While superhero franchises flag, ‘A Minecraft Movie’ shows the industry has finally cracked the formula for translating popular games into films
The FT’s critics recommend the most compelling 2025 shows, including the soon-to-close Brasil! Brasil!
In the London stop of his world tour, the Chinese pianist gave a performance of light and shade
The baker and food stylist loves meringue, Marlboro Lights and Vienna’s techno scene
Designers are having fun with engineered wood stained in a palette of dramatic hues
Chair of Arts Council England says arm’s-length funding of theatre, music and museums helps prevent politicisation
Gary Owen’s gripping new version of the drama of secrets and lies opens at London’s Lyric Hammersmith
Stark political reality of 1970s Argentina and zoological farce fail to gel in glib story of an English teacher abroad
In-depth psychological portrait encompasses a turbulent life and a history of modern Ireland and its social attitudes
Ryan Coogler follows his Black Panther success with an audacious genre mash-up starring two Michael B Jordans
Collaborating with her subjects, the documentary photographer brings an unerring, generous eye to her work
On the centenary of the birth of Ian Hamilton Finlay — poet, iconoclast, social revolutionary and maritime obsessive — his Scottish garden is being celebrated as his greatest work of art
Meet the father-daughter duo with designs from every corner of the world
Recent moves from Toronto to Brooklyn to Brussels to Paris have only stirred his creativity — and a historic rental in the 11th arrondissement has become a space of vibrant experimentation, and a place to grow
Amazon Prime Video series about an Egyptian-American family satirises both cultures
Satyajit Ray’s ‘Apu Trilogy’ has found a new audience with young cinemagoers more accustomed to Bollywood bling
From salvers to shells, the precious metal is making a comeback
A hit at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the story of three teenagers’ friendship comes to London’s Soho Theatre
The multi-spouted Delftware flower vase is popular with designers and collectors once again
Three part-series revolves around the troubling testimonies of young influencers
At London’s Bush Theatre, a speed-awareness course uncovers moments of rage and recklessness
Alex Garland and ex Navy Seal Ray Mendoza expertly evoke the claustrophobic hell of conflict for troops — but nothing else
A spectacular indoor lighting installation, 3D photo display, transparent 77in TV and more
The second season of ‘The Last of Us’ is a tour de force with its blend of zombie horror and heart-rending drama; ‘Black Mirror’ season 7 turns from future-gazing to 90s nostalgia; Ncuti Gatwa shines in a new eight-part ‘Doctor Who’ story; Sam Mendes’s ‘What They Found’ is a harrowing Holocaust documentary; BBC drama ‘Reunion’ centres on a deaf ex-convict; Jon Hamm stars in wealth-meets-crime satire ‘Your Friends & Neighbors’ — reviews by Dan Einav and Fiona Sturges
Word salads and platitudes abound in ‘Confessions of a Female Founder’, in which Meghan interviews leading businesswomen
