Can anyone balance America’s books?

The wildly misguided My Oxford Year

Film

This looks to be one of the most clueless and misjudged attempts at romantic comedy-drama ever put on screen

Alexander Larman

Despite all the improvements in women’s rights and opportunities, many women will still pursue beauty, or its specter, over all else

Zoe Strimpel

Though it’s set in the world of diplomacy and politics, it shows about as much interest in either of the above as, say, High School Musical does

James Delingpole

But if you thought period drama couldn’t get any worse, here comes Amazon Prime’s Those About to Die

James Delingpole

Film

It ill behoves Hollywood — the most venal and exploitative workplace ever invented — to tell the rest of us how to behave

Julie Burchill

Fashion
April 20, 2023
There’s more to corsets than meets the eye
The Bridgerton school of corsetry has more in common with Kardashian-era Spanx than with the early nineteenth century
Francesca Peacock
Film
July 15, 2022
The latest Jane Austen adaptation is dreadful
‘It’s often said that if you’re a five in London, you’re a ten in Bath’
Alexander Larman
Television
January 28, 2022
The Gilded Age is a Bridgerton-esque disappointment
Some of the acting has promise but the show is a reminder that Julian Fellowes has passed his prime
Alexander Larman
Television
March 3, 2021
A double-standard in colorblind casting
Why can black actors play white roles but not the other way around?
James Innes-Smith