Just in time for Halloween, Caniba gets up close and sickeningly personal with a real-life cannibal

Aubrey Plaza leads a parade of bad taste and noir misfits in An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn

The Price Of Everything puts the complexities of the art world on breathtaking display

Rob Guillory cultivates a creepy genre hybrid in Farmhand

These Savage Shores is a lush horror story that devours colonialists

On A Sunbeam delivers one of the best love stories this year—comics or otherwise

A historic fire illuminates an enduring institution in Susan Orlean’s The Library Book

Murakami’s usual flights of fancy can’t save the mundane Killing Commendatore

Ellie Kemper is as unbreakable as Kimmy Schmidt in her charming new memoir

Lil Wayne’s long-overdue Tha Carter V, plus High On Fire and more in this week’s music reviews

Cat Power’s Wanderer can’t quite find its way

Cher does ABBA, BROCKHAMPTON sprawls out, and more in this week’s music reviews

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

Life sucks and then you fight a supervillain in the new Arkham-indebted Spider-Man game

WarioWare Gold is the result of 15 years of mad genius

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