But this has been a year above all for the best of festival planning, the sort where you feel enriched by connecting threads.

It wasn't exactly a stellar year for comedy but there were plenty of shows that shone brightly and have stayed with me, even ...

A foreign-language release steeped in Catholicism isn’t exactly what you’d expect to top virtually every end-of-year album ...

Turner and Constable, Rivals and Originals, Tate Britain, November 2025Whoever thought of creating an exhibition comparing ...

The stylish gentlemen pictured above are Crimson Earth, a band active from 1970 to 1976. Regardless of their longevity, the ...

It’s 1952 on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, seven years after the Enola Gay dropped a bomb on the Japanese empire, but one ...

If it's possible for snippets from live theatre to play in the mind on a perpetual loop, the London theatre during 2025 ...

What is a documentary maker supposed to do when someone as gifted and empathic as Francis Whately has already covered most of ...

A Rainbow in Curved Air and Shri Camel are equally enjoyable, the latter reflecting the composer’s fascination with North ...

It was a year for outstanding individual performances, especially from relative newcomers, and at least three flawless ...

Yes, I know.Maybe everything bitched about them is true; an eye-watering marketing push, cynically calculated, monied, etc.

SASKIA BARON1 One Battle After Another2. Sinners3 It was Just an Accident4 Palestine 365 Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight6 ...