Having a cast full of good guys doesn’t have to stifle conflict, but it does so here.
Twins showcases an artist who’s still obsessed with the intricacies of his electric guitar.
Charting the divide between the haves and have-nots in a Swiss mountain town, Sister imagines the two as existing in fantastically separate spheres.
The film plays out as a city-mouse rejoinder to the rustic, open-air daydream of Certified Copy.
At its best, this five-song EP summarizes the band’s strengths better than any of their work so far.
Head Games does everything it can to educate and advocate, providing a wealth of information in the process.
The music here never has too clear of an antecedent, and the directions the album takes are generally unexpected.
Following its usual method of diagrammatically charting characters’ rises and falls, the third season opens with nearly everyone in flux.
Love This Giant has its share of promising elements, but as a collaborative project, it’s far less than the sum of its two parts.
Poking around in the wreckage of a ruined city, Detropia seems to be looking for answers, but the ones it finds are too close to the surface to be satisfying.
It’s all too murky and familiar, less profoundly complex than inaccessibly complicated.
Swans’s The Seer has a pretty alien configuration for an album.
If there’s any import to Lawless, it’s in the visual inversion of small-town myths.
Yeasayer remains just as starry-eyed as ever, clinging to the worst elements of ’60s flower-child psychedelia.
A man without a scene, a full-tilt radical with nothing to rebel against, Ariel Pink has never really found his place.
Christophe Honoré’s film has scope and range and more well developed characters than it knows what to do with.
The album perhaps best serves as a warning that not everyone can make the transition from pinch hitter to bona-fide star.
Almayer’s Folly is a story of waxing and waning forces.
Never the most dexterous MC, Ross nevertheless surprises by continuing to find new ways to describe his largesse.
The album finds the singer caught between vanished innocence and incipient fame.