RICHARD MURGATROYD is intrigued by a study that asks why the ability to diagnose outstrips the ability to cure
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Film of the week: Generational genocide
The horrors of a futile conflict which wiped out millions in WWI are captured to devastating effect in Journey's End, says MARIA DUARTE
Nuannced: Sam Claflin in Jourmey's End
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
Journey's End (12A)
Directed by Saul Dibb
THIS tense and claustrophobic film, an adaptation of RC Sheriff's 1928 play and novel, dispels all heroic or romanticised notions about warfare.
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