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Ari Aster’s over the top folk horror breaks new ground

Midsommar uses all the classic hallmarks of folk horror—but it also has an original touch. It’s certainly not for the faint hearted, writes Gabby Thorpe

Kyle Craft’s latest album leaves you with flat feeling

A glam rock album on a solid label like Sub Pop should deliver something that’s good fun, musically compelling and—given the singer’s self-professed love of Bob Dylan—lyrically engaging.

Kursk—a film that gives a snapshot of Russian society

Kursk—the Last Mission, tells the story of a Russian submarine disaster in 2000. It is for people who like war and disaster films.

Harlem 1969—a forgotten festival of the oppressed

A new book by journalist Stuart Cosgrove uncovers the story of the historic Harlem Cultural Festival. He spoke to Alistair Farrow about its legacy today

Series of Catch-22 defies book’s ‘unfilmable’ reputation

The new TV adaptation of Catch 22 captures the ridiculous and unsettling atmosphere of Joseph Heller’s classic novel.

Asian strikers are heroes in exhibition of Leicester resistance

A new exhibition looks at how the Imperial Typewriters dispute played a part in forcing the anti-racist struggle into workplaces across Britain

Don Pasquale hits the road

The story hinges on how private property—in this case a kebab van—creates inequality and distorts the relationships between individuals.

Sweeping Lee Krasner retrospective

This is an amazing and long-overdue opportunity to see the work of Lee Krasner, a formidable American artist whose importance has often been forgotten.

How system treats refugees with a bureaucratic cruelty

A film about a family that flees to France from the violence of Central African Republic is a condemnation of the asylum system, writes Charlie Kimber

Ulric Cross is brought to life in inspiring film Hero

The imagined words of CLR James to his compatriot Ulric Cross, “You were born in 1917, the year of the Russian Revolution... you were born into freedom,” set the scene for Hero.

When art from streets raged at the silence over HIV and AIDS

Artist Keith Haring’s work came out of the New York graffiti and gay scenes. A new exhibition in Liverpool charts his too-brief career, writes Noel Halifax

Killing Eve is a show defined by its complex characters

The new series of this high octane BBC thriller builds on the complex relationship between spook Eve and assassin Villanelle

Allegory for the fall of the Austro-Hungarian empire

Budapest high society basked in a heatwave in the summer of 1913. In Hungarian language drama Sunset, its depravity, decadence—and destruction—lie in the shadows.

Untold voices from struggle for women’s suffrage in US

A new book about the fight by women to get the vote in the US focuses on voices which are too often left out of mainstream histories, writes?Jan Nielsen

Illegalised—brutal play about immigration detention

Illegalised will disturb you deeply, and that is a good thing.

A barnstorming, drug-filled trip to Scotland in the 1990s

Beats recounts the Scottish free party scene in this well judged slice of 1990s nostalgia which makes political points too, writes Brian Claffey

Class act feels a bit familiar

Working class parents square off against a middle class teacher in Class, a new play by Iseult Golden and David Horan.

Vox Lux is a bold vision, but loses its politics along way

A brutal school shooting in Statten Island, New York, is the start of a glittering pop career in Vox Lux.

Stanley Kubrick exhibition is one for the die-hard fans

Film exhibitions often amount to no more than memorabilia. This exhibition about film director Stanley Kubrick has higher ambitions.

Styx - showing up the brutality of borders

Styx centres around a woman on a solo sailing journey from Gibraltar to Ascension Island who comes across African refugees in a sinking fishing vessel.