The Rolling Stones to BTS: the week in rave reviews
The Last One for the Road is the week's top film pick: Peter Bradshaw calls it a "cynically amused and lenient witness to drunkenness" in this Italian ageing-boozer tragicomedy.
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The Last One for the Road is the week's top film pick: Peter Bradshaw calls it a "cynically amused and lenient witness to drunkenness" in this Italian ageing-boozer tragicomedy.
David Sedaris' The Land and Its People is the week's top book: Emma Brockes notes the strongest sections are observations about people, where Sedaris is at his shrewdest.
Rolling Stones' Foreign Tongues is the week's top album: Dave Simpson says paired with Hackney Diamonds, it's "comfortably their best material in decades" from the octogenarian rock legends.
BTS are on their first tour since 2022 hiatus: The K-pop boyband bring album Arirang to European stadiums, with reviewer Kate Solomon saying "Whatever BTS has, it's potent."
Sarah O'Connor's We Are Not Machines questions AI assumptions: The book argues the real issue isn't new technology but the interchangeability of human and machine contributions.
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