Summed up in a sentence A horrifying documentary that follows Sussex man Liam Tomsett’s journey into the far right, as he takes to the streets in anger against asylum seekers.What our reviewer said “It’s hard to come away from England ’Til I Die without the feeling that people like Tomsett are making things so much worse.” Hannah J Davies Summed up in a sentence The final instalment of the landmark docuseries following people every seven years since their childhood – and the first since its creator died.What our reviewer said “Directed by Asif Kapadia, it has a more reflective and elegiac tone than in previous years.” Lucy Mangan Further reading ‘It’s the Bayeux tapestry of TV!’ After six decades, the seminal series bows out with 70 Up Summed up in a sentence An escapist YA drama from the makers of Gossip Girl about a teenager who inherits a house in Canada and sets off on a soul-searching adventure.What our reviewer said “If escapism is the brief, then Sterling Point fulfils it expertly. Sure, it doesn’t carry the intensity or the existentialism of its edgier counterparts. But I was surprised by how long I wanted to stay with these characters and inhabit their island bubble.
It kept subverting my expectations. I didn’t want to go home.” Micha Frazer-Carroll Summed up in a sentence A joyous, witty and beautiful adaptation of the classic feminist novel about a young woman in 1890s Australia who rebels against society’s expectations.What our reviewer said “Sybylla, the charmingly irrepressible and irrepressibly charming heroine, is played utterly convincingly and with vim, vigour and joy by Philippa Northeast. Creator Liz Doran must have wept with happiness when they found an actor capable of bringing so much to an already glorious script.” Lucy Mangan Further reading Inside Netflix’s horny, ‘bonkers’ take on an Australian classic the world is about to love Summed up in a sentence A documentary that speaks to the family of Rhianan Rudd, a teenager who was the youngest girl ever charged with terror offences in the UK, and who later killed herself after the charge was dropped.What our reviewer said “By the end of the hour you feel like you have sat through a nightmare, watching [her mother] Emily and others who loved Rhianan shout into voids that were supposedly filled with people trained and ready to help those in exactly their situation.” Lucy Mangan Summed up in a sentence Dementia drama starring Tom Courtenay, Juliette Binoche and Anna Calder-Marshall is startling portrait of intimacy.What our reviewer said “The story moves from one agonisingly difficult and ambiguous situation to the next – each a terrifying point of no return, each the awful occasion of things seen and said that can’t be unseen or unsaid.” Peter Bradshaw Summed up in a sentence Third cinematic adventure for Aardman’s resourceful ovine, in a spooky-season caper in which Shaun’s pumpkin-supersizing serum ends up in a balding farmer’s hair growth bottle.What our reviewer said “This is another excellent family film, crammed as ever with top visual gags, great throwaway references and, of course, a homemade Heath Robinson contraption, so often to be found in Aardman films.” Peter Bradshaw Further reading ‘He goes to the dark side’: behind the scenes on the Shaun the Sheep horror movie Summed up in a sentence Second half of biopic of conquering French hero, with a shrewd performance by Simon Abkarian as the wartime leader’s career ascends to political dominance.What our reviewer said “De Gaulle’s stormy bromance with Winston Churchill (who is wonderfully played by Simon Russell Beale), continues from the first half, and the film genuinely has something new to say about Churchill’s Francophilia.” Peter Bradshaw Further reading Stubborn, arrogant, a genius: France’s De Gaulle epic shows up the tepidity of our politics Summed up in a sentence Documentary weaving archive clips and snippets from films old and new to draw out the highlights of the 1970s scandal that rocked the US.What our reviewer said “It is neatly marshalled and excerpted in such a way as to explain to a bright gen Alpha kid roughly what this Watergate thing was all about, although O’Sullivan chooses not to get to bogged down in the detail and mostly surveys the highlights.” Leslie Felperin Further reading ‘I still think it’s one of the great films of all time’: All the President’s Men turns 50 Summed up in a sentence Unsentimental rite of passage film about a teenager stuck in a Soviet-era youth residential facility, from which she tries to escape.What our reviewer said “It is a mysterious parable, couched in the language of soap opera or photo-love story, depicting the Soviet state and its gruesome pretension to be caring or nurturing.” Peter Bradshaw Summed up in a sentence A sharp analysis of how the super-rich are capitalising on climate and financial chaos – and how to fight back.What our reviewer said “In this bold, clarifying intervention … the authors map out the frightening new territory in which we find ourselves, and point to an escape.” Further reading Naomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect.
It turns you into a supremacist’ Summed up in a sentence A paranormal epic of cold war espionage and family tragedy.What our reviewer said “This new novel is maximalist, dense, disorienting and discomfiting, reflecting how surreal our reality seems to have become.” Summed up in a sentence The page-turning story of a Soviet agent and his MI6 handler in revolutionary Iran.What our reviewer said “Macintyre combines the journalist’s eye for salacious detail with a historian’s rigour … I devoured it in a single sitting.” Summed up in a sentence A new species appears in this idiosyncratic examination of grief which mingles bereavement memoir with speculative fiction.What our reviewer said “A deeply moving and wise book, asserting the painful truth that we simply do not get to choose the things that we lose.” Summed up in a sentence A r
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