Category: Reviews

Listening for Change

Reflections on environmental protest songs.

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Exposed ‘Oklahoma!’ Reveals Its (and Our) Darkness

On the deliberate (and effective) discomfort of Daniel Fish’s Oklahoma.

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Nass Recommends (Pete Recommends?) “Bodys” by Car Seat Headrest

“Wherever you are, it’s no longer about the words but now about an ineffable energy that paradoxically grounds you and makes you feel weightless.”

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‘Moscow’ Updates Chekhov, Makes Audiences LOL and Cry in the Club

Halley Feiffer’s Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow opened July 18 at MCC Theater and is scheduled to run through August 3.

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High Life: Claire Denis’ Sinister Space Sexcapade

“this is more of a sex movie in space than a space movie with sex.”

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Nass Recommends The Tsar of Love and Techno

“This novel-in-stories traces the lives of multiple generations of characters from the early days of the Soviet Union up into the near-future, all interconnected by an obscure nineteenth-century painting.”

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Encounters With Concussion Culture

“In my desperate search for a ‘cure’ for my concussion, I experimented with the outermost fringes of the medical world: the truly punk-rock subculture of medical science.”

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Falling in Space

Hopefully this means we didn’t fake the moon landing.

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You’re Christopher Robin and Don’t You Forget It

On the collision course of youthful innocence and adulthoods muted palette.

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Babylon Berlin Review

A snapshot of a young republic in peril, and its lessons for our times.

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Sorry to Bother You review

“What the story lacks in cohesion and clarity, though, it makes up for in inventiveness and provocation. It seems intentionally on-the-nose that the protagonist’s name is “Cash Green,” as the film takes the inherent absurdity and selfishness of capitalism to the extreme.”

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Review: DJ Ezra Klein Chopped Not Slopped Indie-Hits Compilation (Best New Music)

“The EP offers a respite from the world. If only for a moment.”

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