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Mar 24, 2026 - Claude Lelouch's hugely popular A Man and a Woman was criticized for its sleek, chic, starstruck, pie-eyed, romantic wish fulfillment. Yet therein lay its...
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Mar 25, 2026 - In Nobody's Fool, Paul Newman turns in one of his most purely enjoyable performances as an absentee father from a small town navigating the winter of his life.
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Feb 26, 2026 - Meg Okura creates a unique musical blend, and her new album with the Pan Asian Chamber Jazz Ensemble, Isaiah, is ambitious and lushly accessible.
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Sep 26, 2018 - Puzzle arrives in theaters at a moment when total immersion in idiosyncratic pursuits has never held greater social cachet. People used to enjoy uncommon
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May 22, 2023 - The Dare's mission is urgent, as simple as breathing. Have a good time – a stupid good time – like your life depends on it. Because it literally does.
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Oct 3, 2017 - In the first episode of Arrow's fifth season, the title character -- the hero -- commits murder. This serves as an early reminder that Arrow, detailing the
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Nov 5, 2025 - The Beach Boys' biography Surf's Up is Peter Doggett's way of making sense of a clan of brothers who created some of the most dazzling pop of the 20th century.
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Apr 7, 2026 - In March's best metal, Neurosis make their surprising return, Bekor Qilish descend to extreme avant-garde paths, and Cruel Force mature their thrash.
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Mar 3, 2026 - Whatever flavor of electro music you prefer, you're likely to find something among the best electronic music of February 2026.
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Aug 19, 2021 - Deafheaven's Infinite Granite is a very successful shoegaze-inspired alt-rock record with a great sense of dynamics and some really catchy songs.
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Mar 17, 2025 - Youthful Arkansas native Jesse Welles has been at it for years but moves beyond protest music to the sophisticated alternative country of Middle.
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Feb 11, 2026 - The power in Kraftwerk's music lies in how they persuade us that the human – sweaty, inefficient, psychologically noisy – is the least necessary component of...
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Mar 31, 2026 - The story of how the radically different historical figures the Beatles, Richard Nixon, and Disney World intertwine is one of fascinating coincidence.
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Feb 26, 2026 - Ichi the Killer transcends gangster archetypes, becoming a model of how agony can be elevated to art and self-destruction a powerful form of self-expression.
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The 10 Best Electronic Albums of 2005 » PopMatters
Oct 16, 2025 - Jump back 20 years, listen to the best electronic albums of 2005, and hear the era's state of the genre's art. It was a highly innovative and influential time.
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The 10 Best Punk and Hardcore Albums of 2024 » PopMatters
Jan 4, 2025 - Thematically, much of this year's best punk and hardcore music addressed mental health and working through the past while striving for a more peaceful present.
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Apr 13, 2026 - A Shakespeare scholar’s deep dive into Stephen King’s 1970s work illuminates the elemental nature of fear.
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Sep 28, 2022 - We are seeking essays for our September 2022 All Things Reconsidered series. These essays analyze classic albums in music history.
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Mar 26, 2026 - SXSW has changed, but it still provides plenty of good music. The internet is full of old-timers who complain that the fest is not what it used to be.
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Mar 10, 2026 - It's absurd to think of Jack Benny or his characters as lotharios, but he does his best in these 1930s saucy, censor-restricted comedies.
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Nov 29, 2022 - For the Smile, Sons of Kemet’s Tom Skinner provides a deeper London jazz groove to lock into while the Radiohead side offer moody rock elements.
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Charli XCX Is Everything on 'Brat' » PopMatters
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Apr 21, 2026 - Louis Feuillade's dreamlike 12-episode silent film series Tih-Minh should be experienced, like laudanum, in discreet doses that will linger in our brains until...
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Jan 10, 2014 - Photo: Composition of headphones. Image via Shutterstock.
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Apr 23, 2026 - Cheers' characters float side-by-side as if suspended in a mug of amber-colored beer, going nowhere and befriending no one, least of all one another.
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Outsmarting the Auteur: Reassigning Power in Alfred Hitchcock's 'Marnie' » PopMatters
Aug 19, 2024 - A contemporary viewing of Alfred Hitchcock's 1964 film, Marnie, makes it clear: we must understand the inner workings of the male gaze and annihilate it.
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Jan 12, 2026 - The Best DVDs of 2025 are the works of serious auteurs whose films will stick in your brain like haunting melodies – or shards of glass.
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MetalMatters: The Best Metal Albums of May 2025 » PopMatters
Jun 10, 2025 - In May's best metal albums, Pelican turn back the clock, Drouth ascend to black/death glory, and Obsidian Tongue relish the early Agalloch-ian teachings.
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'Roma' Is Painfully Beautiful » PopMatters
Dec 14, 2018 - You could argue that Alfonso Cuarón's gorgeously imagined and intimate epic Roma invokes politics when convenient for dramatic impact but ignores their
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Nov 12, 2025 - Like Django Reinhardt, Stéphane Wrembel and his group are crowd-pleasers, taking music that is technically complex and making it instantly enjoyable.
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Apr 1, 2026 - Shawn Colvin knows who she is, and she wasn't about to start chasing someone else's pop dreams. That's what makes Whole New You so captivating still.
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Justin Adams and Mauro Durante Discover Common Ground » PopMatters
Mar 11, 2025 - On Sweet Release, Justin Adams and Mauro Durante's second album together, they unearth ancient, elemental spirits that live half-hidden in the modern world.
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Feb 26, 2026 - The writers demanding our attention in 2026 interrogate power, dissect masculinity, and insist on joy in their works of satire, sorcery, and secrets from...
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The Threat of Violence in George Marshall's Western Comedy, 'Destry Rides Again' » PopMatters
Jul 11, 2023 - 1939 is often considered one of the great years for the studio production system of Hollywood. This is the year of Victor Fleming's Gone with the Wind and
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