Reviews

The Expendables movies were always a list of names before they were anything else. Stallone. Statham. Li. Snipes. Schwarzenegger. Willis. The pileup of those names is why anyone goes to...

Netflix’s new Spy Kids movie bears the burden of a million expectations. Robert Rodriguez’s 2001 original was iconic. He built a children’s movie around exactly what he knew kids wanted...

Payday 3 is bare-bones at launch, but I still can’t stop playing it. As I perfect my heisting strategies and flesh out my character build, I can’t shake the feeling...

At $79.99 per set, Nintendo’s Joy-Cons for the Switch aren’t cheap to replace. And if you, like many Switch owners, have purchased more Joy-Cons than you thought you would due...

Phantom Liberty is Cyberpunk 2077’s final shot to get it right. Following a much-publicized launch back in 2020 that was marred by significant bugs and the conspicuous absence of several...

Home invasion films tap into an almost universal fear. From Fred Walton’s When a Stranger Calls to 2008’s The Strangers, the highs of the genre prey on the anxiety that...

Actor-director Kenneth Branagh is clearly having the best time with his Hercule Poirot movies. The latest, A Haunting in Venice, marks Branagh and screenwriter Michael Green’s third take on Agatha...

Palia is an adorable and cozy life simulator MMO that generates endless amounts of serotonin and dopamine in my brain. It’s also a clear work in progress from developer Singularity...

This review of Next Goal Wins comes from the film’s premiere at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival. The film will be released in November. Sports dramas are a surefire...

The Pod Generation is an aesthetic in search of an idea. Sophie Barthes’ low-key sci-fi movie about future fads in pregnancy and birth is impeccably designed and shot, with set...