Critic’s notebook

The trend for films about pensioners is still going strong

A surreal horror farce about the troubled wife of a creative genius is suspenseful and funny, but ultimately shallow

“Human Flow” is a powerful documentary – except for the director’s annoying cameos

A new twist on an old art form

LaTurbo Avedon is the avatar of an anonymous artist. She argues that our lives online are just as real as they are offline

“The Dark Tower” is one of three summer blockbusters to have failed at the box office. They all put the franchise before the film

In a beautiful new book about paleoart, images of prehistory are as much about the present as the past

Once consigned to a dusty corner of the publishing industry, the talking book has been reinvented for a younger audience

In most games, the characters cheerfully butcher their foes without a second thought. Here, they get PTSD

The White Walkers, the ice zombies in “Game of Thrones”, are the most famous monsters in a burgeoning new genre, Arctic horror