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Joined October 2008
Read our interview with Albert Serra about his documentary AFTERNOONS OF SOLITUDE, one of our favorite films of the year so far, and how being close to a torero taught him to take risks in his work.
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The Criterion Collection honors Fritz Lang’s lean and hard American classic THE BIG HEAT the right way: with a pristine 4K preservation and correspondingly rich and efficient supplements.
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Much of Benson Boone's #AmericanHeart amounts to little more than competently performed filler. Read our review:
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JAWS is the pop masterpiece as happy accident—a parody of America’s can-do spirit that’s also, by the end, a celebration of it.
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On her first independent album, Kesha seems torn between resurrecting the unruly spark of her early work or continuing in a more introspective direction. Read our review.
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RT @Slant_Magazine: Amazon's #Countdown feels like a cop show from an older, more conservative era of television. Read @OneBigWiggle's revi….
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R.T. Thorne’s 40 ACRES, featuring stellar performances from Danielle Deadwyler and Kataem O’Connor, continually finds clever ways to subvert familiar story beats.
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Luis Ortega’s KILL THE JOCKEY collages its influences with an anarchic panache. Read William Repass's review.
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RT @Slant_Magazine: Our favorite games of the year released thus far present a fairly strong argument for not rushing. .
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Though it lacks the immediacy of @Lorde’s best work, #Virgin is a hesitant step in the right direction for the singer. Read @tomwilliams030's review.
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RT @Slant_Magazine: These 25 best albums of 2025 (so far!) reflect a collective mood that’s far more nuanced than the almighty algorithm wo….
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Like its characters, season four of #TheBear is trying to find a mellower way of being. Read our review.
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There’s a grating meta-ness to JURASSIC WORLD REBIRTH that speaks to the filmmakers’ knowledge that they’re at the mercy of pressures to bring something new to an ossified franchise.
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Charlotte Zwerin’s THELONIOUS MONK: STRAIGHT, NO CHASER is essential for both its improvisatory look at Thelonious Monk and its implicit reflection on the ethics of portraiture. Now available on the Criterion Collection.
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More than a mere cipher for the world around it, the video store becomes something much more self-reflexive across Alex Ross Perry's VIDEOHEAVEN. Read @taylorfilmguy's review.
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FKA twigs, Perfume Genius, Addison Rae, Bad Bunny, Japanese Breakfast, Cameron Winter, and more top our list of the Best Albums of 2025 (so far!):
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RT @Slant_Magazine: Throughout 'I Quit,' HAIM seems conflicted as to whether they want to fully embrace a safer mainstream approach or foll….
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RT @Slant_Magazine: #WingedVictory is proof that #WilliCarlisle is at his best when he juxtaposes musical traditionalism with contemporary….
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