The Competition looks inside one of the world’s most elite film schools

Mark Duplass and Ray Romano share terms of endearment in the moving bromance Paddleton

Fighting With My Family can be pretty stirring, for a glorified WWE commercial

Off Season explores a crumbling marriage in the wake of the 2016 election

Food is the catalyst for comic book romance in Bloom and Meal

Death Wins A Goldfish is a self-care allegory for the burnout generation

Ariana Grande has no fucks to spare on the thrilling Thank U, Next

James Blake’s Assume Form is both a surprising twist and a logical conclusion

Sharon Van Etten embraces the here and now on Remind Me Tomorrow

Lost Children Archive’s ambitious structure hinders its painful border story

There’s fun, but few big ideas, in the popcorn sci-fi of City In The Middle Of The Night

A stranger comes to town—and opens a bowling alley—in Elizabeth McCracken’s Bowlaway

Capcom’s Resident Evil 2 remake is bold, confident, and unapologetically outdated 

The new No More Heroes is a love letter to tons of great games you should play instead

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

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