The Critics

The horror of 7 October on film

The killers’ headset footage, CCTV, interviews with survivors and heart-rending last messages

Shades of Gray

Never underestimate the mysterious yet powerful Sue Gray

Cardinal win

Conclave is a political drama and a closed-room mystery rolled into one

Sophocles’s lack-of-foresight saga

Families will feud, from the BC era to 2024

Passing the baton to the offspring

Does maestro talent run in the genes?

Megalomania

Megalopolis is a gaudy, self-indulgent mess

Gothic staging

The Turn of the Screw, Coliseum

Why can’t there be more vampires?

Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place

Oasis: the good boys of rock and roll

For guitar bands since punk, there’s been a tension between credibility and success

Aggers declares — the end of an era

It has been an assured innings, and a long one