Review

John Crowley's beautiful film doesn't shy away from the gut-wrenching reality of cancer, instead it embraces it

This adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s 2019 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel deserves – at minimum – an Oscar nomination for best picture

These are the shows to hunker down with over the coming year

2025 will be tough for podcasters, and that could be no bad thing

2025 looks like being an outstanding year for art

We’ll need mechanisms in place to keep us sane and what better mechanism is there to achieve that than getting stuck in to a really good book?

A defunct commodities exchange in Paris, owned by a billionaire, is the setting for an exhibition of a radical art movement that used lowly materials to react against consumerism

The Little Foxes confirms Anne-Marie Duff as a true great

The almost unbelievable artistic riches of renaissance Florence form the basis of an unmissable exhibition

The story of a family’s French holiday interrupted by the apocalypse tops our round-up of the best books of 2024

It was a big year for centrist dads and reality revivals – but Joe Rogan continued to dominate the podcast world

A string of new music this year provided beautiful and uplifting sounds, but with a dark undercurrent

From deeply unsettling drama to a superior superhero spin-off, here are the shows to stream over Christmas

Sigourney Weaver shines in her west end debut in Jamie Lloyd’s powerful new production of Shakespeare’s final solo-authored play

Patrick Marber’s unremarkable revival delivers polite laughs only

An astounding, eccentric documentary uncovers a murky assassination plot involving Belgium, the CIA and Louis Armstrong

Max Webster's production of The Importance of Being Earnest fails to commit to doing something truly innovative

At a glitzy Paris art fair, a dose of reality from eight photographers who have something to say about the world

Three parallel exhibitions celebrate a great Dutch artist whose career began after a great deal of crying over spilt milk

If the reality show is intended to revive his career, Jacob may end up being disappointed

The Old Vic’s Dickens classic still carries a powerful message about poverty and greed

Our editor-at-large's rundown of the pick of the week’s streaming, cinema, theatre and books

The German artist returns with a playful book that shakes things up by bringing the surreal into the everyday

Adapted from August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork and produced by Denzel Washington, this feature is a family affair

Restaurants like this tapas bar rarely exist in Britain. People are too reluctant to live

Sent from Berlin to London to escape the Nazis, artist Frank Auerbach – who died earlier this month – painted his new surroundings over and over again

At 86, with a number of all-time classics to his name, Ridley Scott has earned the right to have some fun

There’s pain and glory in The Last Dream – a patchy collection from the Spanish film-maker – but its highlight is all about his mother

In the Italian version of Gold Digger, Monica Guerritore rewrites the rules for women

In Andrea Arnold’s feature, Nykiya Adams and Barry Keoghan present a moving performance without straying into sentimentality

As arguments about Notre-Dame’s restoration rage on, a new exhibition gathers together stained-glass windows that caused their own controversy in the 1930s

If a new novel is to be believed, the former German chancellor retired to the countryside and started solving murders