Film
Polls at the pics
Films offer windows into the British and American political processes
How cinemas can save themselves
Watching films at the cinema should be a communal experience
Eroticism contra porn
Sex scenes should be salvaged from hardcore pornography
Violent delights
It’s 30 years since Pulp Fiction hit cinemas, and what a time it was to be young
Let there be love
Filmmakers have fallen out of love with romantic movies, but it’s time to bring back passion to the picture house
“Problematic” art
This kind of adolescent tripe passes these days for thought
A festival for women — and men?
You cannot address the underrepresentation of women by including men
Ghostbusted
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire is heroically pointless
War destroys everything
Alex Garland’s Civil War is filled with terror and horror
Ironic fascism
Taboo-breaking counterculture paved the way for the return of the very fascism it claimed to subvert
A guide to British electoral vocabulary
From “adviser” to “woman”, here is what it really means
War, peace, and architecture in Munster
A welcome if flawed history of Irish architecture
Counting Covid costs
We need a broad perspective of Britain’s pandemic failures
Decline of the underclass
In the 21st century, London has lost its own internal logic
Whole lotta Love
She makes your average rapper look like a Quaker
Word pictures at a gallery
Paintings are appreciated best when there are few people around to spoil the view
Starmer and the satirists
Will British comedians be as tough on the new government as on the last?
The stultification of the liberal mind
Ed Davey’s anti-political campaign is darker than it looks
The real St George’s Day
The week in fragile people and fragile porcelain
A short guide to voting in the general election
From Gorgeous George to the Newark Chainsaw Massacre, the Critic brings you a selectively exhaustive guide to the parties running in 2024
Talk of the town
On the strangeness and variety of urban development
