Contributor: Adam R. Holz

Vulgarity—visual and verbal—runs rampant in this buddy cop reboot that’s ostensibly about law and order.

Drake’s self-described “playlist” unloads 22 tracks that meander from melancholy insight to profanity-drenched braggadocio.

The first big hit from this alternative band that’s not from Portugal proffers a fuzzily vague political perspective.

The Sense of an Ending is both a quiet cautionary tale and a narrative about an aging man trying to deal with his unfinished emotional business.

Table 19 delivers an unexpectedly sweet ending by the time the credits role. Less sweet, however, is this PG-13 film’s frequent profanity and sexual innuendo, as well as winks at marijuana use.

British superstar Ed Sheeran’s latest features a lot of sweetness and sentimentality … when he’s not doing shots and hooking up, that is.

Lorde’s latest hit finds the young New Zealand singer trying to navigate her wildly disorienting emotions after a heartbreak.

British superstar Ed Sheeran’s latest features a lot of sweetness and sentimentality … when he’s not doing shots and hooking up, that is.

Rock Dog is a movie that is at times mildly charming (if predictable and formulaic) but more often just kind of … odd.

Little Big Town’s eighth studio effort focuses more what it takes to be whole than it does being broken.

Alt-pop chanteuse Lana Del Rey’s latest is as earnest and wonder-filled as her last album was grim and nihilistic.

What begins as taut, suspenseful thriller descends into horror story that’s as lurid as it is absurd.

Linkin Park is joined by Kiiara on this surprisingly subdued song about the struggle to relinquish anxiety.

Selena’s collaboration with Norwegian EDM DJ Kygo yields a song about a woman who’s decided she’s had enough of a toxic romance.

A tiny bit more restraint could have made this a movie we’d wholeheartedly recommend. As it is, it’s pretty good, but not perfect; heroic, but a bit edgy. Kind of like Batman himself.