TVIf you only watch one, make it \u2026House of Guinness<\/p>\n
Netflix; available now<\/p>\n
Fionn O\u2019Shea as Benjamin Guinness, Louis Partridge as Edward Guinness, Anthony Boyle as Arthur Guinness and Emily Fairn as Anne Plunket in House of Guinness. Photograph: PA\/Netflix<\/p>\n
Summed up in a sentence \u201cLike Succession but about a booze dynasty in 19th-century Dublin, Steven Knight\u2019s latest show is full of smarts, heart and sex appeal. It\u2019s a career peak for him.\u201d<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said \u201cAs the shouting, fighting and drawing-room tensions escalate, and sex proves to be as much of a hindrance to clear thinking as money (the casting of James Norton, pheromones fairly radiating from the screen, is a big help there), House of Guinness matures into a romp that you can hardly resist.\u201d Jack Seale<\/p>\n
Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Further reading Why we can\u2019t get enough of a good dynasty drama<\/a><\/p>\n Pick of the restWayward<\/p>\n Netflix; available now<\/p>\n Mae Martin as Alex Dempsey and Toni Collette as Evelyn Wade in Wayward. Photograph: Michael Gibson\/Netflix<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence Mae Martin\u2019s followup to the immaculate romcom Feel Good<\/a> is this mesmerising mystery set at an academy for troubled teens, headed up a brilliantly chilling Toni Collette.<\/p>\n What our reviewer said \u201cWayward is stylish and hugely watchable \u2013 it\u2019s hard for one\u2019s inner adolescent to look away from a punchy eight-parter where so many comeuppances are delivered to horrible grownups.\u201d Lucy Mangan<\/p>\n Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n The Covid Contracts: Follow the Money<\/p>\n ITVX; available now<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence A devastating look at the biggest spending scandal ever \u2013 the Tories\u2019 \u201cVIP lane\u201d for PPE suppliers during Covid.<\/p>\n What our reviewer said \u201cWatching this programme forces us to at least consider something that is almost too disgusting to contemplate: that when our country faced one of its darkest hours, certain people in charge saw not a crisis, but an opportunity.\u201d Jack Seale<\/p>\n Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n You may have missed \u2026High Potential<\/p>\n Disney+; new episodes available weekly<\/p>\n Kaitlin Olson in High Potential. Photograph: Christine Bartolucci\/Disney<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence Kaitlin Olson\u2019s practically perfect turn as an extremely intelligent crime-solver is fun, cosy, crowd-pleasing TV.<\/p>\n What our reviewer said \u201cThis virtuoso citizen detective can always be relied upon to save the day.\u201d Rachel Aroesti<\/p>\n Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n FilmIf you only watch one, make it \u2026One Battle After Another<\/p>\n In cinemas now<\/p>\n Leonardo DiCaprio in One Battle After Another. Photograph: Pictorial Press\/Alamy<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence Paul Thomas Anderson updates Thomas Pynchon for the era of Ice roundups, pitting shaggy revolutionary Leonardo DiCaprio against cartoonish forces of reaction.<\/p>\n What our reviewer said \u201cOne Battle After Another is at once serious and unserious, exciting and baffling, a tonal fusion sending that crazy fizz across the VistaVision screen \u2013 an acquired taste, yes, but addictive.\u201d Peter Bradshaw<\/p>\n Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Further reading \u2018I\u2019m a hustler, a grinder\u2019: Teyana Taylor on music, motherhood and One Battle After Another<\/a><\/p>\n Pick of the restThe Dead of Winter<\/p>\n In cinemas now<\/p>\n Emma Thompson as Barb in The Dead of Winter. Photograph: Vertigo\/PA<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence Emma Thompson stars in an icy Fargo country thriller as a good-natured Minnesota widow bringing her charm, and her gun, to tackle some concentrated nastiness.<\/p>\n What our reviewer said \u201cIt has an old-school barnstorming brashness, some edge-of-the-seat tension, a mile-wide streak of sentimentality, a dash of broad humour and a horrible flourish of the macabre.\u201d Peter Bradshaw<\/p>\n Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Brides<\/p>\n In cinemas now<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence Two friends leave the UK and head to the Syrian border to marry Islamic State jihadis in this spirited and poignant drama.<\/p>\n What our reviewer said \u201cPerhaps the movie should actually be called Fianc\u00e9es because the actual, brutal experience of being married in this situation is not what the movie wants to imagine, although the closing sequence certainly hints at a horrible disenchantment and a reality very different from that promised on social media.\u201d Peter Bradshaw<\/p>\n Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Further reading \u2018Those young women were so vilified\u2019: Nadia Fall on her debut film Brides<\/a><\/p>\n The Librarians<\/p>\n In cinemas now<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence Documentary about the heroic administrators battling book bans and censorship as rightwingers attack material covering LGBTQ+ issues or race.<\/p>\n What our reviewer said \u201cIncredibly principled and brave, the librarians talk about their vocation and standing up for the young people for whom libraries are a safe space where they can discover their identity in the pages of books.\u201d Cath Clarke<\/p>\n Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Now streamingWeapons<\/p>\n Available to rent on Amazon, Sky, Apple<\/p>\n Alden Ehrenreich as Paul in Weapons. Photograph: Warner Brothers Pictures<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence Zach Cregger\u2019s slick Barbarian<\/a> follow-up horror as 17 children from the same class get out of bed at 2.17am and run off into the darkness.<\/p>\n What our reviewer said \u201cIt\u2019s a tantalising set-up, pitched somewhere between Stephen King and the Brothers Grimm, and Cregger\u2019s careful slow build keeps us in thrall for the most part, eager to see just how the puzzle-pieces fit.\u201d Benjamin Lee<\/p>\n Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Further reading Hit horror Weapons doesn\u2019t have a deeper meaning but that\u2019s OK<\/a><\/p>\n BooksIf you only read one, make it \u2026If Anyone Builds it, Everyone Dies by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares<\/p>\n Reviewed by David Shariatmadari<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence How AI could destroy humankind.<\/p>\n What our reviewer said \u201cYudkowsky and Soares present their case with such conviction that it\u2019s easy to emerge from this book ready to cancel your pension contributions\u201d<\/p>\n Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Pick of the restHeirs and Graces by Eleanor Doughty<\/p>\n Reviewed by Zoe Williams<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence An intimate portrait of modern aristocrats.<\/p>\n What our reviewer said \u201cShe knows everything \u2013 where an earl sits relative to a viscount, how many there are of each. Her work is peppered with first-hand accounts, piquant details from visitors\u2019 books, the story of every great house told brick by brick.\u201d<\/p>\n Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Cat on the Road to Findout by Yusuf\/Cat Stevens<\/p>\n Reviewed by Alexis Petridis<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence The spiritual singer-songwriter tells his story.<\/p>\n What our reviewer said \u201cAs the 70s progress, he tries Buddhism, the Bible, meditation, the I Ching: you couldn\u2019t accuse him of not shopping around before settling on Islam\u201d<\/p>\n Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Further reading Yusuf\/Cat Stevens at Glastonbury review \u2013 singer-songwriter\u2019s \u2018legends\u2019 set is a lowkey triumph<\/a><\/p>\n Will There Ever Be Another You by Patricia Lockwood<\/p>\n Reviewed by Beejay Silcox<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence An autofictional account of long Covid from the cult American stylist.<\/p>\n What our reviewer said \u201cLockwood\u2019s brilliance has always been her ability to strip a joke back to its mechanics, and make it sharper in the disassembly (see her viral poem Rape Joke). But that power has begun to turn in on itself.\u201d<\/p>\n Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Further reading \u2018I\u2019ve seen so many people go down rabbit holes\u2019: Patricia Lockwood on losing touch with reality<\/a><\/p>\n You may have missed \u2026John and Paul by Ian Leslie<\/p>\n Reviewed by Blake Morrison<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence The volatile bromance between Lennon and McCartney.<\/p>\n What our reviewer said \u201cTo Beatles aficionados, the cast and chronology will be familiar. But Leslie\u2019s approach is fresh because it focuses on the double-consciousness (\u2018a duet not a duel\u2019, \u2018a group within the group\u2019) and their \u2018shared ownership of each other\u2019s talent\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Further reading John, Paul and the \u2018romance\u2019 that transformed culture<\/a><\/p>\n MusicIf you only listen to one, make it \u2026Olivia Dean: The Art of Loving<\/p>\n Out now<\/p>\n Photograph: Capitol Records\/Polydor Records\/PA<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence Second album from the chart-conquering London songwriter, full of diaristic detail and sweetly understated vocals.<\/p>\n What our reviewer said It\u2019s exceptionally well made but feels entirely natural; it\u2019s mainstream commercial pop, but laudably devoid of obvious cliches. If Dean\u2019s debut seemed like an artist trying to find their place in the landscape by ticking relevant boxes, The Art of Loving seems like someone finding their own voice. Alexis Petridis<\/p>\n Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Pick of the restGeese: Getting Killed<\/p>\n Out now<\/p>\n Photograph: AP<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence The Brooklyn indie rock band\u2019s fourth album is full of dread and dark absurdity.<\/p>\n What our reviewer said Getting Killed can be opaque, but its brilliance is still obvious: the invention, the irreverence, the melodic knack, the swagger all great bands require. Rachel Aroesti<\/p>\n Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Further reading Geese\u2019s Cameron Winter on leaving crowds in tears with his supernatural voice<\/a><\/p>\n Baltimore SO\/Alsop: Clyne, Abstractions<\/p>\n Out now<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence Marin Alsop\u2019s fine recording offers a chronology of Anna Clyne\u2019s orchestral writing.<\/p>\n What our reviewer said \u201cIn each piece here Clyne\u2019s command of her material seems ever more assured and focused.\u201d Andrew Clements<\/p>\n Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Various Artists \u2013 Pas\u00e9 B\u00e9l Tan: Francophonies and Creolities in Louisiana<\/p>\n Out now<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence Collection of largely African American folk music from the 50s to the 80s, spanning poignant lyricism to full-throated celebration.<\/p>\n What our reviewer said \u201cThe quiet moments offer an affecting window into history; even through lo-fi recordings, you can hear the singers\u2019 breathy, yearning tones, calling out into the Louisiana wetlands for someone to listen.\u201d Ammar Kalia<\/p>\n Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n On tour this weekDeacon Blue<\/p>\n