Aleona Krechetova finds it less spooky than ludicrous.
   Review: 21 Jump Street [***]
Isabella Silver finds it quick, quirky, and Coke-shooting-out-of-nose-from-laughing funny, but also facile, obscene and stupid.
   Review: The Kid with a Bike [***]
Kirsty Kenney on the Dardenne brothers’s touching new film.
   Lucian Freud: Portraits
Shyam Desai on an extensive exhibition that has become a shrine to the late master.
   A bloody, romantic horror
Rasha Al-Dabagh finds a violent and distubring, yet emotionally harrowing horror film in Eden Lake.
   Dramality is more boring than reality
Edward Larkin’s anti-dramality rant on why Made in Chelsea leaves him cold.
   Open City by Teju Cole
Wafi Abd-Manan doesn’t find much of a plot in Open City, but that doesn’t stop it’s author from delivering an alluring and entrancing novel.
   More than a whistle-blower?
Ling Yah deems this analysis of the role and impact of whistle-blowing organisation WikiLeaks a terrific read.
   The Ruins of Detroit, Wilmotte Gallery
Alessandro Allegra observes the decline of the once greatest of industrial cities through the photography of Marchand and Meffre.








