"Criticism" Blogs & Blog Posts

It's no secret that I like weird, creative social media accounts, especially ones that stick to a gimmick. One of the strangest ones I've uncovered recently has been Breaking Frames, an automated account that posts one frame from Breaking Bad, El Cam...

Twitter owner Elon Musk muting accounts that annoy him is nothing new. Musk removed the Twitter account @elonjet that posted the billionaire's flight data publicly, which seemed like an apolitical, if childish, move to combat criticism against him. L...

In 1961, Serbia was set to build a museum in Belgrade, an institution whose purpose was "to safeguard the truth about us." The never-completed Museum of the Revolution only got as far as the basement, and what was once meant as a tribute to Socialist...

Pro-Trump Stop The Steal organizer Ali Alexander, who was accused of soliciting nude photos from at least two teenage boys, has denied anything “unlawful” in a statement straight out of 2007. “This is too gay,” Alexander said on Telegram.Read...

There's a number of strangely placed elements in Chupa, Netflix's latest sci-fi kids' adventure. Least of those issues is the film's title, which, in Spanish slang, can mean fellatio. Hardly the association a children's film that crimps this hard fro...

Ed Sheeran is effectively critic-proof. He’s a superstar whose albums tend to receive middling reviews that have seemingly zero impact on their commercial performance. He is the kind of performer who has a rather lukewarm Metacritic score of 62 (on...

Loretta McLaughlin (Keira Knightley) has it rough. She's a woman journalist in the early 1960s, in smoke-filled rooms with clattering keyboards, where her gender covers the fluffier topics like lifestyle and fashion. In Matt Ruskin's Boston Strangler...