Culture + Reviews
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Met exhibition review: show-stopping peacockery and introspective originsSuperfine: Tailoring Black Style is an appreciation, cultural critique, and reclamation of Black designers who’ve been sidelined from larger fashion conversations
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3 out of 5 stars.Silence is Golden review – Katherine Ryan would definitely kill your dog for cash
3 out of 5 stars.TV reviewSilence is Golden review – Katherine Ryan would definitely kill your dog for cashThis nerve-jangling gameshow – in which stars try to make an audience laugh, gasp or worse – gives us comics on gloriously evil form and the best TV villain in decades. If only they hadn’t wheeled out a naked old woman …
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4 out of 5 stars.Malpractice season two review – relentlessly tense TV that will leave you terrified
4 out of 5 stars.TV reviewMalpractice season two review – relentlessly tense TV that will leave you terrifiedWho would you treat first – a woman with postpartum psychosis, or a pregnant crack addict about to be sectioned? This brilliant show looks at the impossible decisions one doctor has to make … that ends in tragedy -
3 out of 5 stars.Sophie McCartney: One Foot in the Rave review – the ‘comedimum’ riffs on wild youth and motherhood
Sophie McCartney: One Foot in the Rave review – the ‘comedimum’ riffs on wild youth and motherhood
3 out of 5 stars.Profundity is in short supply in this celebration of received thinking about wrinkles and randy husbands – but McCartney makes the familiar shine -
4 out of 5 stars.Romeo and Juliet review – star-crossed lovers transported to the wild westDirector Sean Holmes’s high concept production shows that the frontier works surprisingly well as Shakespeare’s fractious Verona
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4 out of 5 stars.Pimpinone review – hot-to-trot comic opera from the underperformed TelemannIsabela Díaz has great fun as chambermaid Vespetta and Grisha Martirosyan is laugh-out-loud funny as nice-but-dim Pimpinone in a tale of sexual politics not a million miles from our own time
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3 out of 5 stars.Families Like Ours review – why is this dull drama such a hit in Denmark?
3 out of 5 stars.TV reviewFamilies Like Ours review – why is this dull drama such a hit in Denmark?It’s a terrifying concept: a privileged country being evacuated as it’s about to go underwater. But not even Oscar-winning director Thomas Vinterberg can make this climate crisis dystopia the epic it promised to be
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3 out of 5 stars.The Government Inspector review – Tom Rosenthal stirs up Gogol’s political satireThe standup brings his easy stage command to the role of a penniless nincompoop who tricks his way into authority in Gregory Doran’s production
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The Excursions of Mr Brouček review – Simon Rattle embraces Janáček’s baffling but beautiful opera
4 out of 5 stars.