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I Really Enjoyed ‘Street Fighter’ And I’m Not Sorry About It
‘VisionQuest’ Season 1, Episode 6 Recap – Good Guys Can Team Up Too
‘Ali G: Who Iz I?’ Has One Of the Most Terrifying Endings In Recent Memory
Movie Reviews
I Really Enjoyed ‘Street Fighter’ And I’m Not Sorry About It
‘Ali G: Who Iz I?’ Review – Sacha Baron Cohen’s Shtick Is Way Past Its Prime
‘Zainab Johnson: Toxically Optimistic’ Review – A Sharp Special With Real Poise
‘Klara and the Sun’ Review – Taika Waititi Clearly Cares, But This Adaptation Is Heartbreakingly Bad
TV Show Reviews
‘Nocturne’ Season 1 Review – Stephen Graham’s Terrifying Villain Elevates A Moody Scandi Noir
‘The One About Matthew Perry’ Review – A Loving, Touching Tribute to A TV Icon
Netflix’s ‘The New Stanford Prison Experiment’ Is a Big Waste of Time
‘Cyberpunk: Edgerunners II’ Review – Possibly the Year’s Biggest Disappointment
Latest TV Recaps
‘VisionQuest’ Season 1, Episode 6 Recap – Good Guys Can Team Up Too
3.5 Summary VisionQuest seems to be slipping into WandaVision territory, with MCU obligations threatening to overwhelm its unique identity, but there’s still plenty to enjoy if you’re looking...
‘VisionQuest’ Season 1, Episode 5 Recap – Ultron’s Return to Villainy Is Trapped In A Lifeless Hour
3 Summary VisionQuest feels dramatically inert in “Firewall”, despite a wonderful James Spader performance. Ultron steals the show, but you can feel the visual conceits starting...
‘Brothers’ Season 1, Episode 7 Recap – It’s Getting Good Right At the End!
4 Summary Brothers finally comes together as both a sitcom and a speculative take on a real-life rumour — the problem is that it’s only happening...
‘Phony’ Season 1, Episode 3 Recap – Kids Will Be Kids, I Guess
3.5 Summary Phony continues to work on the basis of remaining an authentic teen comedy, all while the mystery and thriller elements are percolating in the...
TV Explainers
‘Slow Horses’ Season 6 Ending Explained – A Bad Day On the Coast
‘Cyberpunk: Edgerunners II’ Ending Explained – Capri, Connections, and Who Lives and Dies
Who’s That Guy? ‘Dark Matter’ Is Brilliantly Playing With Expectations
‘The Trap’ Ending Explained – What REALLY Happened to Anna? I Think We Know…
Movie Explainers
‘Ali G: Who Iz I?’ Has One Of the Most Terrifying Endings In Recent Memory
‘Masterplan’ Ending Explained – One Dumb Twist After Another
‘Love of Your Life’ Ending Explained – A Predictable, Empty Climax
We Need to Talk About the Ending of Tyler Perry’s ‘Doing Life’
Latest Stories
‘VisionQuest’ Wheeling Out Raza Is A Deep Cut That Makes Me Worried About Marvel
You’ll have to forgive me, but I’m going to moan about something pointless. Given we’re talking about the MCU here, though, I think it’s probably...
Winter Wonderland: Your Complete Streaming Guide for the Holiday Season
We’re approaching the cosiest time of the year, and that means a sharp uptick in people sitting at home wondering what to watch. Well, wonder...
As Promised, Elon Musk Remade ‘The Odyssey’, and It’s The Worst Thing Ever
Back in July, I wrote rather glowingly about Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, and then rather smugly about it making lots of money. To recap, the...
‘Slow Horses’ Season 7 Probably Won’t Reveal River’s Fate
In the already-confirmed Season 7 of Apple TV’s Slow Horses, things will return to normal, adaptation-wise. Instead of adapting two books at once, instead it’ll...