The Star's critic MARIA DUARTE reviews Along Came Love, The Ballad of Wallis Island, The Ritual, and Karate Kid: Legends

MARIA DUARTE recommends the powerful dramatisation of the true story of a husband and wife made homeless

ANGUS REID recommends a visit to an outstanding gathering of national and international folk musicians in the northern archipelago

by Helen McSherry

Heart Lamp by the Indian writer Banu Mushtaq and winner of the 2025 International Booker prize is a powerful collection of stories inspired by the real suffering of women, writes HELEN VASSALLO

Still Wakes The Deep deserves its three Baftas for superlative survival horror game thrills, argues THOMAS HAINEY

SIMON PARSONS is taken by a thought provoking and intelligent play performed with great sensitivity

MARY CONWAY recommends a play that some will find more discursive than eventful but one in which the characters glow

FIONA O'CONNOR recommends a biography that is a beautiful achievement and could stand as a manifesto for the power of subtlety in art

ANDY HEDGECOCK admires a critique of the penetration of our lives by digital media, but is disappointed that the underlying cause is avoided

STEVEN ANDREW is ultimately disappointed by a memoir that is far from memorable

PETER MASON is surprised by the bleak outlook foreseen for cricket’s future by the cricketers’ bible