Reviews

Lou Reed's favourite trans-gender chamber-pop troupe's debut

Howe Gelb's peripatetic lifestyle captured on record

Return after eight years' silence from '60s legend

Glittering twin set from revitalised godfather of gloom

Self-styled Chauncey Gardiner of cute implies a lot but says little

London country duo relocate to US and make masterpiece

Icelander moves into new career phase with experimental vocal fantasies

Bewildering misfire from Spike Lee

In a New Jersey backwater, Fin (Peter Dinklage), a dwarf fed up with the way the world reacts to him, moves into the derelict train station he's inherited and tries to ignore offers of friendship from a lonely snack-van man (Bobby Cannavale) and a divorced artist (Patricia Clarkson). Tom McCarthy's gem has something like the drift and precision of early Jarmusch—nothing much happens, except life.

Now that Oasis have been written into British rock history alongside The Beatles, The Sex Pistols and all those other elder statesmen they so publicly admired and absorbed, 1984's Definitely Maybe survives as a revered, although sometimes distant, memory. These days when Oasis play Glastonbury, there are waves of excitement but no huge hullabaloo about their perfunctory parade of greatest hits, and their albums have ceased to generate the expectation, the queues around the block in Oxford Street, that was once the norm.