Review

Ebs Burnough’s new documentary, Kerouac's Road: The Beat of a Nation, wants you to believe that we have more desire to communicate than social media will lead you to believe

It was the stylish cult hit that ushered in a new generation of French film-making. But does Jean-Jacques Beineix’s thriller hold up 40-odd years on?

Fact or fiction, O'Hagan's use of language always delivers on both wit and sheer beauty. His latest book, On Friendship, is no exception

The master’s new 1930s-set novel Shadow Ticket feels less like fiction and more like breaking news

This Hamlet is an unignorable feat of acting genius

As Trump tries to claim the arts for his elite, the Black feminist trailblazer makes the case for them belonging to everyone

Amsterdam’s Eye Filmmuseum has dedicated an entire show to one performer for the first time

Ignored at home, female artists from Australia and New Zealand came to Europe and forged their own daring style

The V&A’s new exhibition shows Marie Antoinette as both icon and casualty of luxury

The former professional wrestler has proved himself a screen performer to be taken very seriously indeed

In a London exhibition, Gaza’s photographers reveal their world of sorrow and defiance

A book that reveals shifting attitudes between sympathy and exclusion in society’s treatment of learning disability

Carlos Acosta’s ballet celebrates a band that is woven into Birmingham’s cultural soul

The new David Bowie Centre fails when it reduces his ambiguities to tidy lessons – and soars when it simply shows off stagewear and possessions

Once shocking, Mr Sloane now feels quaint - but still fun

Sensational and deeply cerebral, Paul Thomas Anderson’s 10th feature film is a stone-cold masterpiece

A new book on the role of the whips office raises an exasperating question about the role of politicians

The actor excels as a pub philosopher in Conor McPherson’s The Weir

Indhu Rubasingham banishes the doldrums of her predecessor with a big, bold Bacchae

This year’s long list boasts parental bonds, family dynamics and an entry I cannot get my head around

Today’s worldwide boom follows decades of resistance – but the battle for equal status is far from won

Winnie M Li’s novel brought back painful memories of sibling resentment and hurt

Mr Bates vs The Post Office touched a nerve among the public with its revelation of the suffering of ordinary people who lost everything. ITV’s new drama lacks suitably likeable victims

Mick Herron’s spy thriller series and Will Smith’s magnificent adaptation have become pitch-perfect accompaniments to the shabbiness and disillusionment of Britain today

Jonathan Buckley’s female protagonist only exists to validate the male characters around her. She’s utterly unbelievable

In What We Can Know, our greatest living novelist sees the UK slip beneath the waves – and looks for light in a drowned world

Major Tom may be gone, but the new David Bowie Centre at V&A East displays the extraordinary treasures he left behind

The wartime artist who lampooned Hitler gets his first exhibition

The uncanny art of Jane and Louise Wilson uncovers the future hidden inside surveillance footage, irradiated film and ancient wood

Four generations of women inhabit a landscape of wolves, fascists and devils in the Catalan writer’s haunting novel

A book that collects the dreams of Germans – Jews and gentiles alike – during the 1930s

A new exhibition charts humanity’s long, losing battle – there’s either too much or too little, and it’s always in the wrong place