TVIf you only watch one, make it \u2026The Celebrity Traitors final<\/p>\n
BBC iPlayer<\/p>\n
Summed up in a sentence A sensational, phenomenal and genuinely mind-boggling conclusion to the TV series of the moment.
What our reviewer said \u201cAbove all I shall miss the grace and elegance of Celia Imrie, so exquisitely regal even when screaming down a well or farting in a shack. As the figure under Winkleman\u2019s hair made clear on many occasions, you were, largely, awful at the game. But you were great, great entertainment.\u201d Lucy Mangan<\/p>\n
Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Further reading I\u2019m a veteran Traitor \u2013 this is why the celebrity Faithfuls are so utterly shambolic<\/a><\/p>\n Pick of the restAll Her Fault<\/p>\n Sky Atlantic & Now<\/p>\n Kid gloves \u2026 Duke McCloud and Sarah Snook in missing-child thriller All Her Fault. Photograph: Sarah Enticknap\/AP<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence Succession\u2019s Sarah Snook stars in an excellent thriller with a chilling premise: what if you went to pick your kid up from a party and there was no longer any trace of them? Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Game of Wool: Britain\u2019s Best Knitter<\/p>\n Channel 4<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence Tom Daley hosts a hugely quirky Bake Off-style show for knitting, replete with numerous maverick outfits. Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Further reading Tom Daley on his new knitting show \u2013 and pushing for Traitors resurrection<\/a>s<\/p>\n Death By Lightning<\/p>\n Netflix<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence Matthew Macfadyen stars in a punchy four-part historical miniseries about the 1881 assassination of US president, James Garfield. Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Pluribus<\/p>\n Apple TV+<\/p>\n All smiles \u2026 Rhea Seehorn and Karolina Wydra in offbeat sci-fi Pluribus. Photograph: Apple TV+\/PA<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence The latest drama from Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul creator Vince Gilligan stars Rhea Seehorn as the only US citizen to not fall under the control of an alien virus that makes everyone relentlessly happy. Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n FilmIf you only watch one, make it \u2026Die My Love<\/p>\n In cinemas now<\/p>\n To the end \u2026 Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson in the \u2018fierce, angry and engaged\u2019 Die My Love. Photograph: Kimberly French<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence Jennifer Lawrence excels as a woman whose bipolar disorder is exacerbated by husband Robert Pattinson\u2019s infidelity in Lynne Ramsay\u2019s study of a woman in meltdown. Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Further reading Lynne Ramsay on pushing Jennifer Lawrence to the brink in her twisted motherhood drama:<\/a><\/p>\n Pick of the restDragonfly<\/p>\n In cinemas now<\/p>\n \u2018Strange and dysfunctional\u2019 \u2026 Andrea Riseborough and Brenda Blethyn in Dragonfly. Photograph: Two Bungalow Films\/PA<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence Brenda Blethyn and Andrea Riseborough are two neighbours thrown together by circumstances in a haunting, genre-defying drama of lonely city living. Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n The Choral<\/p>\n In cinemas now<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence Ralph Fiennes stars in laconic Alan Bennett tale of repressed passions and rousing music during the first world war. Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Further reading Roger Allam on bad singing, big paydays and Elgar\u2019s level of \u2018gitacity\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n Train Dreams<\/p>\n In cinemas now<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence Joel Edgerton is superb as a logger clearing a path for a railway in a passionate, heartfelt adaptation of Denis Johnson\u2019s story. Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Now streamingWinter in Sochko<\/p>\n Mubi<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence Atmospheric slow-burner directed by Koya Kamura about shared identities as an enigmatic French writer visits a South Korean border city. Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n BooksIf you only read one, make it \u2026Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts by Margaret Atwood<\/p>\n Reviewed by Blake Morrison<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence A different side of the great novelist. Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Further reading Margaret Atwood on defying Trump, banned books \u2013 and her score-settling memoir<\/a><\/p>\n Pick of the restTom\u2019s Crossing by Mark Z Danielewski<\/p>\n Reviewed by Marcel Theroux<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence The House of Leaves author returns, a quarter century on, with an arcane epic western about a boy trying to save two horses. Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run by Paul McCartney<\/p>\n Reviewed by Ian Leslie<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence An oral history of Macca\u2019s post-Beatles success. Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Further reading \u2018The world said I was dead – in so many ways I was\u2019: Paul McCartney on the lost years after the Beatles<\/a><\/p>\n In Love With Love by Ella Risbridger<\/p>\n Reviewed by Kathryn Hughes<\/p>\n Photograph: Sceptre\/PA<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence A hymn of praise to romance novels. Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n You may have missed \u2026Our Evenings by Alan Hollinghurst<\/p>\n Reviewed by Alexandra Harris<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence Gay life in England from the 1960s to the pandemic, is captured through an actor\u2019s memories in the latest novel from the writer of The Line of Beauty, who has been awarded the 2025 David Cohen prize for literature. Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Further reading Alan Hollinghurst\u2019s new novel is a sharp account of British theatre \u2013 and even pastiches my criticism \u2013 Michael Billington<\/a><\/p>\n AlbumsIf you only listen to one, make it \u2026Rosal\u00eda: Lux<\/p>\n Out now<\/p>\n \u201cUniformly beautiful\u201d \u2026 Rosal\u00eda performing in Madrid. Photograph: Aldara Zarraoa\/WireImage for ABA<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence The Catalan star\u2019s monumental fourth LP features lyrics in 13 languages, the London Symphony Orchestra \u2013 and Bj\u00f6rk on \u201cdivine intervention\u201d. Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Further reading Catalan pop visionary Rosal\u00eda on critics, crisis and being \u2018hot for God\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n Pick of the restDanny Brown: Stardust<\/p>\n Out now<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence The Detroit rapper delivers a guest-stuffed, chaotically swaggering new album that no one could be bored by. Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n The Mountain Goats: Through This Fire Across from Peter Balkan<\/p>\n Out now<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence With some help from Lin-Manuel Miranda, John Darnielle and his band head off on a surprisingly upbeat voyage to a desert island. Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Martin Fr\u00f6st: BACH<\/p>\n Out now<\/p>\n Swede dream \u2026 Fr\u00f6st recorded in the countryside with guest musicians sleeping over. Photograph: Mats B\u00e4cker<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence The virtuosic clarinettist\u2019s effortless phrasing and imaginative collaborations make this collection short but sweet. Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Now touring \u2026Radiohead<\/p>\n Touring Europe to 12 December<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence The band\u2019s first gig in seven years demonstrates the pure joy they are capable of bringing.
What our reviewer said \u201cAll Her Fault is fantastically well done. All the carefully planted seeds come to fruition. All the narrative cogs turn and interlock fast and seamlessly. You come for the terrifying premise and stay for the absolute pleasure.\u201d Lucy Mangan<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said \u201cDaley is a joy, a twinkling whirl of unforced cheer whose obvious passion for all things wool manages to \u2013 oh, go on then \u2013 knit the whole thing together. And lo, a potentially soggy-bottomed GBBO facsimile is instantly transformed into something that is at least 80% less rubbish than it could have been. It is, in a very real sense, The Great British Cast-Off.\u201d Sarah Dempster<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said \u201cMacfadyen has obviously been cast on the back of his portrayal of greasy climber Tom Wambsgans in Succession, but here he takes his mastery of grasping losers to another level.\u201d Jack Seale<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said \u201cIt takes some chutzpah to look at the world in 2025 \u2013 especially if you are a non-Maga citizen of the US \u2013 and say to yourself: \u201cYes, but wouldn\u2019t it be almost more terrible if everybody just \u2026 got along?\u201d Lucy Mangan<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said \u201cIt is fierce, angry, engaged, and intensely, sensually alert to every detail of its own pleasure and pain.\u201d Peter Bradshaw<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said \u201cIt is a riveting dual portrait of two gloomy people who really have, in a strange and dysfunctional way, found a new way of interacting.\u201d Peter Bradshaw<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said \u201cThis is a quiet and consistent pleasure: an unsentimental but deeply felt drama which subcontracts actual passion to the music of Elgar and leaves us with a heartbeat of wit, poignancy and common sense.\u201d Peter Bradshaw<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said \u201cA lovely looking, deeply felt film, clearly absorbing the influences of Terrence Malick in some of the low camera positions, sunset-hour compositions, narrative voiceovers, and epiphanically revealed glories of the American landscape.\u201d Peter Bradshaw<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said \u201cFixating on absence, threatening to drown in internal sensations, Kamura musters an intriguing kind of modern ghost story.\u201d Phil Hoad<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said \u201cWhere most such backward looks are cosily triumphalist or anxiously self-justifying, hers is sharp, funny and engaging, a book you can warm to even if you\u2019re not fully au fait with her astonishing output.\u201d<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said \u201cDanielewski is a writer of enormous power and vision. He has invented a gripping story with mythic undertones.\u201d<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said \u201cA portal into a more eccentric age of pop, a fable about the tension between celebrity and creativity, and a story with elements of Sp\u0131n\u0308al Tap and Wacky Races.\u201d<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said \u201cIt is the quality of loving lawlessness, suggests Risbridger, that gives romantic fiction its deep joy and special pleasure.\u201d<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said \u201cThe finest novel yet from one of the great writers of our time.\u201d<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said \u201cIn truth, you don\u2019t need to know what\u2019s going on to find Lux a truly compelling, involving experience. These are uniformly beautiful songs, filled with striking moments.\u201d Alexis Petridis<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said \u201cThe results are remarkably arresting. There are moments where Stardust sounds more poppy and obviously hook-laden than Brown has ever done before. Equally, however, Stardust is more than capable of dealing in bracingly confrontational blare.\u201d Alexis Petridis<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said \u201cIt\u2019s sumptuously crafted, full of gallows humour and \u2013 as with so much of Darnielle\u2019s best work \u2013 delving below the surface reveals layers of deeper meaning about humanity, togetherness and the precious joys of being alive.\u201d Dave Simpson<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said \u201cThere\u2019s an intimate feel to the whole thing, which was recorded at Fr\u00f6st\u2019s studio in the Swedish countryside, with the fellow musicians sleeping over.\u201d Erica Jeal<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said \u201cPerforming in the round, they take and switch positions behind a gossamer projection screen that initially seems like some kind of shield. As it turns out, no such protection is needed. This is not a fragile re-emergence.\u201d Stephen Phelan<\/p>\n