reviews
Blessed Refuse Easy Answers on 'Circuitous'
PUBLISHED Oct 25, 2022
"Am I attempting living right?" Drew Riekman asks in "Redefine," the pensive, winding opener from Blessed's sophomore LP Circuitous. Riekma...
Matt Foster's 'True Needs' Is a Quiet Storm
PUBLISHED Oct 25, 2022
Matt Foster is in no rush. On "Hospital," a particularly muted track planted delicately in the middle of their stunning debut solo album Tr...
Junior Boys' 'Waiting Game' Pays Off
PUBLISHED Oct 24, 2022
Hamilton electro-funk duo Junior Boys have carried the torch of Canadian sub-mainstream electronic music steadily, if sometimes unspectacul...
Taylor Swift Is Her Own Timekeeper on 'Midnights'
PUBLISHED Oct 24, 2022
Nothing exists in a vacuum — least of all a Taylor Swift album. Perhaps more so than any other modern-day pop star, to be a critical consum...
'Aftersun' Is the Bittersweet Slow Burn of the Year
Directed by Charlotte Wells
PUBLISHED Oct 21, 2022
In the first moments of Aftersun, the understated debut feature from writer and director Charlotte Wells, we look into the past through the...
'The School for Good and Evil' Is More Evil Than Good
Directed by Paul Feig
PUBLISHED Oct 21, 2022
Good versus evil — the classic moral binary underlying centuries of storytelling. It's a tried and true formula, repeated countless times i...
'Black Adam' Is a Bit Rocky
Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra
PUBLISHED Oct 21, 2022
Black Adam starts with a prologue set in 2600 BC in an ancient kingdom called Kahndaq, where the audience is introduced to a powerful magic...
BRASS Continue to Shine on 'Look on the Bright Side'
PUBLISHED Oct 20, 2022
"Winning Hand" — the first single off Look on the Bright Side, the new EP from Vancouver hardcore punks BRASS — is the perfect introduction...