Review

Tension is simmering as the two countries celebrate their independence days this week. Four books explore how their relationship curdled into conflict

A mad, mournful documentary about brothers on the edge stunned the Czech Republic’s biggest film festival. Then real life caught up

The artist who recreates photographs as monumental charcoal pictures is at his best among the world’s trouble spots

The painter didn’t have much time for art, or sex or his home town. But don’t let that fool you

Petra Volpe’s extraordinary movie powerfully dramatises the human consequences of the crises facing nursing today

The sari is given a radical reimagining in a bold Birmingham exhibition

The Aboriginal artist’s vibrant works celebrate ancestral land, culture and a deep connection to nature

Keeley Hawes’s The Assassin is part of a rash of film and TV about professional killers. When and how did they become aspirational?

The best Marvel offering since Avengers: Endgame (2019), the film works by embracing the technicolour Americana of the comic strip original

In Suzie Miller’s latest legal drama, the Hollywood favourite plays a judge and mother facing her worst nightmare

A book that goes from Berlin to Bogotá on a hallucinatory walk through space, time, and memory

The artist has taken his two-year project around the UK to the nation’s public spaces – but he has come to understand the one line that art cannot cross

No red carpets, no gaggles of reporters, no nonsense – just the chance to see all the great films you’ve missed

Rosamund Pike delivers a quite astonishing performance as a Crown Court Judge wrestling with the legal system's shoddy handling of sexual assault cases

A distinctly unappetising production has somehow made its way to the West End. Do not be fooled

An earnest adaptation of a novel about suicide, sex and capital punishment is an impressive looking production, but a barrel of laughs it is not

Eight years after his death, a reissue of Kitchen Confidential still burns with wit and rage

They created fleshy bulbous mounds, glistening protuberances, dark orifices – beauty was never their aim

A new book captures the enduring confusion of that moment when love goes away

Lena Dunham’s first major television project since Girls is so much more than the romcom it's billed as

The artist reopens a Norfolk stately home with two pulsating works celebrating the sea

Big-money galleries are moving in, but an underpaid, precariously employed workforce isn’t convinced

Directed by Jeremy Herrin, David Hare's compelling new play is not only admirably cerebral but profoundly moving

Apocalypse Now was the one truly great Vietnam movie epic - but however mad was, it could have been a whole lot madder

Her autobiography shows that the western queen of the far right is almost impossible to pin down

Bergman and Hartung kept their art separate, but couldn’t stay apart in life

American journalist John Cassidy explains why those who despise this unstable system seem doomed to failure

The Handmaid’s Tale star Samira Wiley offers a haunting portrait of dignified pain

A new series about the Mitford sisters gains extra poignancy in an era when extremist politics again divides families

Joseph Kosinski’s F1 is a throwback to the age of the summer blockbuster in which (literally, in this case) the film was a vehicle for a true star

A by-numbers musical lacks heart and humour - but tourists will love it

Tracey Emin fails to inspire but there are saving graces at this year’s Summer Exhibition