★★★☆☆ A pair of South Korean baby traffickers journey through the picturesque coastal Busan region. Despite formulaic elements, a lively cast and stunning cinematography make it a compelling watch. Read our Broker review.
★★☆☆☆
Lily James and Shazad Latif star in What’s Love Got To Do With It? which unfortunately lacks both romance and comedy.
Sophie Okonedo stars as the titular woman out for revenge in Dominic Cooke's new staging of Medea, playing now at the @sohoplace theatre. Here's our review:
Recovering from the aftermath of episode 5, Joel and Ellie finally reach Tommy’s and have a moment to breathe in episode 6.
★★★★☆
Walsall-raised, London-based Wesley Joseph lays down his marker as one of the UK’s brightest emerging talents on Glow, a project that’s more pensive than previous releases.
★★★☆☆
High-flying businessman Peter (Hugh Jackman) struggles to get through to his son Nicholas (Zen McGrath) in Florian Zeller’s family drama, The Son.
★★★☆☆
Pink's Trustfall is a strange, eclectic mix of styles and influences, but Pink’s voice remains impressive.
★★★★☆ Alan Fletcher (Dr Karl Kennedy from Neighbours) releases his debut Americana album featuring soft, sad musings on relationships and everyday domesticities. Read our The Point review.
★★★☆☆
Orbital enlist more features than usual on Optical Delusion, to ponder our post-pandemic world. Whilst an impressive tenth album, it doesn’t continuously dazzle.
★★☆☆☆
AppleTV+’s new film Sharper, starring Julianne Moore, is a twisty thriller from director Benjamin Caron. Read our review.
★★★★★ The Saatchi Gallery’s new exhibition, Beyond The Streets, is massive. In both scale and scope, the display dwarfs any street art exhibition the UK has hosted before, spanning the breadth of the subculture on both sides of the Atlantic and beyond.
★★★☆☆ Based on writer-director Elegance Bratton’s own experiences, The Inspection follows a young gay man on his way to become a Marine.
★★★★★
Over nearly two decades, Rolo Tomassi have amassed an ardent following without a modicum of mainstream attention. At their largest show to date, the Sheffielders indulge in the fruits of their labour, welcoming 1,500 loyalists to an evening of immaculate emotion.
★★★★☆
Cuts & Bruises demonstrates that Inhaler are capable of that much-coveted element from debut to sophomore – maturity – whilst preserving the winning formula behind It’s Always Like This.
★★★☆☆
Paul Rudd’s Ant-Man makes a flashy return in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, which introduces us to Kang the Conqueror.
★★★★☆ In Mario Martone's Neapolitan gangster drama, cherished memories unravel and turn violent in a hail of masterful cinematography and impassioned performances.
★★★☆☆
Marcel The Shell With Shoes On is heartwarming and cute, but also designed for the social media audience.
A new photographic anthology, Love Story, from Hoxton Mini Press, showcases over 150 images from 23 talented photographers, exploring love in the modern world and challenging our perceptions of relationships.
★★★☆☆
Desire, I Want to Turn into You, Caroline Polachek’s second solo album under her given name, has been one of this year’s most anticipated releases. And whilst there’s plenty to love about it (it has, after all, been released on Valentine’s Day), its experimentation doesn’t always stack up.
★★★★☆
Colchester alt-hip-hop group Monster Florence dissect the dystopian state of the world through lyrical tricks and commendable beats on their new album Master System; a record which ultimately demonstrates how underrated they are.
★★★★☆
Sheffield outfit Reverend and the Makers rolled back the years to deliver welcome upbeat indie at Islington Assembly Hall – and even took to the streets to do so.
★★☆☆☆
You Me At Six take on Ally Pally on Saturday night, in a predictable show that adheres to the “arena rock 101” handbook.
★★★★☆ Ernest's Flower Shops (The Album): Two Dozen Roses is a deluxe country music expansion showcasing the versatile crooner's signature style and blending of influences.
Episode 5 of The Last of Us sees Joel and Ellie fight humans and infected alike, including our first Bloater.
★★★☆☆
After nearly six years, pop-punk darlings Paramore return with brand new, highly anticipated album This Is Why.
★★★☆☆
In Blue Jean, Georgia Oakley’s impressive, but flawed debut, a PE teacher faces a personal crisis in Thatcher’s Britain.
★★☆☆☆ Your Place or Mine is a straight-to-Netflix romantic comedy that reunites two likeable performers, Ashton Kutcher and Reese Witherspoon. I’m playing fast and loose with the word ‘reunite’ here because Kutcher and Witherspoon aren’t in the same room together for most of the movie.
★★★★☆
In Sarah Polley’s gentle Women Talking, a group of Mennonite women debate whether they should leave their colony after a series of brutal attacks against them.
★★★★☆
After 16 albums and nearly 40 years as indie rock’s depressive cult heroes, you may think Yo La Tengo would be running out of things to say and ways to surprise. But on their 17th LP This Stupid World – their first of wholly original material since 2018’s There’s a Riot Going On – there’s a living urgency in the trio’s meditative assortment of reflective odes to time and past and all that holds.
Charting the rise and fall of America's fourth largest investment bank, Sam Mendes' Tony Award-winning epic, The Lehman Trilogy, returns to the Gillian Lynne Theatre following its acclaimed Broadway run.
