Reviews

With a handful of exceptions, nearly every episode of Scavengers Reign opens the same way: a close-up shot of some bizarre creature skittering across the surface of an alien world;...

To see a smartphone nestled in Hercule Poirot’s well-manicured hands was only a matter of time. Agatha Christie’s most famous detective has always been a modern man, fixated on modern...

Since its debut in 2020, Heroes’ Feast: The Official Dungeons & Dragons Cookbook has earned quite a reputation — both at the New York Times, where it ranks among the...

The second level of Super Mario Bros. Wonder is a musical. Or, to be precise, it can be a musical. Whether or not the universe breaks into song depends on...

When Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, and screenwriter Eric Roth first set about adapting David Grann’s penetrating nonfiction book Killers of the Flower Moon, about the wholesale murder of the oil-rich...

This review of The Beast comes from the film’s screenings at the 2023 New York Film Festival. On paper, the premise of Bertrand Bonello’s new science fiction movie La Bête,...

It’s rare to see a movie that challenges basic ideas about how films are made or what they should look like. It’s even rarer to see a movie in that...

“Those slavering jaws; the lolling tongue; the rime of saliva on the grizzled chops.” This is Angela Carter, not on Venom, but on the wolf from “Little Red Riding Hood”...

It’s pretty wild to consider the ground the Total War franchise has managed to cover since its inception. With the introduction of the fantasy-focused Warhammer trilogy, and the theatrical Three...

Throughout historical periods of exploration, naturalists assembled cabinets of curiosities. These explorers amassed an amalgamation of biological artifacts — like shells, preserved bugs, and stuffed birds — along with other...