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When Elden Ring launched in 2022, it sold 25 million copies and won Game of the Year by merging FromSoftware punishing combat with a genuinely open world co-designed by George R.
Ryan Okafor · 2024-09-05
Charli XCX Brat, released in June 2024, did something that pop albums almost never do anymore: it defined a cultural moment.
Ryan Okafor · 2024-09-05
If you have not listened to 99% Invisible, you are missing the show that perfected the narrative podcast format.
Ethan Park · 2024-09-04
Outer Wilds, released in 2019 by Mobius Digital, is a space exploration game that gives you a solar system trapped in a 22-minute time loop and asks you to figure out why.
Sophie Chen · 2024-09-04
Adrian Tomine The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist is a brutally honest graphic memoir about creative insecurity, public humiliation, and the gulf between how we present ourselves and how we feel inside.
Alex Sterling · 2024-09-03
Tyler Mitchell became the first Black photographer to shoot a Vogue cover in 2018, and while that milestone earned headlines, his broader body of work deserves attention far beyond a single assignment.
Leo Marchetti · 2024-09-03
Celine Sciamma has been making quietly revolutionary French cinema for over a decade, but her name still does not register with most American film audiences.
Max Calloway · 2024-09-02
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, Laura Poitras 2022 documentary about photographer Nan Goldin activism against the Sackler family, won the Golden Lion at Venice and then seemed to vanish from conversation.
Alex Sterling · 2024-09-02
Paul Murray The Bee Sting, published in 2023, is a sprawling, darkly comic novel about an Irish family unraveling under the weight of financial collapse, personal secrets, and the slow violence of austerity-era economics.
Alex Sterling · 2024-09-01
Jayda G Boiler Room set from 2019 is still one of the most electrifying pieces of recorded live music on the internet.
Sophie Chen · 2024-09-01
Black Country, New Road Ants From Up There was released in early 2022 and has quietly become one of the most acclaimed albums of the decade.
Leo Marchetti · 2024-08-31
Kehinde Wiley gets the attention, but Toyin Ojih Odutola is making some of the most intellectually ambitious figurative art in the world right now.
Ryan Okafor · 2024-08-31
Netflix The Gentlemen, Guy Ritchie series expansion of his 2019 film, follows Eddie Halstead, played by Theo James, an aristocratic British army officer who inherits his father estate and discovers it sits atop a massive cannabis operation.
Nina Vasquez · 2024-08-30
Amazon Reacher succeeds because it understands exactly what it is: a show about an impossibly large man who arrives in small towns, solves crimes, and beats people up.
Sophie Chen · 2024-08-30
HBO Industry follows a group of young graduates at Pierpoint, a fictional London investment bank, as they navigate the intersection of money, sex, class, and ambition.
Sophie Chen · 2024-08-29
Amazon Mr.
Alex Sterling · 2024-08-29
Netflix Baby Reindeer, created by and starring Richard Gadd, is based on the comedian real experience of being stalked and its connection to his own trauma as a sexual assault survivor.
Max Calloway · 2024-08-28
Netflix Ripley, an eight-episode adaptation of Patricia Highsmith 1955 novel, reimagines the story in stunning black-and-white cinematography that transforms 1960s Italy into a noir dreamscape.
Nina Vasquez · 2024-08-28
Disney+ Andor, created by Tony Gilroy, is the Star Wars project that Star Wars skeptics have been waiting for.
Ryan Okafor · 2024-08-27
Amazon Fallout, based on the beloved video game franchise, dropped on Prime Video in April 2024 and immediately proved that the post-Last of Us wave of game adaptations could sustain quality.
Ethan Park · 2024-08-27