The Critics

Rock as ritual

Just as Taylor has nailed the emotional lexicon of her people, Finn has nailed it for his

First impressions

The first Impressionist exhibition was no obscure bit of posturing, but artistic sedition

Snook dazzles as Dorian Gray

Wilde’s preoccupation with beauty and artifice brings a sassy Victorian immorality tale into our own times

Long story short

Movie length seems to have become a way for directors to tell us what serious people they are

The stench of Chanel No 5

Set mainly in Nazi-occupied Paris, The New Look tells the story of Coco Chanel and Christian Dior

Too much disinformation

Mariana Spring is back, with another series to set the songbirds a-twitter

Politics with the depth of a puddle

A month of politically-minded podcasts has reached its exhausting apogee

War on Nazis in Oz and in the air

LeBor reviews Our Dad the Nazi Killer and Masters of the Air

A Good Read should be better

Some weeks there are comedians and groovy journalists — others it’s groovy journalists and comedians

War destroys everything

Alex Garland’s Civil War is filled with terror and horror