John Nathan
Barcelona review: ‘Lily Collins has the acting chops to fill a stage’
The Emily in Paris star acquits herself well in her stage debut
Gladiator II review: ‘a swashbuckler that slays expectations’
Ridley Scott’s sequel is not the Hollywood boot-filling exercise you might expect
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button review: ‘nothing else like it in the West End’
This musical adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald’s short story is right on the button
Anora review: ‘Romeo and Juliet with more sex and drugs’
This delve into the underbelly of Manhattan sex clubs and Brooklyn’s Russian émigré community has been compared to ‘Pretty Woman’, but it’s better than that
Reykjavik review: “brimful of humanity and grief”
This beautifully balanced play gives an overlooked part of our martime nation’s culture its due
Midas Man review: ‘Epstein entrances in sympathetic biopic’
Jacob Fortune-Lloyd rehabilitates the young svengali’s reputation with charm in this film, but the Fab Four fall curiously flat
Venom review: ‘it’s not Marvel-lous’
This is the Last Dance of his three-deal franchise and I suspect Tom Hardy is feeling rather relieved
Dr Strangelove review: ‘Coogan is bang on the button’
The actor is priceless in this timely revival of Stanley Kubrick’s classic nuke comedy
The Apprentice review: ‘What would Melania Trump say?’
The Trump portrayed here is no monster but it is a portrait of a hustler who is still hustling
Almeida Theatre 1950s double bill: ‘An angry return to the kitchen sink’
Arnold Wesker’s Roots has been paired with John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger –eight decades on the East End Jewish playwright emerges as the more potent dramatist by far
What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank review: ‘a play as Jewish as they come’
This quintessentially Jewish work tackles the inherited trauma of the Holocaust and is also a really smart and funny comedy
Small town life and casual racism in 1960s Israel
A study in the differences between Indian and Moroccan Israeli communities set against the ochre colours of the Negev desert
Giant review: ‘Dahl is called to account’
The author’s own words are deployed to chilling effect in this measured and gripping play
Waiting for Godot review: ‘I defy anyone not to see themselves on this stage’
Superb acting carries this re-staging of the mind-bending classic by Samuel Beckett
A Good Jewish Boy review: ‘elegiac paean to a fading community’
This first feature by director and co-writer Noé Debré could so easily have ended up as a kosher kitchen sink drama. Instead, it’s a gem
Why Am I So Single review: ‘a work in progress’
Love lives that turn out to be little less interesting for a show of two and a half hours
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