reviews

‘Becoming Led Zeppelin’ Captures the Success, Not the Headlines

Directed by Bernard MacMahon

PUBLISHED Feb 13, 2025

To be or not to be: a question that engaged some stodgier, sexless Brits maybe, but not rock's mightiest quartet, Led Zeppelin. From the on...

Questlove Fearlessly Humanizes a Musical Enigma in 'SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)'

Directed by Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson

PUBLISHED Feb 12, 2025

After the massive success of his directorial debut, 'Summer of Soul (...or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised),' multi-award...

'Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory' Proves Itself

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PUBLISHED Feb 11, 2025

When a longtime solo songwriter suddenly starts gives their backing band co-billing, it doesn't usually fill me with confidence about their...

Season 3 of 'The White Lotus' Gets Darker and Freakier in Thailand

Created by Mike White

PUBLISHED Feb 11, 2025

There were two main talking points when Season 2 of 'The White Lotus' aired almost three years ago: who's going die, and how good is that...

'DISCO'S REVENGE' Gets the Last Laugh

Directed by Omar Majeed and Peter Mishara

PUBLISHED Feb 11, 2025

Disco was a dirty word, at least when I was a teenager in the 1990s. It was an exiled musical style from a bygone era, only spoken about to...

Horsegirl Make Their Own Enduring Consonance with 'Phonetics On and On'

PUBLISHED Feb 10, 2025

Horsegirl have deftly bridged the wide gulfs between archetypal and ingenious by making music that, while indebted to the sound of decades...

'Heart Eyes' Finds True Love Amidst the Bloody Hellscape of Modern Dating

Directed by Josh Ruben

PUBLISHED Feb 7, 2025

Dating in the current technological moment is its own gruelling circle of hell. It's not just courtesy of the motley web of apps...

'Mo' Season 2 Brings Mo Problems, Mo Laughter

Created by Mohammed Amer and Ramy Youssef

PUBLISHED Feb 7, 2025

We return to the luckless Mo Najjar (played by comedian Mohammed Amer) in the second and supposedly final season of Netflix's 'Mo,' the...