Author: Max Bratter
Marty Supreme Summary/Review: Faster than a Ping-Pong Rally
Director Josh Safdie enables Timothée Chalamet's innate propensity for grandiosity to an unprecedented extent.
Sentimental Value (2025) and its lack of sentimentality
A film about a familial dynamic, absent interaction.
Freddie Gibbs’ increasingly paradoxical ethos
Freddie Gibbs' latest effort is more self-conscious than usual for the Indiana rapper.
Tyler, the Creator’s respectable attempt at style over substance
The California artist doesn't shoot for the moon with his latest album, but he's the first to say that this attempt was purposefully grounded.
Clipse’s grand reentry
Clipse, after a 15+ year hiatus from the release of their last studio album, are back and maybe even better than ever.
Anora (2024) film review & summary
Re-publishing in honor of the film's recent Golden Globes snubs.
A Single Man (2009) film review & summary
A single day in the life of a single man.
Giving Jimmy Butler what he wants
Let's not just take Butler seriously, but also literally.
U.S. elections to watch this November
Some of the most competitive and consequential elections of this year.
There are no Gen Z coming-of-age films
Why can't we get our own Ferris Bueller's Day Off?
The “RFK Jr. is literally me” phenomenon
RFK Jr.'s populist appeal is not new in politics, but certainly is adapting to the times.
Can Biden win Florida?
His campaign certainly thinks so.
The Thing (1982) film review & summary
A virtuoso directorial performance in suspense and suspicion.
Biden learns from Trump
Biden rebrands a classic example of Trump's populism.
Album Review – ScHoolboy Q: Blue Lips
Blue Lips is ScHoolboy Q's true comeback album.