With Jubilee, Japanese Breakfast make a personal and social statement, proving indie rock doesn’t have to be tepid and stodgy. For the last couple of years,…
Escape Room: Tournament of Champions rides the same strengths of the original, resulting in a film that is a bit spare but still a feat of…
The dull and ethically dubious Mama Weed fails to live up to the gonzo promise of its title. With a premise and (English language) title sure…
One of the more consistently interesting young(ish) actors working in international cinema, Louis Garrel has also spent the last decade working at a less interesting…
Director Vincent Le Port co-founded French production company Stank in 2013, through which he has managed to put out a handful of shorts including eerie,…
Despite a few bright moments, Culture III is just another Migos album with little to say. There’s an alternate timeline where Culture III never came to be, where, following…
I Lie Here Buried is a self-assured follow-up from Backxwash, proving the Zambian-Canadian rapper to be worthy of audiences’ praise. When God Has Nothing to Do with…
The Golden Casket feels like a more thoughtful work for Modest Mouse, but continues their trend toward diminishing results. Modest Mouse has touched heights few of…
Like Blindspotting before it, Summertime is glib in its politics and hollow in its messaging. In one of the more telling recent Hollywood career leaps, L.A.-based music video director…
When Eazy-E departed our earthly realm, he left behind not just his own substantial body of work, but an entire, still-thriving record label with a…
Seek Shelter all but confirms Iceage’s existence as a commercial outfit, but also proves their continued ability to surprise and thrill. Suspicions surrounding Iceage’s “authenticity” have…
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 of…
Young Nudy continues to crank out songs, but Dr. Ev4l is an album full of similar-sounding, monotonous titles that do little to inspire. PDE rap…
My Parade isn’t a perfect album, but it shows that, despite the industry’s efforts, iLoveMakonnen isn’t going anywhere. The industry has certainly tried its best…
Sweet Thing is one of the most gorgeous films in recent memory, but it fails to develop beyond its pretty packaging. Titled in homage to…
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 statement.…
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 stretch…
Filmmaker Bing Liu became a notable name quite suddenly in 2018 when his feature debut Minding the Gap premiered at Sundance, going on to be…
2021 film fest season is underway, and with it comes a whole bunch of movies reckoning with last year’s lockdown and the still ongoing global…