Dog thankfully avoids propagandist war dog tropes and instead builds something sweet and poignant from its mismatched buddy comedy conceit. Having vanished at the…
jeen-yuhs is a harrowing, deeply personal look at Kanye’s early years, celebrating the genius of both an artist and those who helped him build…
Kimi occasionally falters in terms of character and dramaturgy, but Soderbergh’s latest is still a slick, undeniably cool Hitchcockian riff on smart technology’s dual nature. While…
Strawberry Mansion is a vision still worth experiencing, even as its muddled with an ill-considered screenplay rife with tired twee tropes. In 2017, Kentucker Audley…
The Sky is Everywhere’s YA origins generate too many cringey twee moments here, but there’s no denying Decker’s visual power to elevate the material.…
The distance between Cam’ron’s debut album Confessions of Fire and his fourth one, canonical 2000s NYC rap opus Purple Haze, isn’t so great, a…
Jackass Forever manages to once again up the ante, delivering not just the series’ best entry, but one of the most truly cinematic films…
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…
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…
A Hero is Farhadi’s best work in a minute, still hampered by the director’s anonymous formal style, but otherwise delivering another masterful work of drama.…
#2. Though few may have expected it, Porter Robinson emerged, quite triumphantly, as one of 2021’s most significant pop artists, reasserting himself as the…
#10. Though prolific and trendy, Bladee remains a figure seemingly detached, his career thus far skirting up against, and indebted to, the western pop…
#16. 2021 saw Club Harlecore open its doors to the Internet, a 24-hour web-based rave spot featuring a quartet of mystical DJs brought into our…
Honorable Mention: As is the case with many of today’s most exciting new artists, Sematary is an Internet cult favorite, a mysterious bandcamp auteur…
#13. “The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.” Emblazoned on…
#8. Perhaps the most memed film of the year (give or take Annette), M. Night Shyamalan’s Old challenged and beguiled audiences in equal measure,…
The Lost Daughter doesn’t quite manage its own distinct cinematic voice, but still proves Gyllenhaal to be a director worth keeping up with going forward.…
Frailty is a repurposing of pop music of the very recent past into something legible and thrilling. The buzz surrounding electronic pop producer dltzk (or,…