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  • ‘The stakes are high and the targets are fearsome, but the story is kink-free.’

    Cowboy Cartel review – a tale told so poorly even the talking heads call it ‘anti-climactic’

    The real-life story of a Mexican cartel laundering money within the world of horse racing could be gripping. Sadly, it is not
  • Paul Dano (right) has a close encounter with an alien in Fantasmas.

    Fantasmas review – this wildly creative comedy is a beacon of hope for TV’s future

  • Batman with Harley Quinn in Batman: Caped Crusader.

    Batman: Caped Crusader review – this noirish reboot feels utterly refreshing

  • A participant in the BBC’s Atomic People.

    Atomic People review – the quietly devastating truth about surviving Hiroshima

  • Force to be reckoned with … Women in Blue (Las Azules).

    Women in Blue review – calling this a real-life story is nothing but a misleading PR exercise

  • Roger Stone in A Storm Foretold.

    A Storm Foretold review – a terrifying glimpse into Trump’s time in the White House

    This extraordinary film spends three years on the trail of Donald Trump’s political adviser Roger Stone. It’s a shocking tale of the ex-president’s inadequacies
  • Stephen Amell and Alexander Ludwig in Heels.

    Heels review – this stunning wrestling drama’s fights feel more Swan Lake than WWE

    There are acrobatics, broken hearts and so many narrative twists it leaves your head spinning. No wonder fans are delighted by Netflix acquiring this tale of small-time scrappers
  • Rock musician and actor Steven Van Zandt

    Stevie Van Zandt: Disciple review – seeing Springsteen’s sidekick take on apartheid is an air-punch moment

  • A scene from the 1974 sexploitation comedy Can You Keep It Up For A Week?

    Saucy! Secrets of the British Sex Comedy review – a cheeky look at cinema’s wild sexploitation craze

  • Linford Christie

    Linford review – the scenes about the racist fetishisation of his genitals are heartbreaking

    He may have been one of Britain’s most successful ever athletes, but Christie’s triumphs opened him up to abuse from the press, the police – and sexual harassment
  • Arts commentator Melvyn Bragg

    Art Matters With Melvyn Bragg review – a shallow, unenlightening waste of time and money

    This chummy, ineffective look at the arts crisis offers no solutions. And by featuring only one contributor aged under 50, it is itself part of the problem
  • Pampinea (Zosia Mamet) and Misia (Saoirse-Monica Jackson) in The Decameron.

    The Decameron review – this starry medieval show is non-stop fun

    Bandits! Sword fights! Buboes! Saoirse-Monica Jackson, Zosia Mamet and co have a whale of a time in this plague-riddled comedy-drama set in 14th-century Italy
  • Christopher Parry in Hell Jumper.

    Hell Jumper review – the heartstopping tale of the volunteer who saved hundreds of Ukrainians

    This documentary about Chris Parry, 28 – who died rescuing civilians from the frontline – is profoundly human. His bodycam footage is like watching a player in a dystopian video game
  • 'NSync in Netflix’s Dirty Pop: The Boy Band Scam.

    Dirty Pop: The Boy Band Scam review – the shocking, surreal swindle behind ‘NSync

    The Justin Timberlake-fronted boyband and the Backstreet Boys may have conquered the world, but their manager’s huge fraud devastated lives. This is the staggering tale
  • ‘There is something fun and funny for everyone’ … Apple TV+’s Time Bandits.

    Time Bandits review – the gloriously fun return of a fantasy classic

    Taika Waititi! Jemaine Clement! Lisa Kudrow being the absolute master of the muttered aside! This remake of the 80s film is a confident, hilarious romp through history
  • New York’s finest … Carrie Preston (right) as Elsbeth Tascioni.

    Elsbeth review – a tedious spinoff for the Good Wife character who makes you want to smash your TV

    This murder-of-the week drama – with its screamingly obvious solutions – was seemingly dreamed up in five minutes. It’s like a charmless Columbo, with brighter clothes
  • Sophie Morgan's Fight to Fly on Channel 4.

    Sophie Morgan’s Fight to Fly review – the degradation of disabled people is jaw-dropping

  • Will Mellor

    Surviving the Post Office review – fresh details of the appalling scandal will make you even more angry

  • Rob Rinder examines the prison system in Britain Behind Bars: A Secret History

    Britain Behind Bars: A Secret History review – the inside story of a broken, brutal prison system

    Rob Rinder’s nuanced look at the penal system through the ages unearths horrifying revelations – from conditions so bad they caused a riot, to the cruelty current inmates face
  • Callie Cooke, Abdul Sessay, Rebecca Humphries, Sam Pote, Mark Heap, Sarah Parish, Jamie Bisping, Halema Hussain and Sukh Kur Ojla in Piglets

    Piglets review – this comedy is so weak you wonder why the police bothered to complain about it

    The ‘highly offensive’ title of ITV’s new comedy may have seen officers’ federation throw its toys out of the pram, but this slight sitcom goes easy on years of reports of corruption
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