For all its sensory and mechanical delights, it seems intent on snapping you out of the zone.
Despite the intrigue of its nested mysteries, the series barely dips past the surface of its characters’ psyches.
This absorbing, if uneven, action RPG largely threads the needle between cozy and thrilling.
Bodies fly, heads explode, and video game logic reigns triumphant.
The series squanders its initial intrigue with its plodding pace, repetitive structure, and cardboard writing.
Based on Capcom’s video games, Netflix’s animated series mixes action with unexpected emotion.
The show’s second season plays with structure and tone to explore the violence that shapes its characters’ lives.
Mike Flanagan reimagines Poe’s oeuvre as a nimble, tonally capacious collection of fables.
The show’s temporal structure deftly elucidates the devastating legacy of the cult at its center.
The series returns with a sharp third season that mines immense humor from the Sisyphean pursuits of its characters.
The series proves too hurried and scattered to penetrate much beyond the surface of its universe and characters.
The series consistently opts for excess over restraint, with disorienting results.
Guillermo del Toro’s horror anthology exudes an alluring air of mystery, rough around the edges but coursing with energy.
The series uses the trappings of horror to explore the power of storytelling as a means of reckoning with the unfathomable.
Under the Banner of Heaven ambitiously grapples with the struggle to attain personal agency in the crushing course of history.
Though it’s slow to carve out the particulars of its world, Outer Range is ultimately an alluring exploration of lives and lands lost.
Despite the centrality of a mental break to its proceedings, Marvel’s Moon Knight largely pretends at psychological depth.
HBO’s The Gilded Age considers the social currents of the historical moment, alluringly cutting through the delusions of its aristocrats.
Season two of The Witcher allows a deeper exploration of the forces motivating its characters.
Firebite explores the dangers of monsters both real and imagined with subtle melancholy.