Film Review
The human subject
Tár is a film of moving ambiguities
Animation grows up
Jibaro is an artistic triumph
It’s grim up north
Is the Northman alt-right propaganda? Perhaps, but it’s not the only one
Modern-day Ealing comedy
A quintessentially English spirit of wry rebellion lives on in two new films
Belfast boy
Christopher Silvester reviews two semi-autobiographical movies: Oscar-contender Belfast and arthouse The Souvenir
Eternally complicit, hell-fired thugs
Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast transcends the identity strait jacket
Awful states
Two political thrillers reveal the intimate cruelties of life under dictatorship
Forgotten films
Streaming services contain a wealth of overlooked foreign-language war stories
Red pill, blue pill
Is The Matrix best judged as cinema or cultural phenomenon?
Victim at sixty
How much has really changed in the film industry since the Dirk Bogarde film “came out”?
All in the family
Most likely, we live in a comfortable nest of light fictions
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 death of charity?
The decline of religion and the fraying of our social fabric has made us meaner
Playing the ball
The Kookaburra experiment seems a confused diversion, not a ticket to high intensity
Tragedy of the common spaces
It is sadly in keeping with the modern British mindset to prefer something good not to be done
The Roman Republic is worth thinking about
The life and death of Tiberius Gracchus illustrate the virtues of populism
Pen pusher
My fascination with fountain pens
Save this perfect Welsh building
The Church Institute and Churchmen’s Club at Llanfairfechan need, and deserve, to be preserved
Man of letters: reading between the lines
Byron: A Life in Ten Letters by Andrew Stauffer
Is Britain on course for abortion up to birth?
Diana Johnson’s amendment creates a medical and legal vacuum that would endanger women and their babies
Wragg must go
He should resign or be fired
