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…
Death Valley is an underwhelming but mostly inoffensive bit of lightweight genre work, delivering a few moments and overcoming obvious budget limitations. As has been periodically mentioned…
No Way Home offers some genuinely playful noodling with Spider-Man’s cinematic legacy, even as it often stumbles in execution and suggests a muddled future for the MCU.…
The Tender Bar is a bland, clueless film that finds Clooney the director at this most narcotized. While his career in front of the camera has…
Mother/Android isn’t anything more than another generic sci-fi copycat built from the spare parts of better flicks. Even 40-odd years on, Ridley Scott’s dual sci-fi touchstones…
The Hand of God is a softer but no more subdued effort from Sorrentino, still rife with flourish but with a more personal core than ever…
There’s plenty to admire in The Novice, but a surfeit of ambition and an overreliance on certain aggressive formal qualities bogs down its execution. Drawing…
The only thing They Got Amnesia proves is why we all forgot about French Montana in the first place. “For the next game, you need to…
Taylor Swift Red is the Taylor Swift album most precariously balanced between different identities. Caught in between country and pop, it’s a fan favorite project…
Predictably, Red (Taylor’s Version) isn’t entirely convincing, but it’s another welcome assertion of autonomy from the ever-evolving artist. Red is the Taylor Swift album most…
Kid A Mnesia is notable for its B-sides, deep cuts, and rough tracks, an opportunity for rediscovery that doesn’t disappoint. Around the turn of the millennium…
Body/Dilloway/Head is a patient, thrilling deconstruction, a reimagining of what rock music is and what it can be. In the world of noise music and free…
The Scary of Sixty-First is an incredibly engaging piece of camp in the narrative form of classic paranoia-thrillers. Recently, while on my way to lunch with…