EntertainmentPike River doco: No answers but a lot of insightDuncan Grieve reviews docudrama Pike River, praising its unflinching look into the tragedy surrounding the event.22 Nov 12:00 AM
EntertainmentA business-movie opportunity wastedThe Founder is a bland movie which becomes less great American business saga, than a mildly engaging, mildly uncomplimentary Kroc biopic.21 Nov 12:22 AM
EntertainmentSatirical play has spooky parallels with US electionThere is an eerie prescience in the decision to stage Vernon God Little just as America succumbs to the belief that the frontman for 20 Nov 04:00 PM
EntertainmentDazzlemeister from Tiberghien enthrallsAuckland Philharmonia Orchestra's final town hall concert was a grand occasion with a near capacity audience warmly applauded by CEO 20 Nov 04:00 PM
EntertainmentThe Beautiful Ones offers addition to modern Maori artThis successful, uber-stylish nightclub musical from Wellington's Tawata Productions feels like a dreamy album-length live music video.20 Nov 04:00 PM
EntertainmentMovie review: Operation AvalancheCrazy found-footage thriller Operation Avalanche has arrived just in time for the supermoon rising over the country, keeping us all 20 Nov 01:00 AM
EntertainmentWas the Dunedin sound a thing?The echoes of the Dunedin sound debate have faded with the decades but a new book hears them reverberating louder.19 Nov 03:30 AM
EntertainmentA Tribe Called Quest's triumphant finaleFeeling like you're missing out on who's who and what's what? Here's a wrap of some of the albums you may have missed lately.18 Nov 09:25 PM
New ZealandClassical CD review: William Dart on Dixit DominusOne Psalm inspires fascinating and individual responses from three composers.18 Nov 04:00 PM
New ZealandTJ McNamara: At the galleriesOutstanding sculpture show raises money from Women's Refuge.18 Nov 04:00 PM
EntertainmentHow does Fantastic Beasts compare to Potter?Fantastic Beasts feels like something darker, stranger and altogether much less of a theme park blueprint than the Potter movies.17 Nov 02:00 AM
EntertainmentThis movie is not worth watchingWar on Everyone is a film that is remarkably tone deaf and quite awful.16 Nov 11:00 PM
EntertainmentHouston, we have an amusing problem...Moon landing hoaxsters will undoubtedly be very happy with Operation Avalanche.16 Nov 11:00 PM
EntertainmentMovie review: JulietaIn his 20th film, Spanish director Pedro Almodovar drops the farcical approach of his last, I'm So Excited!, and the chilling tone 16 Nov 09:30 PM
EntertainmentA spoiler-free review of Gilmore Girls"It is exactly what you expect - which is both fulfilling and disappointing at the same time" - here's why.16 Nov 03:00 AM
EntertainmentEnsemble delivers classy performanceReviewing 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.14 Nov 04:00 PM
EntertainmentFowke makes magic on museum's FazioliA good season for Auckland Museum's Fazioli International Piano Recital series saw all seats sold for Philip Fowke's closing concert 13 Nov 04:00 PM
EntertainmentChaos makes perfect senseAbsurdist comedy will confirm your wildest fears about the way the world is going.13 Nov 04:00 PM
EntertainmentReviewed: Tom Ford's Nocturnal AnimalsKeeping up with film releases can sometimes feel like the entertainment selection on a long-haul flight. Every movie starts to blur 13 Nov 03:07 AM
New ZealandClassical CD review: William Dart on the contenders for NZ's best classical album of the yearThree of the year's best classical albums vie for the Vodafone NZ Music awards vote.11 Nov 04:00 PM
New ZealandAt the galleries: TJ McNamara reviews the latest art gallery showsClay breaks new ground in ceramics show.11 Nov 04:00 PM
New ZealandConcert review: William Dart on the APO's Settling the ScoreAuckland Philharmonia Orchestra "settles the score".10 Nov 04:00 PM
EntertainmentMovie review: A bittersweet charmerFollowing 2014's acclaimed Love Is Strange, Little Men is another very New York story with real estate concerns from director-writer Ira Sachs.10 Nov 01:30 AM
EntertainmentThis is the movie you need to see this weekendArrival does have moments of story daftness, however, Adams' performance as Dr Louise Banks is terrific.09 Nov 08:00 PM
EntertainmentNZSO puts on a rousing finaleWhen Ronald Brautigam recorded Mozart's C minor Piano Concerto five years ago, he used a fortepiano; on Friday night, playing a modern 07 Nov 04:00 PM
EntertainmentMovie review: The Light Between OceansThe Light Between Oceans, directed by Ryan Gosling fanboy Derek Cianfrance (Place Beyond the Pines, Blue Valentine) is the latest 06 Nov 01:00 AM
EntertainmentReview: Shapeshifter sends Auckland Museum into spaceShapeshifter celebrated the release of their sixth studio album inside a cosmic cube atop of the Auckland Museum.05 Nov 01:05 AM
EntertainmentClassical CD review: William Dart on Schubert, Piano Trios (Harmonia Mundi, through Ode Records)Schubert's Piano Trios are exquisitely caught in the palette of their times.04 Nov 04:00 PM
EntertainmentAt the Galleries: TJ McNamara reviews the latest art gallery showsWild, rhetorical and witty painting - Dick Frizzell show proves why he's one of our best painters.04 Nov 04:00 PM
EntertainmentAll-in brawl at rapper's Auckland showIt's difficult to decide exactly when Schoolboy Q's Auckland show last night went from turnt to, well, a little terrifying.04 Nov 05:30 AM
New ZealandWilliam Darts reviews APO's Soul of the CelloYoung and dazzlingly talented APO Composer-in-Residence delivers.03 Nov 04:00 PM
EntertainmentDid Gibson succeed with his comeback movie?REVIEW: Mel Gibson will be hoping that Hacksaw Ridge can reset the bones of a broken career.03 Nov 12:30 AM
EntertainmentThe movie that created this Hollywood coupleThe predictability of an unhappy resolution headed the tears off - but the redemptive ending knocked me. I was still sobbing as I left the cinema.02 Nov 11:00 PM
EntertainmentBetter than Batman? The verdict on Ben Affleck's new superhero movieAffleck, autism and accounting combine for enjoyable if ropy action movie.02 Nov 08:30 PM
