It’s like the 90s all over again — the biggest and loudest Britpop band has once again overshadowed the cleverest and best. Oasis has set aside their differences in the name of becoming wealthier...

Occasionally, an album comes along that feels like an instant musical watershed moment. These records go beyond the traditional, and often overstated, classification of an album as an instant classic,...

Since the end of the spring 2025 semester, theater screens across the country have been graced by — or, in some cases, subjected to — a host of high-profile new releases that vary wildly in both financial...

Chances are you’ve already heard about “Sinners,” the latest film by “Black Panther” director Ryan Coogler. It has been receiving a level of unanimous and passionate praise from both critics...

The theater was suffused with a feeling of unbearable anticipation. A quiet murmur rumbled throughout the audience — could this be it? Could this be the moment we’ve been waiting for? The chicken...

Reviews of Black Country, New Road’s recent music often feel like eulogies for a previous incarnation of the band. Its first two albums, recorded with singer-guitarist Isaac Wood, are rightfully hailed...

“Dead Channel Sky,” the latest full-length album by Southern California hip-hop trio clipping., is not only the trio's most eclectic release but also its best. Since releasing debut mixtape “midcity”...

Bong Joon-Ho is very displeased with everything going on in the world right now. He’s been very displeased since he made “Barking Dogs Never Bite” in 2000, he grew more displeased as time went on,...

Despite a weak slate of nominees and a few disappointing awards, this year’s iteration of the Academy Awards was one of the best in years. Host Conan O’Brien forewent any of the obnoxious “comedy”...

“Crispy Skin,” the first song on Squid’s new album “Cowards,” is one of the most elegantly composed pieces of music about eating people that I’ve ever heard. Its crystalline synth intro is...

In his review of Milos Forman’s 1984 film “Amadeus,” Roger Ebert opines on the difference between greatness and near-greatness. “True geniuses,” he says, “rarely take their own work seriously,...

Jacques Audiard’s “Emilia Pérez,” which was recently nominated for an obscene 13 Academy Awards, is a fascinating movie largely because of how bad it is. Even discounting its myriad thematic issues,...