Review

Is art worth dying for? That was the question facing the Allies in the later days of WW2 when Hitler retreated through Europe, looting and finally burning everything he found in museums and galleries along the way. Deciding that the history and culture of an entire civilisation was exactly what …

High school’s confusing enough as it is. Between avoiding the “wrong crowd,” trying to find yourself, and scrounging together a decent education with massive classes, belligerent classmates, and the woes of being halfway between adolescence and adulthood, it’s pretty hectic. Imagine throwing some murder mystery into the mix: “Sorry, Mrs. …

It’s difficult enough to make a film about the Holocaust without having to aim it at kids. Following the likes of The Diary Of Anne Frank and The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas , director Brian Percival turns Markus Zusak’s bestseller into a moving family drama that ends up feeling …

Louis Malle’s 1958 debut has long been heralded as a forerunner of the French New Wave, with its unorthodox structure, verité camerawork and starring role for Jeanne Moreau. The ambition is bracing, but critical hindsight obscures how exciting Malle’s noir thriller is on its own terms. The plot – about …

Frances Herr would be a good title for this black-and-white indie, focusing as it does on a twentysomething Berliner (Tom Schilling) every bit as aimless and unmotivated as Greta Gerwig’s Big Apple ditz. Yet Jan Ole Gerster’s deceptively slender character study has a complex undertow, subtly linking its wallflower anti-hero’s …

Note: What follows is our original review of the PC version of the game. However, you can read specifically about the revised Xbox One version, which offers a control system better suited to console (among other enhancements), in Official Xbox magazine’s The Banner Saga review (opens in new tab). Read …

Episode 2.09 Writers: Greg Berlanti & Andrew Kreisberg, Geoff Johns & Ben Sokolowski Director: Michael Schultz THE ONE WHERE: Oliver suffers a series of hallucinations after Barry saves his life. Slade is revealed to be alive and well and very threatening indeed. THE VERDICT: Now this is the business: Arrow …

“I always wanted to be rich,” rattles the voiceover of Wall Street broker Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio), inevitably recalling goodfella Henry Hill’s “As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster.” The cacophonous trading floor spreads out before Jordan’s wide blue eyes: green numbers hurtle …

More intimate areas than a NSFW Lars Von Trier trailer feature in this docu-celebration of the burlesque scene, but director Beth B isn’t aiming to shock. A New York underground veteran, B shows how burlesque unites outsiders in a lewd and proud carnival of physical “imperfection”. Disabled people, drag queens …

Tiny Brains can either strengthen or destroy friendships. Grab three of your closest friends and hop into its puzzle-driven story mode, and soon you’ll be cheering, high-fiving, and reminiscing about the time your pal Steve swallowed a goldfish whole. Then load up a separate game mode titled Tiny Soccer, split …