The Critics

Defend the arts … before it’s too late

It will take more than a new government and a bonfire of policy documents to put things right

Rebus at the school of hard Knox

The tropes are popular, because they work

Without a twist

This weather-based thriller is all hot air, but who doesn’t enjoy a warm summer breeze?

A full Platée

A daring production of a daring work

The exec on an unfiltered journey

It seems dangerously liable to foster neuroticism and credulity

A neglected radical

Guillaume Guillon-Lethière was an artistic and social pioneer

Gelding: the pros

Bring back the castratos? Might as well

Thriller vs filler

The album is back and music is better for it

Polls at the pics

Films offer windows into the British and American political processes

A rollicking, great Kiss Me Kate

Musical and artistic brio can transcend the “problematic”