RICHARD MURGATROYD is intrigued by a study that asks why the ability to diagnose outstrips the ability to cure
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Plea for justice writ large
MARIA DUARTE recommends a resonant film on a woman who, seeking redress for her daughter's murder, gets her message across on the billboards
SYLVIA HIKINS recommends a sweeping survey of the world's biggest desert and the people who live there
MICHAL BONCZA highly recommends a revelatory exhibition of work by the doyen of indigenous Australians’ art, Emily Kam Kngwarray
The Bard commutes to work for the first time in 45 years
DAVID RENTON is puzzled by an ambitious attempt to look back on world culture from the future without engaging with or understanding it
GORDON PARSONS is riveted by a translation of Shakespeare’s tragedy into joyous comedy set in a southern black homestead
GEORGE FOGARTY relishes the music of black British artists that channels Carribbean, Latin and club sounds, along with contemporary west African radicalism
Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing, Missouri (15)
Directed by Martin McDonagh
THIS dark comedy drama about a single mother taking on the white, male-run authorities was the toast of this year's Golden Globes, winning four awards.
British writer-director Martin McDonagh's follow-up to In Bruges and Seven Psychopaths is funny, brutal and cutting as it tackles injustice, physical abuse, sexism and the racist violence of white cops.
But its central theme of a lone woman fighting for justice for her murdered daughter and demanding to be heard certainly resonates in the wake of the newly launched Time's Up campaign and women finally being able to come forward and demanding to be taken seriously.
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