Walk Up is Hong Sang-soo’s trickiest film since The Day After (2017), and his most intricately structured effort since The Day He Arrives (2012).…
Viewers these days are fortunate that movies about nerdy science kids, time and space travel, and all manner of other adventure-fantasies are no longer…
As any “junkie” can tell you, at a certain point, Oxycontin stopped being Oxycontin, and many Oxy users in the United States turned to…
Documentarian of the personal, Su Friedrich’s latest film, Today, begins with a story. A friend reads aloud a passage from The Odyssey, in which…
To twangy Chicago indie rockers Ratboys, making music is all about good, honest fun. Their new song, “Black Earth, WI,” lives up to that…
It’s 2023, and while movies barely exist anymore, franchises certainly do. Hence John Wick: Chapter 4, a film that brings the whole John Wick…
Best known as one of three credited writers on Joseph Kahn’s 14-minute Power Rangers (2015) short — alongside the director and James Van Der…
In his landmark 1993 work Culture and Imperialism, historian Edward W. Said observes, “peoples being conscious of themselves as prisoners in their own land……
The music documentary is a pretty dependable product, sure to find space in a number of festival nonfiction lineups and, eventually, the programs of…
At the very start of his career, Stephen Frears was seen as part of a wave of exciting British filmmakers, many of whom often…
If Are You Lonesome Tonight? makes your memory stray to A Brighter Summer Day, that’s intentional. Save for taking their titles from the same…
Real heads know that the truly exciting martial arts movie sequel coming out this week is not Keanu Reeves vehicle John Wick 4, but…
Circle is the first full album by Onew, member of K-pop boy group SHINee, who debuted as a soloist in 2019 with the ballad-heavy…
2023 may still be in its infancy, yet here comes the second release of a high-concept comedy starring old pals and beloved Hollywood icons…
Outside the confines of polite Parisian society, there lies a wild west on wheels, in a subculture known as the urban rodeo. Though participation…
Just as rock music has fallen out of fashion, Yves Tumor has become increasingly insistent on performing it. What does it mean to become…
The real story with Endless Summer Vacation might be that this is the album where pop’s forever fickle princess finally finds her sound. In…
The otherworldly entities featured so prominently in the title of superhero sequel Shazam! Fury of the Gods certainly seem to be doing quite a…