Today’s news: bouncy-castle Stonehenge, new Dave Eggers a hit and synth star follow-up…

CultureCritic | 05.July.2012 | 12:25

Low-budget, Tennesee Williams-esque UK film has mixed reception...

Jeremy Deller touring art gets you up close and bouncing on Stonehenge...

Dave Eggers gets big nod from US critics for novel about Saudi Arabia...

Look out for Helicopter opera in Birmingham....

Twin Shadow (below) gets a round of applause for synth pop with heart...

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91%	Grave Of The Fireflies (25th Anniversary)
86%	Behind the Candelabra
82%	Beyond The Hills
79%	Our Children
78%	A Hijacking
78%	Neighbouring Sounds
75%	In the House
74%	The Gatekeepers
72%	In the Fog
70%	Mud
70%	The Place Beyond the Pines
70%	Thursday Till Sunday
69%	Good Vibrations
68%	A Late Quartet
68%	Rebellion

Recorded music

90%	Lubomyr Melnyk - Corollaries
87%	Laura Marling - Once I Was An Eagle
85%	James Blake - Overgrown
85%	Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City
81%	Phosphorescent - Muchacho
81%	The National - Trouble Will Find Me
81%	Colin Stetson - New History of Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light
80%	Savages - Silence Yourself
78%	Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
78%	Phoenix - Bankrupt!
77%	Kurt Vile - Wakin' On A Pretty Daze
76%	The Besnard Lakes - Until In Excess, Imperceptible UFO
76%	Deerhunter - Monomania
76%	Vondelpark - Seabed
74%	No Joy - Wait To Pleasure

Books

88%	Rachel Kushner – The Flamethrowers
80%	WG Sebald - A Place in the Country
76%	Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Americanah
76%	Khaled Hosseini - And The Mountains Echoed
76%	John le Carré – A Delicate Truth
75%	Lionel Shriver - Big Brother
75%	Claire Messud - The Woman Upstairs
75%	James Salter - All That Is
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%	Louise Erdrich - The Round House
69%	J.M. Coetzee - The Childhood of Jesus
66%	Tessa Hadley - Clever Girl

Exhibitions

81%	David Bowie is
80%	From Death to Death and Other Small Tales
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

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