TVIf you only watch one, make it \u2026Last Seen<\/p>\n
Apple TV; available now<\/p>\n
Summed up in a sentence In this gripping Australian thriller, emergency call handler Ian (Patrick Brammall, fresh from Colin from Accounts) thinks his missing daughter is still alive after he takes a mysterious call.<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said \u201cIt doesn\u2019t just pile on the twists; it makes the twists really matter, because we always understand, with painful clarity, the emotional consequences for the people experiencing them. This is riveting television, and one of the standout shows of the year.\u201d Luke Buckmaster<\/p>\n
Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Pick of the restColin from Accounts<\/p>\n BBC iPlayer; available now<\/p>\n Colin from Accounts. Photograph: BBC\/CBS Studios\/Easy Tiger Productions\/Foxtel Management\/Create NSW\/Lisa Tomasetti<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence The final season of the charming hit Aussie romcom picks up three years after Ashley rejected Gordon\u2019s humiliating proposal.<\/p>\n What our reviewer said \u201cColin from Accounts has been like a ray of sunshine in the schedules. It\u2019s been a huge hit across the world, and many will mourn its ending. I hope it turns out to be a happy one at least.\u201d Rachel Aroesti<\/p>\n Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Britain\u2019s Forgotten Girls<\/p>\n BBC iPlayer; available now<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence An infuriating look at how victims of grooming gangs in the UK have been repeatedly failed by authorities.<\/p>\n What our reviewer said \u201cThe details are few and horrifying. A number of them mention having to go to school as if nothing had happened the night after an inaugural gang-rape. Your mind can hardly take it in.\u201d Lucy Mangan<\/p>\n Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Tommy Robinson: Where\u2019s the Money Gone?<\/p>\n Channel 4; available now<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence Matt Shea investigates a number of allegations about the co-founder of the English Defence League\u2019s finances \u2013 and puts big questions to him.<\/p>\n What our reviewer said \u201cHas Shea landed an unanswerable haymaker? Not quite. Would any evidence of impropriety cause the flow of money from the faithful to dry up? Probably not. But this programme asks a lot of the right awkward questions.\u201d Jack Seale<\/p>\n Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n You may have missed \u2026Reckless<\/p>\n ITV1; available now<\/p>\n Tasma Walton and Hunter Page-Lochard in Reckless. Photograph: ITV<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence Neil Forsyth\u2019s excellent Leith-set dark comedy drama Guilt relocates to Fremantle, Perth, where a brother and sister accidentally kill someone.<\/p>\n What our reviewer said \u201cReckless is a fantastic, fun ride grounded by a realistically fractious, but at heart loving, relationship between the siblings, the light but piercing commentary on the wider racial and socioeconomic dynamics at work in Australia, and a cast of credible, however idiosyncratic, characters whose size makes the tonal consistency all the more wildly impressive.\u201d Lucy Mangan<\/p>\n Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n FilmIf you only watch one, make it \u2026Everybody Digs Bill Evans<\/p>\n In cinemas now<\/p>\n Everybody Digs Bill Evans. Photograph: Cowtown Pictures Limited Hot Property<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence Grant Gee\u2019s film delves into the creative and personal torment of the great American jazz pianist \u2013 with a terrific supporting Bill Pullman turn as his cantankerous father.<\/p>\n What our reviewer said \u201cIt\u2019s a film about music; particularly, about what remains when a musician cannot play and is left to consider the terrible sacrifices made, without conscious consent, to this all-consuming vocation that creates family pain and jealousy almost as a toxic byproduct.\u201d Peter Bradshaw<\/p>\n Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Pick of the restOasis: Don\u2019t Look Back in Anger<\/p>\n In cinemas now<\/p>\n Oasis: Don\u2019t Look Back in Anger. Photograph: Harriet TK Bols\/PA<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence The Gallagher brothers\u2019 mammoth comeback concerts are given the full fan-worship treatment, but it\u2019s impossible to begrudge the euphoria they have created.<\/p>\n What our reviewer said \u201cWe see again the Oasis congregation engaging in colossal Dionysian events of mass joy \u2013 but of course, the poignancy of time passing and the irresistible narrative of the brothers\u2019 public reconciliation give a new layer of emotion to the songs.\u201d Peter Bradshaw<\/p>\n Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Further reading \u2018Would they fight or hug?\u2019 The Oasis comeback film\u2019s makers on shooting fans, vicars, police \u2013 and the Gallaghers<\/a><\/p>\n Better Go Mad in the Wild<\/p>\n In cinemas now<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence Director Miro Remo journeys deep into the Czech countryside to find two brothers living an isolated life filled with quixotic ideas in this surreal documentary.<\/p>\n What our reviewer said \u201cThere is copious wisdom regarding family, nature, interdependency and love in this rowdy, rapturous and brilliant film.\u201d Phil Hoad<\/p>\n Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n La Femme Infidele<\/p>\n In cinemas now<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence Claude Chabrol\u2019s eerie 1969 domestic thriller charts a complex marriage in which a husband suspects his wife is cheating on him.<\/p>\n What our reviewer said \u201cIt does not in fact look like a classic noir thriller in the style of Chabrol\u2019s hero Hitchcock, which is how it is often described, but more like something by Bu\u00f1uel: an elaborate absurdist joke at the expense of the French bourgeoisie, a ballet of repression and fear.\u201d Peter Bradshaw<\/p>\n Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Now streamingCall My Agent! The Movie<\/p>\n Netflix; available 10 September<\/p>\n Call My Agent! The Movie. Photograph: Christophe Brachet\/Netflix<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence The gang get back together for a spin-off of the French talent-agency sitcom, with Andr\u00e9a and No\u00e9mie at the heart of chaotic events.<\/p>\n What our reviewer said \u201cWriters Fanny Herrero, Lison Daniel and Violaine Bellet, along with director \u00c9milie Noblet, skilfully open the tap and let the stream of industry-insider jokes flow at an even pace but make sure that the final product never feels smug, sentimental or self-congratulatory.\u201d Leslie Felperin<\/p>\n Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Further reading Call My Agent!\u2019s Camille Cottin on becoming a sex symbol in her 40s: \u2018There\u2019s a desire to see women who\u2019ve been invisible\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n BooksIf you only read one, make it \u2026Hawking by Graham Farmelo<\/p>\n Reviewed by Philip Ball<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence An unflinching biography of the celebrated physicist.<\/p>\n What our reviewer said \u201cThe unavoidable truth is that Hawking\u2019s overweening ambition and self-promotion, his repeated failure to acknowledge the work of others, his sexism and controlling behaviour were largely ignored because of his disability.\u201d<\/p>\n Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Pick of the rest Photograph: book jacketThe Newer World by Sebastian Barry<\/p>\n Reviewed by Sara Collins<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence The memories of a formerly enslaved man in the aftermath of the American civil war.<\/p>\n What our reviewer said \u201cI can think of no other writer who could describe blood and chaos in language that reaches for such a high register, and whose natural writerly empathy pre-empts the otherwise inevitable discussion about cultural appropriation.\u201d<\/p>\n Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Taipei Story by Rebecca F Kuang<\/p>\n Reviewed by Kit Fan<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence An American Chinese student attends a language school in Taiwan.<\/p>\n What our reviewer said \u201cKuang recreates the uncanny process of language acquisition, as if the reader is learning Mandarin side by side with Lily, sharing her joy and frustration.\u201d<\/p>\n Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Further reading Rebecca F Kuang: \u2018A Tale of Two Cities is deeply silly camp \u2013 I love it!\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n Our Noble Selves by Kate Atkinson<\/p>\n Reviewed by Lucy Atkins<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence A noirish mystery set around the 1951 Festival of Britain.<\/p>\n What our reviewer said \u201cThere is a gentle plea, here, for resilience and decency, couched in a nostalgia for a plucky and decent Britain that \u2013 if it ever existed \u2013 is certainly disappearing fast.\u201d<\/p>\n Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n The Castle by Jon Ronson<\/p>\n Reviewed by Anthony Cummins<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence The journalist goes down the rabbit hole of modern masculinity.<\/p>\n What our reviewer said \u201cRonson makes these bizarre tales feel emblematic of topsy-turvy times, but you often sense an over-caffeinated logic at work.\u201d<\/p>\n Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Further reading A party, 101 princesses and an eccentric millionaire: Jon Ronson on a mysterious castle \u2013 and what it taught him about masculinity in crisis<\/a><\/p>\n You may have missed \u2026The Vivisectors by Missouri Williams<\/p>\n Reviewed by Ian Maleney<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence A cynical young woman navigates life, love and culture wars in this Booker-listed gothic saga set in a crumbling university town.<\/p>\n What our reviewer said \u201cFor all the layers of alienation and abjection which encrust Williams\u2019s tale, there remains a model campus romance novel at its heart.\u201d<\/p>\n Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n AlbumsIf you only listen to one, make it \u2026Neil Young: Second Song<\/p>\n Reprise; available 18 September<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence A late-period Neil Young album leaning into his gentle acoustic side, balancing intimations of mortality and occasional dashed-off moments with a beautiful 11-minute title track.<\/p>\n What our reviewer said \u201cThe sublime shares space with the not bad and the insubstantial: a superior example of a late-period Neil Young album, but a late-period Neil Young album nonetheless.\u201d Alexis Petridis<\/p>\n Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Pick of the restHaruomi Hosono: Yours Sincerely<\/p>\n Ghostly International; out now<\/p>\n Photograph: Ghostly International\/PA<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence Creative and captivating, the septuagenarian beloved by Harry Styles brings a hint of mischief to his innocently charming songs.<\/p>\n What our reviewer said \u201cHis 23rd solo album is wilful, playful, unpredictable and utterly beguiling. Rooted in the Japanese concept of omoiyari, roughly translated as compassion, these songs are big-hearted, focusing on warmth and positivity.\u201d Stevie Chick<\/p>\n Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Gretchen Parlato: The Wise Ones<\/p>\n Edition; out now<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence With guests including Robert Glasper, Parlato turns her immaculate phrasing to soft funk, dancefloor numbers and interpretations of Stevie Wonder and Tears for Fears.<\/p>\n What our reviewer said \u201cPerhaps aimed at a wider marketplace than its more improvisational and intimate predecessors Flor and Lean In, and not without a humdrum moment or two, The Wise Ones nonetheless confirms that Parlato\u2019s inimitable character never lets her slip into the generic.\u201d John Fordham<\/p>\n Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Lucas Debargue: Gershwin Variations<\/p>\n Sony; out now<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence Alongside supple and distinctive accounts of Rhapsody in Blue and the Piano Concerto and Preludes, the French pianist showcases his jazz chops in reinterpretations of Gershwin\u2019s timeless songs.<\/p>\n What our reviewer said \u201cHis 12 virtuoso etudes on Gershwin songs, impeccable compositions in their own right, view familiar tunes through unfamiliar lenses. Embraceable You, for example, is reinvented as a sultry rumba, while Fascinating Rhythm is a cheeky Parisian waltz.\u201d Clive Paget<\/p>\n Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Now touring \u2026Angine de Poitrine<\/p>\n Le Poisson Rouge, New York; touring now<\/p>\n Angine de Poitrine. Photograph: Jos\u00e9 Sena Goul\u00e3o\/EPA<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence The brilliantly strange experimental band\u2019s live show is a must-see spectacle powered by glorious noise and wild flair.<\/p>\n What our reviewer said \u201cThe songs had not especially changed from how they sound on their albums and in studios. The ability to finally see the duo\u2019s superb musicianship up close carried the show \u2013 as did the reminders that they are still human.\u201d Alexander Abnos<\/p>\n