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

GLOW nails the TV show’s tone as it delves deeper into wrestling culture

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

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

Good Boys puts a tween spin on the R-rated teen comedy, to mostly funny effect

In Cold Case Hammarskjöld, a gonzo journalist spins a wild conspiracy theory

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

Becoming Superman is both a gruesome and mundane portrait of the creator of Babylon 5

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Capcom’s Resident Evil 2 remake is bold, confident, and unapologetically outdated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