There’s plenty of room here to send-up Trump’s distraction politics, but Cult isn’t landing the punch.
Almost everything in the latest episode of American Horror Story plays a bit too much like a thesis presentation.
As the series elaborates on all the things that brought Ally to madness, she’s been placed on the backburner.
The latest Cult manages to imbue its eventual villains with a level of empathy that’s new to American Horror Story.
The episode all too happily reminds us that strong emotions make people do crazy, often nonsensical things.
For better and worse, the horror on American Horror Story: Cult is all text and no subtext.
Knack 2 falters when it stops reinventing elements from other games and starts cannibalizing itself.
The premiere episode’s random acts of violence don’t confront fear so much as exploit it.
Violence is teased, but tantalizingly withheld, throughout the season-seven finale of Game of Thrones.
When the game settles into straightforward action, it comes across as a retread of past Uncharted entries.
The episode offers up a battle between CGI dragons and CGI zombies, to pulpy effect but no moral consequence.
Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice’s strongest sequences mirror specific physical symptoms or psychological fears.
Whether or not you suffer from simulator sickness, Bloober Team’s latest, Observer, will make you queasy.
The episode that dials back from the epic confrontations that have filled out the majority of this season.
In war and through violence, Game of Thrones is as clear and compelling as it gets.
Three episodes into this truncated seventh season and Game of Thrones is spiraling toward a preordained place.
Almost every element ties into the game’s overarching theme, which calls into question rules and tradition.
The episode manages to set up future conflicts without interrupting its rapid pace.
Without a way to fail, Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles just soldiers on like its fishing minigame.
Even after six seasons, Game of Thrones still doesn’t know what’s most important to its own story.