TVIf you only watch one, make it \u2026Escaping Idi Amin<\/p>\n
BBC iPlayer; available now<\/p>\n
Summed up in a sentence Four people share their shocking testimonies of what happened when the dictator gave Asians 90 days to leave Uganda.<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said \u201cThere is a happy ending, of sorts. Bharti, Paresh, Harminder and Maz never stopped missing the country they were born in, but they made a new home in Britain, and they made Britain better: it would be hard, for example, to calculate the size of the debt we owe Bharti for her 40 years as a social worker safeguarding children in care. Every minute of Escaping Idi Amin contains an urgent lesson to learn.\u201d Jack Seale<\/p>\n
Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Pick of the restThis City Is Ours<\/p>\n BBC iPlayer; available now<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence James Nelson-Joyce returns in this terrifically acted, high-stakes crime drama in Liverpool \u2013 and it\u2019s as lovable as it is bloody.<\/p>\n What our reviewer said \u201cWe can expect more of the following: convoluted drug deals conducted over congealing ragu; shouting; tiny-skulled henchmen with chests of astonishing bulbosity, as if someone had squeezed their legs like tubes of toothpaste and all the meat had been forced up to their armpits; beards.\u201d Sarah Dempster<\/p>\n Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n The One About Matthew Perry<\/p>\n Netflix; available now<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence The star\u2019s friends and family celebrate his life \u2013 and give respectful insight into his troubles as well as his career triumphs.<\/p>\n What our reviewer said \u201cIt remains at heart a simple, sad story. But this unexpectedly candid, thoughtful, genuinely intimate film gives it nuance and depth, and a voice to wider sorrows \u2013 including what a shame it was that Perry could not enjoy his talent or appreciate the joy it gave as fully as his audiences always did.\u201d Lucy Mangan<\/p>\n Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Further reading The hidden life of Matthew Perry: \u2018He would say: I need to stop and get help\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n You may have missed \u2026Lupin<\/p>\n Netflix; available now<\/p>\n Formidable foe \u2026 Omar Sy in Lupin. Photograph: Emmanuel Guimier\/Netflix<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence The French super-thief returns for a fourth series; the budget is bigger, the stakes are higher and there are lots of Houdini-style twists and thrills to be had.<\/p>\n What our reviewer said \u201cOmar Sy, whose performance is magnetic as always, has graduated to co-showrunner and wants to lean harder into the show\u2019s \u201csuperhero\u201d-like qualities. These include tech and set pieces which undoubtedly add a sprinkling of Marvel.\u201d Micha Frazer-Carroll<\/p>\n Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Further reading Lupin\u2019s Omar Sy: \u2018We wanted to show what the French are capable of\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n FilmIf you only watch one, make it \u2026A Gentle Monster<\/p>\n In cinemas now<\/p>\n Monster bunch \u2026 L\u00e9a Seydoux and Jella Haase. Photograph: Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Batier\/Netflix\/AP<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence Disquieting drama with L\u00e9a Seydoux as a wife and mother whose life unravels when police arrive to investigate her husband.<\/p>\n What our reviewer said \u201cThis is a bleak, pessimistic film with two excellent lead performances.\u201d Peter Bradshaw<\/p>\n Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Pick of the restI Love Boosters<\/p>\n In cinemas now<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence Supercool outlaw women go shoplifting in Boots Riley\u2019s frantic caper in which Demi Moore\u2019s haute-couture maven attracts the attention of a gang of Robin Hood style clothes robbers.<\/p>\n What our reviewer said \u201cAn entertaining, if very exhausting fantasy-caper about the fashion biz, a madcap mile-a-minute melee of unadulterated ker-aziness. You might need a couple of ibuprofen and a lie down afterwards.\u201d Peter Bradshaw<\/p>\n Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Further reading Boots Riley: \u2018Theft is not outside of capitalism, it\u2019s what it was built on\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n Wicker<\/p>\n In cinemas now<\/p>\n Straw man \u2026 Alexander Skarsg\u00e5rd with Olivia Colman in Wicker. Photograph: Black Bear\/PA<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence Intriguing folk-horror romance with Olivia Colman as a depressed and bullied fisher who gets the answer to her dreams: an Alexander Skarsg\u00e5rd made of wicker.<\/p>\n What our reviewer said \u201cIt occupies a strange and intriguing Venn-diagram overlap between macabre horror and sentimentality. Yet devotees of bucolic British screen-scariness will note that it is, after all, about a wicker man.\u201d Peter Bradshaw<\/p>\n Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Further reading \u2018I saw the script and went: oooh!\u2019 Olivia Colman and Alexander Sk\u00e5rsgard on their steamy folk-horror movie Wicker<\/a><\/p>\n Peter Asher: Everywhere Man<\/p>\n In cinemas now<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence Backstory of modest music industry veteran Asher who started out as one half of pop duo Peter and Gordon, and went on to produce acts such as James Taylor and Linda Ronstadt.<\/p>\n What our reviewer said \u201cAsher by any standards carved an amazing path through it all, making the absolute most of being in the right place at the right time.\u201d Andrew Pulver<\/p>\n Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n The Devils<\/p>\n In cinemas now<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence Ken Russell\u2019s 1971 possessed-nuns tale stars Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave giving the performances of their lives in a film that highlights the violence of power.<\/p>\n What our reviewer said \u201cIt comes from an era when movies, playing in high-street cinemas, still had the power to shock, to position that shock in the polite cultural mainstream and to compel serious discussion about whether that shock \u2013 or, conversely, a ban \u2013 was justified.\u201d Peter Bradshaw<\/p>\n Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n BooksIf you only read one, make it \u2026On Another Planet They Can Save Me by Lieke Marsman<\/p>\n Reviewed by Edward Posnett<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence The extraordinary posthumous memoir of a Dutch poet.<\/p>\n What our reviewer said \u201cMarsman\u2019s language is so beautiful, and her textual references so original: she cites Leopardi, Pasolini, Alanis Morissette, Robert Musil, Spinoza, Euripides, Wittgenstein and William James.\u201d<\/p>\n Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Pick of the restGilgamesh: A New Verse Translation by Simon Armitage<\/p>\n Reviewed by Philip Terry<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence The poet laureate takes on the ancient Mesopotamian epic about the adventures of a demigod king.<\/p>\n What our reviewer said \u201cArmitage\u2019s tactile, visceral version is a tour de force, combining careful scholarship with poetic verve and deft linguistic meldings.\u201d<\/p>\n Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n The Mystery of What Befell in the Ditch by Thure Erik Lund, translated by David M Smith<\/p>\n Reviewed by Sukhdev Sandhu<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence Long thought untranslatable, a portrait of a breakdown by the man Karl Ove Knausg\u00e5rd considers Norway\u2019s best living writer.<\/p>\n What our reviewer said \u201cThis is a universal story of modernity and its discontents, but Lund is at pains to give it a specifically Norwegian dimension.\u201d<\/p>\n Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Emperor of Nothing: The Making of Larry David by Blake J Harris<\/p>\n Reviewed by Dorian Lynskey<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence The definitive biography of Seinfeld creator Larry David.<\/p>\n What our reviewer said \u201cIn 1992, just before it became the biggest show in America, he told friends, \u2018Honestly, I would rather spend a year in prison than do another season of Seinfeld. It would be peaceful. Nobody would make me write anything.\u2019 He was only half joking.\u201d<\/p>\n Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Under Fire by Humza Yousaf<\/p>\n Reviewed by Fiona Sturges<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence The former Scottish first minister on his family\u2019s Gaza ordeal.<\/p>\n What our reviewer said \u201cUnder Fire is most powerful when Yousaf gives full vent to his anger at the unfolding genocide in Gaza and articulates not just the plight of his in-laws, but the barbarity of Israel\u2019s actions.\u201d<\/p>\n Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n You may have missed \u2026We Love You, Bunny by Mona Awad<\/p>\n Reviewed by Sandra Newman<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence This follow-up to the cult horror-satire Bunny has been shortlisted for the Wodehouse prize for comic fiction.<\/p>\n What our reviewer said \u201cAwad is here to show us that romantasy can be serious literature, and nothing can really be too camp.\u201d<\/p>\n Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n AlbumsIf you only listen to one, make it \u2026Speaking in tongues \u2026 Radie Peat. Photograph: Dave SmithRadie Peat: No Human Tongue Can Tell<\/p>\n Rough Trade; out now<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence Collecting traditional songs of female struggle and strength, the Irish singer invests them with staggering power.<\/p>\n What our reviewer said \u201cJohn \u2018Spud\u2019 Murphy\u2019s production brilliantly brings out earthy, granular details, from the sucking-in of air through Peat\u2019s concertina bellows on Cail\u00edn Deas to the disruptive thwack of Eleanor Myler\u2019s drums.\u201d Jude Rogers<\/p>\n Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Pick of the restKali Malone: Burning Song<\/p>\n Ideologic Organ; out now<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence The US artist takes a newly compact approach to her craft, and trades technical composition methods for pure emotion on another sombre masterpiece.<\/p>\n What our reviewer said \u201cThe heavy opening notes of Map the Path are solemn yet startlingly direct for Malone, feeling for the first time as if she\u2019s lifting her fingers from the keys and shaking the listener by the shoulders.\u201d Laura Snapes<\/p>\n Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Igor Levit: Resistance<\/p>\n No Silence\/Sony; out now<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence The German pianist performs these works by Beethoven and Schoenberg \u2013 linked by Napoleon \u2013 with his characteristic exquisite touch, in interpretations full of poetry.<\/p>\n What our reviewer said \u201cLevit rightly sees Liszt\u2019s piano realisation as a masterwork in and of itself and his dramatic interpretation is full of poetry, often surprisingly gentle, and with breathtaking pianissimos \u2026 In a time of bullies and despots, this is essential listening.\u201d Clive Paget<\/p>\n Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n The Big Moon: Forever<\/p>\n Fiction; out now<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence After frontperson Juliette Jackson lost half her hearing, she wrote sad songs and felt frustrated. So she pivoted, writing herself a happy ending. The results are joyfully convincing.<\/p>\n What our reviewer said \u201cThe album\u2019s sense of finding joy in sometimes difficult circumstances crystallises on the wonderfully titled You Remind Me That I\u2019m Dying (And That It\u2019s Good to Be Alive), those words providing what may well be this year\u2019s most bittersweet euphoric chorus.\u201d Dave Simpson<\/p>\n Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n On tour \u2026Macklemore\u2019s Free Palestine tour<\/p>\n Reviewed at 3Arena, Dublin, 26 October<\/p>\n Show of hands \u2026 Macklemore in Dublin. Photograph: Zoe Rain<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence Several unannounced guests feature on the first European date of the rapper\u2019s sold-out benefit tour, including video messages from Mark Ruffalo and Cynthia Nixon.<\/p>\n What our reviewer said \u201cThere\u2019s something very striking about the fact that the local artists who\u2019ve heeded Macklemore\u2019s call to help out are evidently committed to the cause behind it: you never get a sense of anyone rocking up in order to grab brownie points or reflected glory.\u201d Alexis Petridis<\/p>\n