Hero Mode is almost charming in its throwback vibe, but its rhetoric is far less appealing. There’s a disappearing niche that films like Hero…
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…
Werewolves Within doesn’t deliver many scares, but it hits an amusing, breezy target that too few horror-comedies manage. Finn (Sam Richardson) is the new…
Weezer’s latest record is pure escapism, a pop synthesis of stray sonic elements that reaffirms River’s place as the reigning rock romantic. It’s almost…
Olivia Rodrigo The cultural phenomenon that is Olivia Rodrigo, beyond whatever fanbase she amassed while a Disney channel star, can be best interpreted as…
Fathom In the wake of Planet Earth’s zeitgeist arrival in 2006 and DisneyNature’s subsequent founding a short two years later, the nature documentary —…
St. Vincent’s attempt at a classic rock recalibration is more tone-deaf than innovative. The teaser trailer that dropped on March 2 showed a collection…
St. Vincent The teaser trailer that dropped on March 2 showed a collection of wavering handheld shots, depicting a harried Annie Clark in a…
Get Out gets the alien abduction treatment in No Running, a half-hearted stab at social commentary that isn’t nearly as fun or as clever…
Dating & New York Dating & New York, Jonah Feingold’s feature debut after working in shorts and television for the past decade, is a…
The Birthday Cake doesn’t offer anything original, but its small-scale mob stylings will likely please a certain moviegoing demographic. If the Internet is to be…
Luca is an obviously gorgeous film, but its half-cooked conception and execution continues the recent trend of sub-par Pixar efforts. The currently swirling rumors which…
Fatherhood isn’t going to be remembered as a comedy classic, or much at all, but given its rocky road to release, it could have been…
CHAI’s latest continues to reevaluate genre boundaries with catchy experimentation and through sly feminist modes. CHAI is a band guided by an explicit mission…
Beam Me Up Scotty’s reissue holds up as Barbie’s career-best record. Twelve years have passed since Beam Me Up Scotty was originally released, a…
J. Cole J. Cole is, somewhat inexplicably, really popular amongst hip-hop fans — and just about nobody else. He garners little critical praise from…
The oner is one of the most divisive visual gambits in cinema, so the logical question is what makes for a successful execution of…
Italian Studies Dislocation and dissociation lie at the heart of Italian Studies, a work straddling narrative and documentary, identified precisely through its rejection of…
Summer of 85 is a weightless trifle, built on an unsophisticated narrative and featuring a patently ridiculous ending. The trailer for Summer of 85,…