The Critics

The worm (re)turns

Dune: Part Two is in cinemas — and it’s more of the glorious same

How to win at Chopin

Giving marks to people playing Chopin is no different from deciding on medals in gymnastics

Mad for this fresh take on King Lear

Farber’s casting and concept feels assured

Great Lives — great, The Essay — awful

Radio 3 maintains its course towards self-destruction

The erotic art book banned by a pope

A rich tale of great artists, pornography and the papacy has made I Modi one of the most fabled of all books

The best of The Rest Is …

Sequel podcasts are emerging with the inevitability of sprouts from an old potato

Face to face with history

Holbein at the Tudor Court brings the English Renaissance court back to vivid life

Good cops and bad spies

Intelligence services as portrayed on-screen are pretty ghastly places to work

A sharp satire perfect for Critic readers

We should be giving copies of this magazine away at every screening

Operettas for the apocalypse

As we career merrily ever deeper into the end-times, what is the appropriate soundtrack for civilisational collapse?