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Anya Taylor-Joy in Lucky. Photograph: Jessica Brooks/Apple TV/APAnya Taylor-Joy in Lucky. Photograph: Jessica Brooks/Apple TV/AP Review

There have been several rounds of social media mini-reviews over the past week, but today, the embargo has just dropped for officially scored reviews of The Odyssey.It may not be a great surprise that they are largely positive, given the impressions posted before this. But this good? It’s a Rotten Tomatoes record for Nolan, and…

Christopher Nolan’s next film hasn’t reached theaters yet, but Kalshi traders already expect it to become another critical hit.

A group of movie critics saw Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey last week. They posted social media impressions about the film, all of which were uniformly positive. Now, we are on round 2, just a few days ahead of theThe Odyssey’sofficial premiere this weekend, as a new invite-only preview has spawned yet another host of online…

True to its name, ITV’s new primetime detective drama is dark. Really dark. Pitch-black levels of grimness and intrigue enough to effectively entice the British viewer, who by now is desensitised to seeing just any old dead body on screen. No, the corpses we want to pore over with our nighttime cuppa and chocolate digestive…

Role reversal … Fiona Shaw and Sacha Baron Cohen in Ladies First. Photograph: Courtesy of NetflixRole reversal … Fiona Shaw and Sacha Baron Cohen in Ladies First. Photograph: Courtesy of Netflix

All the conventions of a Golden Age murder mystery are present in BBC One’s new six-part drama, I, Jack Wright. There’s the big country house, the ageing patriarch and his disappointing children, the suspicious new wife, and then a shocking and contested will reading. But can this family saga, set in the present day, successfully…

JK Simmons as Eamon Sweeney (centre), in The Westies. Photograph: Brooke Palmer/MGM+JK Simmons as Eamon Sweeney (centre), in The Westies. Photograph: Brooke Palmer/MGM+ Review

Nothing good happens to Akshaye Khanna in an SUV. In Dhurandhar (2025), he narrowly escapes an assassination attempt inside the car and now, in Siddharth P Malhotra’s courtroom-drama Ikka, a girl’s bloodied body falls off his vehicle’s shotgun seat in the dead of the night. Akshaye’s Shauryaman Gaur is the perfect villain. He is a politician’s brat whose…