Review

This new take on a Greek tragedy is slow, pretentious and mind-numbingly boring

Hollywood star Amy Adams is the draw in this revival and she's content just to get on with some proper acting for a change

Quartiers nord is Marseille rapper Alonzo's most affectionate tribute to his hometown yet

A new exhibition celebrates Pompeii’s erotic art and artefacts, many hidden from public view since their excavation in the 19th century

For a Gen-Zer, Nick Hornby's marital vignettes are reminiscent of late-night and wine-filled debates with family members

The big numbers in this adaptation are all too familiar but they are listlessly performed and all the emphasis is on Peter Andre’s cameo turn

Bartlett Sher’s production is totally unnecessary and maybe a form of sacrilege

A new boxed set provides a rare insight into the life and mind of one of the most popular cultural icons of the 20th century during what were to be his final days

Jason Solomons has been to Cannes 25 times as a reporter, critic and presenter. How would he fare at his first as a producer?

The cast is cut down, but it's no mean feat to even attempt to put this particular whodunnit on Chichester’s main stage

Megan Nolan loves a bad rom-com, but this latest Netflix effort is stupid and hateful

Steven Moffat’s new play is a rather slight one-joke comedy - but a five-star one

This Netflix film about a Danish restaurateur could have done with being much worse or much, much better

With this play about the man who murdered Gandhi, Anupama Chandrasekhar has bitten off more than she can chew

Waleed Akhtar has produced an elegantly written, often very funny, piece that works precisely because it takes a moral position on Afghanistan

A new exhibition reveals the secrets of a forward-thinking heiress whose taste and beliefs transcended her patriarchal age

The story of Sweden's first celebrity gangster is a sub-Tarantino gushing glorification

If part two of David Eldridge's trilogy of plays about relationships is a state-of-the-nation play, then all it has to say is that the nation is in a bit of a state, which will hardly come as a surprise to anyone

Russia is absent from this year’s edition of the world’s biggest international art exhibition. But the main talking point is a decisive move away from domination by white men

BritBox's latest is a perfectly pitched and painfully funny new addition to the canon of works about Irish alcoholism

This utterly misguided take on an ancient musical will antagonise the only people it’s likely to attract

Newcomer Michael Workeye dominates this superbly written, but often intensely painful piece

An exhibition highlights the wonders of the Venice serenaded by Canaletto and the dangers faced by the glorious city in the sea

Everyone loved Ennio Morricone’s film scores.. except the Oscar-winning composer himself, as a documentary reveals

This Polish erotic thriller is such an oddity it will make you question whether it's actually a film at all

The problem with Emlyn Williams’ story – the talented, impoverished young lad in a mining town being recognised by a plucky teacher – is that it’s been done before and better

The Killing Eve star's stage debut is an important play, brilliantly acted, written and directed and with something worthwhile to say for itself

Ivo van Hove, the Bowie collaborator with a taste for the spectacular, returns with a timely, bloody war epic at the Barbican

A definitive, exhaustive exhibition of the Renaissance artist is a once-in-a-lifetime blockbuster of a show

A new Netflix film is a worthy and sometimes dazzling new addition to the canon of horrifying ballet depictions

A play about Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole is hectoring and polemical rather than a serious examination of a character and her motivations

Bertie Carvel triumphs as Trump very much in spite of Mike Bartlett’s script, rather than because of it