reviews

'The Accountant 2' Doesn't Quite Balance

Directed by Gavin O'Connor

PUBLISHED Apr 24, 2025

'The Accountant 2' takes its audience on quite the ride — I laughed, yawned, ooh-ed and yawned some more. Similar to the first go-around...

'On Swift Horses' Pulls a Bait-and-Switch on Viewers

Directed by Daniel Minahan

PUBLISHED Apr 24, 2025

Daniel Minahan sets up his film 'On Swift Horses' as a love triangle in which Julius (Jacob Elordi) returns from the Korean War and stays...

Lorde's "What Was That" Embraces Her Melodramatic Strengths

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PUBLISHED Apr 24, 2025

It's not that that the psych folk of 'Solar Power' was bad, exactly, but Lorde's 2021 album didn't get its claws into me like 2017's...

AC/DC's Rock N Roll Train Shook Vancouver All Night Long on the Highway to Hell

BC Place, April 22

PUBLISHED Apr 23, 2025

BC Place was alight with wearable flashing devil horns this past Tuesday (April 22) night, as rock gods AC/DC rumbled through Vancouver on...

Florence Road Hatch Fully Formed on "Caterpillar"

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PUBLISHED Apr 23, 2025

Sometimes a side chick ain't even a side chick, it's the beautiful and proud nation of Ireland. Florence Road are a quartet of four...

CUFF 2025: 'Move Ya Body: The Birth of House' Follows the Expected Beats

Directed by Elegance Bratton

PUBLISHED Apr 23, 2025

The history of house music begins with the death of disco. As is the case with every trend, the synth-y beats of disco showed signs of...

CUFF 2025: 'Eephus' Is a Sweetly Nostalgic Home Run

Directed by Carson Lund

PUBLISHED Apr 23, 2025

There's a gentle rhythm to baseball that mirrors a quiet summer evening around a bonfire — it's cooling off but the day's humidity still...

SUMAC and Moor Mother Find Startling Cinematic Symmetry on 'The Film'

PUBLISHED Apr 22, 2025

Describing an album as "genreless" or "genre-defying" can be a temptation rooted in cowardice — the fear of identifying something as...