Reviews

Nightmare Alley gets its name from a wet and dark stretch of Chicago concrete, where the unhoused and destitute seek shelter. They are people brought low by life and kept...

The story: A man named Thomas is told that the world is not what he thought it to be, and despite...

So many directors seem either trapped in the comics-to-movies pipeline or burnt out by it. Plenty of filmmakers have directed game-changing, career-making superhero pictures (Tim Burton, Jon Favreau, Joss Whedon),...

There’s dark credibility to Don’t Look Up, director Adam McKay’s gallows humor Netflix comedy about the end of the world. In it, scientists discover that a planet-killing comet is heading...

A sword hovers a few feet in front of you, calling out from the pitch-black void. It sings like a hymn as you draw closer; it radiates like a condensed...

It’s useful to think of Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker as the end of a path, especially in the process of reviewing it. After all, some of the more common uses...

Destiny 2’s Bungie 30th Anniversary Pack is Destiny at its most joyful. 2021 has been a quiet year for Destiny 2. For the first year since the series launched in...

Sometimes, you just want to watch giant monsters fight. Rumble, a CG animated movie from a partnership between Paramount and World Wrestling Entertainment, turns the kaiju-movie spectacle of giant monsters...

When Mikey Saber (Simon Rex) arrives in Texas in the opening moments of Red Rocket, he’s immediately ordered to leave. “You said you weren’t gonna step your foot in Texas...

One of the biggest delights of the latter-day Marvel Cinematic Universe has been watching its version of Peter Parker/Spider-Man screw up in bigger and bigger ways. While every cinematic Spider-Man...