From Jon Snow: A Last Big Story to Muse: the week in rave reviews

Jon Snow: A Last Big Story. Photograph: Basement FilmsView image in fullscreenJon Snow: A Last Big Story. Photograph: Basement FilmsFrom Jon Snow: A Last Big Story to Muse: the week in rave reviewsThe former Channel 4 News anchor reports on his health before leading another investigation, and the never-knowingly-understated Devon rockers return.

Here’s the pick of the week’s culture, taken from the Guardian’s best-rated reviewsTVIf you only watch one, make it …Jon Snow: A Last Big StoryChannel 4; available nowSummed up in a sentence The journalist sets out to make a documentary about his Alzheimer’s diagnosis – then finds out that a catastrophe in Zambia has gone under-reported … and the old instincts kick in.

What our reviewer said “This intelligent, gentle-but-unsentimental hour gives the journalist his laurels and the man his dignity, all while acknowledging the cruelty and grief behind the disease. If this is Snow’s swan song, it is as fine a one as he could wish for.” Lucy ManganRead the full reviewPick of the restI Kissed a GirlBBC iPlayer; available nowSummed up in a sentence The ridiculously fun queer dating show that the BBC unceremoniously axed.

What our reviewer said “As well as being unprecedented, these shows have been a container for vital queer conversations that aren’t happening anywhere else on our screens, surely well within the remit of the national broadcaster. Plus, they are ridiculously fun.” Hannah J DaviesRead the full reviewFurther reading Sisterhood with a sexual edge!

This is why I Kissed a Girl is unmissable viewingHouse of the DragonSky Atlantic, Now & HBO Max; available nowView image in fullscreenEmma D’arcy in series three of House of the Dragon. Photograph: Nye Caple/HBO MaxSummed up in a sentence After two duff seasons, the Game of Thrones prequel finally comes good.What our reviewer said “Breathe a fiery sigh of relief at the news that this show has found its focus.

The start of season three is a fine epic, balancing big battles with sharp two-hander scenes where dominance shifts and fatal personality flaws are forced out.” Jack SealeRead the full reviewFurther reading ‘My mum says I’m not working class any more!’: Olivia Cooke on power, privilege, and dividing audiences in House of DragonThe BearDisney+; available nowView image in fullscreenAyo Edebiri and Jeremy Allen White in The Bear.

Photograph: FXSummed up in a sentence The sizzling chef show that has won all the awards bows out with countless kitchen disasters – and more comedy than ever before.What our reviewer said “Everything that could go nail-bitingly wrong does: torrential rain, horrifying plumbing issues, a car crash, dropped food, late diners clogging tables and various staff members in various stages of emotional meltdown. But when the team overcomes most of these hurdles, the relief is almost transcendent.”

Rachel AroestiRead the full reviewFurther reading ‘It’s time for it to end’: Ebon Moss-Bachrach on the final, delicious season of The BearFilmIf you only watch one, make it …Blue HeronIn cinemas nowView image in fullscreenBlue Heron.Summed up in a sentence A Hungarian immigrant family grapple with oppositional defiant disorder in Sophy Romvari’s intimate and unshowy debut feature about childhood trauma in 1990s Canada.

What our reviewer said “It is an autobiographical, in fact autofictional, movie imbued with a kind of quietism, a refusal to amplify its real-life drama and tragedy. It doesn’t orchestrate its agony in the Hollywood style but almost confides it to the viewer, intimately and sotto voce.” Peter BradshawRead the full reviewPick of the restSupergirlIn cinemas nowSummed up in a sentence New entry in the DC universe, in which Milly Alcock’s Supergirl joins with Eve Ridley’s Ruthye to fight an evil intergalactic human trafficker.

What our reviewer said “After her brief walk-on in last year’s muddled and boring Superman reboot feature, Supergirl now gets a sprightlier and sparkier film of her own.” Peter BradshawRead the full reviewFurther reading A world-weary, hard-drinking hungover Supergirl? This could be James Gunn’s DCU masterstrokeThe FuriousIn cinemas nowView image in fullscreenThe Furious.

Photograph: Lionsgate/PASummed up in a sentence Martial arts epic in which a father chases the traffickers who have kidnapped his daughter in Kenji Tanigaki’s exhilarating action movie.What our reviewer said “Thundering along in the bloody footsteps of the Raid films and the Hindi punch-’em-up Kill, this martial-arts showcase is in full dadsploitation territory.” Mike McCahillRead the full reviewA Better TomorrowIn cinemas nowSummed up in a sentence Spectacular firefight extravaganzas, unapologetic melodrama and even broad comedy are all packed into John Woo’s blood-drizzled action classic from 1986.

What our reviewer said “Perhaps only Woo would insist on a shootout taking place at what looks like a dockside petrol station, which moreover has great big drums of diesel fuel lying about the place.” Peter Brad