Review
Once again, here was the shock in Cécile McLorin Savant’s subversive conceptual daring.
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New cinematic mavericks have come along. All the more reason that the views of earlier rebels be collected and preserved, given the short historical memories of young filmmakers and their audiences.
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Nature has long been a perennial topic for cinema and, given the escalation of the climate crisis, the environmental context of these three fine films feels particularly urgent and poignant.
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Over the years, Lee Gutkind has been one of the most persistent and impassioned voices making the case for the value of creative nonfiction.
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In “BLACK HOLE,” the TRIBE trio moves as if learning for the first time how their skeletons and muscles are constrained and empowered, perplexed and bedazzled, by gravity’s incontrovertible power.
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The album suggests an earlier time, but most of the music is modern, relevant, and timeless.
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“Freshman Year” is marketed as YA, but those of us who recently went through our freshman year will appreciate this graphic novel the most.
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Has there ever been a better or more accurate film about young girls on the edge of adulthood testing out their sexuality?
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“How to Have Sex” doesn’t criticize teenage girls for wanting to get laid, but it points out how the cultural environment in which they do so is directed entirely towards male pleasure
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Sonic Youth’s fans remain passionate enough to justify the release of a slew of live albums.
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The 20th Annual Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll: The Institution Continues