Reviews

For three seasons now, Netflix’s You has made a hobby of flirting with bad taste. The show follows Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley), an erudite bookseller with an unfortunate habit of...

The 2021 anime film Sword Art Online Progressive: Aria of a Starless Night is a master class in the art of crafting an original story out of familiar material while...

The magical school of witchcraft and wizardry is finally opening its doors in Hogwarts Legacy. We go over gameplay, immersion, overall experience and more in our spoiler free review for...

Like Taylor Swift, Shakespeare had a lot to say about reputation. In Othello, when the noble Cassio mourns the tarnishing of his reputation, which he identifies as “the immortal part...

Take it from someone who knows: Interracial relationships in America are almost always weird in ways that are hard to plan for. Regardless of how well-meaning a person can be,...

Hi-Fi Rush is a beacon of hope. The rhythm-based character-action game from Tango Gameworks showed up at this week’s Xbox Developer Direct, only to be surprise-released moments later on Game...

To outrun a Vegas casino fixer who wants her head, Poker Face’s accidental sleuth Charlie Cale (Natasha Lyonne) zips around the American Midwest in a beaten-up Plymouth Barracuda. As one...

Teen Wolf first premiered in 2011, as Twilight (2008) and The CW’s The Vampire Diaries (2009) helped the teen fantasy craze reach its apex. The message to Hollywood was clear:...

For all of its (much-discussed) flaws, the 2017 New Yorker short story “Cat Person” got at something fundamental about sexual relationships between women and men: There’s an undercurrent of fear...

Fans of Ji Zhao’s terrific 2021 CG animated Chinese movie New Gods: Nezha Reborn might expect something similar from his follow-up, New Gods: Yang Jian. They’ll get part of what...