Reviews

Angelina Jolie’s Those Who Wish Me Dead is a Saturday afternoon thriller for the streaming era

Berlin winner There Is No Evil tells four stories to condemn the death penalty

Potential violence haunts every frame of the superb Killing Of Two Lovers

Good news, everyone: Van Weezer kicks ass

Taylor Swift forges ahead with a dreamy throwback in Fearless (Taylor's Version)

Lana Del Rey’s Chemtrails Over The Country Club lives in NFR!’s superior shadow

Village brings kooky new energy and some very old monsters to Resident Evil

Spider-Man: Miles Morales doesn’t always wield its great power responsibly

Amnesia: Rebirth asks the question: Is there such a thing as playing not to win?

Jujutsu Kaisen begins its new arc by talking too much

Way Of X #1 sheds a light on the darkest aspects of X-Men’s Krakoa era

A comics icon returns with Monsters, the horror story superhero publishers wouldn’t tell

With Hail Mary, the author of The Martian tries to recapture that old man-vs.-space magic

Love, longing, and Stevie Nicks power Elissa Washuta’s White Magic

For Japanese Breakfast’s Michelle Zauner, food is both comfort and connection in Crying In H Mart

Little Hope is a crappy horror movie, but a strangely satisfying game

The most popular movies on Netflix, reviewed by The A.V. Club

Self Care is a timely beach read that skewers wellness and performative feminism

Marvel’s Avengers Pt. 2: Earth’s mightiest heroes battle Earth’s crappiest matchmaking

Marvel’s Avengers has a story so good, it’s almost worth playing Marvel’s Avengers to see it

The deliciously nasty Vampyr feels like a game from another era

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