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Wrestling with one for the airheads
Nigel Andrews finds The Wrestler, an Iraq drama moving among the death-dicing men who defuse bombs, packs enough explosive to make us rethink about why soldiers go to war
Liberty, Shakespeare’s Globe, London
Sarah Hemming sees the audience conscripted in a play lacking focus
Neon, Pizza Express, London
Mike Hobart is impressed by some deftly performed chamber-jazz fusion
Fela!, 37 Arts, New York
Afrobeat pioneer and political agitator Fela Kuti is the subject of a new musical, writes Brendan Lemon
Santogold, Koko, London
A studied aura of cool does not stop the band being fun – and even bubbly – writes Ludovic Hunter-Tilney
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Critics at the Venice film festival, recognising a fable about art’s power to enchant, catapult Hayao Miyazaki’s ‘Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea’ to the top of the chart, writes Nigel Andrews
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The western ideal of what constitutes balanced news is being challenged by new state-funded entities, writes James Painter
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Noble passions, Cockney despots
‘The Duchess’ relies too heavily on Keira Knightley’s dewy-rose beauty but Guy Ritchie is back in gangsters’ London, writes Martin Hoyle
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West End Story
The director of the Donmar Warehouse tells Sarah Hemming about his plans to bring the highly regarded brand to a wider audience
Culture
The death of the book, yet again
One’s fantasy library can be downloaded onto eBooks, the latest gadgets to be heralded as replacements for ‘treeware’, writes Jan Dalley
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