Unfortunately, Things Take Time, Take Time is something of a junior slump for the usually impressive Barnett. Courtney Barnett is back with her third LP, Things Take…
Memoria is another masterwork from Apichatpong Weerasethakul, a slow unfurling of personal and nationals pasts that challenges and entrances in equal measure. Frequent In Review Online…
The moving Parallel Mothers puts on full display Almodovar’s facility with wrangling the controlled chaos of narrative into a coherent whole. If Pedro Almodóvar’s pandemic short…
The Tragedy of Macbeth is masterful in its fusing of the artificial and elemental, a bit of Shakespearean subterfuge that justifies this umpteenth take on the eponymous…
American Underdog is an inoffensive but utterly bland bit of hagiography, only slightly elevated by its surprising visual merit and an affable leading man. By all…
It’s impossible to replicate the essential newness of the original Matrix, but Resurrections is another deeply idiosyncratic huge swing that’s destined to be underappreciated for the near future.…
Licorice Pizza continues Anderson’s interest in how personal histories are assimilated into myth, and largely does so compellingly, but ultimately still feels more lopsided than the…
The Velvet Queen is a modern marvel, an unconventional nature documentary that understands and incorporates both the power of language and images. One can forgive most…
The Hating Game is indeed worthy of hate. The Hating Game was best-selling author Sally Thorne’s debut novel back in 2016, and if the Internet is…
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…
Death of a Telemarketer delivers some Lamorne Morris laughs but precious little else. Actor Lamorne Morris has made a career out of playing characters whose…
Someone should have buried The Gardener in the backyard. We’re in a veritable golden age of high-octane, low-budget DTV action flicks right now, with talented craftsmen like…
The End of Us is a marginally interesting pandemic document but an utter disaster of a rom-com styled portrait of a failed relationship. Those nostalgic for…
30 is a well-constructed and emotionally insightful album, but also one often undermined by its classical roteness and confused attempts at persona reshaping. Adele exists in…
An Evening With Silk Sonic is exactly as tame and lame as a Bruno/Anderson collab seems like it would be — frivolous, unambitious, inoffensive. The visual…
Valentine already finds Lindsey Jordan reinventing Snail Mail’s sound and lyrical texture, to astonishing ends. After a quick rise to indie rock prominence following 2018 debut…
A long time coming, Raise the Roof is an enriching reunion for Plant, Krauss, and Burnett, only occasionally frustrated by the latter’s artificial production instincts. How…
TWICE’s latest offers easy enough pop listening, but is unambitious on the whole and too littered with throwaway tracks to present a compelling whole. Nine-member…
Adele Adele exists in a peculiar space, an undeniably massive superstar with a global audience, and yet she appears isolated from the broader culture, her…
Cyrano is a mess, a shambles, a misfire, and also one of the most enjoyable films of the year. The glut of awards bait that…
Swan Song is a sleek, appealingly low-key sci-fi effort that angles more for emotional wallop than futurist noodling. Within the history of cinema, the subject of…