reviews

Al Di Meola Faced the Rain at Ottawa Jazz Fest

Confederation Park Stage, June 26

PUBLISHED Jun 27, 2024

It was the wrong day to forsake the tented OLG stage (see you another time Commotions) for Confederation Park's open-air setup: it poured ...

Hiatus Kaiyote's 'Love Heart Cheat Code' Is the Future Soul JavaScript

PUBLISHED Jun 27, 2024

I don't know how much 'Love Heart Cheat Code' — the fourth studio album from Australian quartet Hiatus Kaiyote — is actually meant to take ...

'Brats' Can't Let Go of the Past

Directed by Andrew McCarthy

PUBLISHED Jun 26, 2024

In 1985, New York Magazine journalist David Blum wrote an article about a group of young emerging actors in Hollywood. At the time, Blum...

Mabe Fratti Has More Questions Than Answers on 'Sentir que no sabes'

PUBLISHED Jun 26, 2024

Mabe Fratti would make a good Oracle. In thinking of a tidy aesthetic phylum to classify the Guatemalan cellist, singer and composer's work...

Jamboree Mourn the Salad Days on 'Summerland'

PUBLISHED Jun 26, 2024

It rises from the prairie landscape as a defiant obelisk. Two sixteen-story towers joined together by an all-embracing tropical atrium ...

Islands Sail into the Sunset on 'What Occurs'

PUBLISHED Jun 26, 2024

There's a sense of finality floating on the sun-warmed waters of 'What Occurs,' the tenth album by Islands, the near two-decade-old ...

Yorgos Lanthimos's 'Kinds of Kindness' Is a Poor Thing

Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos

PUBLISHED Jun 26, 2024

There's never a dull moment in the cinematic mind of Yorgos Lanthimos — but that doesn't always result in decipherable work. A modern fable...

ML Buch Dissolved Membranes and Charged Molecules in Toronto

Longboat Hall, June 25

PUBLISHED Jun 26, 2024

ML Buch is a rock star. The Danish composer, producer and songwriter's Tuesday night performance at Longboat Hall — her second-ever ...