Review

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

The most unlikely duo imaginable, Erasure are proof that genius often resides in British eccentricity

Tight, exciting and nuanced, new six-part Croatian drama thriller Four Strangers is a proper treat

In a difficult year for Edinburgh, Sir Ian provides an exhilarating spectacle - but there are joys to be found elsewhere in the city

On Washington DC’s grand 16th Street, an outdoor photography exhibition has brought a fragment of Europe to the new world

If Amon Amarth's Johan Hegg is a Viking, he’s one who is fully paid up to modern Scandi liberal values

A new Spanish Netflix series portrays celebrity as inherently toxic and destructive, and yet a natural ambition for the aimless disenfranchised young people to whom it is sold

Kate Fleetwood plays a delectably wicked Cruella de Vil for all she’s worth, but this is otherwise a dog's dinner

The story is improbable but star Scott Karim can make just about any character seem convincing

As the country faces its greatest crisis, a writer has delivered one of its greatest novels

A fire that destroyed a library in Venice 455 years ago has inspired a superb Anselm Kiefer exhibition on loss and retrieval

Flee is the best representation yet of what it really means to be a refugee

Anything Goes was a lot of fun last summer but it now feels dutiful and robotic

This pared-down production is very much a star vehicle for the Game of Thrones actor Emilia Clarke

Fujiko Nakaya: Nebel Leben is the first comprehensive survey exhibition of the visionary sculptor outside of Japan

A new Netflix show about tech-bro chaos and indulgence is topical and current. It's also completely played out

As the show's writer and sole performer, Nikhil Parmar deserves the highest praise for creating a show that's sad, funny and honest in equal measure

Can urban art build bridges instead of walls? Eleven artists across Europe have come together to prove just this

There’s a good play to be written about what happens to us in advanced old age. Sadly, this production is not it

Set in 2019, Roy Williams’ state-of-the-nation play tells the story of a country that’s gotten itself into a bit of a state

The new Netflix drama sets aside political quibbles and moments of cultural discord, settling instead for lighter watching