The Critics

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

Farber’s casting and concept feels assured

Radio 3 maintains its course towards self-destruction

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

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

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

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

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

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

There are expectations going back to 1948 that musicians turn up to provide relief