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Critics' Choice
RestaurantsDavid Sexton
For a chain, Gaucho is startlingly expensive, the final bill ending up pretty close to one from much more stylish, individual restaurants
Gaucho
Film
Charlotte O'Sullivan
Action heroes are often small; Wanted, at least, acknowledges the missing inches - and does so with a smile
Wanted
Theatre
Nick Curtis
This lightweight tennis comedy scores few points
Grand Slam
Reader reviews
FilmJake, London
I challenge anyone not to walk out feeling on cloud nine and humming Mamma Mia!
Simon, London
Service is appalling. Last time I went here they had run out of pizza dough at 8pm
Andy, London
I found it to be funny, insightful and interesting as a new work
The North London sex scene
Claire Allfree, Metro 27.08.03
Thirlwell's comedy of manners, in which the humiliations and absurdisms of sex are brilliantly played out with an excruciating commitment to realism, is so self-consciously pleased with itself that the reader is plunged into a constant conflict of frustration, irritation and fascination.
It's achingly contemporary, too: as three North London twentysomethings clumsily embark on a menage a trois, Thirlwell sends up the neuroses of the age while acknowledging, equally playfully, the literary influences of Milan Kundera and Gustave Flaubert. An admirable triumph of style over substance.
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