Review

The bass legend believes music is becoming a middle-class hobby

A new exhibition celebrates the artist and activist forged by New York and Aids

His giant bronze sculptures were designed to endure – but in some cases, fate had other ideas

The artist was hired to design a series of wine labels – and delivered dark visions of alcoholism

Christopher Nolan’s grand vision confirms him as the David Lean of his generation, the IMAX magus

Great art should be able to exist without modern moral judgment

Biographer Sathnam Sanghera on our unresolved problems with the late singer

Can books still change the world? At the Venice Biennale, the Irish artist contrasts Renaissance dreams with our current crisis

A new documentary captures the conundrum of the ultimate individual in a team sport

Gene Roddenberry’s franchise understands ageing, loss and friendship in ways George Lucas’s never has

For two weeks, I told everyone about the book I was reading – including an older lady on a train. And then I read one of its stories…

The photographer documented a city’s outsiders with wit and tenderness

Tari Lang’s memoir discusses growing up under Indonesia's military dictatorship while much of society carried on as normal

Billed as a sex comedy, it’s subtle, ambiguous and moving

Banned in Germany and made available on X, Citizen Vigilante isn’t an aberration; it’s the logical endpoint of Hollywood’s careless obsession with a violent, racist myth

The vice president has gone from hillbilly to hypocrite, and Communion exposes the gulf between belief and behaviour

Visiting JR’s La Caverne du Pont Neuf, the installation a storm couldn’t stop

Patrick Freyne’s creations The Heathens star in a book that’s hilarious and heart-wrenching

With guns, grenades, flamethrowers and sabotage training, the Home Guard were no laughing matter

The Curb Your Enthusiasm star’s US history sketch series is pretty, pretty funny – and stacked with digs at Trump

The former chancellor’s Can We Be Rich Again? offers a dated prescription that breezes past immigration in the blink of an eye

A modern update of Molière’s The Misanthrope sees the Killing Eve star battling conformity and cancellation

Two horror hits have supposedly sparked a film revolution. So why are female and minority film-makers still being asked to wait their turn?

Does it point the way to the future? Yes, but only because the future is shit

Exhibits from the Nova Festival massacre are a poignant reminder that tragedy and grief should not require a political disclaimer

A helter-skelter adventure is full of pace and enchantment - with a religious twist

The great director should have thought twice about promoting the conspiracy theories that are now a central plank of US government policy

As the former England manager says, the cure to toxic masculinity isn’t a counter-movement; it's in community

They lied and lied, we were complacent - and the culture war began in earnest

A triumphant National Portrait Gallery exhibition shows how the star created her own myth

For every standout performance in The Hours, there’s a stinker like Scarpetta. Yet this is part of her unknowable mystique

Ratings for the ITV juggernaut have tanked as audiences abandon artificial glamour for reality shows with actual humanity