Reviews

Polygon’s entertainment team is logged on to the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, which has gone virtual for the first time ever. Here’s what you need to know about the indie...

At the outset of The Wanting Mare, on-screen text provides some world-building background: The movie takes place in and around the hot coastal city of Whithren, where wild horses run...

Director Rodney Ascher has an interesting approach to the documentary form. His 2012 film Room 237 explores fan theories and coded messages within Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, with its subjects...

Harry Vanderspeigle (Alan Tudyk of Firefly and Rogue One), the protagonist of Syfy’s new dramedy Resident Alien, doesn’t belong in Patience, Colorado. Everyone in the small, remote town knows each...

Netflix has recently tried its hand at kid-tailored superhero and spy movies, so it’s fitting that its next kid-friendly adventure follows another well-worn genre: the treasure hunt. In the tradition...

Before watching Studio Ghibli’s new movie Earwig and the Witch, it pays to set expectations. Longtime Ghibli fans who go in hoping for a theatrical masterpiece on the order of...

By most reasonable standards, Saint Maud is a good horror movie. It has a strong sense of character and mood. It’s convincingly acted, both by Morfydd Clark as Maud, a...

Polygon’s entertainment team is logged on for the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, which goes virtual for the first time ever. Here’s what you need to know about the indie gems...

The PlayStation 4 has had a great life, and it’s not over yet, despite the the launch of the PlayStation 5. But don’t worry if you’re just now getting a...

When Indian-Australian author Aravind Adiga wrote his 2008 novel The White Tiger, the globalism his book described was a speculated future. Now Netflix’s film adaptation of the book is arriving...