From Taylor Swift to The Tortured Poets Department, we’ve ranked all of the singer’s studio albums.
It strives for a handheld immediacy and raw emotional power that it only intermittently achieves.
In the 1960s, a branch of Brazilian cinema emerged so daring, thrilling, and varied that in hindsight people disagreed even over what to call it.
As with any auteur (and I don’t hesitate to use that vaunted word here), it helps to recognize where the filmmaker is coming from and what he hopes to achieve.
If there’s anything that can excite an impassioned debate among film fans, it’s the topic of 3D.
Here’s a list of 15 memorable movie ledges, from cliffs to rooftops to ominous subway platforms.
Jarecki’s new documentary is a rousingly aching piece of social analysis and commentary.
No longer very keen on courting Oscar, Soderbergh has turned to genre films that get the blood pumping.
Wiseman spoke to us about working with William Castle, the clash between art and commerce, and the documentary power of the Marx Brothers.
Bresson’s best works attain an air of perfect reverie through a conception of framing and montage that seems equally contrary to the classic idea of what an image, or sequence of images, should represent.
Payne’s films don’t have the distinct visual styles of those by Quentin Tarantino or Wes Anderson, but they’re quickly recognizable just the same.
I can recall a time when music videos were all but doomed to certain extinction.
It’d be easy to cynically dismiss Jolie’s on-cue reactions as mugging for the cameras.
It’s difficult to remember a year in which it was harder to compile a consensus Top 25.
The ladies truly dominate the upper reaches of our 2011 albums list in a way they haven’t ever before.
This was the year everyone seemed to agree that Gaga chose the wrong singles from her album.
As is often the case, life during wartime proved to be the impetus for some truly great pop culture, and from the fray emerges our first-ever official TV list.
Was 2011 a creative regression for the video-game industry?
Birkin literally incorporated Serge Gainsbourg’s ghostly presence Saturday night at the Luckman Fine Arts Complex in Los Angeles.
Alfredson’s and Straughan’s dialed-back, demure technique was also adopted by Oldman and Firth for their performances.
One of this season’s hottest tickets is a site-specific theater piece entitled Elective Affinities.