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Andor, Pink Floyd at Pompeii and Conclave: the week in rave reviews


The thrilling Star Wars spin-off returns, the Floyd sound epic in a 1971 concert film and the timely papal drama hits streaming. Here’s the pick of the week’s culture, taken from the Guardian’s best-rated reviews

Photograph: De Wereldvrede Summed up in a sentence A star player at an elite tennis school stays silent when the head coach is suspended in an absorbing study of things unsaid and subjects avoided. What our reviewer said “Edward Berger’s drama is adapted with masterly flair by screenwriter Peter Straughan from the Robert Harris page-turner; Ralph Fiennes is on sumptuous form as the deeply troubled Cardinal Lawrence at the centre of a murky Vatican plot. What our reviewer said “The music on A Complicated Woman reaches for feelgood stadium singalongs, evokes sweaty dancefloors and aims itself at the dead centre of 21st-century mainstream pop … But for the most part, the songs thrash about and contradict themselves as if Taylor is, right in front of your ears, working out exactly how she feels about ageing, drinking or her career.” Alexis Petridis

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