By all accounts, Jane by Charlotte seems to be a therapeutic exercise, but for outside viewers, it’s a languidly paced and essentially shapeless film. Released in…
Bloody Oranges is late-’90s Tarantino knockoff adorned with finger-wagging political window dressing. Partway through alleged French comedy Bloody Oranges is an epigraph from Marxist philosopher Antonio Gramsci (yes,…
Spin Me Round Jeff Baena’s Spin Me Round, co-written with its star Alison Brie, sets out as a comedic take on the very Hollywood idea…
The Outfit is a glossy but empty prestige crime drama that mistakes convolution for compelling plotting. Early in The Outfit, our central protagonist, a mild-mannered tailor…
Ahed’s Knee is an expressionistic work of subjective ruptures and discontinuities that attempts to give complete satisfaction to human reason. If Nadav Lapid is a provocateur,…
The Shepherdess and the Seven Songs is a multilayered, intersectional films that resonates far beyond its humble, unassuming narrative. In the annals of films about nomadic…
Bitch Ass Slasher flick Bitch Ass opens with the one and only Tony Todd — yes, Candyman himself — as host of a seemingly low-rent…
Slasher flick Bitch Ass opens with the one and only Tony Todd — yes, Candyman himself — as host of a seemingly low-rent cable access…
The Art of Making It is the kind of sincere documentary that often populates film festival slates, one that seems to possess the germ of…
It’s not an overstatement to say that first-time director Reggie Yates has been quietly but surely becoming a mainstay of British media. From hosting children’s…
Contrary to popular (mis)conception, great horror doesn’t often come from trying to evoke fear from viewers. The audience is a vague, nebulous concept, and trying…
The Adam Project takes the shape of any number of sci-fi adventure romps, but offers a surprisingly developed emotional core. It’s been quite a while since…
All My Friends Hate Me’s off-kilter framework is both a blessing and curse, but there’s an abrasive charm for those willing to play its uncomfortable…
Even more than most of the genuine oddities that have managed to find their way into the that motley crew known as the Canon (whatever…
Donda 2 is an essential Ye album even in its likely unfinished form, taking his curative, experimental approach to record-making to its most thrilling extreme…
Big Thief’s latest is yet another impressively cogent, boundary-shattering work from indie rock’s preeminent musicians. After double-dipping in 2019 with U.F.O.F. and Two Hands, Big…
On Dope Don’t Sell Itself, the king of 2010s features feels more than a little dusty, ironically shown up by every feature on the record. …
Welcome to the Block Party is a buoyant, confident riff on the ’90s country-pop aesthetic. There’s nothing subtle about the title of Welcome to the Block…
Slut Pop is a dull novelty record about sex without much to offer beyond shock value and a desperate bid for naughtiness. In the past…
Kanye West A new Ye record means yet another round of gleeful denouncements from an increasingly frail, corporate press apparatus, solemn assurances that this time…
Ultrasound is appealing in spurts but frustratingly sticks to a safe middle ground where it could have stood to be messier. Rob Schroeder’s Ultrasound exists on…