The Critics
Poor old Carmen
This update of a classic from the Royal Opera House is a reminder of why messing with great pieces is so risky
The untalented Mx. Ripley
In a story of a fiendishly successful performance, Eliot Sumner proved an extremely unconvincing man
Too much disinformation
Mariana Spring is back, with another series to set the songbirds a-twitter
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