Review

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  Game Review The Darkness II

  Light-averse tentacle creatures need love too.

  February 13, 2012 | 12:02am -

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  Game Review Resident Evil: Revelations

  Survival horror for 3D fans on the go.

  February 13, 2012 | 12:01am -

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  Game Review Kingdoms Of Amalur: Reckoning

  You might have played this sort of game before but this is a good excuse to play it again. 

  February 13, 2012 | 12:00am -

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  Movie Review The Vow

  An accident forces a young married couple (Channing Tatum and Rachel McAdams) to start the wooing process from scratch. 

  February 9, 2012 | 5:40pm -

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  Movie Review Safe House

  A quarter-century after his Oscar-nominated role as Stephen Biko, Denzel Washington returns to South Africa as a decidedly shadier character.

  February 9, 2012 | 12:08am -

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  Movie Review Rampart

  Woody Harrelson teams up again with Oren Moverman (The Messenger) for a take on the same LAPD corruption case that inspired The Shield. 

  February 9, 2012 | 12:07am -

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  Movie Review Chico & Rita

  A “what’s that?” nominee for Best Animated Feature turns out to deserve the slot. 

  February 9, 2012 | 12:06am -

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  Movie Review Return

  Linda Cardellini plays a returning soldier in a familiar drama boosted by excellent performances. 

  February 9, 2012 | 12:05am -

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  Movie Review Journey 2: The Mysterious Island

  The Rock takes over for Brendan Fraser in an island adventure that invokes Jules Verne just enough to insult him. 

  February 9, 2012 | 12:04am -

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  Movie Review The Turin Horse 

  The reputed final film from Hungarian master Béla Tarr pivots on the incident that marked Friedrich Nietzsche’s break from sanity.  

  February 9, 2012 | 12:03am -

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  Movie Review In Darkness

  Director Agnieszka Holland (Europa, Europa) follows a sewer worker and petty thief as he makes his way through a Nazi-occupied Polish city. 

  February 9, 2012 | 12:02am -

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  Movie Review The Miners’ Hymns

  In this compilation, multimedia artist Bill Morrison’s stunning new experimental film about coal miners joins a handful of his other shorts. 

  February 9, 2012 | 12:01am -

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  Movie Review Perfect Sense 

  Ewan McGregor and Eva Green star in an apocalyptic romance that handles the apocalypse better than the romance. 

  February 9, 2012 | 12:00am -

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  Book Review Elmore Leonard: Raylan

  The venerable crime writer returns to the world and character that spawned the FX show Justified, but the series renders his characters better than he does. 

  February 8, 2012 | 12:03pm -

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  Book Review Will McIntosh: Hitchers

  When the dead start possessing the living after a cataclysmic terrorist attack, a comic-strip writer has some tough moral choices to make.

  February 8, 2012 | 12:02pm -

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  Book Review John Green: The Fault In Our Stars

  A spectacular young-adult novel addresses teenagers with cancer in a direct, insightful way, rather than playing for sympathy. 

  February 8, 2012 | 12:01pm -

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  Book Review Tom McCarthy: Men In Space

  An interim novel from the author of Remainder and C brings its story of an art heist in the Czech Republic to the U.S. for the first time.

  February 8, 2012 | 12:00pm -

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  DVD Good Morning, Vietnam / Dead Poets Society

  Robin Williams struggles to balance his comedic and dramatic sides in two different films.

  February 8, 2012 | 12:03am -

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  DVD CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, “Grave Danger” 

  A two-part episode directed by Quentin Tarantino makes a case for auteur television.

  February 8, 2012 | 12:02am -

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  DVD Luv

  This maddening quirk-fest from the ’60s should stay forgotten.

  February 8, 2012 | 12:01am -

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  DVD DVDs In Brief: February 8, 2012

  Our weekly DVD review round-up.

  February 8, 2012 | 12:00am -

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  Music Review Van Halen: A Different Kind Of Truth 

  A surprising, even shocking, comeback album. 

  February 7, 2012 | 12:09am -

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  Music Review Sharon Van Etten: Tramp

  A singer-songwriter comes into her own.

  February 7, 2012 | 12:08am -

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  Music Review Of Montreal: Paralytic Stalks 

  Pop debris swirls in Kevin Barnes’ latest sonic tornado. 

  February 7, 2012 | 12:07am -

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  Music Review Air: Le Voyage Dans La Lune

  One French institution pays homage to another.

  February 7, 2012 | 12:06am -

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  Music Review Paul McCartney: Kisses On The Bottom 

  Macca makes his inevitable standards album. 

  February 7, 2012 | 12:05am -

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  Music Review The Twilight Sad: No One Can Ever Know 

  Trading guitars for synths doesn’t make the Scots any less sinister. 

  February 7, 2012 | 12:04am -

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  Music Review Dr. Dog: Be The Void

  The indie-rock vets flawlessly recapture their youth. 

  February 7, 2012 | 12:03am -

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  Music Review Mark Lanegan Band: Blues Funeral 

  An immortal voice makes a disc that instantly dates itself. 

  February 7, 2012 | 12:02am -

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  Music Review Lindstrøm: Six Cups Of Rebel 

  The Norwegian producer sets phasers to funk and fails to stun. 

  February 7, 2012 | 12:01am -