“And during the few moments that we have left, we want to talk right down to earth, in a language that everybody here can…
“Rock and Roll Band,” the rousing, celebratory track that opens side two of the vinyl LP edition of Boston’s 1976 self-titled debut, spins the…
“You know where you are? You’re in the jungle, baby! You’re gonna dieeeeahhhh!” Axl Rose’s banshee wail, keening forth from the bridge of “Welcome…
Escape from Mogadishu is an utterly regressive film that exploits real-life tragedy and trades in offensive screen signifiers. Action movie maestro Ryoo Seung-wan’s latest film,…
Questlove’s debut film as a director is a success, defined as much by its outrage as its joy. Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, drummer of the…
He’s Rick James, bitch, and there’s a great new documentary about him by Sacha Jenkins fittingly titled BITCHIN’: The Sound and Fury of Rick…
At the end of The Kids, Eddie Martin’s where-are-they-now documentary tracing the fortunes of the street kids featured in the hedonistic 1995 teen movie…
Spike Lee’s 1991 Jungle Fever, a work with a title and subject matter seemingly designed to court — indeed, demand — controversy, is at…
Don’t call it a comeback. Even though it was described in the press as such, the May 29, 1984 release of Tina Turner’s album…
In the opening scene of the music video for “What Have You Done for Me Lately,” the first single released from Janet Jackson’s 1986…
“Here is my music. It is all I have to tell you how I feel. Know that your love keeps my love strong.” This…
The Columnist successfully balances a line between the satirical and sobering, and delivers some nice genre play in the process. Ivo Van Aart’s darkly comic…
Kim Mi-jo’s debut feature, the stark social-realist drama Gull, may be a slight 75 minutes in length, but it packs quite a powerful punch…
Ride or Die is overlong, fails to believably sell its central relationship, and ill-advisedly resolves with a bit male gaze exploitation. Whatever the many…
Tina might not be as encompassing as some viewers might like, but the result is a moving, celebratory tribute doc all the same. One of…
Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, summer of 1973. A kid yells from the fire escape outside a brownstone window to his friends on the street below. A…
Keep an Eye Out is a mere blip of a film, but for fans of Dupieux’s deadpan gonzo schtick, there are small pleasures to be…
Stray is a restrained, poignant study of abandoned souls, dog and human alike. Stray, the title of Elizabeth Lo’s mesmerizingly observational documentary, nominally refers to…