Review

  • MusicalWork Review !!!: Thr!!!er

    !!! throws a disco dance party on its fifth album.

    April 30, 2013 | 12:03am -

  • MusicalWork Review Guided By Voices: English Little League

    GBV as God intended.

    April 30, 2013 | 12:02am -

  • MusicalWork Review Neon Neon: Praxis Makes Perfect

    Super Furry Animals frontman and Boom Bip go back to the future, ’80s-style.

    April 30, 2013 | 12:01am -

  • MusicalWork Review Coliseum: Sister Faith

    Guests from Boris, Jawbox, and Sebadoh don’t add much to a solid post-hardcore showing.

    April 30, 2013 | 12:00am -

  • Book Review Joe Hill: NOS4A2

    The author of Horns and Locke & Key returns with his biggest, most expansive, funniest horror-fantasy to date.

    April 29, 2013 | 12:02am -

  • Book Review Ryan McIlvain: Elders

    This novel about young Mormon “elders” isn’t as fun as Book Of Mormon, but it has plenty to say about the church.

    April 29, 2013 | 12:01am -

  • Book Review Elizabeth Strout: The Burgess Boys

    Elizabeth Strout’s follow-up to her Pulitzer-winning Olive Kitteridge is surprisingly absorbing for a low-key family drama.

    April 29, 2013 | 12:00am -

  • Movie Review The Big Wedding

    Robert De Niro suffers a litany of indignities in a wretched ensemble comedy. 

    April 25, 2013 | 12:08pm -

  • Movie Review Mud

    Matthew McConaughey's winning streak continues with an adventure yarn from the director of Take Shelter.

    April 25, 2013 | 12:09am -

  • Movie Review Kon-Tiki

    This Foreign-Language Oscar nominee proves that exciting true stories don't always translate onscreen.

    April 25, 2013 | 12:08am -

  • Movie Review Paradise: Love

    Ulrich Seidl (Import/Export) kicks off his bleak Paradise trilogy with a tale of mutual exploitation.

    April 25, 2013 | 12:07am -

  • Movie Review An Oversimplification Of Her Beauty

    Few contemporary indies are as wildly inventive as this experimental passion project.

    April 25, 2013 | 12:06am -

  • Movie Review Sun Don’t Shine

    Amy Seimetz's feature directorial debut is an expressively weird neo-noir.

    April 25, 2013 | 12:05am -

  • Movie Review At Any Price

    The director of Chop Shop plants a corny melodrama in the American farmland.

    April 25, 2013 | 12:04am -

  • Movie Review The Numbers Station

    John Cusack gets his sulk on again in a joyless new thriller.

    April 25, 2013 | 12:03am -

  • Movie Review Graceland

    Moral corruption touches everyone in this grim, gripping blackmail drama.

    April 25, 2013 | 12:02am -

  • Movie Review Arthur Newman

    Colin Firth fakes his death and hits the road with Emily Blunt in a disappointingly conventional drama.

    April 25, 2013 | 12:01am -

  • Movie Review Pain & Gain

    Michael Bay's "small" movie is as proudly idiotic as his big ones.

    April 25, 2013 | 12:00am -

  • Movie Review The Reluctant Fundamentalist

    Current events may help or hinder Mira Nair's timely portrait of culture clash.

    April 25, 2013 | 12:00am -

  • MusicalWork Review Frank Turner: Tape Deck Heart

    Veteran folk-punk finds his commercial comfort zone on his fifth album.

    April 23, 2013 | 12:01am -

  • MusicalWork Review Kid Cudi: Indicud

    Kid Cudi’s stab at a party record finds him in unusual company.

    April 23, 2013 | 12:00am -

  • MusicalWork Review Phoenix: Bankrupt!

    Great expectations can lead to big disappointments.

    April 23, 2013 | 12:00am -

  • Book Review Neil Gaiman: Unnatural Creatures

    A fantasy master curates a lumpy group anthology about fantasy beasties.

    April 22, 2013 | 12:02am -

  • Book Review Manil Suri: The City Of Devi

    Unlikely partners seek out their mutual lover in terrorist-torn India in this colorful but unlikely novel.

    April 22, 2013 | 12:01am -

  • Book Review Napoleon Chagnon: Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes

    A famed anthropologist clears up his controversial research, flames his detractors, and reveals the vulgar practical jokes his tribal subjects played on him.

    April 22, 2013 | 12:00am -

  • Movie Review The Lords Of Salem

    Spring is the season of the witch for Rob Zombie.

    April 18, 2013 | 12:03am -

  • Movie Review Oblivion

    Tom Cruise wanders a quiet Earth in a handsome but familiar science-fiction saga.

    April 18, 2013 | 12:03am -

  • Movie Review In The House

    French director François Ozon explores the voyeuristic nature of storytelling.

    April 18, 2013 | 12:02am -

  • Movie Review Deceptive Practices: The Mysteries And Mentors Of Ricky Jay

    For his latest trick, the famous magician disappears from his own documentary.

    April 18, 2013 | 12:01am -

  • Movie Review Unmade In China

    An American director chronicles his own tumultuous attempts to shoot a movie in China.

    April 18, 2013 | 12:00am -