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Review of the Week: Hamnet
Chloé Zhao’s Bard drama with its powerhouse lead performance from Jessie Buckley is hotly tipped for success. But is it just a deluxe version of Shakespeare in Love? writes Ellen E Jones
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Review of the Week: Marty Supreme
Timothée Chalamet’s propulsive energy lights up Josh Safdie’s new film about a table tennis hustler who’s on his way to the top, writes Ellen E Jones
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Cover-Up filmmaker Laura Poitras: ‘What do I always carry with me? An escape plan’
As her film about trailblazing reporter Seymour Hersh hits Netflix, in the week it made the Oscar documentary shortlist, the director answers the Nerve Q&A - on troublemakers, optimism and her ‘hippie’ schooling
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Review of the Week: Oh, Mary! at Trafalgar theatre
A huge hit on Broadway, Cole Escola’s history-busting comedy about Mary Todd Lincoln - Abraham’s wife - is wild, subversively queer and riotously funny, writes Dorian Lynskey
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Martin Parr was a joy to work with. He also helped me to understand the dangerous moment we’re living through
When Carole Cadwalladr met the photographer 17 years ago in Moscow, they were both curious about the same things: Russia, wealth, the oligarchs. Following his death last weekend, she remembers the man who taught her how to ‘look harder’
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Philippa Perry: My 10 rules for a happier Christmas
Dreading the post-turkey singalong? Haunted by spirits of the past? It’s time to step back and think about how your rituals could become truly festive again, says the Nerve's cultural agony aunt
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‘I’m interested in humour!’: How Isobel Waller-Bridge made her new album with Hoovers, shoes and balls
The film and classical composer talks to Kate Hutchinson about avant-garde music, ASMR and the whirlwind experience of working on Fleabag
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The Nerve's Best Books of 2025
From a moving rumination on class to a gripping novel about desire, our team of writers and editors each recommend a title they’ve loved over the past 12 months – and one they’re hoping to get for Christmas
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Review of the Week: It Was Just an Accident
The extraordinary new film by dissident Iranian auteur Jafar Panahi is a thriller, a fable about state repression and a road movie all at once, writes Nerve film critic Ellen E Jones
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Musician Richard Hawley: ‘I'd abolish the role of prime minister. I'm half serious!'
The Sheffield rocker, in rehearsal for his homecoming tour, answers the Nerve Q&A - on songs, socialism, swearing ... and the joy of dogs
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The Recommender: Derek Owusu
The fast-rising British novelist on his latest art and culture discoveries
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Review of the Week: All My Sons
Ten years after his first triumph with an Arthur Miller play, director Ivo Van Hove has returned to the American dramatist and produced another masterpiece that feels startlingly current, writes Dorian Lynskey
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Is the current generation of leading men our best ever?
No longer dreaming of playing Bond, today’s group of young British and Irish actors are fun, reflective and helping to redefine masculinity. I'm all for it, says Nerve film critic Ellen E Jones
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Review of the week: Wes Anderson: The Archives at the Design Museum
Our art critic Emily LaBarge is charmed by a deep dive into the pastel-hued world of the American film director, through costumes, props, scripts and more
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The visual arts sector has a class problem and I'm trying to fix it. Join me!
Meg Molloy, the founder of Working Arts Club, was the first person in her family to go to university and had to fight for her career and to fit in. Now she wants to open the doors of the art world to people like her
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