A work that constantly feels as if it’s building to something more, only to retreat…
Author: Jake Cole
Parasite
Fits as comfortably among the warped class portraits of the director's American work as it…
Oeuvre: Varda: One Hundred and One Nights
The spiraling mania of creative passion that fuels Varda’s film is a testament to her…
Opeth: In Cauda Venenum
A bracing reminder of the subtlety and complexity that underpinned even the band’s most fearsome…
The Replacements: Dead Man’s Pop
The reissue of the year, a work of restoration that salvages the reputation of its…
First Love
The constantly intersecting storylines build chaotically to a final act so high on its own…
Resequence: Beatles: Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
The revisions of new generations have gradually lessened the album’s place at the top of…
Running with the Devil
Too reliant on genre clichés and wafer-thin characters to say anything about the drug trade.
Oeuvre: Varda: Vagabond
As ever, Varda is no demonstrative formalist, but her visual subtlety constantly reconfigures the tone…
Holy Hell! The Gathering Turns 20
Today, Testament arguably enjoys greater clout than their ever did in their supposed glory days,…