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                   Will A$AP Rocky ever release another full-length album again? Despite
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                    his insistence to the contrary
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                   , the odds of that seem longer with every passing day. But while it would be
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                    a travesty
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                   if the guy who made
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                    Live.Love.A$AP
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                   and
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                    At.Long.Last.A$AP
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                   never dropped another project, at least the next phase of Rocky’s stardom is shaping up to be just as compelling as his music career. If there was any doubt about his acting chops,
                   <em>
                    Highest 2 Lowest
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                   makes it clear: A$AP Rocky is pretty fucking good at acting.
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                   Our esteemed Cannes correspondent Iana Murray said as much
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                    back in May
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                   , but now that the movie is out for the masses to see, it’s worth screaming even louder. In an era where Denzel is effortlessly rinsing any given scene partner even more noticeably than before, it’s a thrill to see Rocky not only hold his own, but quite literally go bar for bar with the GOAT in what’s easily
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                    Highest’s
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                   best scene. In fact, one of the immediate takeaways for me, at least after first watch, is that Lee’s film would probably be better if we saw a bit more of Rocky, and earlier. As it stands, he’s a welcome jolt of energy, intrigue and tension—a villain all too game to lean into being the bad guy and blame “society” for pushing him.
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                   It’d be easy to write the role off as Rocky essentially “playing himself”—easy, and also obtuse. As the so-cringe-it’s-hilarious-ly named Yung Felon, a rapper who matches wits with Denzel’s aging record exec, he embodies Denzel’s character’s (and, by extension, Spike Lee’s) anxieties about what contemporary rap has curdled into: an attention economy populated with crashouts desperate to get on by any means, with music quality as a distant second priority. In effect, Rocky’s tapping into the generation that arose six or seven years
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                    after
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                   he blew up, the YNs fixated on gatekeepers like Akademiks and SayCheese. The video that catapulted Rocky into stardom, “Purple Swag”—featuring Rocky rapping about lean while a bottom-grilled white girl mouths the lyrics—seems almost quaint, not to mention much more artful, by comparison.
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                   Yung Felon’s reality and mindset are obviously far away from Rocky’s current status (dining with every fashion legend and waiting on his third child with Rihanna) but it’s just as far removed from his own early-10s rise. But under Spike’s direction, he acquits himself well. This shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise. From the summer of 2011, when he first blew up, Rocky has always presented himself with a certain assuredness, and I-belong-here bravado that isn’t always there for every artist, even the hitmakers. That’s not to say that he came into the game playing a character, just that he always exuded a specific kind of cool that felt transmutable to the big screen. There’s a reason Lana Del Rey cast him as JFK in her classic “National Anthem” video the following summer; there’s an Old Hollywood star wattage to him that just feels inherent.
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                   Rocky and his team made their first foray into actually testing those waters early on, with a small but fun role in the underrated 2013 coming-of-age dramedy
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                    Dope
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                   , where he played a ball-busting drug dealer. His only other notable part was playing another hustler opposite Kelvin Harrison Jr in Netflix’s
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                    Monster
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                   , which I admittedly have not seen. But even with a light filmography, one could argue Rocky continued to flex that muscle by making some of the hardest, most cinematic music videos out. Remember “Everyday?!”
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                   Loquacious dope slinger, beguiling aspiring rapper—these aren’t huge stretches, one might fairly argue. That’s why his next role in Mary Bronstein’s
                   <em>
                    If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
                   </em>
                   , opposite Rose Byrne, is where things can get really interesting. It’s hard to pin the part down from
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                    the trailer
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                   , but it looks like Rocky’s exploring somewhat unfamiliar waters as an actor without fully damping down his trademark charm. In Bronstein’s film and in what he does after, we’ll really get to see the limits—or scope—of A$AP Rocky’s range and abilities. And maybe his seriousness, too. As he shifts even further into Dad Mode and continues learning the bad habits of music sabbaticals from Rihanna, we might see a full pivot into Hollywood from Pretty Flacko. And just like he does in
                   <em>
                    Highest 2 Lowest
                   </em>
                   , he might just give the game an injection of energy that we didn’t realize was missing.
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                   Favorite Hitchcock, and a strong contender for my favorite movie of all time, and as such, when I see a screening is playing at a strong contender for my all-time favorite theater on an afternoon I just happen to have free, there’s no question that I’m sliding. Settling into a perfect middle row middle seat amidst a blissfully half-empty crowd, I remembered I had already watched this movie in this famed historic LA theater almost a year ago to the day. And I’ll probably be back the next time they show it.
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                    Mariah the Scientist,
                   </strong>
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                     Hearts Sold Separately
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                  <p style="margin:0;margin-bottom:16px">
                   Mariah held an intimate studio listening session for her upcoming album that I slid to, making this the first Mariah the Scientist project I’ve sat with top to bottom, and you know what? It’s pretty fire. Ms. Scientist has always been a kind of classic R&amp;B vanguard and it feels like she’s starting to fully master her powers; the first half of the album especially manages to sound contemporary but also like it could’ve easily dropped in the late ’90s, in the best way. (That much is evident in the overall response to the first two singles, which I’m pretty sure are her highest
                   <em>
                    Billboard
                   </em>
                   -charting songs to date.) Maybe it’s because you can feel Mariah’s candor and around-the-way realness in the music, which she writes herself. At one point, I cringed when a writer next to me asked a pretty blatant question about the status of Mariah’s relationship with Young Thug—which, to be fair, she kind of invited when she FaceTimed him in front of us earlier to remind him to feed their cat—but Mariah didn’t blink and instead went into a refreshingly funny screed about how dating is exhausting and working through problems with someone you love is sometimes the bolder option than leaving, but rest assured that sometimes she feels just as foolish as her loudest haters like to say she is. I’m pulling for her in all regards.
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                   <strong>
                    Chance the Rapper,
                   </strong>
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                    </em>
                   </strong>
                  </p>
                  <p style="margin:0;margin-bottom:16px">
                   Confession: I was never a Chance guy.
                   <em>
                    Acid Rap
                   </em>
                   is objectively good, but to me it always felt like I was listening to Arthur pushing
                   <a style="text-decoration: underline; color: #000000;">
                    optimistic PBS raps
                   </a>
                   ; I was never fully onboard with all the rhetoric crowning him rap’s next Great Hope, even when the wave crested with
                   <em>
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                   </em>
                   . To me, it was less shocking that the
                   <a style="text-decoration: underline; color: #000000;">
                    <em>
                     I Love My Wife
                    </em>
                   </a>
                   album was bad and more surprising that people actually admitted as much.
                   <em>
                    Star Line
                   </em>
                   is at least interesting in the ways it charts him grappling with a) no longer being a Wife Guy but still a dad and b) no longer a rap A-lister. I really dug the first three songs, got more ambivalent as it went on, got distracted around track 10, and have yet to revisit at press time. I have no real positive or negative feelings toward this—if you like it, I love it.
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                  <p style="margin:0;margin-bottom:16px">
                   <strong>
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                    </em>
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                  <p style="margin:0;margin-bottom:16px">
                   It might be because of all the chatter around the woefully misguided Ice Cube remake that I’ll never waste one precious second of my life watching, or that I’ve been thinking about aughts Tom Cruise lately and dying to rewatch
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                   </em>
                   (another immediate entry into Summer Man’s All-Time Top 10). But for whatever reason, this movie was on my mind so I impulsively threw it on. It’s still the lesser of the Spielberg-Cruise link-ups by about one-and-a-half Letterboxd stars thanks to thin dialog, thinner story and an all-time Trash Teen Trope but when people talk about “definitive 9/11 cinema” I feel like this isn’t brought up enough—the mob attacking the Cruise family van and the subsequent ferry sequence are chilling, and hit every time. Big Steve is luxuriating in panic and dread without any of the awe that he usually undercuts it with; it might be some of his most nihilistic work. (To think,
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                   </em>
                   came later this same year—my dog was
                   <em>
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                   </em>
                   .) It’s also so rare to see Cruise playing someone totally inept; there’s a lot of cliché deadbeat shtick here, but
                   <a style="text-decoration: underline; color: #000000;">
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                   </a>
                   always makes me laugh.
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                   <strong>
                    Babyface Ray,
                   </strong>
                   <strong>
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                     Codeine Cowboy
                    </em>
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                  <p style="margin:0;margin-bottom:16px">
                   I was overzealous and overreaching calling Ray rap’s next star in last year’s
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                   (stay tuned for a 2025 edition, coming soon to debate on a Twitter timeline near you) but I’ll take the charge because Ray is just
                   <a style="text-decoration: underline; color: #000000;">
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                   and I’ll always recommend him. It’s hard to explain what makes his laconic Detroit drawl so compelling, but when he’s locked in, it’s irresistible. Some of his projects miss the mark, but his latest album
                   <em>
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                   Like everyone else,
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                   has sent me back to rewatch the film that started CreggerMania. (If you haven’t done so, catch it on Netflix before it leaves at the end of the month.) Nothing will ever beat going into a press screening for this completely ice cold, but it holds up pretty well and honestly, while
                   <em>
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                   </em>
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                   <em>
                    Weapons
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                   ’
                   <em>
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                   -style plotting aside,
                   <em>
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                   </em>
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                  <p style="margin:0;margin-bottom:16px">
                   Finished this rewatch and the twist was as stupid as I’d remembered—and just as I suspected, it also ultimately doesn’t take away from how entertaining this is. If there’s one note, it’s that things actually get too bleak towards the end; slashers are at their best when they’re at least a little fun. But either way: someone somewhere needs to try to run a similar play again. Bring back the horror miniseries!
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                   <em>
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                   I finally closed it out the other day and I agree
                   <a style="text-decoration: underline; color: #000000;">
                    with Esther
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                   : this should’ve been the end. I don’t know how we fell so far from season 2, but for every delight like the Ayo-Janicza Bravo episode or charmingly precious moments like everyone getting under the table at the wedding, a lot of the emotional beats and arcs here just feel overwrought and tiresome. That reached a crescendo in the finale, particularly during the Ayo &amp; Jeremy-only sequence, which made me roll my eyes a whole lot until Ebon came and carried. I’ll watch season 5, but I won’t be happy about it.
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