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Today's News: The Imposter impresses, The Watch flops, and jury's out on Winter Journal...

CultureCritic | 24.August.2012 | 14:26

Vive la différence: Paul Auster's new novel is 'a terrible book... a disaster' says The Guardian. Hold on, actually it's 'profoundly beautiful' pipes in The Washington Post. Winter Journal settles on 63% - for now...

More news of the 'classic modern author related' kind. Both Tom Wolfe and Sebastian Faulks have new novels out this winter...

Film of the week? Easy. The Imposter scores 94% with an almost clean sweep of five star reviews...

Flop of the week? The Watch staring Hollywood funny men Jonah Hill, Ben Stiller and, er, Vince Vaughn. Also staring Richard Ayoade. 36%? Must try harder chaps!

After Edinburgh success Phil Porter's new play Blink opens at the Soho Theatre next week...

30 years of noise culminates in this - Swans' new album The Seer is out on Monday, and the early reviews are very good. If you're not sure what to expect from the Swans-record-to-end-all-Swans-records, see below 'trailer' for the accompanying live DVD...

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Cinema

82%	Beyond The Hills
79%	Our Children
78%	A Hijacking
78%	Neighbouring Sounds
75%	In the House
75%	Side Effects
74%	The Gatekeepers
72%	Arbitrage
72%	In the Fog
70%	Thursday Till Sunday
70%	Mud
70%	The Place Beyond the Pines
69%	Good Vibrations
68%	A Late Quartet
68%	Caesar Must Die

Recorded music

90%	Lubomyr Melnyk - Corollaries
87%	John Grant - Pale Green Ghosts
85%	James Blake - Overgrown
85%	Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City
81%	Phosphorescent - Muchacho
81%	Colin Stetson - New History of Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light
80%	Rhye - Woman
80%	Savages - Silence Yourself
78%	Phoenix - Bankrupt!
78%	Youth Lagoon - Wondrous Bughouse
78%	Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
77%	Kurt Vile - Wakin' On A Pretty Daze
76%	Vondelpark - Seabed
76%	Deerhunter - Monomania
76%	The Besnard Lakes - Until In Excess, Imperceptible UFO

Books

88%	Rachel Kushner – The Flamethrowers
82%	Maggie O'Farrell - Instructions for a Heatwave
80%	WG Sebald - A Place in the Country
76%	John le Carré – A Delicate Truth
76%	Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Americanah
75%	Louise Erdrich - The Round House
75%	Claire Messud - The Woman Upstairs
75%	Lionel Shriver - Big Brother
74%	Julian Barnes - Levels of Life
73%	Paul Auster & JM Coetzee - Here and Now
72%	Amity Gaige - Schroder
71%	Taiye Selasi - Ghana Must Go
70%	James Salter - All That Is
70%	Elizabeth Strout - The Burgess Boys
69%	J.M. Coetzee - The Childhood of Jesus

Exhibitions

96%	Life and Death Pompeii and Herculaneum
84%	Souzou: Outsider Art from Japan
81%	David Bowie is
81%	Barocci: Brilliance and Grace
80%	From Death to Death and Other Small Tales
80%	Moore Rodin
78%	Ice Age art: arrival of the modern mind
75%	Saloua Raouda Choucair
73%	Lichtenstein: A Retrospective
66%	Bernadette Corporation: 2000 Wasted Years
65%	Tate Britain Commission 2013: Simon Starling - Phantom Ride
64%	Ellen Gallagher: AxME
55%	George Catlin: American Indian Portraits

Theatre

88%	Merrily We Roll Along
86%	Mies Julie
83%	The Weir
82%	Othello
82%	The Seagull
81%	The Audience
80%	The Hothouse
76%	The Pajama Game
75%	Passion Play
72%	Peter and Alice
68%	Children of the Sun
55%	Hamlet

Opera & Dance

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