The Light Between Oceans, directed by Ryan Gosling fanboy Derek Cianfrance (Place Beyond the Pines, Blue Valentine) is the latest

Shapeshifter celebrated the release of their sixth studio album inside a cosmic cube atop of the Auckland Museum.

Wild, rhetorical and witty painting - Dick Frizzell show proves why he's one of our best painters.

Schubert's Piano Trios are exquisitely caught in the palette of their times.

It's difficult to decide exactly when Schoolboy Q's Auckland show last night went from turnt to, well, a little terrifying.

Young and dazzlingly talented APO Composer-in-Residence delivers.

REVIEW: Mel Gibson will be hoping that Hacksaw Ridge can reset the bones of a broken career.

The predictability of an unhappy resolution headed the tears off - but the redemptive ending knocked me. I was still sobbing as I left the cinema.

Affleck, autism and accounting combine for enjoyable if ropy action movie.

Welcome to New Zealand, Daniel Blake, you couldn't have come at a better time.

Sea calmly meets sky in Stanley Palmer's mature and masterly images.

Tchaikovsky, Piano Concerto No.2 & Concert Fantasia is a superb symphonic adventure from the New Zealand Symphony.

Author Jay McInerney's old-fashioned belief that Love and Art can defy both time and money is to be applauded.

Conductor Giordano Bellincampi ensured an exhilarating night with the APO.

COMMENT: Thanks to Insecure and Atlanta, each are quietly revolutionary the idea of African American sitcoms.

Oh good. Another rich prick gets a cape and a suit. Wait, come back. This isn't that sort of superhero movie.

The way Hell or High Water gently and precisely unfurls its plot, the characters and their motivations lifts this above the ordinary.

I, Daniel Blake may be an incensed political film. But it runs on the hope that a decent bloke will get asked just that.

Real-life experiences depicted with humour, intensity and relevance.

Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra's Final Symphony was a marketing triumph, selling out its first performance and occasioning a Saturday night re-run.

It's getting harder and harder to do new things with horror.

As a spoof or spy movie, you have to say this about Keeping up with the Joneses - it sure can't keep up with those Smiths.

Soprano's star status guarantees local release.

TJ McNamara finds an exhibition which breaks the mould of an artist's former works

If Shideh wasn't already feeling demonised enough. She's a liberal-minded woman living in Tehran during the final years of the 1980s Iraq-Iran war.

British actor Guy Masterson shows why he is a master of solo performances.

Opera double-bill is a refreshing reminder of the art form's rich potential.

Usually, I prefer the offensive type of comic but McIntyre performed a fairly wholesome set at no one's expense and with just as many laughs.

The second Jack Reacher film fails to measure up to just about everything.

Ouija: Origin of Evil is a familiar story but Flanagan throws in just enough creepy and witty twists to keep you interested in how it turns out.