Review

Our editor-at-large’s rundown of the pick of the week’s film, TV and art

No other writer has captured the singular beauty of the northern French coast like Rebecca Gisler in her debut novel

Rothko’s Seagram murals come to Paris

How an illiterate model reinvented herself as one of Italy’s greatest modern painters

A row with the Musicians’ Union threatened to overshadow opera’s premiere

The King And I contains a powerful message about power and decency

Real-life couple Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker fail to spark in Plaza Suite

The artist's landscapes inspired German romanticism and are now turning him into a green icon

In a bold reinvention, Sam Spade, the hardboiled San Francisco private eye made famous by Bogart, surfaces in 1960s France

A hugely ambitious exhibition at the Irish Museum of Modern Art shows how a burgeoning sense of nationhood gripped many European countries in 1918

In JA Bayona, the survivors of the 1972 crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 had the right man to tell their story

A star is born in this high school musical with roots in French literature

This could be the most truthful play ever about putting on a play

With only 20 of his works left in the world, the National Gallery is hosting the first exhibition devoted to the Renaissance master

Frances Barber is brilliant as a deranged conspiracist in Steven Moffat's play The Unfriend

Virtually unknown on arrival in England, the painter used his contacts – as well as his talent – to rise through Henry VIII’s court

Why Yorgos Lanthimos’s latest could be the weirdest Oscar-winner ever

A real-life zoo breakout is the first in a series of tumultuous events to befall the refugee hero of Leo Vardiashvili’s impressive debut novel

With meticulous attention to food and how it is prepared, the film’s plot embraces simplicity

For one brief moment, five very different artists – including Van Gogh and Seurat – sought inspiration on the banks of the Seine

The Motive and the Cue is just as good second time around

2023 has been a tumultuous year around the world, filled with conflict, controversy and historic firsts, alongside hopes and fears for the future

This high-tech masterclass is also an extraordinary piece of unforgettable theatre

From political memoirs to reflections on renaissance art, our writers recommend their favourite literary treats of the year

The former Arsenal midfielder made Serie A a refuge from the blood and thunder of English football.. even if he did snub Pavarotti.

There are many interpretations of its meaning. Are we witness to a dark memory, a sexual desire or a surrealist Pinocchio?

On I’m a Celebrity, Farage failed to emulate the former shadow chancellor Ed Balls by reinventing himself as a cuddly media personality

This take on Federico García Lorca’s classic left me dazed and speechless

How did the strange 1970s British film became a cult classic?

Tales of ice and lighthouses, the ghosts of Irish literary legends and the Iliad reborn: the books you should give this Christmas

The new Swedish series boasts a plot fuelled with murder, trials and reasons why women aren’t believed when they come forward

The withering contempt Christopher Eccleston's Scrooge has for the poor and homeless hits particularly hard this year