reviews

'Self Reliance' Doesn't Buy Into Its Own Premise

Directed by Jake Johnson

PUBLISHED Jan 18, 2024

A film about mental health can be funny, if it's handled well — What About Bob, Brain Candy and Nurse Betty immediately come to mind. What...

Green Day Hit a Late-Career High on 'Saviors'

PUBLISHED Jan 18, 2024

What needs to be said about Green Day at this point? Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tré Cool are the multi-million-selling post-Nirva...

PACKS' 'Melt the Honey' Keeps Things Raw

PUBLISHED Jan 16, 2024

In March 2022, the same month that she released Crispy Crunchy Nothing, her sophomore LP as PACKS, Madeline Link and her band headed into t...

glass beach Go for Broke on 'plastic death'

PUBLISHED Jan 16, 2024

Emerging from the watery depths a half decade after their debut, glass beach's plastic death is a monolith of an album, narratively entwine...

'The Brothers Sun' Basks in the Warm Glow of Michelle Yeoh

Created by Byron Wu and Brad Falchuk

PUBLISHED Jan 15, 2024

Fresh off the Oscar-winning breakthrough of Everything Everywhere All at Once, Michelle Yeoh continues her dominant streak with another rol...

Even with Kevin Hart at the Controls, 'Lift' Never Takes Off

Directed by F. Gary Gray

PUBLISHED Jan 12, 2024

Formulas aren't necessarily a bad thing. For all the nonsense of the world, there's a comfort to turning on a movie that pans out exactly h...

'Some Other Woman' Needed Some Other Script

Directed by Joel David Moore

PUBLISHED Jan 12, 2024

Some Other Woman, the latest film from actor-director Joel David Moore, opens with an ominous tale about a fisherman's wife who was lost at...

The Missed Potential of 'The Beekeeper' Really Stings

Directed by David Ayer

PUBLISHED Jan 12, 2024

At this point in his career, Jason Statham is an institution — a somewhat floundering but nevertheless recognizable (and surprisingly banka...