On paper, Francis Lee’s Ammonite seems like the kind of film for those who enjoyed last year’s exquisite Portrait of a Lady on Fire. It’s about the love affair between two women who can’t live their romance openly but feel a burning passion that can only end with bittersweet melancholy. And yet whereas Portrait of a Lady on Fire is one of the best love stories in cinema, Ammonite is a cold, dry picture that goes through the motions without ever pushing deeper into its characters’ psyches or their relationship. It’s a film that manages …

Even when it works on a technical level, Stranded Sails does next to nothing to earn its widespread comparisons to the far superior Stardew Valley.

Red Dead Redemption 2 on PC, while still retaining most of the issues present in its console versions, remains a visual and storytelling masterpiece.

All About The Benjamins is a 2002 action comedy starring Mike Epps and Ice Cube that served as something of a prototype for the latter's Ride Along.

Dry Drowning blends hard-boiled detective tropes with an interesting dystopian mystery, which just about manages to cover its gameplay restrictions.

In terms of genre cycles, J-horror seems about ready for a revival. Hideo Nakata's Ringu (1998) was a horror game-changer that helped launch a flurry of atmospheric, slow-burn paranormal horrors built around striking visuals and oppressive dread. When the trend hit North American shores with Gore Verbinski's remake The Ring (2002), it likewise spawned a series of imitators, making Nakata's vision one of the most internationally influential creative precursors to early-21st-century horror. But since then, the subgenre has all but died out on an international scale, leaving it primed for a comeback. …

I hate writing reviews for movies like Official Secrets because these kinds of films lack a pulse. At least bad movies give you something to comment on, but Official Secrets isn’t bad. It’s fine. It’s also, instantly forgettable and completely unremarkable in every conceivable way. The moral crux of Gavin Hood’s movie—doing the right thing in the face of almost certain failure—is lost in a dry recitation of facts that provide a chronicle of the story without ever garnering any depth beyond the obvious. Official Secrets is a movie that happens, exists, and nothing …