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Will this game bring out the cowboy in us all?

A new game based on western movies is being hailed as the experience to change gaming forever. Our panel of two experienced gamers and one novice (our film critic) tried it out

Critics p8

Waiting for Godard

It took 79-year-old Jean-Luc Godard to shine out amid the festival's glut of unwatchable art-house films, writes Jason Solomons

Critics p9

Trailer trash: Cannes Festival

Jason Solomons rounds up the deals and parties of Cannes 2010

Critics p16

Ten years of the Serpentine's star pavilions

Rowan Moore looks back at 10 years of Serpentine pavilions and asks which have best stood the test of time

Critics p27

Royal Wedding; Worried About the Boy; Girls and Boys: Sex and British Pop; Ashes to Ashes

The BBC's 80s season presents a decade of bad fashion and vacuous music as a cultural landmark, says Andrew Anthony

Critics p28

The film that changed my life: Brett Ratner

Brett Ratner, director of X-Men: The Last Stand, was obsessed as a child with Raging Bull, learns Jessica Hopkins
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orelans

Werner Herzog's remake of Bad Lieutenant is a bizarre triumph in which Nicolas Cage gives his best performance for years, says Philip French

Critics p29

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

This video-game spin-off feels like a second world war romance but goes the distance with fine photography, topical laughs and a decent cast, writes Philip French

Critics p30

Up in the Air; Precious; Adoration; Where the Wild Things Are

George Clooney is all fired up in Up in the Air, while Precious sees Mariah Carey do dowdy, says Mark Kermode
The Party's Over

An American heiress falls in with bohemian nihilists in this morality tale from the swinging 60s, writes Philip French

Critics p31

Wagner: Götterdämmerung

Mark Elder and his Halle orchestra are at their electrifying best on a live recording of Götterdämmerung, says Fiona Maddocks
Beethoven: Violin Sonatas in A (Kreutzer) and E flat

Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata is vividly reimagined by Viktoria Mullova and Kristian Bezuidenhout, says Nicholas Kenyon
Tosca; La fille du régiment; Takacs Quartet

Puccini's opera is positively humdrum in comparison to Donizetti's sparkling comedy, writes Fiona Maddocks
EJ Moeran: Complete Solo Songs

The long underrated Ernest Moeran conjured up a pastoral, mystical England, says Fiona Maddocks
Bach: Mass in B minor

The Dunedin Consort and Players have given us the definitive recording of Bach's Mass in B minor, says Stephen Pritchard

Critics p32

Picasso: Peace and Freedom

Picasso was a stalwart communist. But does politics define his art, asks Laura Cumming

Critics p34

Soft Power; The Media Show; Last Orders at the Spinning Disc; Exile of the Stones

The World Service gets to grips with national charm while the future of newspapers is under debate on Radio 4 and Radio 2 weighs in with a couple of really decent documentaries on music, writes Miranda Sawyer
The Eurovision app

The Eurovision app could only be improved if a tiny Terry Wogan were inside to talk us through it, says Toby Moses

Critics p35

Political Mother and Babel (words)

A piece about political manipulation by Israeli choreographer Hofesh Shechter convinces Luke Jennings

Critics p36

The Chemical Brothers

Veteran dance duo the Chemical Brothers can still make the party swing but the old formula's wearing a bit thin, writes Kitty Empire
Hindi Zahra: Handmade

There is more to Hindi Zahra than just polite, cosmopolitan lady music, says Kitty Empire

Critics p37

Otis Taylor: Clovis People

Otis Taylor's return to rugged, electric "trance blues" is compelling stuff, says Neil Spencer
Karen Elson: The Ghost Who Walks

Jack White's supermodel missus plays Kylie to his Nick Cave, writes Kitty Empire
Katie Melua: The House

Guy Chambers and William Orbit fail to rescue this album from dullness, writes Hugh Montgomery
Folk music: the times they are a-changin'

The success of Fisherman's Friends proves that, while it is rooted in the past, folk is a genre in a constant state of flux, says Caspar Llewellyn Smith
Pendulum: Immersion

The Australian band's mix of drum'n'bass and heavy rock remains as populist as ever, says Ally Carnwath
Threeway: Songs of the Year

Jazz interpretations of the months of the year? It's better than it sounds, reckons Dave Gelly
Stornoway: Beachcomber's Windowsill

The Oxford band's long-awaited debut is packed with sunny songs that have an emotional depth

Critics p38

Neil Hannon: 'I was born old. I was an old man trapped in a young man's body'

The Divine Comedy frontman Neil Hannon has a new album out, a string of live shows and is in a 'lovely relationship'. No wonder Emma John finds him in good spirits

Critics p39

Ditch; Marine Parade

The end of the world hits hard in the Peak District while love affairs go awry in a coastal boarding house, writes Susannah Clapp

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