How controversial is The Apprentice?
Abbasi’s heady weaving of the antic and the deadly serious may explain some of the criticism that’s been leveled at the film
Arts Reviews
The good, bad and ugly in arts and exhbitions
Monday
Twenty-five years of Fight Club and American Beauty
What the notorious films have to say about masculinity in crisis?
War, one artwork at a time
Ukrainian nationals and their allies have been working tirelessly to promote the voices of a people under siege
A classic monument for World War One
Sabin Howard brings classicism back to the Mall
Friday
Where has the erotic film gone?
Depictions of sex in cinema have collapsed
Tuesday
Are politician films really such a good idea, after all?
Ali Abbasi’s Donald Trump drama The Apprentice has flopped
Tuesday
Saturday Night Live is helping Trump
The show has done more to link Harris to Biden in two episodes than the weak-kneed GOP establishment has done since she became the Democratic candidate
Monday
Are we seeing the death of auteur cinema?
Joker: Folie à Deux has flopped, and then some
Friday
RIP, Dame Maggie Smith
Her death represents the passing of a generation
Monday
The Penguin, Agatha All Along and the perils of spin-offs of spin-offs
There is a chronic lack of imagination
Friday
A Very Royal Scandal — a very controversial series?
If you’ve seen Scoop , you may feel that this is inessential and unrevelatory
Monday
Emmys 2024: Shōgun, shocks and surprises
The Japan-set drama won virtually everything this year
Thursday
Caligula’s second wind
The notorious film may be the most expensive, most unpleasant adult movie ever made
The world needs more Lars von Triers
The director has spent his time pushing the boundaries of cinema to the extreme
Bud Powell should be a household name
He cherished the few joys in his life and celebrated them through his innovative approach to the piano
Böcklin brings out the dead
A Swiss Symbolist haunted by the beyond
Wednesday
Azealia Banks flames Milo Yiannopoulos as they sever professional ties
‘LMAO now shut up before i call ICE On you and get you deported you filthy migrant’
Tuesday
RIP James Earl Jones
He, and his remarkable voice, will both be sorely missed
Monday
The decline of Tim Burton
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is a dismally confused hotchpotch that aims for a curious mixture of comedy
Monday
The welcome return of Slow Horses
Mick Herron and Will Smith have a rug-pulling conceit that makes for high-octane viewing
