Reviews
Reissue CDs Weekly: T2 - It'll All Work Out In Boomland
Sunday, 18 April 2021
It'll All Work Out In Boomland was issued by Decca at the end of July 1970. A poor seller at the time, it began attracting attention in the mid-Eighties when prices for original copies began creeping up. Around 2000, it was picking up about £100.
Promising Young Woman, Sky Cinema review - Emerald Fennell's brilliant directorial debut
Saturday, 17 April 2021
After winning a couple of Baftas, and with five nominations at next week’s Oscars, Promising Young Woman comes surging in on the crest of a wave.
Citizen Lane review - fascinating dramadoc about...
Friday, 16 April 2021
On first sight, Citizen Lane's appeal may seem limited to those with an Irish connection or an interest in fine art. But director Thaddeus O'Sullivan...
Hough, Hallé, Elder, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester...
Friday, 16 April 2021
Sir Mark Elder is back with the Hallé for the latest (and penultimate) filmed concert in their “Winter Season” of 2020 and 2021, including the world...
Isserlis, LPO, Elder, Southbank Centre online...
Thursday, 15 April 2021
The Southbank Centre automatically stuck the trusty “Bohemian Rhapsodies” headline on this London Philharmonic Orchestra concert of Czech music...
True Mothers review - how many people does it take to raise a child?
Atmospheric but sentimental: Japanese auteur Naomi Kawase casts her gaze on adoption |
Bent Coppers: Crossing the Line of Duty, BBC Two review - when crime paid handsomely for corrupt officers
Astounding history of how the Met went rotten from within |
Jonathan Calvert and George Arbuthnott: Failures of State review - a devastating exposé, slightly mistimed
Precipitous publication may mean this feat of research fails to make its mark |
Too Close, ITV review - capable cast struggles with unrewarding material
Unconvincing TV treatment of Natalie Daniels novel |
Benjamin Grosvenor, Barbican online review - black magic and golden-age gorgeousness
The British pianist's recital beautifully evokes romanticism in isolation |
Polly Barton: Fifty Sounds review - what is lost in translation
How to understand a language if you don't understand yourself |
Reissue CDs Weekly: Wes Montgomery - The NDR Hamburg Studio Recordings
Live recordings from 1965 are a footnote in the jazz guitarist’s discography |
Night in Paradise review - lukewarm bloodbath
Violent gangster thriller is bogged down by morose pensive sequences |
Sequin in a Blue Room review - soullessness and sex in Sydney
Directing debut is grimly compelling if not always plausible |
The Seven Deadly Sins / Mahagonny Songspiel, Royal Opera online - modern morality tales mesh uneasily
More time needed in knocking this fascinating Brecht/Weill double bill into shape |
Castalian Quartet, Stoller Hall, Manchester online review - mercurial playing fits a varied programme
Haydn and Adès rub shoulders in a recital of drama and excitement |
Sound of Metal review - hidden depths behind the decibels
Absorbing story of hard choices and self-knowledge |
This is a Robbery: The World's Biggest Art Heist, Netflix - the last word (for now)
Three decades on and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum mystery is still hot |
Undine review - respecting the nymph
A captivating if unexpected mythic romance from director Christian Petzold |
Intruder, Channel 5 review - implausible but watchable
The death of a home invader opens a can of worms |
Andrea Bajani: If You Kept a Record of Sins review - where blame, grief and discovery meet
Irresistibly spare narrative reckons with a mother’s death in Romania |
Loyiso Gola, Netflix review - South African muses on race, religion and friendship
Reflections that make you stop and think |
Romeo and Juliet, National Theatre online review - a triumphant hybrid
Simon Godwin's debut film is part dressed-down rehearsal, part cinematic flourish |
Queen Elizabeth and the Spy in the Palace, Channel 4 review - how the Fourth Man burrowed deep into the British Establishment
Did Anthony Blunt uncover secrets which threatened the survival of the house of Windsor? |
Wilderness review – 'what comes after besotted?'
Improvisatory filmmaking underpinned by a magical jazz soundtrack |
Messiah highlights, English National Opera, BBC Two review – short-cut sorrow and redemption
Fine performances: but why this brutally truncated Handel? |
Reissue CDs Weekly: Tame Impala - InnerSpeaker (2010➝2020)
Box-set makeover of one of the last decade or so’s greatest albums |
Bach St John Passions from Oxford and Stockholm online review – theatrical drive from Gardiner, interiority under Harding
Fine young English Evangelist and Christ versus Gerhaher, Hallenberg and others |
Living Newspaper, Edition 3, Royal Court online review – bleak news, sharp words
Third instalment of the irreverent series takes on Boris, star signs, and casual sexism |
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