Review

The home secretary would benefit from seeing this story of a family fleeing their native Afghanistan

Denmark’s biggest literary celebrity returns to the remote peninsula where she grew up

A new Spanish Netflix dramedy reimagines cancer storytelling with style, wit and grace

There’s a lot about determinedly right-on people that invites ridicule, but Jonathan Spector's play misses the mark

At a time when British theatre is curiously apathetic, this sumptuous revival reminds us what it should be doing: rallying for decency

The Velvet Underground are the ultimate New York band. Yet in their brief lifespan and their afterlife as one of music’s enduring cults, they had a European heart

Michael Winterbottom's telling of Boris Johnson's pandemic begs the question: when is the general public ready to consume recent real-life events on screen?

A hit almost a decade ago, this production now feels like a joke in very poor taste

Waleed Akhtar is a writer prepared to address issues head-on and with enormous clarity and courage

This production challenges politics, our values and the dystopia we are beginning to call normal with style and intelligence

It's a show filled with obvious and patronising themes. In trying to take on too much, it feels almost punitively long

Witty, cathartic and darkly funny, Sharon Horgan’s Irish revenge comedy proves hell hath no fury like a sister scorned

Kid Kapichi's new album is smart, fearless and reflects a broken and rudderless Brexit Britain

This production misses the opportunity for laughs and instead its themes verge on patronising

This well-intentioned production, sadly, lacks any real drama

Broad Peak explores the life story of Maciej Berbeka, the Polish mountaineer who returned to the summit of his obsession and, sadly, never left

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

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

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

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

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

Heath Robinson’s cartoons of elaborate contraptions provided cheer during the world wars, as a new exhibition of his work illustrates

A film that has won plaudits abroad has been unofficially blacklisted in Georgia, where it was made. Its silence speaks volumes about the country’s democratic decline

Ten days before Hitler’s suicide, Felix Hartlaub disappeared. But his notebooks live on

A new Polish crime thriller is riveting - but also stressful, banal and not a great deal of fun to watch

Almost all big productions at the National seem to sell out sight unseen these days, but how long will this continue if they keep turning out big, unfunny flops like this?

A stunning new novel captures the weight of history on a country rinsed with regrets