Five stars for PJ Harvey, tackling the big themes at London’s Roundhouse — review Date Friday, September 29, 2023 - 7:57 AM Description The singer’s mesmerising show had the timeless feel of deep myth
Five stars for Stranger Things: The First Shadow — sinister and thrilling trip to the Upside Down Date Monday, December 18, 2023 - 10:22 AM Description The Netflix hit’s theatrical spin-off balances horror and humour to great effect
Five stars for The Brutalist — postwar epic of architecture and survival with Adrien Brody Date Monday, September 02, 2024 - 8:56 AM Description At the Venice Film Festival, director Brady Corbet tells the fascinating story of a proud man starting a new life in America
Five stars for the Cannes Dance Festival — from Vivaldi to zombies Date Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 8:24 AM Description The event opened with a world premiere by Thierry Malandain and an alluring piece by Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar
Five stars for The Delinquents — a bank-robbery film that defies genres Image Date Thursday, March 21, 2024 - 7:01 AM Description Argentine mash-up of crime, thriller and comedy starts conventionally before heading sideways
Five stars for The Hills of California, a magnificent new play from Jez Butterworth — review Date Wednesday, February 07, 2024 - 5:01 PM Description Past and present, trauma and music combine in this simmering drama at the Harold Pinter Theatre, London
Five stars for The Idiot, Salzburg Festival — unmissable opera of love and manipulation Date Monday, August 05, 2024 - 10:23 AM Description Mieczysław Weinberg turns Dostoyevsky’s dense novel into a work of depth and nuance
Five stars for the Met’s Tannhäuser, despite climate-protest disruption Date Monday, December 04, 2023 - 7:45 AM Description Andreas Schager sang with passion, Christian Gerhaher with elegance in the revival of a 1977 Wagner production
Five stars for the Pet Shop Boys, Koko, London — hit after hit from a band on intoxicating form Date Monday, May 27, 2024 - 6:08 AM Description Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe made their back catalogue of classics seem urgent and modern
Five stars for the Royal Ballet’s miraculous Onegin — review Date Friday, January 24, 2025 - 10:00 AM Description John Cranko’s 1965 ballet is revived in London with a starry cast bringing their characters fully to life