The follow-up EP to the band’s ‘Swing Lo Magellan’ offers a bite-size take on that album’s sound
Reviews
A Late Quartet: Harmonic Divergence Starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Christopher Walken and Catherine Keener
Things get ugly when one member (Walken) of a renowned string quartet gets sick and another (Hoffman) gets tired of playing second fiddle
Denzel Washington in Flight: A High Time or a Crash Landing?
Come for the great imperiled-plane scene, stay for a taut, surprising drama from director Robert Zemeckis
Wreck-It Ralph: Toy Story with Avatars
In the most inventive family movie of the year, a bad guy longs to be good even though Pac-Man’s Pokey tells him it’s good to be bad
The Liberator: A User’s Guide to Hell
Alex Kershaw’s WWII history chronicles the torturous slog of an American infantry division — led by legendary commander Felix Sparks — from Italy in 1943 into the heart of Germany just before VE Day
Swedish House Mafia Pushes Electronic Dance Music to the Max on Until Now
The genre pioneers bring unbounded energy to their latest album
Chasing Mavericks: Looking For That Big Break
A convincing Gerard Butler and fresh-faced Jonny Weston team up for the story of how young surfer Jay Moriarity tackled the big waves at Mavericks for the first time
Cloud Atlas: The Wachowskis Struggle in the Stratosphere
Andy and Lana team with Tom Tykwer on a wildly ambitious, oddly earthbound adaptation of the David Mitchell novel
Taylor Swift’s Red is Danceable, Dreamy—and Mature
The country star succeeds with pop aspirations on her new album
Brooklyn Castle: The Cool Kids Play Chess
The teenaged members of the chess team at New York City’s Intermediate 318 are the Yankees of chess. They’ve won 26 national chess titles—more than any other school in the country, which is an especially impressive feat
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Holy Motors: Leos Carax Flirts with a Cinematic Masterpiece
This vaudeville of film history is the year’s moviest movie
Phish’s Trey Anastasio Ventures Into Indie Rock with Traveler
The jam-centric musician is cool, if not cohesive, on his new album
Alex Cross: Freed from Madea, Tyler Perry Is Still No Morgan Freeman
The gravitas Freeman brought to James Patterson’s sadistically inclined crime stories more than a decade ago is sorely missed in director Rob Cohen’s attempt to reboot the series