Reviews

Movie Review

Dark Web has more sadistic, inventive fun with Unfriended’s online-horror premise

McQueen is an intimate look at a larger-than-life fashion icon

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again with more brain-dead ABBA karaoke

Comics

Euthanauts #1 is a mesmerizing, disorienting journey into the afterlife

The McElroys successfully translate their Adventure Zone exploits to a comic book in Here There Be Gerblins

Batman and X-Men Gold deliver a double dose of wedding disappointment

Book Review

Legendary critic Michiko Kakutani reviews all the president’s lies in The Death Of Truth

Megan Abbott’s Give Me Your Hand mixes the horrors of high school and work

In his new memoir, even David Lynch doesn’t try to get inside David Lynch’s head

Uncategorized

Dirty Projectors, Deafheaven, and more albums to know about this week

Bjørn Torske, Bodega, and more albums to know about this week

Nine Inch Nails, Kamasi Washington, and more albums to know about this week

Music

Scorpion is a whole shitload of Drake

Florence + The Machine, Gorillaz, and more albums to know about this week

Don’t let the preposterous flood of major rap releases make you forget Jay Rock

Game Review

Life finds a “meh” in Jurassic World’s lackluster theme-park builder

Bloodstained: Curse Of The Moon is a brilliant ode to one of Castlevania’s best

Detroit: Become Human is beautiful, welcoming, and lacking a soul of its own

The Staircase

The 16-year saga of The Staircase comes to an appropriately haunting end

Game in Progress

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 II: Revenant Kingdom

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

Evil Genius

A collar bomb, a frozen body, and an Evil Genius star in Netflix’s latest true-crime binge

Atlanta

Van has fake people showing fake love to her in a very Atlanta New Year's Eve

With Darius behind the wheel, Atlanta becomes an American horror story

Lore

Lore could stand to have some more folklore, frankly

Spielberg

HBO’s Spielberg is a wide-ranging, but inessential portrait of one of America’s most popular artists

DVD Review

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

Comedy

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