Amid a mood of unease, a Stalinist drama and the latest Mission Impossible settle the nerves
Helen Chadwick: a rare radical
From her 70s subversion of domestic drudgery to her naked adventures with a photocopier comes a new retrospective
Good One: a ‘quietly devastating coming of age picture’
On a fraught hiking trip in the Catskills with her dad and his needy pal, a teenager has a terrible epiphany
Thunderbolts*: an unusually thoughtful Marvel movie
A superpowered Florence Pugh reprises her Black Widow assassin role in this toned-up Marvel movie
Music: Central Cee moves up a gear
The chart-topping British rapper with a soft spot for his humble Toyota Yaris showcases his debut studio album with a gig that spans sexist hip-hop tropes and heartfelt moments
Art: the National Gallery is reborn
Constable and Turner face off, portraits of husbands and wives are reunited and long vistas of time from Bellini to Van Gogh open out in a magnificent rehang of the National Gallery
Architecture: return to the pleasure palace
Returning to its pleasure palace roots, a faded grade II-listed 1930s cinema in east London has been given a new lease of life as a 960-seat theatre with a distinctly carnival spirit
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