Jangled & Tetchy : Arts reviews with a bite

Film

I’m still here (2024)

Walter Salles

Sunny scent of nostalgia

31 March 2025
Art

Edvard Munch Portraits

National Portrait Gallery, London

Late relaxed vibrancy

27 March 2025
Music

Jazz at Lincoln Centre Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis

Barbican, London

Timeless big band swing

18 March 2025
Theatre

Oedipus

The Old Vic, London

Exciting dance cannot rescue poor adaptation

16 March 2025
Music

Quatuor Ébène

Wigmore Hall, London

Chamber magicians

8 March 2025
Art

Goya to Impressionism

The Courtauld Gallery, London

Small but captivating

26 February 2025
Book

Eurotrash

Christian Kracht

Humorous self-defeating search for authenticity

23 February 2025
Music

Festen

Royal Opera House, London

Contemporary opera at its best

10 February 2025
Film

The Seed of the Sacred Fig (2024)

Mohammad Rasoulof

The naked truth of extreme Islamic ideology

8 February 2025
Music

Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra

Barbican, London

Excellence and vigour

19 January 2025