TVIf you only watch one, make it \u2026Babies<\/p>\n
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Summed up in a sentence Paapa Essiedu and Siobh\u00e1n Cullen star in Stefan Golaszewski\u2019s exquisite new drama about life after baby loss.
What our reviewer said \u201cWith this unsettling, compassionate, funny, moving, wildly unpredictable and beautifully acted series, Golaszewski has given us something very special indeed.\u201d Sarah Dempster <\/p>\n
Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Further reading: Inside Babies, the beautiful drama about the terror and cruelty of miscarriage<\/a><\/p>\n Pick of the restDear Killer Nannies<\/p>\n Disney+<\/p>\n Dear Killer Nannies. Photograph: Leo D\u2019Cossio<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence Pablo Escobar\u2019s son tells his traumatic coming-of-age story in an unexpectedly moving drama. Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Harry Clark Goes to Rome<\/p>\n iPlayer\/BBC One<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence The Traitors winner reconnects with his faith on a moving pilgrimage to the Vatican, but it is his relationship with his mother that really tugs on the heartstrings. Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n You may have missed \u2026A Woman of Substance<\/p>\n Channel 4<\/p>\n A Woman of Substance. Photograph: Sam Taylor\/Channel 4\/The Forge<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence Brenda Blethyn dons a fabulous wig in this soapy remake of Barbara Taylor Bradford\u2019s 1979 tale of revenge. Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n FilmIf you only watch one, make it \u2026The Drama<\/p>\n In cinemas now<\/p>\n The Drama. Photograph: AP<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence Zendaya and Robert Pattinson star in Norwegian director Kristoffer Borgli\u2019s controversial wedding film about a woman\u2019s confession on the eve of her nuptials that causes uproar Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Further reading Backlash mounts over twist in Robert Pattinson Zendaya romcom The Drama<\/a><\/p>\n Pick of the restKim Novak\u2019s Vertigo<\/p>\n In cinemas now<\/p>\n Kim Novak\u2019s Vertigo.<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence Intensely personal interview of the 92-year-old Hollywood star about her time working for Alfred Hitchcock in the golden age of movies Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Further reading \u2018I held on to what\u2019s important\u2019: Kim Novak on Hitchcock, Trump and her Venice lifetime achievement award<\/a><\/p>\n D Is for Distance<\/p>\n In cinemas now<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence Chris Petit and Emma Matthews turned their fight to obtain medical cannabis into a film \u2013 it can stop their son Louis\u2019 epileptic seizures but the NHS refuses to supply it. Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Fuze<\/p>\n In cinemas now<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence Theo James and Aaron Taylor-Johnson face off in London heist centred around a massive, ticking bomb on a building site. Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Now streamingDeathstalker<\/p>\n Shudder<\/p>\n Deathstalker, starring Daniel Bernhardt. Photograph: Hanger 18 Media<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence Enjoyable revisit of 80s Roger Corman swords-and-sorcery silliness with inventive creature design, goopy practical effects and a metal guitar soundtrack. Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n BooksIf you only read one, make it \u2026Transcription by Ben Lerner<\/p>\n Reviewed by Sukhdev Sandhu<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence An outstanding exploration of technology, memory, modernity and family inheritance. Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Pick of the restMonsters in the Archives by Caroline Bicks<\/p>\n Reviewed by Kathryn Hughes<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence Writing secrets from the Stephen King archives. Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Further reading \u2018She wrote the best first line \u2013 and the most chilling stories\u2019: Stephen King on the dark brilliance of Daphne du Maurier<\/a><\/p>\n The Palm House by Gwendoline Riley<\/p>\n Reviewed by Clare Clark<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence A tender portrait of two old friends in London. Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Baldwin: A Love Story by Nicholas Boggs<\/p>\n Reviewed by Ralf Webb<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence The relationships that made James Baldwin. Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n L\u00e1z\u00e1r by Nelio Biedermann, translated by Jamie Bulloch<\/p>\n Reviewed by Marcel Theroux<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence A gothic epic of the Hungarian 20th century, from a 22-year-old wunderkind. Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Further reading \u2018It\u2019s another form of imperialism\u2019: how anglophone literature lost its universal appeal<\/a><\/p>\n AlbumsIf you only listen to one, make it \u2026Sunn O))): Sunn O)))<\/p>\n Out now<\/p>\n Sunn O))): Sunn O))).<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence The doomy duo strip back their sound to tectonic guitars and feedback, conjuring an immersive, strangely euphoric listening experience. Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Further reading \u2018The nuns were convinced they were possessed by demons\u2019: goth and metal stars select the scariest music ever made<\/a><\/p>\n Pick of the restEarl Sweatshirt, Mike and Surf Gang: Pompeii \/\/ Utility<\/p>\n Out now<\/p>\n Earl Sweatshirt: Mike and Surf Gang: Pompeii \/\/ Utility<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence Earl\u2019s post-Odd Future career swerved the mainstream to follow the path laid out by NYC underground rapper Mike, and their first double album lets both shine. Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Sanaya Ardeshir: Hand of Thought<\/p>\n Out now<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence The Indian producer steps away from electronics into intricate, slow-building compositions that favour texture and restraint. Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Now showing \u2026The Turn of the Screw<\/p>\n At Linbury theatre, London, to 6 April<\/p>\n Peter Willoughby, Kate Royal and Elgan Ll\u0177r Thomas in The Turn of the Screw. Photograph: Mihaela Bodlovic<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence Natalie Abrahami and Michael Levine\u2019s imaginative production of the Britten opera is brilliantly creepy and insightful.
What our reviewer said \u201cIt\u2019s a surprisingly emotionally-literate story about adultification, loss of innocence, masculinity and trauma \u2026 Of course, you can expect the obligatory car crashes and shootouts. But Dear Killer Nannies\u2019 biggest gut-punches are quieter and bloodless.\u201d Micha Frazer-Caroll<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said \u201cIf you are a premenstrual, lapsed Catholic woman d\u2019un certain age, do not watch this documentary with anyone in front of whom you do not wish to be seen weeping buckets of inexplicable tears and wailing, \u201cHis mother must be so proud!\u201d Lucy Mangan<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said \u201cA Woman of Substance still works brilliantly as a nostalgia piece \u2013 a perfect homage to the age of excess and television that drowned you in plot and let someone else worry about the rest. Think of it as Dallas in Yorkshire. Three-star television but four-star nonsense and delight.\u201d Lucy Mangan<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said \u201cIt offers us a provocation, a jeu d\u2019\u00e9sprit of outrage, a psychological meltdown that is more astutely articulated than in many another more solemnly intended film. And it gives us what it promises in the title.\u201d Peter Bradshaw<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said \u201cOf course, she has something to say about the most germane issue of all: how Hollywood, and society in general, imposes its male views on how a woman should look and behave, a trope famously embodied by Novak in Vertigo.\u201d Peter Bradshaw<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said \u201cPetit and Matthews try to negotiate a creative way through this agony, relating Louis\u2019 courageous engagement with his incomplete personal history to their own continuing projects, and making Louis\u2019 story part of their own psychogeography.\u201d Peter Bradshaw<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said \u201cIt all rattles along watchably enough, taking in more locations than just boring old London, though you\u2019ll find your credulity stretched almost to breaking point.\u201d Peter Bradshaw<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said \u201cYou\u2019ll know how you\u2019ll feel about this film by your response to words such as \u201cDreadites\u201d and \u201cNekromemnon\u201d. For many (like me), there is wondrous pleasure to be found in the ludicrousness of this nomenclature \u2013 so perfectly on the nose and so stupidly appealing to one\u2019s inner child.\u201d Catherine Bray<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said \u201cTranscription, for all its riffs on the limits of historiography, its invocation of Kafka, its bracing intelligence, is at its most gripping when it addresses a seemingly simple issue: how to get a teenage girl to eat.\u201d<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said This book is Bicks\u2019s account of what happened when King gave her permission to spend a year in his archive, poring over the drafts of five of his most popular novels, including Pet Sematary, The Shining and Carrie.\u201d<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said \u201cRiley has a phenomenal ear for dialogue, for the myriad ways in which people unknowingly lay themselves bare, both in what they say and, more agonisingly, in what they don\u2019t \u2013 or can\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said \u201cBaldwin\u2019s most intimate and lasting relationships were with men, but throughout his life he resisted labels of sexual orientation, arguing that such categories were dehumanising by their nature.\u201d<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said L\u00e1z\u00e1r is captivating and vivid, creating an intriguing atmosphere of secrets, repression and furtive but robust sexuality.\u201d<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said \u201cThe ambient additions offer a small sonic shift that means the places it takes you feel more welcoming than forbidding, pointing up the music\u2019s oddly euphoric effect\u201d. Alexis Petridis<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said \u201cTrue to their respective styles, Mike\u2019s Pompeii is warm and fizzy, songs such as Afro and Tampering countering his deep, laconic voice with bright, spectral beats. Earl\u2019s Utility is darker and more downcast, a necessary yin to Mike\u2019s yang.\u201d Shaad D\u2019Souza<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said \u201cArdeshir\u2019s exploration is quietly compelling, showcasing her capacity as an instrumentalist and producer to create soundworlds of unexpected depth.\u201d Ammar Kalia<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said \u201cRoyal Opera\u2019s new production<\/a> happens in absolute blackout. All the better to focus our attention on the words, you might think \u2013 but then, slowly, you realise that the singer is moving around in the darkness, impossible to pin down.\u201d Erica Jeal<\/p>\n