Reviews

Smart-bomb metal and high jinx from Sweden's latest kick-ass export

Second album since the 2000 reunion, and first on Mike Scott's own label

First new album in 12 years from post-punk legends

Glorious fifth album proper from ever-shifting Bostonians reaches down through the years

Twenty-eight-track compilation of Utah saints' greatest hits, with sleevenotes by Alan Osmond

Filtered French house par excellence

Classic ghost story from Ring writer and director

Stylish slice of sub-John Woo heroic bloodshed

Ling (Samuel Hui) and his tomboy sister are charged with keeping a sacred scroll from the clutches of their self-serving Sifu and the scarier-than-they-sound Royal Eunuchs. With multiple directors and more characters than it can handle, the cracks show, but the swordplay and comedic touch proved popular enough to spawn two sequels.

Abel Ferrara made these almost simultaneously in '95, and they're especially intense even for him. The more successfully operatic first (Chris Walken, Chris Penn, Vincent Gallo) follows a family of '30s gangsters on a revenge mission; the second's a gory monochrome vampire flick starring Lili Taylor (and Walken again). Nietzschean, neurotic.