026
Kristen Stewart’s brilliant directorial debut is a sophisticated gut-punch
The Chronology of Water is gruelling and honest – and Imogen Poots has never been better
Read the full article04 February 2026
Tucker Carlson, podcaster president?
The enormous span of the right wing pundit’s ambition is becoming increasingly clear
Read the full article31 January 2026
The enchanting power of Richard Linklater
Once again, the director’s Nouvelle Vague is a love letter to a cultural milieu and an enchantment in its own right
Read the full article28 January 2026
How to build a world after America
The task of the post-second world war architects was daunting; but the challenges facing us now are much more complex. Here are six recommendations for revitalising Europe in the new era
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In No Other Choice, modern men are in crisis
At the heart of Park Chan-wook’s dark satire is the question of, when faced with the loss of status, how far will the modern man will go to restore it?
Read the full article19 January 2026
Trump’s supersized Suez moment
In 1956, Eisenhower humbled Britain. In 2026, Trump wants to humiliate the entire Western alliance
Read the full article17 January 2026
Is 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple our future?
Nia DaCosta takes the reins in this no-holds-barred exploration of cults, superstition and what happens to humanity when reason collapses
Read the full article14 January 2026
Trump’s dark age of spectacle and power
A president without decency or any interest in policy runs America like a TV show: gripping its audience with shocks, suspense and relentless action
Read the full article10 January 2026
Hamnet is powerful because it's unsentimental
There is not a shred of sentimentality in Chloé Zhao’s magnificent adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 novel. This is where its brilliance lies
Read the full article07 January 2026
The case for a new Britishness
The social contract must be revitalised or populists will replace it with something much worse. That means citizenship should involve allegiance to a shared way of life
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The Night Manager returns - and it's what John le Carré would've wanted
Lifelong devotees of John le Carré need not worry, the saga of Jonathan Pine is in safe hands with screenwriter David Farr
Read the full article31 December 2025
The beginning of the end for Donald Trump?
As his poll ratings tank ahead of November’s midterms, splits are emerging in his MAGA movement. Can the Democrats unite and capitalise?
Read the full article27 December 2025
A euphoric Odyssey through 2026
Zendaya and Nolan return, Blade Runner expands and Peaky Blinders concludes. What our editor-at-large is most looking forward to in 2026
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Citizen Trump and the battle for Hollywood
The president is moving beyond politics – and seeking to claim control of what Americans watch
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Christmas would not be Christmas without a Mark Gatiss ghost tale
The Room in the Tower is his eighth festive special for the BBC: long may he continue
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How the Tories will put Farage in No 10
Reform needs a pact to reach Downing Street – and the Conservatives are desperate enough to hand it to them
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Is it time for Adam Sandler's Oscar?
In Noah Baumbach’s Jay Kelly, it is Sandler who steals the show with his best performance since Uncut Gems (2019)
Read the full article03 December 2025
The year of American carnage
Martial law is on the way in the US - because violence and civil strife, real or imagined, are the dark core of Donald Trump’s aggressively authoritarian governing ethos
Read the full article29 November 2025
Richard Linklater’s Blue Moon is simply exquisite
Linklater’s film takes on thwarted love and the pain of looming obsolescence. It was easily my favourite from this year's London Film Festival
Read the full article25 November 2025
Nick Land, the dark magus of AI
The philosopher’s occult vision of artificial intelligence seemed like fringe raving – until it was taken up by tech billionaires and far right thinkers
Read the full article22 November 2025
Step inside Wes Anderson's world
Not all cinema has to be art. But this exhibition at the Design Museum proves Wes Anderson's most certainly is
Read the full article19 November 2025
Hey liberals! What you gonna do?
The right are undermining the institutions of liberal democracy. Progressives must change tack to stop them
Read the full article15 November 2025
The urgent and dramatic power of Nuremberg
It may lack the innovation of Jonathan Glazer's The Zone of Interest, but James Vanderbilt’s compelling film still makes for essential watching today
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Nick Fuentes, American Nazi
Fuentes is a racist, a Holocaust denier and an admirer of Hitler – and he is now on the verge of the US political mainstream
Read the full article08 November 2025
Anemone is a seriously accomplished debut
This film is a fine addition to Daniel Day-Lewis’s body of work, one of the greatest in cinema
Read the full article05 November 2025
Reading is the new resistance
In this age of rage, books restore to us what algorithms have removed – the ability to think as others think
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