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Deadpool & Wolverine makes the MCU the villain — and not in a good way

This celebration of Marvel and Fox feels more like a funeral

By Joshua Rivera
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The Operator is the deep state sim I’ve craved for so long

Computer, enhance. My god, that’s our killer

By Cass Marshall
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EA Sports College Football 25 is the long-awaited payoff

By Matt Brown
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Who was The Acolyte supposed to be about?

By Joshua Rivera
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Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition is all about millennials killing milliseconds

By Michael McWhertor
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House of the Dragon’s latest episode turns gods into meat

By Joshua Rivera
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The new Disney princess board game is just as fun as I dreamed

By Petrana Radulovic
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Longlegs, billed as 2024’s scariest horror movie, is actually pretty hilarious

By Austen Goslin
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Space Cadet is a spiritual successor to Legally Blonde

By Petrana Radulovic
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Mothership’s box set gives newbie game masters something to hold on to

By Charlie Hall
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Star Wars: Unlimited’s new two-player starter set tells a great, modern Star Wars story

By Charlie Hall
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Despicable Me 4 has an unusual flaw: too much plot potential

By Petrana Radulovic
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Kalki 2898 AD has the ultimate recipe for a sci-fi epic: Star Wars + Hindu myth + RRR

By Katie Rife
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Tiana’s Bayou Adventure is way better than Splash Mountain probably deserved

By Petrana Radulovic
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A Quiet Place: Day One lives up to the first movie by doing something radically different

By Siddhant Adlakha
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The first American Girl comic book, Julie and the Blue Guitar, is a worthy installment in the franchise

By Zoë Hannah
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The Riven remake transforms a tricky classic into a modern masterpiece

By Susana Polo
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The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare is like an origin story for Guy Ritchie’s whole thing

By Oli Welsh
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Cozy Grove: Camp Spirit is a better, faster version of the lo-fi life sim

By Zoë Hannah
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Still Wakes the Deep is a horror gem that won’t get out of my head

By Cass Marshall
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Yorgos Lanthimos’ Kinds of Kindness is three movies — and two directors — in one

By Oli Welsh
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Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree is a gift for the faithful

By Michael McWhertor
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Studio Ponoc’s The Imaginary may be the closest we get to a Calvin and Hobbes movie

By Tasha Robinson
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Netflix’s Ultraman: Rising triumphantly reinvents a tokusatsu legend for newbies

By Toussaint Egan
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Inside Out 2 revives the old Pixar magic

By Tasha Robinson
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The Boys season 4 becomes a stronger show but a weaker satire

By Joshua Rivera
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Shin Megami Tensei 5: Vengeance is beautiful and bland

By Ian Walker
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Dune: War for Arrakis board game owes its success in part due to The Lord of the Rings

By Charlie Theel
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The Watchers might be a compelling thriller if it wasn’t so bafflingly backward

By Tasha Robinson
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The best horror movie of the year so far is a Japanese NFT

By Austen Goslin
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Netflix’s Hit Man isn’t just a breezy crime caper — it’s a stealth rom-com with one standout scene

By Oli Welsh
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Netflix’s killer-shark movie Under Paris is the missing link between Jaws and Sharktopus

By Tasha Robinson
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Bad Boys: Ride or Die has a troubling case of franchise cancer

By Joshua Rivera
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Mutant Year Zero: Zone Wars is the year’s goofiest tabletop skirmish game

By Charlie Hall
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