3+ day, 6+ hour ago  (226+ words) An album about what's up with Ye that never gets around to exploring what's up with him. Bully's prolonged incubation period may also help explain why it feels so incoherent'neither the product of a broken man still flailing around nor…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago  (14+ words) The Stranger" Review: Fran'ois Ozon"s Haunting Adaptation of an Existentialist Classic'Slant Magazine...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (710+ words) Fantasy Life" Review: Amanda Peet Steals Matthew Shear"s Low-Key Directorial Debut'Slant Magazine Writer-director Matthew Shear"s Fantasy Life is an initially familiar-feeling rom-com about urbane yet nerve-rattled characters that eventually, but just barely, transcends expectations. A law school dropout…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (273+ words) Lapid's film locates a dire spiritual crisis facing the nation of his birth. Like many films about spiritual crisis, Yes takes an exceptional interest in sensation (and desensitization) of the basest kind, awash as in images of skin, woozy handheld…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (586+ words) Forbidden Fruits" Review: A Witchy Mall Comedy That Keeps You Under Its Spell'Slant Magazine The first time we set eyes on Apple (Lili Reinhart) in Forbidden Fruits, she"s exercising total control over a strange man with a few effortless,…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (468+ words) Ready or Not 2: Here I Come" Review: Falling Back on Old Habits'Slant Magazine Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett"s Ready or Not 2 picks up immediately where the first film left off: Samara Weaving"s Grace, covered in blood, smoking on…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (383+ words) Tow" Review: Stephanie Laing"s Portrait of Homelessness Is Impounded by Sentimentality'Slant Magazine Stephanie Laing"s Tow overflows with sympathy for its protagonist, Amanda Ogle (Rose Byrne), a woman who takes a towing company to court for impounding the 1991 Toyota…...

3+ week, 9+ hour ago  (465+ words) Dead Lover" Review: Grace Glowicki"s Infectiously Absurd Frankenstein" Riff'Slant Magazine Some jobs you can"t help taking home with you: the workload, the accompanying stress, maybe even the horrible smell. The latter is very much the case with the…...

3+ week, 9+ hour ago  (606+ words) 'Marc by Sofia' Review: Two Artists Talk Fashion, Fosse, & More'Slant Magazine In her fictional worlds, Sofia Coppola revels in opulent surfaces only to reveal the hollowness underneath. Her first foray into documentary, Marc by Sofia, is all the more interesting…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (759+ words) Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly" Review: A Horror Classic Gets a Frustrating Glow-Up'Slant Magazine Where Resident Evil and Silent Hill put their own spin on distinct subgenres of American horror media, the Fatal Frame series has always fit snugly into the…...