Review

The man who played Freddie Mercury stuns in an Oedipus revival

Starring Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Mike Leigh’s comedy drama is an artistic masterclass in what cinema can do

Brady Corbet’s all-consuming portrayal of László Tóth’s life and work is epic in form, theme and ambition

There were at least six orchestras at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Eighty years after the camp’s liberation, most of their music has been lost to history. Can conductor Leo Geyer change that?

A revival of two of his best-loved plays from the 1950s have plenty to say today

At the start of the 20th century, Paris and Barcelona were united by modernist art. Then came a shocking, public suicide

In this audacious biopic, Timothée Chalamet brilliantly captures the spirit of the original disruptor, Bob Dylan

How prewar Germany turned an embassy close to Buckingham Palace into a temple to Hitler’s ideology

A new exhibition recalls the litany of catastrophe that has afflicted the world for centuries

As Jesse Eisenberg’s second outing as writer-director, this plangent reflection of the legacy of the Holocaust is a tremendous accomplishment

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