Movie Review: Nadav Lapid’s Synonyms is a Synonym for Pointlessness

If I had to choose one word to summarize Nadav Lapid’s French/Israeli immigrant drama Synonyms, it would be “inexplicable.” It’s a film inexplicable in its creative decisions, inexplicable in its narrative wanderings, and inexplicable in its critical popularity. This was…

The Young Folks’ Top 50 Video Games of the 2010s

Video Games have had their best decade in the history of the medium. It is a chapter that we’ll probably find ourselves revisiting over time, and it is one that we all have a long back catalogue of. Games are…

The Young Folks’ Top 50 Films of the 2010s

Even with 50 entries ahead of us, our Best Films of the Decade list was a herculean task to take on for our writers, as it was hard to limit ourselves. Each and every year has had its share of…

Marriage Story Review: A love and divorce story for the ages

Love, consequences, and the custody battles therein collide in Marriage Story, the 13th film from director and writer Noah Baumbach. Like his 2017 comedy-drama The Meyerowitz Stories, Marriage Story is a Netflix-distributed film, and it’s even more heartwarming, witty, and…

The Young Folks’ Top 50 Albums of the 2010s

In a decade that saw the rise of streaming, the album came out of the 2010s alive and well. The LP rose again, dwarfing the dying compact disc by the end of the decade, and some of the biggest artists…

Book Review: Mooncakes by Suzanne Walker and Wendy Xu

Mooncakes by Suzanne Walker and Wendy Xu is one of the best graphic novels I’ve had the pleasure of reading, living up to all my expectations as  of the most anticipated reads of 2019. Gorgeously illustrated and written, Mooncakes is a…

Movie Review: ‘The Kill Team’ reveals the unexpected horrors of war crimes. But also why they happen at all.

Many who see The Kill Team will have never served a day in the US military, and even fewer will have found themselves in direct combat. Many of us have no idea how to properly cope with the traumas and…