An oil rig triggers catastrophe in Alejandro González Iñárritu’s overblown satire of American bullishness

A timely biography strips away the myths of the muse and restores this 19th-century virtuoso to her rightful place in the Romantic canon

Istanbul’s annual cross-continental swimming race is no place for Byronic triumph

The UK rowing contest’s title sponsor is replicating the unisex approach of its J12 watch with the men’s and women’s cups

Anna Seidel on where to soak up the city’s banks, bookstores and radical creativity

Cynthia Shanmugalingam’s gloriously adaptable combination of rice, eggs and aromatic spices makes a virtue of whatever you have left to hand

Frieze highlights, foraged Martinis and Boodles’ new townhouse

The country’s current crop of craftsmakers is challenging not only age-old traditions but the speed of contemporary Korean culture

The British shoe brand celebrates its 10th birthday with a new store

Hengrui Pharma’s experimental drug could be taken just once a week

Sky’s swaggering eight-part series has a top-quality cast put to the service of some high-class fluff

Culture secretary Lisa Nandy says the 15 national museums and galleries ‘must be free, forever, for everyone to access’

Gaspare Spontini’s tale of a vestal virgin’s forbidden love once took Europe by storm. So why does this Handmaid’s Tale-inspired staging fall so flat?

In an unexpected plot twist, cinemas are back

Puzzle: what is White’s fastest winning move?

Nick Foulkes meets the modern alchemists

10 of the best EV converters

Demna offered retail therapy at Gucci, Dolce & Gabbana made the case for maximalism while Louise Trotter got crafty at Bottega Veneta

This vivid and complex account of life as it is lived has proved to be one of the great happy accidents of television

If you fancy an Alpine road trip next year you need to start planning now — but choosing the right vintage tourer is a money decision as much as a motoring one

New survey puts South African city ahead of 24 other short- and long-haul destinations

Claus Guth’s ‘Mitridate, re di Ponto’ brings a striking staging and supple singing to Naples’ Teatro di San Carlo

At Sadler’s Wells, dancers struggled to keep up with Balanchine, but found new energy with two world premieres

Plus Glenn Martens’ Diesel swansong, Meryll Rogge makes her mark at Marni and a glass-encased runway at Fendi after Peta protests in New York and London

If reading the book is not an option, styling it out is a must

Almost three decades after he set off from southern Chile, Karl Bushby is about to make it back to the UK. He’s one of a growing band of extreme travellers

Sophie Thatcher plays a movie star living in a sci-fi future in a film that combines soapy drama with flashbacks to postwar Tokyo

Daisy Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed-Miles lead a clever, tasteful new take that firmly targets Gen Z audiences

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The actor co-stars with a German shepherd in David Ayer’s stripped-back survivalist drama