7 Days is a high-concept rom-com that ends up feeling defanged by narrative missteps and inconsistent chemistry. Karan Soni and Geraldine Viswanathan star in 7 Days,…
Spoon’s advanced age render Lucifer on the Sofa’s mixed results a post-peak work. Though we are emerging from Q1 2022 on shaky ground globally speaking,…
Time Skiffs is the ideal type of reunion album. Catching up with old acquaintances, no matter how close they once were, can be a daunting proposition.…
Clocking in at 84 minutes, Once Twice Melody retains Beach Houses’ incredible knack for wistful pop melody. While any number of their contemporaries have stumbled and faded, or…
Despite being a contractually obligated record, Laurel Hell nonetheless proves successful in landing its messaging. Following a genuine attempt to quit music altogether, Mitski returns with Laurel…
Spoon Though we are emerging from Q1 2022 on shaky ground globally speaking, this recent past has already been canonized as a banner micro-era elsewhere…
So Cold the River’s successfully unnerves for a while, but ultimately gives into to more gauche and bloody flourishes. Horror likes to look backward, the…
After watching Measure of Revenge, you’ll understand why the film bears no writer credit. The Bella Thorne paycheck train chugs along with Measure of Revenge, a…
Sin Eater is a remarkably rough first draft masquerading as a finished film. There’s a recent episode of the PVD Horror Podcast that features the cast…
The only thing Tethered is tied to is a bad time. Miles from civilization, a monster stalks woods that are inhabited by a mother and…
Adventures in Success delivers some light laughs, but does little else of note with its outlandish premise. Adventures in Success follows a would-be cult, led by…
OK, so things don’t really vanish anymore: even the most limited film release will (most likely, eventually) find its way onto some streaming service or…
Even by their standards, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne’s Tori and Lokita is a relatively to-the-point affair. Set in an unnamed Belgian city, it follows a…
Yeat is a welcomingly singular, eccentric addition to the hip hop world, but 2 Alivë is an overlong, humdrum affair that diminishes as the rapper’s novelty…
Love Sux finds Avril Lavigne blending her punk and bubblegum influences to the best effect in ages. When Let Go, Avril Lavigne’s debut album, was released…
Zeal & Ardor continues the band’s streak of novel genre blending, even if their deficiencies of meaningful innovation are clearer than ever. Metal outfit Zeal &…
Over 20 years on, I Am Shelby Lynne’s reissue reasserts the record a lynchpin in the artist’s catalog, and produces bonus material that matches the…
Requiem maintains Korn’s reliable floor, even as the record feels notably too safe. A remarkably consistent band, all things considered, Korn is still with us in…
Avril Lavigne When Let Go, Avril Lavigne’s debut album, was released twenty years ago, it arrived with the force of an earthquake. The artist was…
A smoothly stitched assemblage of narrative and documentary modes, Wood and Water rides a sedate wavelength to effortless but earned poignancy. The most endearing moments of Jonas…
You Are Not My Mother is appealingly steeped in the folk-horror tradition, but has a suffocating visual aesthetic and the unfortunately distinct feel of a padded-out…