The confident, even brazen, Red & White is further proof that Lil Uzi Vert has the uncanny ability to stay one step ahead of…
Wormrot’s latest is an agonizing and extraordinary blend of grindcore, black metal, and screamo, coupled with surprising emotional complexity. After their blistering 2016 album…
Jack in the Box is a nostalgic, joyous riff on classic hip hop sounds, and a blueprint for how to go solo with swagger.…
Lizzo “Hiii, motherfucker, did you miss me?” begins the first song on Lizzo’s newest album, Special. And, honestly, given that a lot of big-name…
No matter how many times I see it, Death Becomes Her exists first and foremost as a VHS box sitting on the cramped shelf…
Even though, to many audiences today, the eclecticism of live-action and animation may appear as a sort of a postmodernist achievement in the realm…
Me Time is an unfunny, haphazard, and chemistry-poor waste of everyone’s time. The Kevin Hart-Netflix train rolls on with Me Time, a new buddy comedy…
Cinephilia is necessarily littered with the detritus of half-remembered viewing experiences, films only glimpsed from childhood in a perspective almost wholly incompatible with the…
Out of the Blue feels like a bizarre cross between Murder, She Wrote and Cassandra’s Dream, punched up with a healthy dose of LaBute’s patented woman-hating toxicity.…
This Magnificent Cake! could stand be fleshed out a bit and its dual metaphors can feel somewhat redundant, but there’s no denying the film’s astounding…
Nowadays we’re saddled with tepid action comedy stuff like The Lost City or Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard’s alleged chemistry in the Jurassics…
Funny Pages frequently approaches incisive commentary about youth’s quest for validation, but it ultimately ends too meekly and with too little introspection. Life comes at…
It’s often difficult to understand Babysitter’s aims, and viewers deserve more than something this over-caffeinated and underwritten. Director Monia Chokri’s dark comedy Babysitter establishes a…
Though the vast majority of Robert Zemeckis’ films are family-friendly, it’s also easy to find cruelty and blatant sexuality in nearly all of them,…
The farcical elements of The Good Boss amusingly build across its runtime, but by the end the film feels a bit too schematic and…
Breaking certainly tells a necessary story, but it largely boils itself down to basic action theatrics and undermines any noble intent. Breaking, the feature…
For a film whose subject is one of the most famous events in the history of American popular culture, Robert Zemeckis’ I Wanna Hold…
I’m not sure people entirely remember the film Audition. Like much of his body of work, director Takashi Miike’s breakthrough into global recognition is…