For all its classy production values, Café Society isn't as invigorating as Woody Allen's top-notch work can be.

Is this the comeback album Kings of Leon needed?

Creative excellence and exquisite performances close this year's Tempo Dance Festival.

Does Priscilla, Queen of the Desert still wear the crown?

The death of Janet Moses is a sad, difficult story, however the crime docu-drama Belief tells it with poise and clarity.

Rodney Bell's Meremere is a beautifully crafted hour of beguiling story-telling through dance.

The eight expert players of the London Conchord Ensemble delivered a high-minded Friday night variety concert.

Dame Kiri Te Kanawa's Aotea Centre recital was a courageous undertaking for the 72-year-old soprano. It was an evening of some entrancement.

Director Janice Finn has assembled a dream cast for The Pink Hammer, including The Real Housewives of Auckland star Louise Wallace.

A CD that well and truly proves Polish music is more than Chopin mazurkas and the 1960s radicalism of Krzysztof Penderecki.

Funny Girls sparkles with promise and frequently delivers piercing insight and always a wild charisma and energy, but it also has issues.

As the 2014 Oscar-nominated anthology Wild Tales showed, Argentinean cinema does like its black comedies.

It's ten years since Tom Hanks first played the dull but exceedingly well-read Robert Langdon in The Da Vinci Code, and seven since he did another lap of art-history orienteering in Angels and Demons.

Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra delivers an evening with a mood of celebration.

Beautiful and thought-provoking show is exquisitely staged and marvellously theatrical.

If a guy orders a tall pint of milk on the first date it's probably not a good sign.

George Bernard Shaw was sometimes sceptical of composers' motives in writing requiems.

VOU Dance Fiji invokes traditional ceremony and ritual.

Papakura's Sir Edmund Hillary Library promises a great free day out at the end of the Southern line.

A great English composer is farewelled with poetry and politics.

Newcomers fill gallery with video, words and illusion.

Tempo Dance Festival's FRESH showcase offers a glimpse of dance future.

A full house was predictable with Vladimir Ashkenazy on the podium; it proved one of the APO's finest performances of the season.

Attention to detail and loads of options, such as the 300 shoes on offer, make NBA 2K17 a leader in the sports gaming genre.

A whodunit story makes an absorbing thriller on page, but less so on screen, even if it also delivers a compelling title character.

It's a spectacle-driven disaster movie that isn't pure escapism. It's got wanton destruction by the barrelful, but it makes every life - or death count.

Michael Parmenter's Insolent River: a tango is 31 years old, but its ability to entrance new audiences remains.

Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra rewarded a spellbound Auckland Town Hall with a brilliant display of the orchestral art.

Chamber Music New Zealand's QuintEssence was touted as a mini-festival, marketed with crass images of Mozart and Brahms as sparring pugilists.

At the galleries with TJ McNamara