Office Christmas Party veers into the ridiculous, but with a cast of likeable and quirky characters the wackiness works, without dazzling

Rising pop star's wayward third album shows he hasn't yet worked out the best way forward.

Sunday's German Christmas concert triumphantly signed off another successful year for Bach Musica NZ.

Lianne La Havas had to stop to collect herself because the crowd was "too much" - in the best way.

Elgar's Enigma Variations is a sublime piece of musical portraiture.

This dull heap of action-fantasy mediocrity, one which wants to be Game of Fangs, is the fifth.

The Nutcracker ballet is as sweet as the Sugarplum Fairy herself.

Sunset Song is a gorgeous slice of poetic realism which is as cruel and harsh as it is beautiful and lyrical.

There's little memorable about Trolls, but you got to hand it to these weirdly happy people - they sure know how to put a smile on a kid's face.

Briefs is perfect pre-Christmas cabaret for grown-ups.

The only problem with Pavel Kolesnikov's splendid new Chopin collection is that one would have liked the Russian pianist to have recorded

Allied's strong sense of déjà vu sure makes it look nice. But it sure doesn't help make it a great film.

Infinite Warfare is a decent shooter, but with other titles like Titanfall 2 and Battlefield 1 out there, it might not be worth your time.

Pitch-perfect TV is rare but The Fall and Quarry come close

We check out the latest releases from Metallica, Bic Runga and Bruno Mars.

It's not often a censor's notes can be such a spoiler (Violence, horror, sexual material & necrophilia). You may want to add misogyny, cannibalism and vampirism to that list.

Duncan Grieve reviews docudrama Pike River, praising its unflinching look into the tragedy surrounding the event.

The Founder is a bland movie which becomes less great American business saga, than a mildly engaging, mildly uncomplimentary Kroc biopic.

There is an eerie prescience in the decision to stage Vernon God Little just as America succumbs to the belief that the frontman for

Crazy found-footage thriller Operation Avalanche has arrived just in time for the supermoon rising over the country, keeping us all

The echoes of the Dunedin sound debate have faded with the decades but a new book hears them reverberating louder.

Feeling like you're missing out on who's who and what's what? Here's a wrap of some of the albums you may have missed lately.

One Psalm inspires fascinating and individual responses from three composers.

Outstanding sculpture show raises money from Women's Refuge.

Fantastic Beasts feels like something darker, stranger and altogether much less of a theme park blueprint than the Potter movies.

Moon landing hoaxsters will undoubtedly be very happy with Operation Avalanche.

War on Everyone is a film that is remarkably tone deaf and quite awful.

In his 20th film, Spanish director Pedro Almodovar drops the farcical approach of his last, I'm So Excited!, and the chilling tone

"It is exactly what you expect - which is both fulfilling and disappointing at the same time" - here's why.

Reviewing NZTrio's Flare concert, it's difficult to resist an easy pun, as this pairing of top-class ensemble with celebrated Kiwi heldentenor showed commendable flair.