music
Fabulous beast
Marianne Faithfull, 1946-2025
Stephen Troussé
films
The Brutalist
There’s something of Scott Walker’s madly ostentatious Europhilia to the film, his insistence that the pop song could be a church broad enough to welcome Bergman, Stockhausen, Brel and Pasolini.
films
A Complete Unknown
There is lightning in many of the performances, but as a film A Complete Unknown never goes fully electric.
films
A Real Pain
Eisenberg's script is brought to life by an electric performance from Kieran Culkin, who adds depth to his own actorly niche as the charming, hyperactive and exhaustingly chaotic Benji.
films
Nickel Boys
Adaptation feels too tame a word for what Ross is up to in this astonishing film. What he accomplishes here is on the level of the magic that Charlie Parker worked on the 12-bar blues
films
LA CHIMERA
Alice Rohrwacher's Orpheus in the Tuscan underworld
music
Farewell little fireball
Ronnie Spector, 1943-2022
films
Suede: the insatiable ones
The mundane reality of addiction, it turns out, is not Byronic wraiths in Ghormenghast mansions but a pie-eyed Anderson plonking atonally on a cheap synth, vainly trying to compose Head Music.