reviews
Jean-Michel Blais Crafts Lush, Life-Affirming Compositions on 'aubades'
PUBLISHED Feb 2, 2022
For Jean-Michel Blais, aubades is a rebirth. From its opening notes, its whisks listeners away. On the new album from the esteemed post-cla...
Animal Collective Exit Their Flop Era on 'Time Skiffs'
PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2022
Animal Collective set a high bar with their output in the 2000s, and then undeniably lost steam in the 2010s, a period that coincided with...
Cate Le Bon Turns Isolation into a Creative Eruption on 'Pompeii'
PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2022
Isolation can lead to brilliance or madness, occasionally both. Having moved north of bustling Helsinki to the quiet artist community of La...
'The 355' Doesn't Add Up to Much
Directed by Simon Kinberg
PUBLISHED Jan 31, 2022
A dangerous piece of tech that can take control of any power grid in the world is on the loose, and a group of highly-skilled agents from a...
Mitski Is Vulnerable and Mysterious in Equal Measure on 'Laurel Hell'
PUBLISHED Jan 31, 2022
After Mitski Miyawaki completed touring her acclaimed album Be the Cowboy in 2019, the singer-songwriter went dark. She deactivated her soc...
Sundance Review: 'God's Country' Tackles the Myth of American Exceptionalism
Directed by Julian Higgins
PUBLISHED Jan 31, 2022
God's Country has one of the best opening scenes at this year's Sundance. Flickering lights cut to black in a classroom as a projector begi...
'Search Party' Season 5 Totally Loses the Plot, in a Good Way
Created by Sarah-Violet Bliss, Charles Rogers and Michael Showalter
PUBLISHED Jan 31, 2022
Search Party has travelled a hell of a lot of ground in five seasons, beginning as a mystery before turning into a crime drama and then a s...
'Black Ice' Is a Necessary Interrogation of Hockey's Lack of Diversity
Directed by Hubert Davis
PUBLISHED Jan 31, 2022
The National Hockey League remains the only North American professional sports league that has only a handful of participants from visible...