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Review
movie review
Feb. 26, 2021
The United States vs. Billie Holiday
Is an Inert History Lesson
Andra Day is great in the title role, however.
By
Bilge Ebiri
movie review
Feb. 26, 2021
How Not to Make a Tom and Jerry Movie
A cluttered, awkward, pandering mess.
By
Bilge Ebiri
movie review
Feb. 26, 2021
The Father
Is a Devastating Close-up of a Mind That’s Beginning to Fray
Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman are excellent as a father and daughter whose time together can only end in tragedy.
By
Alison Willmore
art review
Feb. 25, 2021
Heartbreak and Resurrection in ‘Grief and Grievance’ at the New Museum
A brutal, essential show that pulls from the canon of Black contemporary art.
By
Jerry Saltz
streaming theater review
Feb. 20, 2021
Performing for Ghosts: Riz Ahmed’s
The Long Goodbye
“The songs are like stars, supermassive, dense with rhyme and anger.”
By
Helen Shaw
movie review
Feb. 19, 2021
Great Performances and a Stunning Ending Can’t Quite Save
The Mauritanian
Jodie Foster, Tahar Rahim, and Benedict Cumberbatch all do good work in this real-life legal drama, but the movie falls flat.
By
Bilge Ebiri
movie review
Feb. 12, 2021
Oof, What Are We to Do with Sia’s New Movie,
Music
?
It’s not just controversial, it’s also quite terrible.
By
Bilge Ebiri
movie review
Feb. 12, 2021
Louise Linton’s Sex-Cannibal Comedy Is Here, and It Is Not Good
Me You Madness
is a nonstop deluge of overwritten rants and underbaked humor.
By
Bilge Ebiri
movie review
Feb. 11, 2021
Barb & Star Go to Vista del Mar
Arrives Preordained for Cult Status
It features Kristen Wiig, Annie Mumolo, Jamie Dornan, Damon Wayans Jr., and a sage old crab named Morgan Freemand.
By
Bilge Ebiri
close reads
Feb. 10, 2021
Framing Britney
and the Empathy of a Simple Timeline
What now stands out as a central, fundamental event in Britney’s life might’ve remained a footnote if not for the doc’s chronology.
By
Kathryn VanArendonk
review
Feb. 8, 2021
So Now the Weeknd Is Our Collective Escape From Hell?
Abel Tesfaye’s Super Bowl LV halftime show felt chipper when it shouldn’t have, which was true of the entire evening.
By
Craig Jenkins
movie review
Feb. 5, 2021
A Glitch in the Matrix
Is a Riveting Look at Whether Our World Is a Simulation
But it’s really about just how utterly weird life is.
By
Bilge Ebiri
book review
Feb. 1, 2021
100 Boyfriends
Is a Taxonomy of Desire
Brontez Purnell’s new book roams the edges of queer romance.
By
E. Alex Jung
movie review
Jan. 29, 2021
Netflix’s
The Dig
Goes Deep on Human Existence
Ralph Fiennes and Carey Mulligan star in this surprisingly moving period drama.
By
Bilge Ebiri
movie review
Jan. 29, 2021
Maybe Justin Timberlake Wasn’t the Right Man to Play an Angry Ex-Con in
Palme
r
.
Sometimes, having your heart in the right place isn’t enough to make a great movie.
By
Bilge Ebiri
movie review
Jan. 29, 2021
Little Things
, Big Problems
Turns out Denzel Washington crime dramas can sometimes be bad, too.
By
Bilge Ebiri
the inside track
Jan. 29, 2021
‘Don’t Judge Me’ Makes the Best Case Yet for FKA Twigs’s Hip-hop Crossover
With U.K. hitmaker Fred again.. and rapper Headie One.
By
Justin Curto
streaming theater review
Jan. 28, 2021
Bollywood Kitchen,
Where the Script Is Also a Recipe
A streaming innovation: Instead of getting better seats when you pay more, you get closer interaction with the star.
By
Helen Shaw
album review
Jan. 25, 2021
Anuel AA and Ozuna Are Better Off Building Separate Empires
Los Dioses
, their first joint album, catches the two urbano stars at critical intersections in both careers, yet they struggle to connect.
By
Craig Jenkins
streaming theater review
Jan. 23, 2021
Irish Eyes, Unsmiling: Mark O’Rowe’s
The Approach
Is a Three-Actor Showcase
Streaming from Dublin.
By
Helen Shaw
movie review
Jan. 22, 2021
Netflix’s
The White Tiger
Is a Brutal, Powerful Tale of Ambition and Corruption
Ramin Bahrani, one of our great directors, adapts Aravind Adiga’s international best seller.
By
Bilge Ebiri
movie review
Jan. 15, 2021
In
The Marksman
, Liam Neeson Idles in Place
He only kicks a moderate amount of ass in this one.
By
Bilge Ebiri
movie review
Jan. 15, 2021
Acasa, My Home
Shows the Poetry and Peril of a Life Off the Grid
A beautiful, bittersweet documentary from Romania.
By
Bilge Ebiri
album review
Jan. 15, 2021
Zayn’s Solo Career Still Makes No Sense, Yet the Intrigue Remains Earned
Nobody Is Listening
offers a subtle refinement of the sounds and ideas he has pursued since striking out on his own.
By
Craig Jenkins
movie review
Jan. 15, 2021
The Gorgeous, Moving
News of the World
Features Tom Hanks at His Best
A Western from the director of
Captain Phillips
and
The Bourne Ultimatum
, if you can believe that.
By
Bilge Ebiri
album review
Jan. 8, 2021
Sorry, But Get Used to Morgan Wallen
He’s after the keys to the country-music kingdom … and succeeding like clockwork.
By
Craig Jenkins
movie review
Jan. 8, 2021
The Dissident
Is a Grisly Look at the Life and Death of Jamal Khashoggi
It’s a complex, damning portrait of how Saudi Arabia dealt with a citizen who turned on the regime.
By
Bilge Ebiri
tv review
Jan. 7, 2021
Mr. Mayor
Is a Nice Political Comedy at a Very Not-Nice Time
Comprising a sitcom dream team, Tina Fey and Robert Carlock’s latest is amusing, if not exactly dialed into the current climate.
By
Jen Chaney
movie review
Dec. 30, 2020
In
The Midnight Sky
, George Clooney the Director Fails George Clooney the Actor
But Clooney the actor almost saves Clooney the director’s butt, so there’s that.
By
Bilge Ebiri
respect the classics
Dec. 23, 2020
The 2020 Boomer Rock Renaissance No One Saw Coming
McCartney, Dylan, Stevie, Springsteen, and so many of rock’s immortals offered life lines in dire times.
By
Craig Jenkins
movie review
Dec. 21, 2020
Soul
Is Pixar at Its Most Unpredictably Weird
And while the movie doesn’t always work, that part is kind of nice.
By
Alison Willmore
movie review
Dec. 21, 2020
Promising Young Woman
Is an Incendiary Revenge Movie With a Sugar-Sweet Shell
Carey Mulligan is outrageously great as a Me Too vigilante in an unsettling first film from Emerald Fennell.
By
Alison Willmore
movie review
Dec. 18, 2020
Monster Hunter
Is Loud, Unapologetic Fun
It’s filled with scary monsters, gnarly weapons, and terrific visual storytelling.
By
Bilge Ebiri
theater review
Dec. 18, 2020
The Holidays Are a Drag: Taylor Mac and Joshua William Gelb Dress for It
Reviews of Taylor Mac’s
Holiday Sauce: Pandemic!,
and Joshua William Gelb in Heather Christian’s
I Am Sending You the Sacred Fa
ce.
By
Helen Shaw
album review
Dec. 18, 2020
After 10 Years on the Moon, Kid Cudi Comes Back Down to Earth
Working with Travis Scott inspired Cudi to tighten up foundations as a lyricist; as with Travis, style sometimes leapfrogs substance.
By
Craig Jenkins
movie review
Dec. 18, 2020
Greenland
Might Actually Be Too Effective
I wanted to see Gerard Butler fight a comet named Clarke. Instead, I got a real movie.
By
Bilge Ebiri
putting on heirs
Dec. 16, 2020
In Reality Show
House of Ho
, a Fat Inheritance Comes at a Price
This new reality show about a super-wealthy Vietnamese American family goes cliché when it should go specific.
By
Terry Nguyen
album review
Dec. 14, 2020
Taylor Swift Is Done Self-Mythologizing
As
folklore
did, the stories in
evermore
ask us to consider what motivates women when they act desperately against their interests.
By
Craig Jenkins
review
Dec. 14, 2020
Spider-Man: Miles Morales
Isn’t Quite Sure How to Build a Better New Yorker
It’s a fun game that knows where it came from and hints at where it needs to go.
By
Joshua Rivera
movie review
Dec. 11, 2020
Wolfwalkers
Will Charm You.
Wolfwalkers
Will Save You.
Prepare to be astonished by this animated film from Ireland.
By
Bilge Ebiri
tv review
Dec. 11, 2020
HBO’s New Bee Gees Documentary Does More Than Just Disco
The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart
smartly contextualizes the story of one of the most successful groups in pop history.
By
Jen Chaney
movie review
Dec. 10, 2020
We Should Probably Talk About
Wild Mountain Thyme
Because WTF.
By
Alison Willmore
podcast review
Dec. 9, 2020
Appearances
Is Unlike Any Podcast You’ve Ever Heard
Sharon Mashihi leads a chaotic, semi-fictional journey into herself.
By
Nicholas Quah
movie review
Dec. 7, 2020
Steven Soderbergh and Meryl Streep Went on a Luxury Cruise and Made a Good Movie
Let Them All Talk
is a charming comedy that gets at some personal truths.
By
Bilge Ebiri
movie review
Dec. 4, 2020
Let Us Now Praise Riz Ahmed in
Sound of Metal
Is there an actor who is more interesting to look at these days?
By
Bilge Ebiri
movie review
Dec. 4, 2020
Mank
Is David Fincher’s Flawed Fable About a Hollywood Cynic
Gary Oldman plays the co-writer of
Citizen Kane
in a period showbiz story that could stand to go through another few drafts.
By
Alison Willmore
album review
Dec. 4, 2020
Shawn Mendes Still Leaves Too Much to Wonder About
Wonder
is the most interesting-sounding music he has ever made, but the album has little to say about the man at the middle of it.
By
Craig Jenkins
movie review
Dec. 3, 2020
Frances McDormand Has Gone To Look For America In
Nomadland
Director Chloé Zhao examines the idea of wide-open frontiers without nostalgia or the need to pathologize.
By
Alison Willmore
album review
Dec. 2, 2020
Bad Bunny Has Become Bigger, and Better, Than the Industry Knows What to Do With
El Último Tour Del Mundo
proves he’s
outgrown both his peers and the artificial constraints placed on Latin artists.
By
Gary Suarez
album review
Dec. 1, 2020
On
Plastic Hearts
, Miley Cyrus Finally Owns a Sound
Beneath the studded leather and early MTV rock fan service,
Plastic Hearts
is a reckoning.
By
Craig Jenkins
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