Grayson Perry saw the future for Miroirs No 3: Week in Great Reviews | culture

television

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Grayson Perry has seen the future

Channel 4

Summarize in a sentence The artist offers a very insightful – and often terrifying – look at artificial intelligence.
What our reviewer said “As always, Perry is the guy you want to question these people.” Lucy Mangan

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Further reading “World Champion of Personalization” Grayson Perry says he’s unfazed by using AI for his business

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A Gorilla Story: Told by David Attenborough

Netflix

Summarize in a sentence The broadcaster revisits a family of monkeys he had an infamous encounter with 50 years ago.
What our reviewer said “For those of us who grew up with him — that is, all of us — this feels like one of the last chances we will be able to sit at the feet of a beloved relative.” Stuart Heritage

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Further reading From Attenborough’s gorilla chaos to TV’s first gay kiss: the 100 biggest moments from a century of television

Zero stars

Discover+

Summarize in a sentence Comedians Sarah Pascoe and Róisín Conaty upend the celebrity travel story by touring the world in search of terrifying destinations.
What our reviewer said “The hosts do a fantastic job with what they present – ​​especially Konate who, after spending two seasons watching footage on screen in Last One Laughing, must be thrilled to have anything to do at all.” Stuart Heritage

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Further reading The Guardian has only published 18 zero-star reviews. Here they are all

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Inside the rage machine

BBC iPlayer

Summarize in a sentence Whistleblowers who previously worked at Meta and X reveal the shocking truth about the social media giants.
What our reviewer said “Seeing the machinations of these companies exposed in less than an hour is fascinating.” Lucy Mangan

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film

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Mirror No. 3

In cinemas now

Summarize in a sentence Paula Bear plays a depressed pianist in a disturbing mystery of grief and family dysfunction from Christian Petzold.
What our reviewer said “The faint suggestion that the film itself has undergone some kind of trauma could have given the events something dream-like and unreal, an atmosphere that can often be found in Petzold’s films. What makes this film interesting is that it does not move towards a shocking twist or a terrifying denouement, but something positive and even redemptive.” Peter Bradshaw

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Diamante

In cinemas now

Summarize in a sentence Director Ferzan Ozpetek’s exquisite 1970s costume melodrama reveals the loves and lives of a group of seamstresses working in an 18th-century fantasy drama.
What our reviewer said “There’s something irresistible about this, especially if you’re in any way sympathetic to queer-accented celebrations of women performed by powerful ensembles in the spirit of George Cukor’s The Women , François Ozon’s 8 Women , or the films of Pedro Almodovar.” Leslie Felperin

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Reconstruction

In cinemas now

Summarize in a sentence A quiet, gentle drama in which Josh O’Connor plays a rancher named Dusty who moves to a trailer park and puts his life back together after a massive fire.
What our reviewer said “It’s another hugely sympathetic performance from O’Connor, who transforms the British reserve of his previous roles into Dusty’s strength and quiet vulnerability.” Peter Bradshaw

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Further reading Josh O’Connor: The changing star who became cinema’s most wanted

Akira

In cinemas now

Summarize in a sentence The popular Japanese cyberpunk anime from 1988 delivers a startling message about global annihilation.
What our reviewer said “Akira’s strangeness is quite startling and sometimes bewildering. But there is an ecstatic exhilaration in her vision of an entire world ending and being reborn as something else.” Peter Bradshaw

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Streaming now

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Moby

Summarize in a sentence A trippy tale of First Nations life in which a filmmaker records the shaggy dog ​​stories of his Indigenous brother in a demented, hallucinatory animation.
What our reviewer said “It can almost be described as when Cheech and Chong meet Tristram Shandy, Endless Cookie is constantly interrupting itself and making fun of its creation methods — especially the fact that it took half-brothers Seth and Peter Scriver nine years to finish the thing.” Phil Hood

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books

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