Reviews

Jumanji lacks replay value in The Next Level

Xavier Dolan vomits his feelings all over the incoherent Death And Life Of John F. Donovan

Bombshell plays softball with Megyn Kelly and Fox News

Michel Fiffe pays tribute to his comic idols with Copra’s superhero remix

DC's compelling new Green Lantern story is a genre-blending delight

The Tea Dragon Festival returns to Katie O’Neill’s soft, soothing fantasy world

A weary Beck occasionally lifts off on Hyperspace

Coldplay runs away from Coldplay on the wildly uneven Everyday Life

DJ Shadow’s triumphant new LP is part evolution, part class reunion

Jedi: Fallen Order is a good Star Wars game with terrible slides

Death Stranding is an allegory for a broken America, and one of the weirdest games in years

The versions of Man Of Medan you don’t play are way more interesting than the one you do

Former heartthrob Leif Garrett recounts his wild downfall in Idol Truth

In The Dream House mixes genre to craft a powerful memoir of an abusive queer relationship

Jenny Slate’s memoir is as strange and whimsical as she is

The deliciously nasty Vampyr feels like a game from another era

Far Cry 5’s nihilistic ending tries to take the rest of the game down with it

Ni No Kuni 2’s final hours bring a conventional ending to an unconventional RPG

With Dr. Strangelove, Kubrick shot a brilliant satire like a straight thriller

Fantastic Planet looks as strange today as it must have 40 years ago

Jean Renoir’s path to greatness began with La Chienne

Wyatt Cenac’s latest album finds the funny in world-weariness

Taylor Negron isn’t exactly himself on this posthumous collection

On Effable, Guy Branum imbues observational humor with personal pain