Culture

Here’s something Jen would never, ever have dreamed of doing, back in the days when she was married – listening to relationship advice from her barely teenage son.

The Saturday Paper’s architecture critic looks back at the highlights of 2025.

The Saturday Paper’s film critic looks back at the highlights of 2025.

The Saturday Paper’s visual arts critic looks back at the highlights of 2025.

The Saturday Paper’s music critic looks back at the highlights of 2025.

The Saturday Paper’s television critic looks back at the highlights of 2025.

Julia Roberts shines in Luca Guadagnino’s After the Hunt, an exploration of cancel culture that is hard to imagine even being made a few years ago.

On a spring afternoon in 2018, the man leaves Tretyakovskaya station in Moscow unable to remember why he’d come. His backpack, light on his shoulders, contains Dostoevsky’s The Double and a change of clothes. He hadn’t planned a long stay. He has no official business, no friends to visit.

Paul Thomas Anderson’s gripping One Battle After Another positions music as a force against fascism.

James Batchelor’s Resonance, a work in dialogue with Tanja Liedtke’s dance archive, elicits both the thrill of the new and the blaze of familiarity.