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How Pretty Red Dress explores black masculinity

This confident debut by Dionne Edwards, starring Alexandra Burke, uses clothing to ask questions about liberation and self-expression.

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This biopic of Joseph Bologne, Chevalier, the first black European composer, is less interested in the past than in converting…

By David Sexton

Tina Satter’s verbatim treatment of the FBI’s questioning of a young NSA translator is deeply unsettling.

By Ryan Gilbey

Its black Ariel caused a racist backlash, but Bridgerton-style casting isn’t enough to give Disney's new version any cultural depth.

By Pravina Rudra

This story of an ex-white supremacist and a mixed-race woman tending to the grounds of a former plantation will make…

By David Sexton

The actor and writer on playing John Gielgud, the culture wars and a decade of Tory arts cuts.

By Rachel Cunliffe

Funny and at points very moving, this adaptation of the Judy Blume novel has a golden heart.

By Leaf Arbuthnot

Ari Aster’s black comedy about malign maternal influence is full of cod-psychology that makes Psycho look like a Mother’s Day…

By Ryan Gilbey