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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.

It's not difficult to get swept up and away by Great Fire of London musical.

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.

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

A joyous partnership brings sparkle to underrated classical gems.

As a crisp digest of a lurid true-crime story that sprawled over 10 years, the Netflix documentary Amanda Knox deserves credit for concision.

It's called The Magnificent Seven which marks it as a remake of a remake - the 1960 original Western lifted its plot from the 1954 Akira Kurosawa film Seven Samurai.

Director Tim Burton's adaptation of Ransom Riggs' time travelling, gothic novel about children with peculiar abilities is filled with immaculate costumes, imaginative monsters and an overall attention to detail that you don't get at the movies every day.

Award-winning show celebrates the irrepressible spirit of a life devoted to champagne and pretty things.

COMMENT: On the strength of the pilot, most viewers should be sticking with This Is Us for at least a few more episodes to see how it all plays out.

New ensemble production of Wild Dogs Under My Skirt breathes new life into Tusiata Avia's remarkable collection of poems.

After 28 years, designers continue to dazzle at World of WearableArt show.

Intense and moving, Valerie is Robin Kelly's exceptionally well-written exploration of his family's history of mental illness.

NZTrio's Sunday concert achieved a meld of East and West that fully justified its title, Glow.