Reviews

As I muscled through The Foundation, the first substantial campaign expansion to 2019’s best shooter, Control, my mind shuffled through a list of all the other things I could be...

There’s always satisfaction in watching abhorrent characters get their due, but the journey leading to their comeuppance is crucial — it makes any catharsis more satisfying, but it also provides...

Tales from the Loop, a new streaming series on Amazon Prime, is based on an annotated collection of art by Simon Stålenhag. The illustrator’s images, many of which went viral...

The ability to make someone laugh out loud is rare. Uncorked, now on Netflix, made me laugh out loud three or four times. The film, directed and written by Prentice...

It’s not often that I find myself wanting to replay a game that is likely to take me over 100 hours to complete. I love Japanese role-playing games, but they’re...

Resident Evil 3 is haunted by the gargantuan expectations of quality established by its predecessor, the groundbreaking Resident Evil 2. That is as true for this year’s remake as it...

The amount of material in the new Netflix documentary Crip Camp — titled after the nickname given to Camp Jened, a summer camp for disabled teenagers — could easily have...

The set-up for the science-fiction thriller Vivarium seems ripe for allegory. A young couple, trapped in an endless suburbia are forced to care for a child, fall into monotonous routines....

Explorer’s Guide to Wildemount formally brings the Critical Role universe into the pantheon of Dungeons & Dragons, and it’s filled with Easter eggs for fans of the “actual play” show....

Have you ever noticed how cop procedurals will signal that a messy-haired teenager is a real loner type by showing him playing a video game, sitting in a dark bedroom...