Summer Shakespeare As You Like It is a good time, but a long one.

Rectify is slow-cooked drama at its best

Sampha likes to sing sweetly about terrible, awful things. "I think they found the blood on me," croons this year's break out star early on in his debut album.

Is it okay to stage The Mikado in 2017? Most definitely, writes William Dart.

The first film adaptation of "mummy porn" global best-seller 50 Shades of Grey had audiences worldwide blushing, yawning and, in some

William Dart reviews the latest classical music CDs.

Novelty pop songs, fail compilations, dodgy bird banter and coffee orders being made during the weather. What is going on at Breakfast?

The last time we saw Migos, they were dealing drugs in Atlanta, Donald Glover's excellently adventurous TV series about the rise and

David Attenborough's original BBC series Zoo Quest is back on our screens - 60 years after it premiered. But this time, it's different.

Any hope that the remake of Goodbye Pork Pie could recapture the ol' yellow magic of the original evaporates fairly early on.

William Dart reviews the APO's first concert of 2017.

William Dart finds a "dark, bleak history" unfolding in a superb new classical CD.

Greg Fleming reviews the latest crop of crime fiction.

By rights, grime should be well and truly dead, a musical genre consigned to the history books. Someone forgot to tell Wiley.

Lion is a remarkable true story well told, a real tear-jerker, and a great advert for Google Earth.

Three albums in and the question has to be asked: have El-P and Killer Mike lost their Midas touch? Nope.

Mesmerising tour de force belongs to Natalie Portman.

The musicality of the dancing, the lyricism of the music, and the clarity of the underlying narrative are unified and the ending is satisfying.

Underneath the predictable All-American school experience, there's some real heart in this film.

Natalie Portman captures Jackie Kennedy's steely strength and intelligence perfectly, which elevates her performance beyond imitation.

COMMENT: Mr. Bean is back, baby ... only this time he's a pipe-smoking police detective in 1950s Paris.

As far as coming-of-age stories go, The Edge of Seventeen's refreshing mix of authenticity and quirkiness will charm teenagers of all ages.

This a beautiful and gentle documentary with an uplifting story of female empowerment that will resonate with teenage girls around the world.

Even star power fails to keep this gross sexist flop together.

We're looking back on some of our favourite big reads from TimeOut this year. Today, we revisit Karl Puschmann's opinion piece on what to watch when TV is just too much.

The problem with Passengers is how the dodgy premise detracts from feeling the story or characters.

La La Land is an iridescent sparkle of a film that lasts all the way to a clever, perfect ending.

A film with a signature song entitled How Far I'll Go, Moana could have done with taking things a little further.

Even though Sing doesn't have the depth of other recent animations, at this time of year not having to think too hard can be a blessing.

If mindfulness is on your list of New Year's resolutions, I can't recommend the film Paterson enough.