"It is exactly what you expect - which is both fulfilling and disappointing at the same time" - here's why.

Reviewing NZTrio's Flare concert, it's difficult to resist an easy pun, as this pairing of top-class ensemble with celebrated Kiwi heldentenor showed commendable flair.

A good season for Auckland Museum's Fazioli International Piano Recital series saw all seats sold for Philip Fowke's closing concert

Absurdist comedy will confirm your wildest fears about the way the world is going.

Keeping up with film releases can sometimes feel like the entertainment selection on a long-haul flight. Every movie starts to blur

Three of the year's best classical albums vie for the Vodafone NZ Music awards vote.

Clay breaks new ground in ceramics show.

Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra "settles the score".

Following 2014's acclaimed Love Is Strange, Little Men is another very New York story with real estate concerns from director-writer Ira Sachs.

The Light Between Oceans, directed by Ryan Gosling fanboy Derek Cianfrance (Place Beyond the Pines, Blue Valentine) is the latest

Shapeshifter celebrated the release of their sixth studio album inside a cosmic cube atop of the Auckland Museum.

Wild, rhetorical and witty painting - Dick Frizzell show proves why he's one of our best painters.

Schubert's Piano Trios are exquisitely caught in the palette of their times.

It's difficult to decide exactly when Schoolboy Q's Auckland show last night went from turnt to, well, a little terrifying.

Young and dazzlingly talented APO Composer-in-Residence delivers.

REVIEW: Mel Gibson will be hoping that Hacksaw Ridge can reset the bones of a broken career.

The predictability of an unhappy resolution headed the tears off - but the redemptive ending knocked me. I was still sobbing as I left the cinema.

Affleck, autism and accounting combine for enjoyable if ropy action movie.

Welcome to New Zealand, Daniel Blake, you couldn't have come at a better time.

Tchaikovsky, Piano Concerto No.2 & Concert Fantasia is a superb symphonic adventure from the New Zealand Symphony.

Sea calmly meets sky in Stanley Palmer's mature and masterly images.

Author Jay McInerney's old-fashioned belief that Love and Art can defy both time and money is to be applauded.

Conductor Giordano Bellincampi ensured an exhilarating night with the APO.

COMMENT: Thanks to Insecure and Atlanta, each are quietly revolutionary the idea of African American sitcoms.

Oh good. Another rich prick gets a cape and a suit. Wait, come back. This isn't that sort of superhero movie.

The way Hell or High Water gently and precisely unfurls its plot, the characters and their motivations lifts this above the ordinary.

I, Daniel Blake may be an incensed political film. But it runs on the hope that a decent bloke will get asked just that.

After two hours of hollering bruising, demonic anthems, Slipknot's frontman finally showed his true emotions.

Auckland Shakespeare Company's Lucrece confronts the way rape debases our humanity.

Real-life experiences depicted with humour, intensity and relevance.