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Phoebe Bridgers's 'Lost Weekend' is a sprawling, rigorously crafted indie-rock memorandum that charts a tumultuous period of dissociation and reclamation. Read our review!
Phoebe Bridgers 'Lost Weekend' Review: Loved Ones Lost and Found
The album is a rigorously crafted memorandum that charts a period of dissociation and reclamation.
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Ted Lasso almost overstays his welcome in an unfocused new season. Read our review.
'Ted Lasso' Season 4 Review: In Search of a Reason
Ted Lasso almost overstays his welcome in an unfocused new season.
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Romantic comedies rarely make it to theaters these days, which makes it that much more unfortunate that the ones that do, like ONE NIGHT ONLY, feel like sitcoms. tinyurl.com/8pvjybvr
THE SHARDS highlights the intoxicating, corrupting pull of Bret Easton Ellis’s world. Read our review.
'The Shards' Review: Ryan Murphy's Stylish Stab at Adapting Bret Easton Ellis
The series highlights the intoxicating, corrupting pull of Bret Easton Ellis’s world.
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With 'Therapy at the Club,' FLO pursues stranger sounds and even bigger emotions, but they stop short of fully developing their biggest ideas. Read our review.
Review: With 'Therapy at the Club,' Flo Swings Big but Falls Short
Flo pursues stranger sounds and even bigger emotions, but they stop short of fully developing their biggest ideas.
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STERLING POINT’s commitment to chill threatens to undercut its drama, but its vibes are immaculate. Read our review.
'Sterling Point' Review: A Sun-Soaked Vacation of a TV Show
The show’s commitment to chill threatens to undercut its drama, but its vibes are immaculate.
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Read our chat with Jane Schoenbrun and Hannah Einbinder about TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA, balancing the intellectual and the physical, Einbinder’s approach to her character, and more.
Jane Schoenbrun and Hannah Einbinder on 'Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma'
Jane Schoenbrun and Hannah Einbinder discuss balancing the intellectual and the physical across the film.
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Despite its title, Jane Schoenbrun’s TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA is less about sex and death than sex and cinema. In theaters Friday. tinyurl.com/u77mehm3
ICE CREAM MAN’s shocks are fueled by the sophistication of the kills and who commits them, but Eli Roth’s stab at building out the story has all the consistency of soft serve. Read @tylekurner.bsky.social's review.
'Ice Cream Man' Review: Eli Roth's Spoonful of Ultraviolence
Eli Roth's 'Ice Cream Man' exists primarily to have us gawk at tweens committing spectacular acts of violence.
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From 'Making a Murderer' to 'American Murder: Gabby Petito,' these are the 25 best true-crime docuseries on Netflix right now.
The 25 Best True-Crime Docuseries on Netflix Right Now
The breadth of Netflix’s catalog of true-crime docuseries is deep and wide, with truly some kind of murder for everyone.
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LATE FAME’s desire to resist easy storytelling paradigms is admirable, writes @marshallshaffer.bsky.social, but only up to a point. Kent Jones’s film opens in theaters this week.
'Late Fame' Review: Kent Jones's Poet Drama Pulls Its Punches
'Late Fame' manages to coast for a while on Willem Dafoe's performance, which exudes his characteristic gracefulness.
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Stanley Kwan’s metatextual melodrama CENTER STAGE is one of the finest films from Hong Kong’s ’90s golden age of cinema. See the 4K restoration @filmforumnyc.bsky.social starting Friday. tinyurl.com/mr8zbann
Robbie Banfitch’s TINSMAN ROAD, available today on VOD, is the type of found-footage film that could only be made by a connoisseur of the genre. Read @roccotthompson.bsky.social's review.
'Tinsman Road' Review: A Melancholic Found-Footage Ghost Story
The film trades the demented, Lovecraftian madness of 'The Outwaters' for an understated, all-consuming melancholy.
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The Music Machine and the titles in the Disco Italiana box set, now available from @severinfilms.bsky.social, are all engagingly fun and funky time capsules left over from a milieu dominated by white suits, mirror balls, and lighted dance floors galore. bit.ly/45xvk0e
Ariana Grande's PETAL shows flashes of incisiveness but can’t overcome its self-imposed limitations. Read our review.
Ariana Grande 'Petal' Review: A Wilting Expression Fame Fatigue
The album shows flashes of incisiveness, but it ultimately can’t overcome its self-imposed limitations.
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Ariana Grande slays in the bloody music video for her new song "Petal."
Ariana Grande Slays Hollywood in Bloody "Petal" Music Video
The video sees the singer taking on the role of Pepper, an ingenue trying to make it in Hollywood.
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Matt Johnson’s TONY is more interested in the passions that kept Anthony Bourdain's demons at bay than in how those demons ultimately consumed him. Read @roccotthompson.bsky.social's review. tinyurl.com/yrxw5a8s
Greed, not art, is the motivating force behind your actions throughout SPLATOON RAIDERS. Read @illogicaljoker.bsky.social's review.
'Splatoon Raiders' Review: A Colorful Blur of Repetitive Combat
When the game is only pitting you against hordes of foes, the whole thing bleeds into one indistinct blur.
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'XXXXX' may be a tad amorphous, but few ARCA projects have ever sounded this thrillingly imposing. Read our review.
Review: With 'XXXXX,' Arca Serves Up Controlled Chaos
The album may be a tad amorphous, but few Arca projects have ever sounded this thrillingly imposing.
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Where do you rank 'Music, Film, Fashion' in Charli XCX's discography?
Every Charli XCX Album Ranked, from 'True Romance' to 'Music, Film, Fashion'
To celebrate the release of her new album, we took a look back at Charli XCX’s discography.
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Kurosawa Kiyoshi’s first historical film THE SAMURAI AND THE PRISONER offers a master class in framing and blocking. Read @marshallshaffer.bsky.social's review.
'The Samurai and the Prisoner' Review: A Visually Entrancing Study of Power
Kurosawa Kiyoshi continually finds new ways to render the story's self-contained setting as a source of rich visual pleasure.
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In SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY, Peter Parker finaally seems like what he is in the comics: the beating heart of Marvel and its most compelling figure. Read @jakecole.bsky.social's review. tinyurl.com/3bdk9pe7
I WANT YOUR SEX doesn’t push far beyond the talking points of Gregg Araki’s philosophy of sex. Read @marshallshaffer.bsky.social's review. tinyurl.com/znhheexy
'I Want Your Sex' Review: A Screed Against Zoomer Puritanism
Gregg Araki's 'I Want Your Sex' quickly reveals itself to be little more than a screed in a sex comedy's clothes.
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There’s something pleasingly unpretentious, writes Zach Lewis, about how little room Hanna Bergholm’s NIGHTBORN leaves for subtext. The film drops on Shudder this Friday. tinyurl.com/56km5pjx
'Reality Awaits' is doomed to be remembered as the Strokes’s “Auto-Tune album.” Read our review.
The Strokes 'Reality Awaits' Review: Auto-Tuned and on Auto-Pilot
The songs rarely cohere into anything greater than the sum of their individual parts.
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Most of the songs on Shania Twain's 'Little Miss Twain' are built to maximize the changes in the singer's voice. Read our review.
Shania Twain 'Little Miss Twain' Review: Back in the Saddle Again
The album corrects course with warm, rootsy arrangements that suit Twain’s voice.
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“Transform everything around you into something that’s not really there.” Read our chat with Nicolas Winding Refn about Her Private Hell, his love of fairy tales, falling through the rabbit hole of streaming, and being reborn. tinyurl.com/mwsjs69n
Charli XCX's 'Music, Fashion, Film' is at once a reckoning and a self-conscious pivot. Read our review!
Charli XCX 'Music, Fashion, Film' Review: Flex, Fuzz, and Fractured Ego
The album is at once a reckoning and a self-conscious pivot.
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For practical purposes, DENSHATTACK! is a bonkers take on a skateboarding game, but functionally, it’s every bit as chaotic as your average modern-day Sonic title. Read @justinofclark.bsky.social's review.
'Denshattack!' Review: Train Dreams
The spirit of the Dreamcast is alive and well in the game, one of the year's most delightfully bizarre experiences.
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Criterion’s box set of Mike Mills’s last three films comes with sparkling new transfers and a wonderful assortment of extras full of insights into the director’s working methods. tinyurl.com/4cd4b6u6
