PAUL DONOVAN recommends an intriguing tale of abuse, bullying, revenge and long-held grudges

New releases from Biita Houdei, The Mary Wallopers, and The Tubs
 

PETER MASON applauds the revival, 39 years later with the same team and cast, of Manfred Karge’s version of Brecht’s 100-year-old play, Mann Ist Mann

RITA DI SANTO recommends an astonishing documentary that offers first hand accounts of how the IDF plans and enforces its genocide of Palestinians

NICK WRIGHT laments the political bias of an epic attempt to tell the history of the liberation of France from the Nazis, that excludes both the decisive contribution of the Soviet Red Army, and of the French communist party itself

MAYER WAKEFIELD applauds a fearless attempt to bring to the stage the 1984 toxic gas disaster in Bhopal, India

JOE GILL traces the ideology and method of contemporary imperialism back to the greed, hubris and violence of the late 15th century Portuguese

GORDON PARSONS enjoys Kant’s ‘mind-boggling’ theory of human reality: that we create the reality we experience

ALEX HALL applauds the account of a dogged, traumatic and punishing campaign for justice that has lasted from 1998 to the present day

MARTIN HALL relishes a new intellectual history of Sir Thomas More that cuts through the myth and returns to primary sources

MARIA DUARTE and JAMES WALSH review Queen At Sea, The Watergate Caper: Richard Nixon and the Death of the American Dream, Bad Apples, Pulp: What Do You Do For An Encore?, and Shaun The Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom

NICK WRIGHT laments the one-sided telling of French history in an otherwise entertaining spectacle

MARK TURNER relishes the warm, melancholy of jazz drummer-turned composer Sam Green

by M Chambers

RITA DI SANTO speaks to XAVIER TERA about his Fipresci-winning film The Colour of the Sun, a critique of US imperialism set in the Japanese archipelago

KATARZYNA KOSMALA introduces a retrospective by one of the most significant figures in contemporary US photography

RITA DI SANTO assesses the winners of the most politically charged festival to date

MAYER WAKEFIELD is entertained but let down by an audacious production that, sadly, doesn't ring true

MARY CONWAY is disappointed by drama that, despite accomplished performances, cannot overcome an unfocused script

New releases from Sam Carter, Spell Songs and Les Thomas

ANDY HEDGECOCK relishes an enlightening and witty biography of one of the 20th century’s most restless and influential artists

KEN COCKBURN traces the one original language – that of the Yamnaya pastoral nomads – from which all European and Indian languages derive

PAUL DONOVAN is fascinated by the debunking of the iconic British war hero

ALEX HALL recommends a searing panorama of our global predicament

Comics are not just superheroes and spandex – it can be public art, telling public stories, suggests HARRIET EARLE

The bard serenades the Diggers of Wigan and their festive followers

ALEXEI SAYLE speaks to Angus Reid about a lifetime of protest, how to hone political art – and what to do now

ANDY HEDGECOCK, JAMES WALSH, LEO BOIX and MARIA DUARTE review Just An Illusion, Everybody Digs Bill Evans, Blue Film, Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger, and Runner

MARIA DUARTE recommends a nerve-wracking reconstruction of the 72 hours before the Normandy landings

WILL STONE samples the 20th anniversary atmosphere of this eclectic end-of-season indie festival

TONY BURKE plots the career of the legendary Senegalese band from Dakar nightclubs to Glastonbury

by Rina Malagayo Alluri

RITA DI SANTO contemplates two films about journalism that opened this year’s festival

Memory, inheritance and resistance: a compelling Brazilian memoir, Argentinian short stories about the Japanese diaspora, and the Chilean skies of childhood, with LEO BOIX

MARY CONWAY keeps up with the sheer pace of a drama about the terrible gap between sanitised reporting and real-life turmoil of race and gender

GEOFF BOTTOMS applauds a world-class production King Lear that pits late feudalism against a rising bourgeoisie

New releases from Brian Fallon, Antony Szmierek and Hollow Hand

PAUL DONOVAN welcomes a revival of Reginald Rose’s classic play that reminds us of the fundamental need for trials with juries

APURBA CHATTERJEE explains how British artists in India used the “picturesque” to reshape colonial landscapes and celebrate imperial power

SIMON PARSONS applauds an exceptional performance of Wesker’s little-known play, by the same actor for whom it was written 45 years ago

JAMES NALTON feels history in the making, witnessing the latest shoegaze sensation in an intimate club

ANDY HEDGECOCK and MARIA DUARTE review Late Fame, The Death of Robin Hood, Leviticus, and Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass

ANGUS REID recommends a uniquely accomplished documentary collage that contemplates our relation to the natural world

GORDON PARSONS enjoys Kant’s ‘mind-boggling’ theory of human reality: that we create the reality we experience

DAVID RABY welcomes a biography that emphasises how Fidel’s unique characteristics became hallmarks of the ongoing Cuban revolutionary process

MARJ MAYO recommends an engaging, if chilling, collection of diaries and letters that trace a population's capacity for accommodation with Nazism

IAN SINCLAIR recommends a readable, if partisan, account of the astonishing campaign of New York's new mayor

by Marwa Paikan

MATTHEW HAWKINS witnesses a contemporary ballet that represents human life as subjected to artificial intelligence

CATHERINE STEEL relishes a compelling novel about Augustus’s right hand man, but misses the politics, the cultural shifts, and more detail about his restoration of Rome

TONY BURKE speaks to JOEL McIVER, co-author of the biography of bluesman John Mayall

GEORGE FOGARTY is thrilled by the political clarity on show at the most independent, sustainable and worker-owned festival in the UK

A misfit couple unhappily ever after, a dead man walking, dodgy journos, and trench art trucking

New releases from Javon Jackson, IZE Trio, and Mal Waldron Trio

PAUL DONOVAN applauds an intriguing multi-layered depiction, dominated by a stunning impersonation of Marilyn herself

The Bard hands out medals for his Edinburgh campaign and urges us to support The Men They Couldn’t Hang

EWAN CAMERON marvels at the impossible ambition, realised with dreamlike finesse of translating Italo Calvino to the stage

ADAM J SMITH casts an admiring eye over the noble tradition of satirical impersonations in British politics