GEOFF BOTTOMS relishes a profoundly human portrait of a family as it evolves across 55 years in Sheffield
Woes of a whistleblower
A new documentary details the trials and tribulations of Chelsea Manning — and they're still not over, says MARIA DUARTE
PAUL DONOVAN applauds an excellently crafted new musical that explores the life and death of Ruth Ellis
PAUL DONOVAN is tickled by the excruciating take-downs of one of the funniest, wittiest, political writers around.
RON JACOBS points out, via a transcription of Kissinger’s secret recordings, that Trump could never have existed without Nixon and Kissinger
ELLIS RAE is persuaded that the advantages of the ‘talking cure’ are superior to the treatment of mental illness with drugs
JOHN GREEN, MICHAL BONCZA and BELLA KATZ review The Good Boy, Broken English, and Don't Be Prey
XY Chelsea (15)
Directed by Tim Travers Hawkins
“IF YOU had free rein over classified networks and you saw incredible things, awful things. What would you do?”
This is one of the most poignant questions explored in this eye-opening look at the life and career of whistleblower Chelsea Manning, a trans woman soldier in the US army who, having witnessed such “awful things,” instigated the largest leak of secrets in US history.
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