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Wuthering Heights. Image: Warner Bros. Pictures.
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Wuthering Heights review: a provocative sadomasochistic joy

Brontë's tormented tale has been repackaged and reimagined for a new generation, and it's spectacular.

We Bury the Dead. Image: Umbrella Entertainment. MIFF 2025
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We Bury the Dead review: gruesomely hilarious Tasmanian survival thriller

In We Bury the Dead, Hobart has been annihilated: cue a future cult classic film with a wow-a-minute story.

Is This Thing On? Image: Searchlight Pictures.
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Is This Thing On? review: all-star cast but no all-star result

Just like the troubled marriage it follows, Is This Thing On? struggles to find its way.

A scene from 2:22 – A Ghost Story at the Theatre Royal Bath. Three characters stand with their hands raised, one holding a teddy air, and face a fourth character in an open plan stage kitchen.
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2:22 – A Ghost Story review: high volume and low stakes strike a hollow note

Stripped of its celebrity anchors, Danny Robins’s paranormal thriller relies on ear-piercing volume rather than psychological tension to generate its…

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Clementine review: a riot in a Regency dress

There's a chaotic energy to the hilarious comedy Clementine.

Joe Layton as Robbie and Hannah Sinclair Robinson as Jess in Lost Atoms.
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Lost Atoms review: a filing cabinet of the soul

An inventive production by Frantic Assembly, Lost Atoms explores the experience of love and loss.

AJ Jenks as Buddy Holly. Image: Supplied.
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The Buddy Holly Story review: still rocking, but not exactly rolling forward

There's no shortage of hits in Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story, but is that enough?

London Symphony Orchestra's concert staging of The Makropulos Affair.
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The Makropoulos Affair review: London Symphony Orchestra gives an affecting performance of this little-known operatic gem

German soprano Marlis Petersen was outstanding as the other-worldly Elina Makropoulos.

Romesh Ranganathan as Bill and Sheridan Smith as Susan in Woman in Mind. Photo: Marc Brenner.
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Woman in Mind review: a very British and darkly comic drama

Alan Ayckbourn’s forty-year-old tragicomedy of stifling suburban life, Woman in Mind, doesn’t quite survive the transition to today.

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The Rivals review: warm, stylish and immensely enjoyable

Patricia Hodge and Robert Bathurst lead a polished ensemble in this delightful off-West-End production of The Rivals.

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