Reviews

Netflix’s bleak, cynical anthology series Black Mirror suggests that humanity is awful: its stories largely explore the ways human nature corrupts technology that was supposed to make our lives better....

A Parks and Recreation Special, premiering Thursday night on NBC and streamable as of Friday on Hulu and other services, opens on Paul Rudd’s bumbling character Bobby Newport, heir to...

As the title implies, the Netflix thriller Dangerous Lies has a lot of twists and turns, but perhaps the most startling thing about it is that it briefly stars Elliott...

Chris Hemsworth’s best roles to date have tapped into his charm. His turn as a handsome but clueless assistant in the Ghostbusters reboot was a revelation, and Thor: Ragnarok wisely...

Gears of War games are at their best when players are pushing forward, chewing through the Locust horde with chainsaw bayonets. The same is true for Gears Tactics, the franchise’s...

An oft-ridiculed comment on jazz is that it’s all about the notes you don’t hear. Perfect setup for a joke, sure, but there’s truth to it. “Jazzing up” a song...

Firaxis Games’ XCOM: Enemy Unknown, first released in 2012, was a stroke of genius. It successfully reinvented the classic turn-based gameplay of the 1994 original for a modern audience, merging...

llya Khrzhanovsky’s Dau was originally set to film for seven weeks back in 2006. The cinematic behemoth was meant to unfold in a living, breathing three-acre recreation of postwar Moscow,...

There has never been a better time to dive into the Xbox ecosystem with the Xbox One or Xbox One X consoles. Microsoft may not be leading the pack in...

The premise of Too Hot to Handle, the latest offering in Netflix’s new slate of reality programming, is too bonkers to not be appealing. Ten hot young singles head to...