Blogcritics

Yokai: The Art of Shigeru Mizuki from Drawn and Quarterly is a tome showing not just Mizuki’s exceptional artwork but also some of the most fascinating yokai in all of Japan. Mizuki based much of his career on yokai, creating manga on his half-yokai Kitaro character

Multihyphenate Viggo Mortensen wears a lot of hats in his stately Western, The Dead Don’t Hurt. Not only does Mortensen star, but he also wrote the screenplay, directed the film, and even composed the score (he pulled off the same feat in his directorial debut, Falling, in 2020). The look of the film is beautiful, with locations in Canada and Mexico standing in for the American

Reviews: Southside Johnny live on CD & DVD, Lucinda Williams sings the Beatles, Lightnin' Hopkins anthologies, & jazz guitarist Emily Remler.

'The Spirit of the Samurai' is hampered by some sticky gameplay but the visuals, story, sound design and amazing stop-motion animation shine.

The Soul Eater tells the story of the tragic consequences that can happen when an entire community goes mad.

Ryan Barton-Grimley’s Listen Carefully is intended to draw its tension from a familiar scenario: a man’s baby girl is kidnapped and held for ransom, and he must pay $250,000 for her safe return. The mixed bag plot execution makes at all rather confusing, however.

A Rolling Stones concert album features rarely played material. Plus, reviews of CDs from Sun Ra, Christopher Cross, and B.B. King.

'Mrs. Stern Wanders the Prussian State Library' envisions what might have taken place when Hannah Arendt was imprisoned in Berlin in 1933.

With all its high-tech spectacle and stagecraft, 'Suppose Beautiful Madeline Harvey,' Richard Foreman's first new work in a decade, revels in the retro.

The music was polished, the atmosphere cheery and informal at this year’s edition of New York Festival of Song’s (NYFoS) “A Goyishe Christmas to You!” A cabaret-like sequence of holiday songs written by Jewish composers, the show ranged from the purely comical (“ Can I Interest You in Hanukkah?