A refreshing assuredness permeates the entirety of the singer’s fourth album.
The climax has a certain primally cathartic power, but it doesn’t quite dispel the air of self-satisfaction that envelops the script.
This double helix of a biopic offers a twisty chronology and a slate of perspective-shifting surprises.
The film employs imaginative twists to illuminate the racism that’s entrenched in American history and society.
Portraying Tubman above all else as a vessel for a higher power ironically only makes her appear less tangible.
The singer-songwriter imbues her sophomore effort with a multitude of intertextual meanings and nods to her predecessors.
What better goal could there be for an UglyDoll than to find meaning as a product in the hands of a consumer?
The film feels like a disservice to Mark Hogancamp’s story, in no small part because no one in the film feels human, even outside doll form.
In shedding her science-fiction persona, Janelle Monáe has ended up making a great pop album.
Monáe releases the first two singles from her new album, “Make Me Feel” and “Django Jane,” with complementary music videos.
Moonlight’s unlikely success hopefully implies that the world has yet to slide entirely down a rabbit hole of unbridled bigotry.
Taraji P. Henson triumphantly articulates the pained dignity of Katherine Johnson’s pent-up frustration.
What tends to right Moonlight, even when Jenkins’s style drifts into indulgence, is the strength of its actors.
The acting in Moonlight elevates the clichés of Barry Jenkins’s script into something approaching lived truth.
What could have been a spirited dissection of Jay-Z’s optimistic enterprise is instead merely an advertisement for it.
If it’s all not quite enough to declare a new golden age, it’s certainly cause to be eager for what lies ahead.
Listen to a playlist of the best singles of the year on YouTube and Spotify.
The Electric Lady is a lengthy but never boring tribute to bounce and grind.
The latest track to surface from the Weeknd’s Kiss Land, out September 10th, is an impeccably produced collaboration featuring longtime friendly rival Drake.
The 2012 Record of the Year nominations seem to be transparently based largely on familiarity.