Reviews of Music, Movies, Anime & More

A solid debut whose restraint leaves the listener wanting more — in a very good way.

Jorge’s songs pirouette on the edge of an abyss, her delicate voice seemingly quite outmatched by the long, dark night of the soul that she faces.

I need to stop the review lest it just become a checklist of everything I dislike about the movie.

You’re struck by the thought that perhaps some higher power had always intended for the components to be mashed together.

Ultimately a testament to such American values as love, friendship, family, and loyalty as much as free speech.

A vital collection of everything that’s beautiful and evocative in the group’s spooky, forlorn music.

Aerial Days is full of tiny shimmering moments of beauty.

Every single note, melody, and beat on So This Is Goodbye has been streamlined and polished as much as possible.

The self-described “world’s only indie stadium band” deliver an album that’s as bombastic as it is sincere.

Swing Girls is far better than it frankly has any right to be, thanks to the sheer amount of fun, enthusiasm, and aplomb it contains.

I’ve heard most of the songs on here before, countless times. But I had never heard them like this, in such a sublime context.

Richter’s music is perfectly suited to the themes of loss, nostalgia, and alienation that permeate Haruki Murakami’s work.

There’s a rawness and youthful recklessness that never fails to render their music beguiling, even at its loudest and most abrasive.

A tribute to an old computer, the five long tracks that make up this disc are elegiac and gorgeous.

The stunts and fights scenes have an edge and brutality that you just don’t see everyday.

The film always returns to its central violent themes with a crackling, harrowing intensity.

For the vast majority of its 144 minutes, Casino Royale is absolutely thrilling.

There’s something refreshing, even affecting, about the lo-fi approach that Geochilmaru takes to martial arts cinema.