Bad Gateway finds itself by refusing to let readers look away from uncomfortable truths

Esad Ribić showcases Conan’s primal appeal in his fully painted Exodus

Shing Yin Khor finds the best of what road-trip memoirs have to offer

There’s no Michael Moore-style agitprop in the superb culture-clash doc American Factory

Ready Or Not, here comes an entertainingly gruesome evisceration of the 1%

In a rare misstep, Richard Linklater botches his take on the bestselling Where’d You Go, Bernadette

A return to Cross River yields absurdist tales of robot slaves, doomed professors, and other godforsaken misfits

Amnesia afflicts an entire island in the urgent, beautiful Memory Police

The Yellow House is a moving memoir of New Orleans life beyond the French Quarter

The Hold Steady makes a loose, welcome return to Thrashing Thru The Passion

Sleater-Kinney is down, but not defeated, on The Center Won’t Hold

Chance The Rapper celebrates union on his triumphant studio release The Big Day

The wacky criminal underworld of Judgment is frustratingly indifferent to your existence

Mortal Kombat 11 is the ideal Mortal Kombat game: Cheesy, violent, and self-aware

Capcom’s Resident Evil 2 remake is bold, confident, and unapologetically outdated

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