Review
In her wry, incisive documentary, filmmaker Penny Lane turns an owl’s rise and fall into an unusually moving inquiry into animal sentience, urban spectacle, and the cost of liberation.
The Dardenne brothers’ latest film transforms a series of fragile stories about teenage motherhood into an unsentimental, deeply compassionate study of resilience.
A Singapore Symphony Orchestra recording of compositions by John Williams, Bernard Herrmann, and Hugo Friedhofer quietly punctures old prejudices about film composers and “serious” music.
Nicolas Winding Refn’s baffling, vibe‑driven film trades narrative for fetish—and asks whether you still care what the critics think.
Mike Patton’s supergroup navigated pandemic-era anxieties with surgical precision while Melvins provided savage support.
Dennis Cooper’s “transgressive” reputation obscures his deeper project: language as moral instrument, and the victim rather than the predator as the true subject.
Soprano-conductor Barbara Hannigan’s semiquincentennial album reframes familiar American classics through a lens of wistfulness, insight, and quiet defiance.
A turn-of-the-century schoolteacher’s idealism collides with alpine tradition—and the land itself—in a beguiling, sensorially rich debut.
Documentarian Ross McElwee’s most profound film folds four decades of self-portraiture into a threnody for his son—and a meditation on memory, guilt, and cinema’s solace.
The webslinger’s new outing has the cameos, the conspiracy, and the corporate logic. What it doesn’t have is heart.
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