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Best movies include The Suicide Squad, Limbo, Old, and Summer of Soul

New film follows story of female college student who’s imprisoned abroad for crime she says she didn’t commit

Featuring Blind Landing, Fogo: Fear of Going Outside, Fun Kids, Wild Crimes and more

Lewis once again turns a complex subject into ‘a fluid intellectual thriller’

The former FT journalist turned teacher chooses her favourite books by authors who came to writing late

The opening night of Ian McKellen’s ‘age-blind’ Hamlet felt like an ‘act of defiance’, says The Daily Telegraph

To see her work here ‘is to be immediately uplifted’, says The Observer

A slew of recent releases claim Trump prepared to desecrate the constitution to stay in power

Let your mind explore new horizons via these exciting new titles

Just to see ‘a large cast dancing and singing its lungs out feels like witnessing an act of rebirth’

A fascinating and moving memoir of former FT columnist Kellaway’s late career switch

Socially conscious but ‘rarely preachy’, it is as exciting a survey of contemporary art as you’re likely to encounter

New legislation includes fines of up to €150,000 for ‘glorifying’ the dictator and Spanish Civil War

Streaming service looks beyond TV and film after membership growth slows

This year’s festival line-up includes Isle of Wight, Creamfields, Reading and Leeds

Grace, Lupin, and Time are on this year’s must-binge list

Former UKIP leader drafted in to revive channel’s plummeting viewing figures

Her art mixes folklore and ‘fetishistic menace’, enchantment and horror – and it ‘lingers powerfully in the mind’

‘Enthralling’ outdoor theatre for children and staging that lifts the spirits

Ignore the outside world and immerse yourself in these life-changing novels

Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were executed as Soviet spies in 1953, but was Ethel innocent?

‘Who would have thought that one of the highlights of the summer would be watching Les Dennis fondle Michael Ball?’

The hugely enjoyable fourth instalment of Turner’s series looking at Britain’s recent past

‘Looking at these dream-worlds is like passing through a fairy-tale forest thick with magic’

Danish warrior Sweyn Forkbeard is England’s ‘forgotten king’

Swiss watchmaker’s support of contemporary arts continues apace

Patrick Radden Keefe examines the dynasty behind the opioid crisis

This is a blockbuster that both dazzles and informs, shedding light on one of the world’s most misunderstood nations

Across the country, outdoor (and indoor) theatre is flourishing in these socially distanced times

Reality show lands zero star rating - but others argue it’s just what the doctor ordered for Covid-wearing nation

White’s unorthodox biography ‘dismembers Hitchcock into a dozen parts’ 

Sharon Horgan and James McAvoy give it ‘their understated all’ in BBC2’s feature-length drama

What the critics are saying about these three acclaimed openings

Bringing together some 30 paintings, the show reclaims Hamnett as ‘an artist to be reckoned with in her own right’