Pick of the restRainbow Warrior<\/p>\n
Now TV; out now<\/p>\n
Rainbow Warrior. Photograph: Sky<\/p>\n
Summed up in a sentence A riveting feature-length documentary about the bizarre story of French secret agents blowing up a Greenpeace ship in New Zealand in 1985.
What our reviewer said \u201cIt\u2019s gasp-inducing stuff, even if the documentary is at pains to keep the mood fizzy via skittish editing and a soundtrack consisting of wine-bar jazz and, inexplicably, Wang Chung.\u201d Sarah Dempster<\/p>\n
Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n The Airport Chaplain<\/p>\n Netflix; out now<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence Another moreish Hugo Weaving drama, this time about a do-gooder minister who is always saving the day at work. Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Further reading Shabana Azeez: \u2018The most disgusting thing I\u2019ve seen on The Pitt? American coffee\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n You may have missed \u2026Kabul<\/p>\n BBC iPlayer; out now<\/p>\n Kabul. Photograph: BBC\/Cin\u00e9t\u00e9v\u00e9\/24 25 Films T\u00e9l\u00e9visions\/Domniki Mitropoulou<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence A tense, powerful thriller about an Afghan family and the shameful events of when the Americans withdrew and the Taliban moved in. Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n FilmIf you only watch one, make it \u2026De Gaulle: R\u00e9sistance<\/p>\n Out now<\/p>\n De Gaulle: R\u00e9sistance. Photograph: Entertainment Film Distributors\/PA<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence Simon Abkarian plays the great Gallic general and Resistance leader, opposite Simon Russell Beale as Churchill, in the first half of a lavish two-parter. Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Further reading \u2018The spirit of resistance\u2019: De Gaulle biopic turns into surprise hit for France\u2019s younger viewers<\/a><\/p>\n Pick of the restBitter Christmas<\/p>\n Out now<\/p>\n Bitter Christmas.<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence Pedro Almod\u00f3var\u2019s autofictional and meta drama is about a director writing a film about a director writing a film. Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Further reading \u2018It is the riskiest film I\u2019ve ever made\u2019: Pedro Almod\u00f3var on being the villain in his own movie<\/a><\/p>\n Colony<\/p>\n Out now<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence Frenzied K-horror action from the director of Train to Busan traps a small group of the non-infected in a tower block swarming with rabid hive-mind zombies. Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Shaun the Sheep Movie<\/p>\n Out now<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence The first feature-length adventure of cinema\u2019s most adorable ovine hero gets a rerelease ahead of next month\u2019s (18 September) sequel The Beast of Mossy Bottom. Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Further reading Baa-hind the scenes on the Shaun the Sheep movie: \u2018In a good week we can shoot two minutes\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n Now streamingMarching in the Dark<\/p>\n True Story<\/p>\n Marching in the Dark. Photograph: SNG Film<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence Low prices and rising debt levels have caused a suicide epidemic among agricultural workers in rural India; this documentary is about some of the women left behind. Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Further reading Suicides of nearly 60,000 Indian farmers linked to climate change, study claims<\/a><\/p>\n skip past newsletter promotion<\/a><\/p>\n Sign up to The Guide<\/p>\n Get our weekly pop culture email, free in your inbox every Friday<\/p>\n after newsletter promotion<\/p>\n BooksIf you only read one, make it \u2026 Photograph: Riverhead\/APThe Disappearers by Marlon James<\/p>\n Reviewed by Yagnishsing Dawoor<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence This tale of the aftermath of a homophobic mob attack in 1980s Jamaica is longlisted for the Booker prize. Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Pick of the restThe Great Dictator: A Life of Barbara Cartland by Matthew Sweet<\/p>\n Reviewed by Kathryn Hughes<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence An extraordinary biography of a much-underestimated woman. Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Passage by Colin Thubron<\/p>\n Reviewed by John Banville<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence A dying woman looks back on her life as she makes a last journey to Egypt. Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Betrayal: Trump, Putin and the New Age of Conquest by Luke Harding<\/p>\n Reviewed by Lawrence Freedman<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence How the US turned its back on Ukraine, and aided Putin. Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Sophie, Standing There by Meg Mason<\/p>\n Reviewed by Sam Leith<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence A heartbroken woman becomes obsessed with an author, in the follow-up to Sorrow and Bliss. Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n You may have missed \u2026 Photograph: Transworld Publishers Ltd\/PANobody\u2019s Girl by Virginia Roberts Giuffre<\/p>\n Reviewed by Emma Brockes<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence The searing memoir of a Jeffrey Epstein victim, now out in paperback. Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n AlbumsIf you only listen to one, make it \u2026Billy Strings: So Much for Goodbyes<\/p>\n Out now<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence The introspective fifth album from the bluegrass crossover star \u2013 feted by everyone from Bob Dylan to Post Malone to Willie Nelson \u2013 is a moving journey through grief following the death of his mother. Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n Further reading \u2018I was running away from poverty\u2019: the remarkable rise of bluegrass virtuoso Billy Strings<\/a><\/p>\n Pick of the restDahi: Black Boy (Alternative)<\/p>\n Out now<\/p>\n Summed up in a sentence After creating tracks for a diverse range of artists including Kendrick Lamar, Vampire Weekend and Madonna, California producer Dahi steps into the spotlight on this genre-hopping debut album.
What our reviewer said \u201cI doubt the lives of real airport chaplains are anywhere near as frenetic as those of this show\u2019s protagonist, Tobias Wallace (Weaving), whose existence is a testament to that old saying: \u201cNot all heroes wear capes.\u201d Sometimes, they wear hi-vis.\u201d Luke Buckmaster<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said \u201cIts thriller tropes, of a race against time and of risks taken under the gaze of an implacable enemy, are utilised effectively to make the story as compelling as it is appalling. August 2021 in Kabul was an awful, shameful moment in history; this show vividly re-lives it.\u201d Jack Seale<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said \u201cThis very enjoyable and gallopingly eventful biopic offers a good-humoured, though naturally sympathetic, perspective on France\u2019s great wartime hero. A tiny touch of comedy makes it resemble an old-fashioned 60s war film.\u201d Peter Bradshaw<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said \u201cA candidly personal movie, circling around ideas of grief, loss, the vampirism of art and the betrayal involved in basing fictional characters on real people: a complex, slightly muddled, almost surreally modernist noir-melodrama.\u201d Peter Bradshaw<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said \u201cWorking with a company of South Korea\u2019s top contemporary dancers, movement choreographer Jeon Young makes many of the action and gore scenes resemble something you might see on stage at Sadler\u2019s Wells. Michael Jackson\u2019s Thriller video might have done it first but Colony does it better, more scarily and on an epic scale\u201d Laurence Phelan<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said \u201cIt\u2019s a quasi-silent film jam-packed with gags, visual ideas and narrative invention and positively bursting with comedy flavour. Like Jim Henson\u2019s muppets, the stop-motion Aardman figures are effortlessly funny, as well as being better performers than most humans.\u201d Peter Bradshaw<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said \u201cSanjivani not only works in the fields but also performs domestic labour for her extended family \u2013 cooking, cleaning and doing laundry. Her resilience is stunning to witness, but even more impressive is the emotional support provided by a tight-knit network of other widows.\u201d Phuong Le<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787994852_653_500.jpg\")
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What our reviewer said \u201cFew books have mapped the beleaguered realities of queer existence with such psychological depth, harrowing realism and searing condemnation.\u201d<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said \u201cMatthew Sweet pays his subject the compliment of absolute seriousness, regarding her as a cultural phenomenon whose life, stretching the entire 20th century, deserves deep study.\u201d<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said \u201cPassage is an exquisitely wrought novel which, for all its understated, filigree texture, reverberates in the mind with poetic force.\u201d<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said \u201cHarding discusses the question of whether Trump might himself be a Russian asset. Is it just that he enjoys the company of tyrants and envies their supreme power, or do they have embarrassing kompromat that he wants to ensure doesn\u2019t see the light of day?\u201d<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said \u201cMason is brilliant at describing the small but intense joys of everyday life \u2013 getting your scalp massaged at the hairdresser, for instance, or owning one really nicely designed pair of trousers.\u201d<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said \u201cGiuffre was rightly proud of holding Epstein and Maxwell to account. And yet for any survivor of sexual violence, the cost of recovery \u2013 let alone of confronting her abusers in front of the world \u2013 can be impossibly steep.\u201d<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said \u201cWhat does cut through the gloom is the lingering thought of how rich and powerful the album you\u2019ve just heard is.\u201d Alexis Petridis<\/p>\n
What our reviewer said \u201cTwisty, tactile tracks reference Radiohead and Fela Kuti, toy with time signatures and chord changes, and are just as likely to deploy open-hearted sax solos as gnarly vocoder \u2013 all in the service of showing off the guitar\u2019s versatility.\u201d Katie Hawthorne<\/p>\n