Review

Portuguese comedian André De Freitas is on a mission to put his country on the map, one joke at a time

In small town in northern France, the art of producing beautiful objects from shells is being kept alive

From the ancient Mediterranean through 1960s Ireland to modern-day Appalachia, reads that will transport you

A troubled shoot and underwhelming reviews almost spelled the end of director Sam Peckinpah’s career

The production is intelligent, well-acted, but oh, so boring

Adam Penford’s production of the classic musical speaks to our populist times

There’s far more to Irish cinema than the pain and cliches of Colin Farrell’s dark comedy – as a recent Galway film festival showed

A new version of an Italian classic comes to the UK, in more ways than one

Her work is simple and subdued; her life as Rodin’s muse and mistress was anything but

Unlike the joyless reworking of Oklahoma!, this gets the point of a big, old-fashioned musical

A new strain of writing, that engages with the mundane things of life, is more profound than it may first appear

The Helsinki Biennial event highlights how the climate crisis sparked Finland’s artistic and cultural awakening

A new exhibition is based on the life and works of a man who took part in orgies of rape and torture and boasted he had written the “most impure tale that has ever been told”

Ben Judah’s superb This Is Europe is a tour through the continent’s underbelly, giving voice to the exploited and marginalised

New photos by Paul McCartney reveal a band on the cusp of global stardom, trapped for a mad three weeks in the city of light

The writers have taken a film that I couldn't imagine could ever be improved upon and managed to improve upon it

Frank and Percy lets the two old stagers do their thing, which is what makes it work so well

Europe’s first celebrity is celebrated in a treasure trove of objects at Paris’ Petit Palais

Jack Thorne's telling of an early BBC struggle is unfocused, often boring and poorly realised

Too many books about the countryside are over-written and nostalgic. But Rebecca Smith’s brilliant new memoir gets it just right

Divided by a continent and a generation, they never met. But a new exhibition shows the ties between Leon Kossoff and Chaïm Soutine

There was much to enjoy at Cannes – but the same old players doing the same old things hints that cinema may be due a shake-up

Pirelli’s vast Milan gallery is a temple of daring contemporary art

An Aspects of Love revival feels uncomfortable three decades on

The stage version of Brokeback Mountain is well-meaning, well-acted and well, pointless

A new exhibition at the Imperial War Museum captures the experience of everyday people who lived through the years of conflict

Decades from now, this once-in-a-lifetime series will still be watched as a cultural artefact of a particular moment in history

Martin Scorsese, Steve McQueen and the late Martin Amis deliver the goods at an unexpectedly soggy Cannes Film Festival

The rivalry and respect between Manet and Degas

1990s musical Once on This Island gets a sensational revival

Based on a WWII deception that fooled the Nazis, Operation Mincemeat is a deft pastiche

Is The Ugly Duchess a work of misogyny, a portrait of deformity or the mocking of an aristocrat? Or all three?