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CRITIC-AT-LARGE: Carly Rae Jepsen: Day and Night (opens the original)
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Pop’s reigning princess returns with an inspired double album Sometimes the marketing copy gets it exactly right. “Carly Rae Jepsen’s pristine, prismatic pop has long been the blissful soundtrack for first kisses and swirling romances...”—so goes the Canadian singer’s Spotify bio. Pristine, prismatic pop—well, that’s absolutely it. (I guess somebody will hire the English majors after all!) But around the time of the release of her third album, Emotion, a number of critics made a significant mist
Phoebe Bridgers: Lost Weekend (opens the original)
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An extremely moving, deeply impressive work of musical design from one of our most important living songwriters “Crying in a suit and tie / But you should see the other guy / One more time for old time’s sake / I’ll watch him get carried away.” There’s the formal attire, then the dad joke, then the adage; by the fourth line, we know we’re at the funeral. Gentle synths drone far back in the mix, a quiet needle drop sounds as though underwater or in slow motion; the vocal comes in, through an inte
Critic-at-Large: Charli xcx shows no signs of stopping (opens the original)
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As I wrote earlier this year, Charli xcx has known for a while now that she needs to escape out from under the towering legacy of her 2024 opus brat. She’d been an important left-of-field pop star since at least 2017’s mixtape Pop 2, but brat was bigger than anyone could’ve anticipated. One of the more lucid pleasures of my life—and for music kids like myself—was rolling to Charli deep cuts like “Track 10” in a field full of strangers at 2025’s Laneway. For me—for us!—it signalled something amaz
Critic-at-large: Heartstopper Forever, Daughter From Hell (opens the original)
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Heartstopper’s film finale is so shaky it risks toppling the show that preceded it In Heartstopper Forever, the feature-length film that closes out the eponymous TV series, things have changed. Once-bullied gay kid Charlie Spring is running for Head Boy, and, on the high of his emotional campaign speech, he clinches it. Now, it’s his gorgeous and popular jock boyfriend, Nick Nelson, who, nearing the end of his high school career, is staring down the barrel of loneliness and uncertainty. It’s a c
Critic-at-Large - Issue 15 (opens the original)
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The Invite is one of this year’s best (and funniest) films Nobody in this damned country remembers Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, one of the last century’s nastiest and most nastily brilliant playscripts. An eviscerating document of a marriage falling apart at one epic dinner party in which nobody is allowed to leave (much less consume food), it's the closest literary antecedent to the latest Olivia Wilde film The Invite. What I didn’t quite expect from The Invite, then, was its
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