Film Review
The wild north
On screen savage battles, middle-aged villains, decline and disease are reviewed by Robert Hutton
Into thin Air
A pro-capitalist cinematic curiosity
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
You are being nudged
State-sponsored psychological manipulation is becoming ubiquitous
Religious freedom is being ignored this election
The global persecution of Christians and other religious minorities will be a defining issue for the next government, but it is barely being discussed
Lockdowns and the problem with science-based policy
Evidence in politics is great, but what evidence and to what ends?
When things could only get better
Fans of the 1990s aren’t nostalgic reactionaries. They celebrate an era of optimism, peace, prosperity and great popular culture
The secret war of a wolf in chic clothing
Dudley Clarke had his fingers in many of the most interesting pies of covert operations in World War II
What Lowry saw in the sea
The philosophical side of the painter of “matchstalk men” adds to his charm
Britain must reindustrialise
A truly conservative economics must prioritise making, not speculating
Organic snake oil salesmen
The Greens have an easy answer for any question (well, almost any question)
A last chance at class
Labour is running out of time to put working class MPs into parliament
Anger and intuition
Mieczyslaw Weinberg: String quartets 6, 13, 15 (Chandos)
J.K. Rowling does it again
Why does one woman’s opinion cause so much outrage?
