Reviews

It takes a lot of moving parts to make a movie’s action work. The choreography, camera placement, and editing all have to be in sync, and you need people who...

At the beginning of the year, when we brainstormed our most anticipated movies of 2023, there was one clear winner: Everyone at Polygon was feverishly awaiting Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse....

Learning a fighting game can be like learning how to play an instrument. You need to appreciate the basics first: how to hold it, where to lay your fingers, and...

Stephen King devoted more than 4,000 pages to detailing the fantasy world of The Dark Tower, and yet by the end of Roland Deschain’s journey to the tower, there was...

In the tired village of Yelesna, a man named Denysov hammers away at a studded wooden barrier flanked by a pair of stakes. “Been working on this door for days,”...

In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war. The Emperor’s finest, the transhuman Space Marines, are the bulwark defending humanity from the malevolent forces of Chaos....

Unlike its esteemed counterpart from Lucasfilm, Star Trek’s history with video games isn’t exactly stellar. There are licensed Star Trek video games going back 50 years, but there’s never been...

This review of Asteroid City comes from the movie’s premiere screening at the Cannes Film Festival. Expect more on the movie as we get closer to the film’s theatrical opening...

Ron Shelton’s 1992 comedy White Men Can’t Jump is a stone-cold classic. It’s got three movie stars — Wesley Snipes, Rosie Perez, and Woody Harrelson — at the top of...

This review of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny comes from the movie’s premiere screening at the Cannes Film Festival. Expect more on the movie as we get closer...