Julia Roberts frets about her beautiful boy in the year's weaker teen addict drama, Ben Is Back

Natalie Portman plays a cynical pop star for an overstimulated age in the glib Vox Lux

With Mowgli, Andy Serkis brings a marginally darker Jungle Book to Netflix

Earl Sweatshirt locks in on the uncompromising Some Rap Songs

Black Velvet pays poignant tribute to late soul singer Charles Bradley

Thom Yorke summons a dark new sound in Suspiria

Motherlands relies on female fury to ground a wild, fantastic bounty hunt

Flavor is full of charm, but needs to focus on the food

Black Hammer’s exploration of the superhero genre goes hyper-meta

The bold and bloody My Sister, The Serial Killer asks: What does one owe family?

Sharon Jones deserves a better biography than the soulless Long Slow Train

Jeff Tweedy shows a lot of himself in his memoir, just not what you’d expect

Hitman 2’s big, living levels are machines for dark comedy

FromSoftware's new PSVR ghost story, Déraciné, wants to hurt you as badly as Dark Souls ever did

Mega Man 11’s iconic hero is moving fast, hitting hard, and completely stuck in a rut

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