The Critics

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

Snook dazzles as Dorian Gray

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

The grand tour

Sex and the cities

A great conductor leaves the stage

No conductor from China or Japan ever commanded world orchestras before Seiji Ozawa, and none has since matched his impact

Netherworld

The Dutch golden age could be anything but for the painters

Ghostbusted

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire is heroically pointless

Justin’s dilemma

Spears got slutshamed; Timberlake was the stud

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