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'One Piece' Season 2 Review: A Bottomless Fount of Imagination In its second season, the series continues to embrace theatricality and artifice on a grand scale.

In its second season, Netflix's #OnePiece continues to embrace theatricality and artifice on a grand scale. Read our review!

Claude Sautet's CLASSE TOUS RISQUES takes as its subject the masculine codes of honor that are upheld and broken by those who dare to live outside the law. Available next week on Criterion 4K UHD Blu-ray. tinyurl.com/5n7yzzdp

'Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly' Review: A Frustrating Glow-Up The remake preserves attractive qualities of midsized games of the original's era that are all too rare today.

While FATAL FRAME II: CRIMON BUTTERFLY’s next-gen glow-up abounds in memorably subtle touches, not every modernization feels additive.

James Blake 'Trying Times' Review: A Natural Expression of Hope The album is a welcome addition to both Blake’s discography and the anxious times we’re living in.

'Trying Times' is a welcome addition to both James Blake's discography and the anxious times we live in. Read our review!

Phil Lord and Christopher Miller put a comedic spin on Andy Weir’s more straightforward 2021 novel PROJECT HAIL MARY, recasting the author’s hopeful vision of productive communication with extraterrestrials as an unlikely buddy comedy. tinyurl.com/3h77cmzw

'Resident Evil Requiem' Review: Where Time Stands Still Despite the suspense and terror, there’s still a playfully self-aware spring in the game’s step.

Despite the suspense and terror, there’s still a playfully self-aware spring in RESIDENT EVIL REQUIEM’s step. Read @justinofclark.bsky.social's review.

Originally produced for PBS’s American Playhouse, Lynne Littman’s Testament is one of that program’s standout entries, a vision of nuclear apocalypse whose horrors are felt rather than seen. Available next week on Criterion Blu-ray. tinyurl.com/4xkfppnd

Oscar Predictions 2026: What Will Win This Year - Slant Magazine This year’s best picture race is a legitimate death match between two equally appealing options.

It’s a lot more fun to delve into #Oscars season when we’re not taken aback by how…good the nominations are?

'Esoteric Ebb' Review: A Roguishly Charming Adventure 'Esoteric Ebb' upends the reductive ideological schema that has long sat deep in the genre and industry that 'D&D' birthed.

ESOTERIC EBB upends the reductive ideological schema that has long sat deep in the genre and industry that D&D birthed. Read @nivmsultan.bsky.social's review.

KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON, Martin Scorsese’s epic examination of old-fashioned American greed, gets a ravishing transfer and a handful of enlightening extras from Criterion. Available March 24 on 4K UHD Blu-ray. tinyurl.com/yayjh9rp

Thanks to a glorious new 4K digital restoration, the perversions of Luis Buñuel’s Palm d’Or-winning masterpiece VIRIDIANA have never felt more incendiary. Available Tuesday on 4K UHD Blu-ray. tinyurl.com/2j2fswu7

Harry Styles 'Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally.' Review The low-grade euphoria that the album conjures is more akin to a runner’s high than an MDMA trip.

The low-grade euphoria that Harry Styles's 'Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally." conjures is more akin to a runner’s high than an MDMA trip. Read our review.

Jeff Lieberman’s hilarious and disturbing Blue Sunshine gets a very welcome 4K upgrade and a satisfying roster of supplements from Synapse Films. Available on 4K UHD Blu-ray on Tuesday. tinyurl.com/28w94yvp

'Rooster' Review: Steve Carell Excels in a Disposable Campus Comedy There’s a sense of boldness missing from the show’s laidback, escapist tone.

There’s a sense of boldness missing from ROOSTER's laidback, escapist tone. Read our review.

'The Bride!' Review: Unnatural Born Killers Maggie Gyllenhaal's 'The Bride!' is a shotgun blast of a movie with no fealty to the conventions of modern gothic horror.

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s THE BRIDE is a shotgun blast of a movie with no fealty to the conventions of modern gothic horror. Read @justinofclark.bsky.social's review.

'Heel' Review: Finishing School for a Public Menace By keeping some of its cards close to its chest, 'Heel' respects our intelligence, which helps it to earn its sneakily moving ending.

Jan Komasa’s funny and disturbing HEEL basically imagines what My Fair Lady would look like if it had teeth. Read @midfalutin.bsky.social's review.

'Below the Clouds' Review: A Marvelous Mosaic of Life in Naples The snapshots of the area between Vesuvius and the Gulf of Naples conjure a sense of life here being suspended in time.

Gianfranco Rosi’s POMPEII: BELOW THE CLOUDS leaves us with a haunting sense of life in Naples existing in a liminal state. Read @marshallshaffer.bsky.social's review.

Otakar Vávra’s KRAKATIT, A deeply strange and unsettling sci-fi mystery about a world hellbent on self-destruction, rings as true today as it surely did in the wake of World War II. Available soon on Blu-ray from Deaf Crocodile. tinyurl.com/2abn56vn

Morrissey 'Make-Up Is a Lie' Review: A Grievance Machine The album is propelled by the bombast of a man who appears to have stopped listening to anyone but himself.

With ‘Make-Up Is a Lie,’ the Morrissey grievance machine marches on. Read our review. www.slantmagazine.com/music/morris...

'André Is an Idiot' Review: An Irreverent End-of-Life Documentary Sundance: It's strange to call a film about man staring down death a good time, but 'André Is an Idiot' is designed to be just that.

Tony Benna’s ANDRE IS AN IDIOT is a consistently hilarious look at the ridiculousness of living with cancer. Read @justinofclark.bsky.social's review.

'Dolly' Review: Dude, Where's My Face? The only thing surprising about Rod Blackhurst's feature-length expansion of his 2022 short is what Dolly does to Seann William Scott's mug.

The only thing surprising about Rod Blackhurst’s DOLLY is what its big bad villain does to Seann William Scott’s face. Read @midfalutin.bsky.social's review.

'Hoppers' Review: Pixar's Manic Eco-Conscious Adventure It falls well short of providing any satisfying exploration of its weighty theme of persuasion versus violence in the face of oppression.

Pixar's HOPPERS falls well short of providing any satisfying exploration of its weighty theme of persuasion versus violence in the face of oppression.

ANOTHER GAY SEQUEL: GAYS GONE WILD aims for a self-knowingness that any of its prick-brained leads would mislabel as camp. The film re-releases on streaming this Tuesday. tinyurl.com/4jrdejb4

Blackpink 'Deadline' Review: A Stopgap EP with Diminishing Returns The EP is built around compulsive chains of interlocking parts, predictably executed with factory-floor precision.

Little of the material on #Deadline ranks among the most adventurous in BLACKPINK’s catalog. Read our review.

'Salvation' Review: A Multifaceted Exploration of Inter-Ethnic Conflict Berlinale: Never quite engaging on the level of narrative, 'Salvation' also leaves its political significance ultimately obscure.

When its overlapping allegorical notes harmonize, Emin Alper’s SALVATION resonates with urgency and genuine horror, but they can also stifle the human aspects of the tragedy depicted.

'Banquet for Fools' Review: A Bounty for the Senses The game has confidence in you, like a pen-and-paper game master who expects the world of you and will give you the world in return.

BANQUET FOR FOOLS has confidence in its vision and in you, like a pen-and-paper game master who expects the world of you and will give you the world in return. Read @nivmsultan.bsky.social's review.

'Erupcja' Review: Pete Ohs's Freewheeling City Symphony The film is the story of a quest to break free of the crushing regular-ness of life to find something more romantic.

While it isn’t an overt examination of it in the manner of The Moment, ERUPCJA does feel like a natural cinematic extension of Charli XCX’s melancholy party-girl persona. #GFF

It was an honor to sit down for a chat with Werner Herzog about GHOST ELEPHANT. The iconoclastic filmmaker discussed the origins of the documentary, the urgency he brings to his filmmaking, and his new Instagram account! tinyurl.com/n7bvp443

Bruno Mars 'The Romantic' Review: A Latin-Pop Affair That Comes Up Short That album is a song cycle about love that practically writes itself.

Bruno Mars's 'The Romantic' is a mercifully short affair. Read our review.

'DTF St. Louis' Review: A Darkly Comic Murder Mystery The series boasts a unique charm that sneaks up on you.

HBO's 'DTF St. Louis' boasts a unique charm that sneaks up on you. Read our review.