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film Batman & Bill exposes the secret identities behind a superhero’s origin story
By Gwen Ihnat May 5, 2017 | 5:00am
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music Perfume Genius, Forest Swords, Black Lips, and more in this week’s music reviews
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, Sean O'Neal, Matt Gerardi, Meagan Fredette, kenneth-partridge, Alex McLevy May 5, 2017 | 5:00am
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tv Minnick surprisingly surges ahead in the “worst of Grey’s” race
By Gwen Ihnat May 5, 2017 | 4:30am
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tv Only Scandal could make a terrorist attack boring
By Ashley Ray-Harris May 5, 2017 | 4:09am
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tv Superstore literally blows the roof off of its world in a whirlwind finale
By Les Chappell May 5, 2017 | 1:00am
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film With Chuck, the boxer who inspired Rocky gets his own corny redemption story
By A.A. Dowd May 4, 2017 | 9:11pm
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tv Catastrophe breaks our hearts as it closes out its third season
By Molly Eichel May 4, 2017 | 5:00pm
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tv Zoey spins off in a not so Black-ish episode
By Ashley Ray-Harris May 4, 2017 | 4:39pm
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games Mr. Shifty's Power Fantasies Are Palpable But Fleeting
By Jeremy Winslow May 4, 2017 | 3:30pm
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film The Dinner charges full price for the warmed-over version of a best-selling novel
By A.A. Dowd May 4, 2017 | 2:37pm
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tv Arrow’s heroes have to find a way out of their dead end, in more ways than one
By Alasdair Wilkins May 4, 2017 | 5:45am
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film Laura Poitras’ ethically muddled Risk loses itself inside WikiLeaks
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 4, 2017 | 5:00am
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film For the dead-end couple of The Lovers, even breaking up is a compromise
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 4, 2017 | 5:00am
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tv It’s Hannah in the box on a bland Designated Survivor
By Zack Handlen May 4, 2017 | 4:00am
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tv Archer gets in its own way with a bungled ransom handoff
By William Hughes May 4, 2017 | 3:35am
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tv With the chance to make a statement, Modern Family completely misses the mark
By Kyle Fowle May 4, 2017 | 3:10am
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tv Gloria heads to Hollywood for a Fargo highpoint
By Zack Handlen May 4, 2017 | 3:00am
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tv The R-word leaves Ray Speechless on prom night
By Andrea Reiher May 4, 2017 | 2:20am
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tv The 100’s Hunger Games conclave is one of its best episodes yet
By Andrea Reiher May 4, 2017 | 2:00am
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tv Sometimes Survivor needs to get out of its own way
By Carrie Raisler May 4, 2017 | 1:09am
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film If the world has heroes, they’re the civilian first responders of Last Men In Aleppo
By A.A. Dowd May 3, 2017 | 7:05pm
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tv Harlots will just keep killing people until you start watching
By Genevieve Valentine May 3, 2017 | 5:05pm
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tv In which The Handmaid’s Tale doesn’t let the bastards grind it down
By Allison Shoemaker May 3, 2017 | 3:29pm
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games Mario Kart 8 Deluxe: Karting at the Speed of Life
By Jon Irwin May 3, 2017 | 11:40am
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tv Master Of None’s 2nd season is 10 episodes of daring plus one humdrum romance
By Erik Adams May 3, 2017 | 7:00am
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film You’ll need a high tolerance for misery to endure the dour A Woman’s Life
By Mike D'Angelo May 3, 2017 | 5:00am
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film 3 Generations of good actors are let down by this long-shelved family drama
By Jesse Hassenger May 3, 2017 | 5:00am
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tv Liv eats dominatrix brain, then iZombie brings the pain
By Carrie Raisler May 3, 2017 | 3:37am
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tv Encores abound in an Americans tearjerker
By Erik Adams May 3, 2017 | 3:11am
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tv SmackDown Live brings the past year’s best rivalry to a brutal, fitting end
By Alasdair Wilkins May 3, 2017 | 3:10am
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tv Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. ups the intensity with a startling ending and another goodbye
By Alex McLevy May 3, 2017 | 3:00am
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tv The Flash finally unmasks Savitar, but is it worth the wait?
By Scott Von Doviak May 3, 2017 | 2:10am
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tv Funny subplots suggest good things going forward for Great News
By Vikram Murthi May 3, 2017 | 2:00am
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tv Brooklyn Nine-Nine tells a story about doing the right thing
By LaToya Ferguson May 3, 2017 | 12:30am
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film Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2 smuggles more goofball fun into the MCU
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 2, 2017 | 8:06pm
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tv Dear White People attempts to peer behind pretty boy Troy’s hot, dead eyes
By Joshua Alston May 2, 2017 | 6:00pm
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tv Prepping for a season finale, Catastrophe confronts parenting and being parented
By Esther Zuckerman May 2, 2017 | 5:30pm
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games The Adorable Tumbleseed Should Turn Down the Difficulty
By Holly Green May 2, 2017 | 12:00pm
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tv Maria Bamford’s Old Baby plays peekaboo with joy and trauma
By Emily L. Stephens May 2, 2017 | 5:00am
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tv After Payback, Raw feels focused and exciting
By Kyle Fowle May 2, 2017 | 4:38am
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tv Supergirl and her sister show off their very particular set of skills
By Caroline Siede May 2, 2017 | 4:06am
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tv On Better Call Saul, it’s time to get inside Gus Fring’s head
By Donna Bowman May 2, 2017 | 3:00am
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tv Jane The Virgin mends relationships and comments on Trump’s America
By Oliver Sava May 2, 2017 | 2:00am
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tv Lucifer knows there’s nothing more rock & roll than marriage
By LaToya Ferguson May 2, 2017 | 2:00am
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tv An unlikely alliance livens up an otherwise meandering Gotham
By Kyle Fowle May 2, 2017 | 1:00am
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tv Catastrophe shifts gears to winningly crack wise about birth and death
By Erik Adams May 1, 2017 | 5:36pm
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games What Remains of Edith Finch is a Story Made of Stories
By Reid McCarter May 1, 2017 | 10:45am
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tv Once Upon A Time’s “The Black Fairy” gets her own tragic origin story
By Gwen Ihnat May 1, 2017 | 9:00am
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tv Bob’s Burgers keeps looking for new sides of its characters
By Alasdair Wilkins May 1, 2017 | 4:55am
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tv Marcus’ Very Special Episode of Elementary is grounded
By Genevieve Valentine May 1, 2017 | 4:50am
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tv Billions serves up a thrilling hour packed with twists and turns
By Scott Von Doviak May 1, 2017 | 4:00am
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tv It’s six months later as The Last Man On Earth takes an unexpected leap forward
By Les Chappell May 1, 2017 | 3:30am
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tv Bart’s just a gigolo as The Simpsons hunts for some heart
By Dennis Perkins May 1, 2017 | 3:07am
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tv American Crime finale offers hope where there previously wasn’t much
By Andrea Reiher May 1, 2017 | 3:00am
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tv Veep recaptures its old magic by getting the band back together
By Kate Kulzick May 1, 2017 | 3:00am
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tv Hubris runs rampant through Silicon Valley, as Dinesh’s new job goes to his head and hair
By Les Chappell May 1, 2017 | 2:30am
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tv American Gods’ premiere is an audacious new incarnation of Gaiman’s novel
By Emily L. Stephens May 1, 2017 | 2:05am
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tv The elder Kevin Garvey endures another test of faith on The Leftovers
By Joshua Alston May 1, 2017 | 2:05am
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tv Lionel breaks his most personal story in Dear White People’s deft second episode
By Joshua Alston April 30, 2017 | 8:00pm
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tv Things begin to look up on Catastrophe, until they don’t
By Molly Eichel April 30, 2017 | 5:00pm
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tv It’s time for classic Samurai Jack flavor as our hero goes on a vision quest
By Eric Thurm April 30, 2017 | 2:07pm
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tv Not The White House Correspondents’ Dinner dilutes the best of Samantha Bee
By Laura M. Browning April 30, 2017 | 7:18am
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tv Class isn’t as profound as it ought to be, but it’s still pretty dang good
By Alasdair Wilkins April 30, 2017 | 3:00am
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tv Doctor Who hasn’t been this fun in ages—or this serious
By Alasdair Wilkins April 30, 2017 | 2:00am
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tv Rob and Sharon start to heal and spiral in Catastrophe’s second episode
By Esther Zuckerman April 29, 2017 | 5:00pm
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tv Every man on Reign is kind of terrible
By Genevieve Valentine April 29, 2017 | 3:20am
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tv A boring “Snatch Game” makes for another underwhelming Drag Race
By Oliver Sava April 29, 2017 | 1:26am
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tv Dear White People welcomes viewers back to its world of Ivy League microaggressions
By Joshua Alston April 28, 2017 | 8:00pm
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film Sleight only looks fresh when compared to your average overblown superhero story
By A.A. Dowd April 28, 2017 | 6:54pm
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tv 3 seasons in, Catastrophe is still one of the best-acted, best-written comedies on TV
By Erik Adams April 28, 2017 | 6:44pm
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tv Breaking: Riverdale is a dangerous place to live
By LaToya Ferguson April 28, 2017 | 4:46pm
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tv Alexis Bledel’s shattering, wordless performance anchors a brutal Handmaid’s Tale
By Allison Shoemaker April 28, 2017 | 3:15pm
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games Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom Leans Into Its Genre Too Hard
By Cameron Kunzelman April 28, 2017 | 10:45am
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tv The President Show gifts Donald Trump with frightening moments of self-awareness
By Dan Caffrey April 28, 2017 | 8:57am
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tv Grey’s gets back to its stomach-churning self with a wormy episode
By Gwen Ihnat April 28, 2017 | 5:55am
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music Sylvan Esso subverts and embraces the pop world on a brilliant second album
By Josh Modell April 28, 2017 | 5:00am
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music Feist’s Pleasure is a demanding record expressing demanding emotions
By Erik Adams April 28, 2017 | 5:00am
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music Gorillaz turn our national dystopia into more manic cartoon pop on Humanz
By Clayton Purdom April 28, 2017 | 5:00am
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music Thurston Moore, Colin Stetson, Juliana Hatfield, and more in this week’s music reviews
By Clayton Purdom, Alex McLevy, kenneth-partridge, Sean O'Neal April 28, 2017 | 5:00am
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tv Scandal suffers under lockdown
By Ashley Ray-Harris April 28, 2017 | 4:24am
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film Subtitles can’t dispel the late-Sandler vibe of How To Be A Latin Lover
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 28, 2017 | 4:00am
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tv Superstore has its first wedding episode, and the awkwardness is dialed to new heights
By Les Chappell April 28, 2017 | 1:00am
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film Emma Watson fights a losing battle with internet paranoia in The Circle
By Jesse Hassenger April 27, 2017 | 7:42pm
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tv A double dose of Black-ish focuses on the family
By Ashley Ray-Harris April 27, 2017 | 3:55pm
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tv On The Handmaid’s Tale, a deep breath just helps the punches land harder
By Allison Shoemaker April 27, 2017 | 3:08pm
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games Full Throttle Remastered Is a Commentary on the Fate of Adventure Games
By Dante Douglas April 27, 2017 | 1:30pm
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film Before Mr. Robot, Rami Malek signed on for the bigger mind fuck of Buster’s Mal Heart
By Katie Rife April 27, 2017 | 5:00am
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tv Designated Survivor tries for thrills, doesn’t quite get there
By Zack Handlen April 27, 2017 | 3:49am
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tv Archer’s resident mad scientist finally gets to be a hero, in his own deranged, evil way
By William Hughes April 27, 2017 | 3:30am
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tv Fargo gets more interesting as the Stussy feud turns messy
By Zack Handlen April 27, 2017 | 3:02am
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tv Instead of setting the table, Underground burns down the house
By Danette Chavez April 27, 2017 | 3:01am
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tv Speechless’ J.J. learns a great lesson from one who can actually teach him
By Andrea Reiher April 27, 2017 | 2:15am
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tv Arrow has failed Felicity Smoak, at least a little
By Alasdair Wilkins April 27, 2017 | 2:05am
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tv It’s choosing to die vs. choosing to fight on The 100’s ”DNR”
By Andrea Reiher April 27, 2017 | 2:00am
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tv It’s hard to know what to make of this season of Survivor
By Carrie Raisler April 27, 2017 | 1:20am
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tv The devil’s in the details in a merciless Harlots
By Genevieve Valentine April 26, 2017 | 5:05pm
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games Yooka-Laylee Revives the Past, For Better and Worse
By Delilah Sinclair April 26, 2017 | 3:30pm
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tv The Handmaid’s Tale will not become ordinary
By Allison Shoemaker April 26, 2017 | 3:14pm
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film Jaime Lannister goes ex-con weary in the uneven Netflix genre riff Small Crimes
By Mike D'Angelo April 26, 2017 | 5:00am
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film The sci-fi abduction thriller Rupture is as personality-free as its title
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 26, 2017 | 5:00am
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film Two new Netflix films reexamine JonBenet Ramsey and Rodney King through performance
By A.A. Dowd April 26, 2017 | 5:00am
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tv Liv is all talk on a gossipy iZombie
By Carrie Raisler April 26, 2017 | 4:08am
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tv New SmackDown gets more focused, but it’s still so messy
By LaToya Ferguson April 26, 2017 | 4:05am
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tv The Americans shows that table-setting is as riveting as any car chase
By Dennis Perkins April 26, 2017 | 3:10am
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tv “Agents of Hydra” is the most consistently strong arc S.H.I.E.L.D. has ever done
By Alex McLevy April 26, 2017 | 3:00am
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tv The Flash meets his future self in the darkest timeline
By Scott Von Doviak April 26, 2017 | 2:23am
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tv Take one “Last Ride” with Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s inner circle
By LaToya Ferguson April 26, 2017 | 12:30am
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games Kona Unites Story and Survival
By Brian Taylor April 25, 2017 | 10:30am