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Throughout 'I Quit,' HAIM seems conflicted as to whether they want to fully embrace a safer mainstream approach or follow their bolder instincts. Read Tom Williams 🇺🇦's review. slantmagazine.com/music/haim-i-q…

These 25 best albums of 2025 (so far!) reflect a collective mood that’s far more nuanced than the almighty algorithm would have us believe. Which is your favorite? slantmagazine.com/music/the-best…

#WingedVictory is proof that #WilliCarlisle is at his best when he juxtaposes musical traditionalism with contemporary sensibilities. Read our review! slantmagazine.com/music/willi-ca…

Amazon's #Countdown feels like a cop show from an older, more conservative era of television. Read Ross McIndoe's review. slantmagazine.com/tv/countdown-r…

Our favorite games of the year released thus far present a fairly strong argument for not rushing. slantmagazine.com/games/the-best…

FKA twigs, Perfume Genius, Addison Rae, Bad Bunny, Japanese Breakfast, Cameron Winter, and more top our list of the Best Albums of 2025 (so far!): slantmagazine.com/music/the-best…

Valerie Cherish has got something to say. slantmagazine.com/tv/the-comebac…

More than a mere cipher for the world around it, the video store becomes something much more self-reflexive across Alex Ross Perry's VIDEOHEAVEN. Read Taylor J. Williams's review. slantmagazine.com/film/videoheav…

Charlotte Zwerin’s THELONIOUS MONK: STRAIGHT, NO CHASER is essential for both its improvisatory look at Thelonious Monk and its implicit reflection on the ethics of portraiture. Now available on the Criterion Collection. tinyurl.com/4y7yjttu

There’s a grating meta-ness to JURASSIC WORLD REBIRTH that speaks to the filmmakers’ knowledge that they’re at the mercy of pressures to bring something new to an ossified franchise. slantmagazine.com/film/jurassic-…

Like its characters, season four of #TheBear is trying to find a mellower way of being. Read our review. slantmagazine.com/tv/the-bear-se…

Though it lacks the immediacy of @Lorde’s best work, #Virgin is a hesitant step in the right direction for the singer. Read Tom Williams 🇺🇦's review. slantmagazine.com/music/lorde-vi…

Luis Ortega’s KILL THE JOCKEY collages its influences with an anarchic panache. Read William Repass's review. slantmagazine.com/film/kill-the-…

R.T. Thorne’s 40 ACRES, featuring stellar performances from Danielle Deadwyler and Kataem O’Connor, continually finds clever ways to subvert familiar story beats. slantmagazine.com/film/40-acres-…

To celebrate one year of #BRAT, we ranked every Charli album. What's your favorite?slantmagazine.com/music/every-ch…

On her first independent album, Kesha seems torn between resurrecting the unruly spark of her early work or continuing in a more introspective direction. Read our review. slantmagazine.com/music/kesha-pe…

JAWS is the pop masterpiece as happy accident—a parody of America’s can-do spirit that’s also, by the end, a celebration of it. slantmagazine.com/film/jaws-50th…

Much of Benson Boone's #AmericanHeart amounts to little more than competently performed filler. Read our review: slantmagazine.com/music/benson-b…

The Criterion Collection honors Fritz Lang’s lean and hard American classic THE BIG HEAT the right way: with a pristine 4K preservation and correspondingly rich and efficient supplements. tinyurl.com/32dr7pbd

Read our interview with Albert Serra about his documentary AFTERNOONS OF SOLITUDE, one of our favorite films of the year so far, and how being close to a torero taught him to take risks in his work. slantmagazine.com/film/albert-se…