There’s a tension here between mechanical, collective labor and individualist expression.
The Old Town Girls never seems to have a strong enough sense of the kind of film it wants to be.
The album serves as a refinement of Young’s late-period output.
The rapper-singer continues to triangulate sociopolitical commentary and personal identity in consistently clever ways.
The album's emotional ballast is interrupted by songs that either feel too underdeveloped or frustratingly over-worked.
No Bears spends less time finding aesthetic articulations of its themes than building out a convoluted plot to support them.
Huang Ji and Otsuka Ryûji’s Stonewalling is a film of dense and considered sociopolitical implications.
Diamonds and Pearls was an important sign that Prince was willing to embrace contemporary sounds to stay visible.
Bong historic international breakthrough receives a superlative Blu-ray package from Criterion.
Song Fang’s latest moves glacially along in a largely unchanging emotional register, always keeping us at a distance.
As much money as Disney has thrown at the production, it still looks like it was always bound for streaming services.
Sony has outfitted Almodóvar’s newest memory play with a transfer that fully preserves the film’s painstaking gorgeousness.
This Blu-ray should help boost the film to its rightful place among the upper tier of von Trier’s body of work.
Criterion’s release captures the icy-hot intensity and meticulous beauty of Pawlikowski’s shamelessly grandiose romance.
The album is impeccably produced but finds Kanye barely shifting his musical approach.
The hegemony of history is rigid, but Lou Ye is still able to disrupt it in the form of its representation.
With his latest, Kiyoshi Kurosawa celebrates the conquering of fear as our greatest hope against the world’s horrors.
The film’s masterstroke is that its fugitive antiheroes are framed by an environment that reflects their criminal lives back at them.
The film succeeds as a stingingly personal missive aimed squarely at Brazil’s right-wing resurgence.
Many of the selections at this year’s festival were genre films, or, at least, exhibited notable genre-adjacent elements.