Shape Up’s boasts a catchy, assured first half, but ultimately suffers from too much bloat and poor sequencing. There’s a solid EP worth of material…
Preacher’s Daughter suggests fascinating and unpredictable future stardom for Ethel Cain. Ethel Cain arrived right on time, America currently enraptured with the style and cultural…
Dance Fever doesn’t deliver much danciness, but it does reflect an appealingly intimate pivot for Welch and co. After a four-year gap, Florence + the…
Clocking in a bit overlong and failing to reach Flume’s previous artistic peak, Palaces is nonetheless a breezy, catchy listening experience. The latest artist to…
Wilco For a while, it seemed like nothing ever came easy for Wilco. Early classics like Being There and Summerteeth bore the marks of personal…
The Black Phone establishes a new high water mark for masked killer horror, singular and effective in its eerie details even if a bit familiar in…
“…love must be regarded as one of the religious and dangerous experiences, because it lifts people out of the arms of reason and sets them…
The Man from Toronto is as familiar as assassin-centric action-comedies come, but nevertheless proves a refreshing blast of mid-summer fun on the strength of its affable…
CIVIL wades into necessary discourse, but stops short of probing any of the thornier facets of Crump or the culture that has led to his work.…
It may be a hasty judgment, but as soon as we see a young woman painting on a canvas, smoking a cigarette positioned in the…
A coming-of-age story about a sensitive, artistically-minded young man with filmmaking aspirations sounds like a recipe for mawkish solipsism, so it’s nothing short of a…
While far from the first instance, Pratibha Pramar’s latest documentary My Name Is Andrea is one of the more high profile reclamations that radfem writer/orator…
Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis delivers what’s expected: thrillingly pure exhibitionism for its own sake, the kind of massively scaled contemporary blockbuster in too short supply in…
Flux Gourmet has a few tasty morsels, but it mostly offers glimpses at the more adventurous filmmaker that Strickland used to be. The films of Peter…
Lakota Nation vs. United States “U.S. history is a branch of a larger tree of history… but it’s that covetous branch that thinks it’s the…
After a prolific run of eye-shredding digital shorts produced throughout the 2010s, Berlin-based visual artist Rainer Kohlberger has begun touring his first feature-length project, Answering…
Jack Harlow “Back when I was a young man / I liked them girls that was in the Abercrombie / I likеd them girls that was…
Jack Harlow’s sophomore effort is a tedious affair to work through, built upon a disappointing collection of stock hip hop beats and routine bars. “Back…
The Smile’s debut record may arrive with smaller stakes than its respective members’ flagship projects, but it compensates with a welcome agility and looseness to…
Get on Board is a unique party record, a boisterous celebration of the folk-blues tradition that hoots and hollers with roiling joy. To hear Ry Cooder…
A Bit of Previous executes a fine balance of evolution and reminiscence, revisiting the sounds of their early career from an appealingly more aged perspective. The…