Reviews

Deep into HBO’s thoroughly engaging documentary Street Gang: How We Got To Sesame Street, longtime Sesame Street producer and songwriter Christopher Cerf sits down at a piano to play a...

Back in 2007, when Danny Boyle’s space-thriller Sunshine hit theaters, all the critical and audience response seemed to say roughly the same thing: Boyle wasted a really good serious space...

The NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation had a running joke about how the fictional town of Pawnee, Indiana had a long, horrific history of violence against the also-fictional Wamapoke tribe,...

In the X-Men comics, Nightcrawler is everyone’s best friend. Since his introduction in 1975’s Giant Size X-Men #1, he’s been one of the most beloved characters in Marvel’s mutant pantheon,...

Nier Replicant is a brilliant video game that I recommend with the most frustrating caveat in entertainment: “It gets good after 10 hours.” Of course the game would move slowly...

Self-awareness is a form of cinematic grace. A filmmaker’s knowing wink toward the audience can go a long way, particularly when an established property is in play. Used to excess,...

towAs wish-fulfillment power fantasies go, finding out you’re secretly a reincarnated god seems like a pretty satisfying one. In Netflix’s imported 2021 Chinese feature New Gods: Nezha Reborn, that revelation...

Few things feel as lazy as a tidy film. When all the loose ends fall gracefully into place, and not a single plotline is left dangling, a story can feel...

At-home escape room games have exploded in recent years, with series like Exit: The Game simulating the experience of being locked in a room to solve puzzles with your friends....

In 2001, the animated film Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius introduced a generation to the wacky prodigy and his quirky friends. Fans of the Nickelodeon series The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron,...