Batman: Damned strips down the Dark Knight for a revealing thriller

For a cartoon adventure, Smallfoot is awfully cautious

Joaquin Phoenix and John C. Reilly bicker, bond, and chase a bounty as The Sisters Brothers

Eli Roth, of all directors, brings Amblin magic to the kid-lit horror of The House With A Clock In Its Walls

A rare view of Prince, plus Metric and more in this week’s new music

Christine And The Queens’ swaggering Chris revels in fluid identities

Noname opens up, and invites us to do the same, on the unapologetic Room 25

Daemon Voices is a master class on writing by Philip Pullman

After soaring for 5 volumes, Knausgaard brings My Struggle in for a rough landing

An obscure but enduring science fiction author finally gets his due

A fecal finale of American Vandal somehow turns a season about poop into a commentary on a generation

The shit gets deeper on the penultimate episode of American Vandal’s 2nd season

A kiss with tongue, a canceled skip day, and a broken friendship on American Vandal

Border Town excels by rooting itself in politics and identity, giving teens their own voices

The Walking Dead’s Robert Kirkman doubles down on survival horror with Oblivion Song

Ghosts of the past make The Immortal Hulk a riveting superhero horror story

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

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

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