Released on this day 20 years ago, Taylor Swift’s self-titled debut album set the blueprint for the artist’s pop instincts and infamous fixations. slantmagazine.com/music/tayl…
Shabazz Palaces's IT'S A STYLE SPORT transforms a lifetime of flyness into a moral code, then puts it on trial. Read our review. slantmagazine.com/music/shab…
CHRISTIANE F., Uli Edel’s harrowing tale of addiction and despair from 1981, has lost none of its feverish, raw power. Now available on Criterion 4K UHD Blu-ray. tinyurl.com/4au8bdz6
BUNKER’s exploration of an alienating modern world doesn’t get much more granular than its broad-stroke outline. Read David Robb's #LFF review of Florian Zeller’s latest. slantmagazine.com/film/bunke…
As much fun as it has depicting The Sun’s rough-and-tumble early days, Danny Boyle's INK struggles to connect that history to the paper’s eventual transformation. slantmagazine.com/film/ink-r…
FINAL FANTASY RESONANCE, an RPG of craterous lows and wondrous highs, gradually coheres into a work of compelling theatricality and mechanical intensity. slantmagazine.com/games/fina…
WICKER is a thrilling rarity for how it marries childlike sincerity with a story whose themes are adult in more ways than one. Read @media_marshall's review. slantmagazine.com/film/wicke…
Jon Robin Baitz’s cleverest ruse may be blaming his characters for the the stifling aridity of OTHER DESERT CITIES, whose revival is now running at the Hudson Theatre. slantmagazine.com/theater/ot…
Whether working as reporter or soldier, Samuel Fuller bore witness to the moment. Read Keith Uhlich on the films collected on Criterion’s Eclipse set THE FIRST FILMS OF SAMUEL FULLER, now available on Blu-ray. tinyurl.com/azycuv3v
Taika Waititi’s KLARA AND THE SUN is a faithful adaptation that nevertheless strips away everything insightful and affecting from Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel. #LFFslantmagazine.com/film/klara…
Criterion’s mammoth 30-disc set THE COMPLETE KUBRICK, available Tuesday, invites us to revisit a body of work whose formal perfection only deepens its mysteries. tinyurl.com/rfs6va3u
Travis Knight's wonderful stop-motion feature WILDWOOD, writes @kenjfuj, isn’t afraid to have its characters grapple with real-world darkness and complexity. #LFFslantmagazine.com/film/wildw…
The Avalanches's 'No Bad Memories' transforms obsolete technology and advertising jingles into a euphoric exploration of nostalgia. Read our review! slantmagazine.com/music/the-…