reviews

Jeremie Albino's Throwback 'Our Time in the Sun' Speaks to Today

Exclaim! Staff Picks

PUBLISHED Nov 8, 2024

Jeremie Albino's fourth solo album is the kind you can put on for your parents, one that might have your grandpa tapping his slipper...

Pain Is Generative on Mount Eerie's Beautifully Mundane 'Night Palace'

PUBLISHED Nov 8, 2024

When Phil Elverum released 'A Crow Looked at Me' in 2017 — a raw, dazzling and heartbreaking album that explored his partner Geneviève's...

Les Breastfeeders Are Back and No Bullshit on 'La ville engloutie'

PUBLISHED Nov 7, 2024

From Jane's Addiction to Oasis, reuniting rock bands have made the headlines for the wrong reasons recently. On the other side of that...

'Small Things Like These' Finds Gothic Horror in the Magdalene Laundries

Directed by Tim Mielants

PUBLISHED Nov 7, 2024

Fresh off last year's award-winning success in the worldwide phenomenon that was 'Oppenheimer,' Cillian Murphy is back in the more modest...

Godspeed You! Black Emperor Led Toronto Through the Dark

History, November 5

PUBLISHED Nov 6, 2024

A loop is something destined to repeat itself until an opposing force stops it or gets in the way: a bump, a swipe, a cut, a flame...

Janette King Conjures Magic on 'Incantation'

PUBLISHED Nov 6, 2024

Following Janette King's career has been an intriguing affair; the Montreal artist weaves so many moods and genre-excursions into her...

'The Piano Lesson' Strikes a Healing Chord

Directed by Malcolm Washington

PUBLISHED Nov 6, 2024

Eight years after Denzel Washington brought August Wilson's play 'Fences' to cinematic life, another Washington is trying his hand at one of...

Sabrina Carpenter's Vancouver Show Was Can't-Miss TV

Pacific Coliseum, November 4

PUBLISHED Nov 5, 2024

On Monday night in Vancouver, thousands of miniskirts and pink dresses descended upon the Pacific Coliseum for the last stop on the Canadian...