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  • A grey-haired man in an electric blue jacket and blue and pink striped tie with his hands in the prayer position and his mouth open

    Brexit: A Very British Civil War review – TV has no right to be this much of a hoot

  • Gareth Southgate in a dark jacket looks to the side with a sports field visible in the background

    Gareth Southgate: Changing the Game for Young Men review – boys are crying out for help like this

  • Antoni Porowski in a yellow jacket sits on a boat on the River Thames looking upward thoughtfully

    Best of the World With Antoni Porowski review – the Queer Eye host’s travel show is daftly pointless

  • Alice and Steve sit on a wall by a river, talking and smiling

    Alice and Steve review – Jemaine Clement and Nicola Walker’s icky comedy is dated and wrong

  • Bolger crouches down and holds one hand of the child standing in front of him while stroking the boy's head with the other hand

    The Witness review – a courageous drama about the murder that rocked Britain

    This look at the shocking 1992 murder of Rachel Nickell bravely gives you the unvarnished tale of her family’s struggles to deal with the tragedy – and the impossibility of coping with a living hell
  • Javier Bardem as Max Cady in Cape Fear

    Cape Fear review – Amy Adams and Javier Bardem’s immaculate update is a wild, wild ride

  • Jeremy Clarkson in a field on his farm

    Clarkson’s Farm review – you might as well call him Jeremy Kardashian

  • Jamie and Rebekah Vardy sit on a blue scooter with pink luggage

    The Vardys review – very bad, very boring and devastating for Wagatha Christie fans

    Jamie and Rebekah Vardy’s new reality show will disappoint every single person who tunes in, from football lovers to followers of The Scousetrap. The only possible fun you can have is rolling your eyes at them
  • Frederick von Mierers in Bring Me The Beauties

    Bring Me the Beauties: A Model Cult review – wildly juicy TV about the guru possessed by an alien

    This tale of the Studio 54 stunner-turned-extraterrestrial who lured models to his Manhattan apartment for sex, money – or to give them mint face masks – is fascinating … yet fails to explain quite why so many believed his baloney
  • Three young people stand on a city sidewalk looking upward, dressed in business and casual attire

    Not Suitable for Work review – Mindy Kaling tries to make the new Friends … and utterly fails

    It takes a brave person to write about a gang of 20-somethings navigating life and love in neighbouring Manhattan apartments. Sadly this is not an instant classic – it’s a slice of schmaltzy pudding flopping on to a plate
  • Emma Barnett wearing a blue blouse in a hospital corridor

    Emma Barnett: Fighting Endometriosis review – this woman is not about to be fobbed off

    The BBC presenter has a horrific illness which leaves her and so many other women in a lifelong hell with no cure in sight. Barnett is at the absolute end of her tether … can she change millions of lives?
  • David Morrissey and Alan Cumming stand face to face at an open doorway with colorful stained glass above

    Tip Toe review – David Morrissey is magnificent in Russell T Davies’s brutal new drama

    Refugees, homophobia, gay rights, even Trump, are all covered in this opener, which occasionally leans towards agitprop. But with excellent performances, and RTD’s storytelling brilliance, things really build from here
  • A man in a purple top with green armbands spreading his arms out in triumph

    Rafa review – Netflix’s documentary couldn’t have gotten closer to Spain’s greatest ever tennis player

  • A woman with a formal haircut looks serious while standing against a tiled wall.

    Star City review – Anna Maxwell Martin is terrifying in a fascinating space race thriller

  • A young man holding a camera wearing a purple plaid shirt and cap and blue gilet. Looking confused into the middle distance

    Make That Movie review – Sam Campbell has made the funniest TV show of the entire year

  • THE FOUR SEASONS, SEASON 2. (L to R) Kerri Kenney-Silver as Anne, Marco Calvani as Claude, Tina Fey as Kate, Colman Domingo as Danny, and Will Forte as Jack in Episode 202 of The Four Seasons, Season 2. Cr. Emily V. Aragones/Netflix © 2025

    The Four Seasons season two review – Tina Fey’s brilliant follow-up is up there with 30 Rock

  • Nicolas Cage wearing black clothes and trilby and a face mask with spider-like eyes

    Spider-Noir review – Nicolas Cage’s stylish take on the superhero as a 1940s detective is huge fun

    All smoke, shady dames and black and white cinematography, Marvel’s latest Spidey offering is fast, witty and confident
  • A sombe close up of the actor wearing a black polo necked top and dark jacket in front of a dark background looking intently at the camera slightly sideways on

    World War II with Tom Hanks review – one of the largest documentaries in human history

  • A man sitting in a chesterfield armchair wearing a blue and white striped jumper

    Untold UK: Vinnie Jones review – this chaotic biopic is an unexpected amount of fun

  • Vengeance: Murder on the HeathPictured (L-R): Harinder "Ravi" Shoker (Ikky Kabir), Mundill Mahil (Sasha Desouza-Willock) and Gagandip Singh (Dee Ahluwalia)

    Vengeance: Murder on the Heath review – the amazing acting helps to make sense of this tragic killing

    This drama based on the ‘Honeytrap Murder’ of 2011 lands somewhere between urgent drama and carefully presented facts. It’s a compassionate, unflinching look at how a young life was wasted
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