Review

It may lack the innovation of Jonathan Glazer's The Zone of Interest, but James Vanderbilt’s compelling film still makes for essential watching today

With tired jump scares, flat CGI and a ludicrous government subplot, IT: Welcome To Derry is a giant turkey

Middleland is part elegy, part memoir – and reveals the isolation of a politician too thoughtful for his time

Nick Trend’s new book explores the places where Giotto and Leonardo constructed a country’s heritage

This film is a fine addition to Daniel Day-Lewis’s body of work, one of the greatest in cinema

Starting with Jennifer Lawrence’s Die My Love, a new wave of women-led films is showing what it really means to come undone

As Cop30 approaches, apocalyptic visions look more everyday than ever

At the heart of Tom Morris’s brilliant production is Toby Jones’s astonishing performance of Iago. It is, by far, the best I've ever seen

There’s more humanity in this standout play about Thatcher’s Britain than in the decade itself

Bugonia is their fifth film together, and for some, the magic is wearing thin

From The Shining to Get Out, here's our editor-at-large's guide of what to watch this Halloween

The singer’s remarkable new album West End Girl reveals a world in which women are gaslit into accepting their partners cheating

Scott Cooper’s superior biopic is a nuanced and absorbing account of a very particular cultural and personal moment in time

Kathryn Bigelow’s excellent thriller A House of Dynamite is part of a mushrooming trend

Deliver Me From Nowhere shows The Boss doing the work that politicians won’t – and telling the truth about a nation seduced by lies about itself

In his boldest book yet, Ben Myers turns his gaze on the German actor’s infamous 1971 performance and on his own obsession with it

In a former grain silo, two pioneering abstract artists’ visions of warmth and peace

While Donald Trump may have forged a ceasefire, an exhibition at Paris’s Institut du Monde Arabe outlines the cultural vandalism Palestinians have suffered

The celebrity version of the show offers fake deaths and fake terror, but surprisingly real tedium

Despite the star power, it’s hard to feel engaged or uplifted by a self-indulgent snooze

Bold and unsettling, Luca Guadagnino’s latest project easily transcends its contemporary source material

A sci-fi film from 2013 was meant to offer a utopian vision of the future – in fact it is a perfect picture of our age of techno nihilism

A new exhibition at IWM London is a stark reminder of how Britain's post-colonial conflicts shaped the modern world

Ketty La Rocca’s early death brought a sudden halt to her witty, melancholy outsider art

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