While the group known as the Colourists certainly reinvigorated Scottish painting, a new show is a welcome chance to reassess them, writes ANGUS REID
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Film round-up: March 20, 2025
Film round-up: March 20, 2025
The Star's critics review The Sinking Of The Lisbon Maru, Two Strangers Trying Not To Kill Each Other, American Dreamer, When Autumn Falls, and Flow
In an exhibition of the graphic art of Lorna Miller, MATT KERR takes a lungful of the oxygen of dissent
ANGUS REID recommends an exquisite drama about the disturbing impact of the one child policy in contemporary China
GEORGE FOGARTY is mesmerised by the messages made when jazz is played by people who grew up steeped in jungle and hip-hop
MARK TURNER is thrilled by the the British singer’s tribute to the late great Sarah Vaughan
RITA DI SANTO speaks to Laura Carreira about her study of workers in an Amazon warehouse, On Falling
MATTHEW HAWKINS appreciates an interpretation in dance of James Baldwin’s landmark novel of doomed homosexual desire
The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru (12A)
Directed by Fang Li, Ming Fan and Lily Gong
★★★★★
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