Summed up in a sentence Sharon Horgan is back with a hilarious, painfully realistic series about life in your 50s – and it’s some of her best work ever.What our reviewer said “Horgan dwells in the truth always, and there is nothing more bitterly funny or compelling than that.” Lucy Mangan Further reading ‘I didn’t know if I’d ever have sex again’: inside Sharon Horgan’s excruciating post-divorce comedy Summed up in a sentence Nigella Lawson joins the judging panel of one of TV’s most treasured culinary shows – and gives it a much-needed shot of life.What our reviewer said “I pronounce the good ship Bake Off fully seaworthy. Long may she sail with Nigella and crew at the helm.” Lucy Mangan Further reading ‘Eating is my superpower’: Nigella turns up the heat on Bake Off Summed up in a sentence A delightfully soapy spin-off of BBC divorce drama The Split – set in Manchester and starring Sanjeev Bhaskar.What our reviewer said “The Split Up delivers full-on sudsy fun from the start.” Lucy Mangan Summed up in a sentence An enjoyably terrifying exercise in which an imminent nuclear strike on the UK by Russia is played out, by a cabinet of real-life ex-politicians including Nicola Sturgeon, Harriet Harman and Michael Gove as PM.What our reviewer said “Gove, Harman and Sturgeon are fabulously awful.” Lucy Mangan Summed up in a sentence An enormously entertaining crime drama about a female serial killer powered by its female characters’ unfaltering current of rage.What our reviewer said “Television for grownups, television to pay attention to and to entertain you enormously.” Lucy Mangan Further reading Furious: this serial killer thriller is the most staggeringly feminist TV you’ll ever watch Summed up in a sentence Shapeshifting fantasia from Nicolas Winding Refn that moves through time and space, from doomy reality to strange dream worlds populated by quasi-Lynchian characters.What our reviewer said “Her Private Hell resists interpretation, like so many of Refn’s recent films, but executes a slow dervish swirl of hypnotic strangeness.” Peter Bradshaw Further reading ‘I thank God for killing me and bringing me back’: Nicolas Winding Refn on the heart surgery that inspired his new sci-fi horror Summed up in a sentence A melee of running, chasing and shouting at angry alien invaders from Korean director Na Hong-jin mixes digital work with old-school spectacle to create top-quality entertainment.What our reviewer said “The movie ingeniously reveals that monsters have feelings too, and the local people’s desensitised aggression towards this existential outsider may have caused all the problems in the first place.” Peter Bradshaw Summed up in a sentence Sherman’s March director Ross McElwee revisits footage of his late son for a magnificent and moving tribute to a tragic loss and the art it inspired.What our reviewer said “Remake is all at once about creativity, shame, love and loss, revelling in the way film can capture a moment of truth and honesty, but tempered by the knowledge that once a subject knows they’re being filmed everything becomes a kind of performance.” Leslie Felperin Summed up in a sentence Sober-minded next-gen do-over of the Austen romcom, with Daisy Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed-Miles as the Dashwood sisters in a fresh take quite different from the 1995 version.What our reviewer said “This turns out to be a more downbeat, ruminative version, happening in much cloudier weather than 30 years ago and without the sugar-rush final wedding scene.” Peter Bradshaw Summed up in a sentence Brad Pitt and loyal hound Odin get stuck in remote Alaska in this serviceable adventure with hints of Jack London and Marley & Me.What our reviewer said “It’s an entertaining anthro-canine-mance, with man and dog relating to each other on a deep level … kind of like Owen Wilson in Marley & Me, only without Jennifer Aniston, or Bernie Winters and Schnorbitz, only without the devastating melancholy.” Peter Bradshaw Summed up in a sentence A historian’s meticulous account of just how intertwined British society is with slavery.What our reviewer said “Slave gain – Britain’s gigantic profiting from the trade – funded the physical structures, from docks to canals, that helped make the country a global force.” Summed up in a sentence A dazzlingly ambitious, linguistically rich retelling of England’s 1381 Peasants’ Revolt.What our reviewer said “It’s a beast and a challenge; in its quirkiness and intensity, it couldn’t be more interesting.” Summed up in a sentence Two possible future USAs – one chaotic, one totalitarian – are linked through the story of a woman searching for the truth.What our reviewer said “Is the price of stability necessarily the loss of freedom? The question plays out daily in our political reality.” Summed up in a sentence A young writer seeks to recover from an emotional crisis.What our reviewer said “This is a uniquely honest and affecting meditation on art, religion and mental health, told with a preternatural tenderness.” Summed up in a sentence The author of Blink attempts to explain US gun culture.What our reviewer said “By avoiding any serious analysis of systemic and structural inequalities – particularly in terms of race and class – he fails to engage with who gets murdered by guns and why.” Summed up in a sentence Shortlisted for the Booker, this 600-page epic explores gay life and murderous homophobia in Aids-era Kingston.What our reviewer said “His prose is a consistent triumph: bitter and hilarious, lyrical, bawdy, pugnacious and scorchingly, ravishingly queer.” Summed up in a sentence Your favourite band’s favourite band unleash a thrilling and relentless 42 minutes of monstrous noise whose precise instrumental source always remains discomfitingly unclear.What our reviewer said “Pugnello is the dictionary definition of ‘not for everyone’, although, like a lot of extreme music, it feels fitting in the context of 2026.
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