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I can’t exactly recall when I watched my last movie on VHS, but the cassette tape once defined my childhood. For kids of the 1980s and 1990s, videotapes were currency—expensive objects that you treasured, rewound, and wore out.

Ari Aster’s new film reminds us that there’s something actually worse than the present.

Love is a dog from class-war Hell in Celine Song’s charming follow-up to Past Lives.

No album has so consistently tried to kill me as much as Sufjan Stevens’s 2015 Carrie and Lowell.

The film Heretic offers a very rare exploration into faith and morality, even though it’s a gruesome horror movie.

The French philosopher Simone Weil once said that “the beauty of the world is like the mouth of […]