Reviews

My memories of American Girl literature are strong. The chapter books painted backstories for my favorite dolls, giving me a taste for historical fiction and nonfiction that I still have...

A Quiet Place: Day One isn’t so much a spinoff and prequel of John Krasinski’s 2018 horror movie as it is a riveting drama that plays in the series’ sandbox....

The best horror games stick around long after credits have rolled, squirming in and tickling the back of your brain. Still Wakes the Deep has stuck around in my noggin,...

When Spry Fox co-founder and studio director David Edery and his team set out to make a second Cozy Grove game, they wanted to mirror the first game, but “bigger...

British movie director Guy Ritchie loves nothing more than the collision of class and thuggery. It’s like catnip to him. In movies like Snatch and 2019’s The Gentlemen, he thrives...

This review of The Imaginary is timed to the film’s festival premiere at France’s Annecy International Animation Film Festival. The film will stream on Netflix in America starting on July...

At its pulsing circular core, Ultraman is a generational story. Conceived by Eiji Tsuburaya, one of Godzilla’s co-creators and the founder of Tsuburaya Productions, the franchise centers on a gigantic,...

The world of Shin Megami Tensei 5: Vengeance can be an unforgiving place. Tokyo is under siege by demons of all stripes. The throne of heaven sits silent and unoccupied....

It’s an election year in these United States, and as go the headlines, so goes The Boys. Not on purpose — showrunner Eric Kripke, articulating a reality of television production,...

The problem with iterating on a movie as perfectly complete as Pete Docter’s 2015 Pixar feature Inside Out is that a neatly closed narrative loop doesn’t leave a lot of...