The album proves that the punk icon not only has more to say, but continues to find exciting ways to say them.
In the film, what starts as a subtle undercurrent of knowing humor curdles into overt self-referentiality.
It will be exciting to see how Jarmusch takes his transcendence of genre conventions to its breaking point.
One of Jarmusch’s best and most divisive films has been outfitted with a beautiful and imaginative Criterion package.
This is history that we should know, and the filmmakers approach Rumble as an introductory survey course.
Terrence Malick’s Song to Song is about floating along on currents of uncertain desire and excitement.
Compared to its predecessor, director Danny Boyle’s T2 Trainspotting is a relatively aimless and sedate experience.
The film reveals the erudition and shrewd self-awareness that Jim Osterberg drew on to become Iggy Pop.
It ends on a muted whimper of a note that one doesn’t expect given that the film’s subject is such an immensely entertaining raconteur.
Post Pop Depression seeks to deliver a proper send-off for Iggy the songwriter and pop pioneer.
The film’s sporadic intensity springs from the filmmaker’s implicative complicity with his main character.
Ready to Die is dumber, louder, and raunchier than any previous Stooges album.
The film is as effortlessly funny, breakneck, and smart as you may remember.
An intensely intelligent look at American history and a blueprint for how to (un)make it, from one of our country’s finest directors.
Nowhere Boy is an unusually accomplished first feature by female British artist Sam Taylor Wood.
Throughout, Pop’s lyrics settle nicely into an eerie landscape of dread and malaise.
The film proves that Mormonism and makeup-adorned punk rock aren’t oil and water entities.
Manhattanites will especially enjoy Jarmusch’s latest, which takes us back to the days when you used to be able to smoke indoors.
Like most great westerns, Dead Man holds the American West and its (white) inhabitants up to close scrutiny.
Coffee and Cigarettes is more fun to reminisce about afterward than it is to endure.