Reviews

The Disney Plus original movie Flora & Ulysses is a story about a broken family learning to understand each other again. But that isn’t what the movie’s trailer promised: it...

Editor’s note: This review first appeared as part of Polygon’s coverage of the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival. It has been updated for the film’s streaming release. Frances McDormand seems...

It’s impossible to tell the entire story of a revolutionary movement in two hours, and Shaka King’s Judas and the Black Messiah tries and fails. It discusses the Black Panther...

In the early ’90s, Are You Afraid of the Dark? was perhaps television’s cleverest way to scare children in ways they’d never forget. The title was worded like a dare...

At the end of 1991’s Silence of the Lambs, serial killer and cannibal Hannibal Lecter tells investigator Clarice Starling, “The world’s more interesting with you in it.” The new CBS...

The new comedy Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar cashes in all the mainstream cred accrued by writer-actors Kristin Wiig and Annie Mumolo after the phenomenon of Bridesmaids,...

The reason Susan Johnson’s Netflix adaptation of Jenny Han’s To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before worked so well is because it had such a distinct hook: hopeless-romantic high-school student...

Heralded as the first blockbuster Korean space opera, Jo Sung-hee’s Space Sweepers quickly moves to undercut any grandeur that might come from that statement. During the launch of the spaceship...

If you’re lucky, getting started with a new tabletop role-playing game is as easy as falling in with an already established group. For others, it can be a lot harder....

The most important moments in any horror game are in between the screams — the quiet stillness when a monster isn’t chasing you yet, but you know they will be...