Review
On “Bring on the Psychics,” the post-hardcore veterans sound urgent, thoughtful and surprisingly rejuvenated, balancing punishing riffs with hard-won wisdom.
The weekend stand in Boston offered crowd-pleasers, deep cuts, and one of Phish’s most startling bust-outs in decades.
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.
A turn-of-the-century schoolteacher’s idealism collides with alpine tradition—and the land itself—in a beguiling, sensorially rich debut.

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