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TV Shows
Sense8 | A celebration of human connectedness
Andrea Donini
Books
The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories
Alessia Sciannamblo
Movies
Rebecca | Alfred Hitchcock’s psychological thriller
Skye Kuppig
Books
Invisible Cities | A love poem to the city
Giulia Viganò
Movies
Ida | A journey to discover one’s own identity
Giorgio Reclama
Video Games
Cyberpunk 2077 | The next-generation narrative universe
Federica Gandolfo
TV Shows
Watchmen | A subversion of the superhero
Valeria Usala
Books
Mrs Dalloway | Time, death and longevity
Irene Rubino
TV Shows
Dark is an exception among TV shows
Valeria Usala
Comics
Persepolis | An intimate narration of war
Cristina Danini
Music
Bowie’s Low embodies a modern spirit
Vanessa Cammarota
Books
American Psycho | The darkest side of society
Giulia Viganò
TV Shows
The Undoing is not only a murder story
Andrea Donini
Movies
Captain Fantastic | Can a family thrive away from society?
Nadia Corvino
Music
Beyondless | Deconstructing punk music
Jacopo Soru
Books
Camere Separate | The search for a balanced existence
Alessia Sciannamblo
TV Shows
I Know This Much is True | A centrifuge of sadness
Valeria Usala
Comics
Dorohedoro characters mix dark fantasy and comedy
Giovanni Di Rienzo
TV Shows
Westworld | Free will is not free
Jordi Ferrer Torres
TV Shows
Neon Genesis Evangelion | The harsh relationship with the other
Giovanni Di Rienzo
Music
Achtung Baby | When U2 dreamt it all up again
Maria Chiara Pacifici
Movies
Victoria | One city, one night, one take
Giorgio Reclama
Music
Grace | A pure drop in an ocean of noise
Vanessa Cammarota
Poems
Ode to Psyche | John Keats’ tribute to the soul goddess
Sofia Fiorini
Books
The power of language in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Erica Bassani
Books
Luis Borges’ Fictions is a game of chance
Alessia Sciannamblo
Video Games
What Remains of Edith Finch
Samuele Morsia
Contemporary Art
Untitled provides for contemplation through everyday objects
Christine Bax
Art
The Majesty of Simone Martini in Siena
Valentina Manganaro
Books
Tiffany McDaniel’s The summer that melted everything
Alessia Sciannamblo
Movies
Mommy | An intimate portrait of the mother-son bond
Andrea Donini
Books
Love in the Time of Cholera marks the peak of the author’s ascendancy
Carmen De Nisi
Movies
Locke | The hero’s journey at the wheel
Andrea Donini
Books
Rayuela | Playing with the novel
Alessia Sciannamblo
Movies
Primary | An intimate portrait of J.F.K.
Skye Kuppig
Comics
The importance of stories in The Sandman
Gabriele Siciliano
Music
Welfare Jazz | A furious cacophony for country outlaws
Jacopo Soru
Books
Lolita | A character taking on a life of its own
Alessia Sciannamblo
TV Shows
Mad Men | The pursuit of happiness in American society
Valeria Usala
Books
One Hundred Years of Solitude | History in a family saga
Carmen De Nisi
Books
The Unbearable Lightness of Being exposes love’s dynamics
Erica Bassani
Movies
Gaslight | When the personal becomes political
Skye Kuppig
Art
Teatro Olimpico | Is the greatness of things merely an appearance?
Valentina Manganaro
Books
The Topeka School describes a polarized society
Alessia Sciannamblo
Books
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics | Beauty unfold
Nadia Corvino
Movies
Cat In The Wall | A critical look at the loss of tolerance
Skye Kuppig
Comics
The Neon Genesis Evangelion manga is an oedipal take on mecha
Irene Rubino
Contemporary Art
Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail to the Dark Lioness
Christine Bax
Comics
The Forbidden Harbor | A safe literary dock for lost humanity
Cristina Danini
Video Games
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter | Stories of a missing child
Samuele Morsia
Music
Polyhymnia | Muses and women celebration
Hypercritic Editorial Staff
Video Games
Hades | A game where you make progress by dying
Jordi Ferrer Torres
Comics
Berserk | The path of the Black Swordsman
Giovanni Di Rienzo
Music
West of Eden | Threnos for the western world’s end
Jacopo Soru
TV Shows
BoJack Horseman | A human journey
Federica Gandolfo
Art
The Portrait of Madame Isabel Styler-Tas shows Dalì’s method
Valentina Manganaro
Comics
How Watchmen Changed Comics Forever
Gabriele Siciliano
Music
The Downward Spiral tells about the fall of a man
Jacopo Soru
Books
The Burnout Society | Han against freedom
Francesco Merlino
Art
The Allegory of Good and Bad Government has a didactic aim
Valentina Manganaro
Movies
Mank | The Impression of a Man’s Life
Skye Kuppig
Art
Otto Dix’s Metropolis displays social and existential crisis
Valentina Manganaro
Art
Madonna of the Harpies | Between divinity and nature
Valentina Manganaro
Movies
The Candidate | American politics before the Watergate
Skye Kuppig
Art
The Pesaro Altarpiece and the painting within a painting
Valentina Manganaro
Movies
Midsommar | Ari Aster’s horror fairy tale
Skye Kuppig
Music
How Ride the Lightning helped establish the metal genre
Jacopo Soru
Art
Houses at Murnau | Simply and colorful inspirations
Valentina Manganaro
Books
Costretti a Sanguinare | A stream of consciousness in a punk world
Cristina Danini
Movies
Amour | An experience
Giorgio Reclama
Music
Lady Gaga | The Tenth Anniversary of Born This Way
Isabella Cagna
Books
Infinite Jest | David Foster Wallace’s maximalist novel
Andrea Migliorini
Comics
Nessun Rimorso about Genoa G8 | Comics and collective memory
Irene Rubino
Movies
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Skye Kuppig
Art
The Chapel of the Holy Shroud is a journey towards the light
Valentina Manganaro
Movies
The Lighthouse portrays the struggle of humanity
Skye Kuppig
Art
The Triumph of Death and its strong symbolism
Valentina Manganaro
Video Games
The immersive experience of Return of the Obra Dinn
Gabriele Siciliano
Movies
Mulholland Drive | All roads lead to Cinema
Davide Tiberga
Books
The Master and Margarita | Mikhail Bulgakov’s troubled novel
Alessia Sciannamblo
Books
Foe | The problem with speaking on behalf of another
Flavia Di Mauro
Movies
In the Mood for Love | Loneliness and expectation
Andrea Donini
Movies
Sound of Metal | A quest for stillness
Nadia Corvino
Music
Visions of Bodies Being Burned | Beyond the greatest horrors
Jacopo Soru
Books
Vita, Morte e Miracoli di Bonfiglio Liborio
Alessia Sciannamblo
Contemporary Art
The spontaneous discipline of Anne Imhof’s Faust
Christine Bax
Books
The Underground Railroad tells more than Black history
Alessia Sciannamblo
Books
A Visit From the Goon Squad is a symphony of voices
Alessia Sciannamblo
Music
Blurryface | A personification of insecurities
Isabella Cagna
TV Shows
The Leftovers | A symphony of grief
Federica Gandolfo
Books
Post Office is like life itself: a mean, dirty, boring spot
Alessia Sciannamblo
Video Games
Portal | Rethinking the FPS
Jordi Ferrer Torres
Music
The Lick On The Tip Of An Envelope Yet To Be Sent
Jacopo Soru
Movies
Arrival | A close encounter of the fifth kind
Giorgio Reclama
Music
Slanted & Enchanted | Cut up noises over the success
Jacopo Soru
Books
Pride and Prejudice | Where femininity builds masculinity
Matilde Castagnone
TV Shows
Lost | The first mainstream phenomenon on TV
Valeria Usala
Books
The Road explores climate crisis and alienation
Alessia Sciannamblo
TV Shows
Sharp Objects | A deep and dark humanity
Luisa Zhou
Art
The Raising of Lazarus shows Caravaggio’s innovations
Valentina Manganaro
Contemporary Art
Grosse fatigue | The Inexhaustible nature of knowledge
Veronica Schirru
Art
The Tête à Tête time in a Marriage A-la-Mode
Valentina Manganaro
Movies
Manchester by the Sea | An emotional study on grief
Iside Sparagio
Books
My Brilliant Friend has a unifying power
Alessia Sciannamblo
Books
Fahrenheit 451 transcends the boundaries of science fiction
Alessia Sciannamblo
Music
Atom Heart Mother is Pink Floyd’s weirdest experiment
Jacopo Soru
Books
The Broom of the System is like the pendulum of a clock
Hypercritic Editorial Staff
Books
Flatland | A world limited to two dimensions
Giulia Viganò
Poems
The Waste Land | A influences constellation in an ode to desolation
Agnese Mosconi
Sports
Rome 1960 | Running barefoot towards Eternal Glory
Hypercritic Editorial Staff
TV Shows
Unorthodox | Finding one own’s voice
Valeria Usala
Movies
I Am Not Your Negro | Witnessing American History
Skye Kuppig
Music
The Hawk is Howling | Electronic bliss, noisy violence
Jacopo Soru
Sports
1960 European Nations’ Cup | When politics defeated football
Matilde Castagnone
Sports
Montréal 1976 | Comăneci and the price of the perfect ten
Matilde Castagnone
Books
Altri Libertini feels like a punch in the stomach
Alessia Sciannamblo
Books
Journey to the End of the Night | Wandering in an unsettled life
Cristina Danini
Music
Blues for The Red Sun | Where Psychedelia meets the Desert
Jacopo Soru
Poems
Oxygen in my tents | Amelia Rosselli’s side of the story
Sofia Fiorini
Books
The House of the Spirits | From a letter to Magical feminism
Carmen De Nisi
TV Shows
Unbelievable | A story of injustice
Valeria Usala
Books
The Handmaid’s Tale | Nolite te bastardes carborundorum is a cry of power
Carmen De Nisi
Art
The Chamber of the Abbess | The impossible art reproduction
Valentina Manganaro
Books
As I Lay Dying | A revolutionary literary style
Andrea Migliorini
Music
The Eminem Show | Where rap meets rock
Maria Chiara Pacifici
Books
Between the World and Me | Opening a third way to fight
Alessia Sciannamblo
Movies
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night is a love story
Skye Kuppig
TV Shows
Chernobyl | What history can teach
Valeria Usala
Art
Joseph the Carpenter shows de la Tour’s mise-en-scene
Valentina Manganaro
TV Shows
The Man in the High Castle | “What have might been”
Sara Erriu
Movies
The Man Standing Next | Shakespearean Tragedy in 70s Korea
Skye Kuppig
Music
There Existed An Addiction To Blood | Between cinema and human nature
Jacopo Soru
Music
(What’s The Story) Morning Glory? | Britpop’s finest
Maria Chiara Pacifici
Art
Doré and the horror vacui in Dante’s Divine Comedy
Valentina Manganaro
Comics
The revolutionary power of The Invisibles by Grant Morrison
Gabriele Siciliano
Video Games
NieR: Automata | Existence reimagined
Irene Rubino
Art
Saint Jerome in his study | A new humanist iconography
Valentina Manganaro
Books
Underworld | A dual conception of history
Alessia Sciannamblo
Movies
Throne of Blood | Translating Shakespeare into Film
Davide Tiberga
Books
The New York Trilogy is a brilliant philosophical adventure
Erica Bassani
