Reviews

In the ‘90s and 2000s, the thought of a year without a George Clooney movie was unthinkable. This expectation became especially true once he began directing piercing dramas, like the...

Earth is too small for mutantkind. The past year and a half of X-Men comics — released under the Dawn of X banner — have significantly grown the property by...

Take a moment, just a moment, to offer some sympathy for the filmmakers behind Songbird. If people remember it at all, it will be as “the Michael Bay pandemic thriller.”...

Loosely based on the later life of paleontologist Mary Anning (1799-1847), Francis Lee’s queer romance movie Ammonite is a clinical but intriguing excavation of historical fact. The film reworks several...

Viewed from a distance — say, from the vast desert outskirts known as the Badlands — Night City looks like a beacon, so massive and promising in its potential that...

Almost four years ago, I sat in a meeting with a potential new World of Warcraft guild. The Nighthold raid had debuted a few weeks earlier, and I was hoping...

Cower in fear, citizens of the Marvel comic book universe — Knull has arrived, after a couple of years of everything from namedrops to hints and teases to foreshadowing so...

If Godmothered — a Disney movie about a woman living in a fairy-tale world suddenly transported to our gritty reality where she attempts to infuse some magic into a jaded...

While classic family sitcoms spent most of their time dealing with low-stakes antics like sibling rivalry or ruined holiday dinners, every once in a while they delved into heavier topics,...

Alarmist conservative commentators and holiday specials have one big thing in common: they always seem to think Christmas is under attack. Whether it’s grinches, Wile E. Coyote-style holiday-stealing wolves, a...