The true-crime docs here expose the rot at the core of many of our venerated institutions.
Successful or not, there’s something about the rebbot that I gravitate toward.
It’s hard to pinpoint the exact source, but the music landscape of 2009 is perhaps best characterized by its slipperiness.
The year delivered a cinematic bounty for those intrepid enough to venture outside their staid megaplex comfort zones.
So what did frighten me as a kid?
The year’s best music reflects the spirits of hope and change that will likely define 2008.
Documentaries in particular enjoyed a banner year, whether crafted by well-known legends of the medium or heretofore-unknown talents.
Love Actually actually is the greatest modern Christmas movie.
It’s Patrick Wolf who earns our pick for Album of the Year for following two impressive records with one that’s even more extraordinary.
It was a blast from the past that incited the most ardent critical passion: Killer of Sheep.
At least everyone can agree that Britney Spears’s rediscovery of underwear is an encouraging trend that will, we hope, continue into 2007.
Iraq ruled not only the news but movie screens as well in 2006.
Let us recommend five films that will remind you that not all monkeys are rabid psycho killers.
Mariah wasn’t the only one making a comeback in 2005.
Socio-politically-minded Big Idea films were all the rage in 2005.
Slant‘s film editor ranks his favorite films from the silent era to the present.
Trust us when we say that you’ll enjoy this list. If you don’t, well, then you can take a sugar-frosted fuck off the end of our dicks.
It’s a rare, special thing when a band creates an album that speaks for an entire generation.
In this extreme year, nothing was quite as outlandish as Team America’s showstopping scene of hardcore marionette sex.
This year, the music biz continued to wage war against P2P file-sharing by suing its own customers.
As usual, the biggest surprises came in small packages.