To rescue Kahlo from the clutches of the corporate art market, we need to acknowledge the overt and covert political dimensions of the work, demands GAVIN O’TOOLE
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Mob-handed
Martin Scorsese's lengthy epic of gangster goings-on boasts great performances from a string of Hollywood greats, says MARIA DUARTE
If you can see past the relentless commodification you will be rewarded by enormously powerful work, suggests JENNY MITCHELL
CHRIS SEARLE revels in the one-off collaboration between an American polymath and a British Muslim, and detects the presence of their revolutionary forebear
GORDON PARSONS revels in an ebullient production of Shakespeare’s magical comedy
BRENT CUTLER welcomes a thoughtful analysis of the Erdogan regime, viewed through the evolving history of a neighbourhood in Istanbul
GORDON PARSONS regrets the price, but is dazzled by an outstandingly ambitious study of the way art restoration in particular, and culture in general was weaponised by the Nazis
The Irishman (15)
Directed by Martin Scorsese
MASTER of the gangster film Martin Scorsese returns to the genre he made his own in this epic mobster drama which explores the unsolved mystery of who killed US union leader Jimmy Hoffa.
President of the Teamsters Union, he had wide-ranging connections to the mob and organised crime. He was pardoned by president Richard Nixon in 1971 after being convicted for the jury tampering, attempted bribery and fraud which ended his career.
He disappeared, never to be seen again, in July 1975, provoking umpteen theories.
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