Luca Guadagnino’s provocative cancel culture film, starring an impressively icy Julia Roberts, already feels dated
Theme and Variations is a perfect embellishment of pure ballet
English National Ballet are at their committed best in works by Balanchine, Martha Graham, William Forsythe and David Dawson
The British Podcast awards are now the Oscars of the medium
The glitzy, celeb-studded ceremony’s jump to the O2 Arena reflects the growth in podcasting itself
A female samurai game in the cross-hairs of the culture wars
PlayStation’s winter blockbuster invites players on a journey of vengeance across 17th-century Hokkaido, while raising questions of cultural ownership
A misfire – then Cruise control at Cannes
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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