The Day After I'm Gone review - a subtle portrayal of a grieving father and his teenage daughter

★★★★ THE DAY AFTER I'M GONE A subtle portrayal of a grieving father and his teenage daughter

An impressive debut feature from Israeli director Nimrod Eldar

Yoram (Menashe Noy), a vet in a Tel Aviv safari park, knows how to treat a sick jaguar (startling to see such a magnificent beast in an oxygen mask) but he has no idea how to comfort his troubled 17-year-old daughter Roni (a powerful Zohar Meidan). Both are mourning the death of Roni’s mother a year ago, but all they can offer each other is a tortured silence.

Onward review - do you believe in magic?

★★★ ONWARD Pixar excels at brotherly love in familiar, charm-filled family quest

Pixar excels at brotherly love in a familiar but charm-filled family quest

Welcome to New Mushroomton: a fantasy land that’s forgotten itself. This is how we’re introduced to Pixar’s Onward, which is set in a Dungeons & Dragons daydream of suburbia. Director Dan Scanlon’s film is a tribute to his late father, but it begins with a separate elegy.

Sex Education, Series 2, Netflix review - the teen sex show we deserved

★★★★ SEX EDUCATION, SERIES 2, NETFLIX The teen sex show we deserved

Happy Valentines: this humdrum holiday is the perfect occasion to stream the most affirming sex comedy in years

Netflix’s Sex Education has returned to our screens and streams. The show made waves last year for its refreshing take on the teen comedy-drama. It took on abortion, consent and female pleasure — subjects strikingly absent from our actual high school educations.

Dear Evan Hansen, Noël Coward Theatre review - this social outcast will steal your heart

★★★★ DEAR EVAN HANSEN, NOËL COWARD THEATRE This social outcast will still your heart

A stirring new musical tackles missed connections in the internet age

Steven Levenson, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul’s Tony and Grammy Award-winning musical Dear Evan Hansen is an institution in the States, running on Broadway since 2016 and currently on its second year of a national tour.

Little Baby Jesus, Orange Tree Theatre review - an early play thrillingly alive for now

★★★★ LITTLE BABY JESUS, ORANGE TREE THEATRE Arinzé Kene play from 2011 packs a renewed punch

Arinzé Kene play from 2011 packs a renewed punch

Time has been not just kind but even crucial to Little Baby Jesus, the 2011 play from the multi-hyphenate talent Arinzé Kene, who since then has gone on become a major name on and offstage: the West End transfer of his self-penned Misty brought him dual Olivier nominations earlier this year as writer and actor, and he segued from that to playing the volatile son Biff in Death of a Salesman at the Young Vic.