Review
This is my kind of music, a tight latin jazz outfit that embraces great horn charts and explosive percussion.
Read More
Whatever else 2024 has in store for queer filmmakers and audiences, there’s likely to be nothing else that’ll put a smile on your face quite like “The People’s Joker.”
Read More
“Amar Singh Chamkila” doesn’t hit the compelling heights of “Highway” and “Tanasha,” but the director Imtiaz Ali successfully infuses — within the limits of the musical biopic — a buoyant, rebellious spirit.
Read More
If “La Chimera” is a bit harder to penetrate than the director-writer’s previous works, it boasts some captivating passages and raises pertinent questions about art, history, globalism, and national identity.
Read More
“Ripley” is one of the most entertaining and finely-wrought thriller series to come from Netflix in years.
Read More
This book is a fiery manifesto that charges that copyright law today is an outrageously unjust scheme that does nothing for 99 percent of authors, other creative people, and their fans, while it locks up a commodity that fills the coffers of large corporations.
Read More
Pianist Noah Haidu’s impeccably performed and recorded “Standards II” is a winner.
Read More
The Aussie teen soap falls victim to the dreaded sophomore slump.
Read More
Who would predict that this perfectly calibrated tale would be yanked out of its early 20th century setting and become dystopian science-fiction?
Read More
In this dreamworld, the politics don’t matter. It’s the artfully gruesome spectacle that counts — that and the hackneyed Hollywood storyline about the hardened veteran mentoring the neophyte through an initiation into the harsh realities of the profession.
Read More
The 20th Annual Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll: The Institution Continues