The King’s Daughter is a would-be pop confection that would have been stale even if it hadn’t sat on shelves for nearly a decade. The…
The Tiger Rising falls flat on its face. Despite a title that would seem to suggest some kind of magic-tinged narrative, The Tiger Rising is…
The Free Fall fails to balance camp, horror, and thriller in any meaningful and engaging way. Five years after his debut as a co-director of…
Stoker Hills is Exhibits A, B, and C in the case against modern found-footage films. Director Benjamin Louis’s thriller Stoker Hills opens in an anonymous…
Actor Jesse Eisenberg seems to be playing right into his on-screen persona as an insufferable narcissist with his feature directing debut When You Finish Saving…
Sharp Stick Though she’s been away from the film festival circuit for 11 years at this point, there’s no doubt that the career path Lena…
Rifkin’s Festival isn’t necessarily major Allen, but it’s a light romp that exists at a fascinating nexus of the director’s career-long pursuits and predilections. There’s a…
There’s plenty of aesthetic polish to Futura, but it’s largely mitigated by the bland, reductive didacticism at its aging core. “How do you do, fellow…
There Will Be No More Night is an intelligent, nightmarish portrait of war as first-person shooter and interrogation of how we consume visual information in our…
Brighton 4th is but the latest example of festival-facing cinema slipping into anonymity under the weight of overly familiarly elements and arcs. There’s a scene midway…
Documenting the most downloaded phone app of all time is a daunting task. Director Shalini Kantayya is aware of such a prospect; right at the…
The Cathedral After a series of accomplished shorts and one medium-length feature, the magnificently opaque Notes on an Appearance, Ricky D’Ambrose has returned with The…
Sundown finds Franco up to his usual tricks, offering some appeal in his refusal of convention, but little more. Sort of the self-styled bad boy of…
Nitrate Kisses opens with a lengthy quote by Adrienne Rich, stating that “whatever is unnamed will become […] not merely unspoken, but unspeakable.” The two…
Barn is a languorous record, and a better late-career effort that most artists can muster. Neil Young again pairs with Crazy Horse for the 14th…
4NEM is the latest proof that Chief Keef’s singularity and eccentricity are second to none in the world of hip hop. While there’s been little…
Ross might be richer than he’s ever been, but he’s also as uninspired as he’s ever been on his latest. It’s unclear what exactly drives…
Live Life Fast is an anonymous bore of an album that rides of a wave of unearned ego. Roddy Ricch clearly thought he was in…
Fighting Demons is a feel-bad album that feigns rawness in order to avoid any meaningful consideration of Juice WRLD’s legacy. Fighting Demons, the second posthumous…
Who is Nardo Wick? is a successful enough introduction to the eponymous rapper, superficial but with personality to carry him forward. Just exactly Who Is…
Chief Keef While there’s been little to no media fanfare surrounding its release, Chief Keef’s 4NEM is an album that demands your utmost attention. Honestly,…