The critics

After the Hunt isn’t as clever as it thinks it is

Luca Guadagnino’s provocative cancel culture film, starring an impressively icy Julia Roberts, already feels dated

Mary Page Marlowe is a disappointing play

Despite a vivid performance from Susan Sarandon, Tracy Letts’s portrait of a woman at different stages of life lacks detail and heart

Benjamin Britten’s oddball masterpiece

Albert Herring is a subversive portrait of stuffy postwar England

Patti Smith in her prime

Fifty years after the release of her wild and swaggering record, Horses, the spirited singer has more gravitas than ever

The women who made David Lynch

The film-maker was drawn to the image of the damsel in distress – but the women in his work always retain their power

The Blackpool man who found a pot of crypto gold

Lewis Goodall makes sense of this brilliantly nutty tale about James Parker, the fraudster who spent £24.5m in free bitcoin. Plus, a deadly standup routine

Reviews: The Necks, Cheikh Lô, Jay Som, Charles Lloyd

The trio’s 20th album, Disquiet, is three hours long – a maximal, mantric work that stands out in the modern attention economy

Wendy Ide’s pick of other films: Tron: Ares, Good Boy, A Want in Her, The Perfect Neighbor

Jared Leto is in full messianic prat mode as an AI super-soldier in the synthetic spectacle Tron: Ares

Misogyny and misinformation in a 21st-century Handel

Mob rule and a marauding bear feature in sparkling revivals of two of the composer’s lesser-known gems. Plus, a masterclass in high-speed Rossini

Draft Works’ Black History Month – a soaring, spirited celebration

Five Black female choreographers elegantly explore a Pentecostal upbringing, music and the collapse of a marriage

A high-speed Hamlet is too fast and too flat

Tragedy teeters on the brink of comedy in the National’s racing, relentless production, redeemed by Francesca Mills’s triumph as Ophelia

Bad Lads is a theatrical call for justice

A play about abuses at Medomsley Detention Centre in County Durham is deeply affecting, but needs wider contextualisation

Lady Gaga’s fever dream

Showcasing her latest album, Mayhem, the US star unleashes an extravaganza of camp absurdity, then strips it all away

Gilbert & George’s 21st Century Pictures – eye-popping but empty

Vast, lurid yet increasingly timid, the pair’s art is in your face but never reaches heart and head. Plus, a captivating show of Scandinavian graphic works

I Swear is a touching, transformative tale of Tourette syndrome

Kirk Jones’s biopic of activist John Davidson balances melancholy and comedy while opening our eyes to neurodiverse life

Could The Celebrity Traitors herald a new dawn of prestige reality TV?

The stars compete for charity in The Celebrity Traitors – but who can’t keep a secret?

The machines that made Manchester

Within the city’s Science and Industry Museum, a whirling, spinning array of engines are still the stars of the show in a fine £18.9m makeover

Is Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl her happiest album yet?

The star follows her lovelorn previous album with a set of punchy, clear-eyed odes to joy