Review

Trials Rising has this uncanny ability to alter your perception of time. When you’re trying to get your motorcycle across the finish line as fast as possible, jockeying for leaderboard superiority against friends or speedy strangers, a few seconds can feel like an impossible amount of time to shave off …

Star Trek Discovery season 2 (opens in new tab) continues its ongoing mission to fill out the backstory of its more secondary characters with episode 6, The Sound of Thunder, which is all about Saru (Doug Jones). But while it’s nice to see that Saru’s story won’t just be relegated …

Hope County has got thoroughly shafted by life, if you ask me. First in Far Cry 5 (opens in new tab) its inhabitants survive a psychopathic cult leader and his cronies straight-up drugging the water supply and brainwashing innocent civilians, then when it just starts to look like they’re finally …

The Klingons are back and better than ever in Star Trek Discovery season 2 (opens in new tab), episode 3, Point of Light. Discovery and its crew takes a bit of backseat in this latest episode as we catch up with L’Rell (Mary Chieffo) and Tyler (Shazad Latif) on the …

I’m fighting a giant dragon with Frozen’s snow golem in the magical kingdom of Arendelle. Do I really know why I’m doing it? Not a clue. Do I care? No. All that matters is that Elsa needs me and I’m hitting things with a massive key that spits out flowers …

Greek auteur Yorgos Lanthimos takes the costume drama out to lunch in a majestic, licentious romp that plays like an extended verbal sparring match. The combatants: ailing monarch Queen Anne (Olivia Colman), her political advisor Sarah Churchill (Rachel Weisz), and Abigail Masham (Emma Stone), a penniless upstart out for personal …

Before it gets to Mary Poppins returning, Rob Marshall’s (Chicago (opens in new tab)) jaunty film offers a palate tester. It opens with Lin-Manuel Miranda vibrato-trilling in a just-passable Cockney accent about the “laverly Landan sky” while wheeling about theatrically on a bike amid a picture-book-perfect evocation of the ’30s-era …

When Hailee Steinfeld’s Charlie Watson finds Bumblebee in this Transformers prequel, the Autobot needs some loving care. Metaphor? You might as well spray it all over old yeller’s VW bonnet. After five nu-metal farragoes of decreasing appeal from Michael Bay, director Travis Knight and writer Christina Hodson (Unforgettable (opens in …

Throughout the past 20 years, every entry in the Super Smash Bros. series has been incredibly unique. From its early days in on the Nintendo 64 with only 12 characters to more than 50 fighters on the Wii U, every franchise from Fire Emblem to Final Fantasy has meshed together …

Accurate, up-to-date rosters are the foundation of every modern sports sim. It wasn’t always this way – witness the excellence of largely unlicensed football efforts Sensible Soccer in the ‘90s, and PES in the 2000s. But times have changed, and sales figures will tell you that the uncanny valley generation …