Goddamn it. Rest in peace, you magnificent woman.

It's an extremely hit-or-miss game. When it's actually scary, it's genuinely and creatively terrifying, but oftentimes it goes overboard on blatantly trying to be Resident Evil 4, and in the process it sinks into the action-packed nonsense of later RE games. The latter starts to overpower the former the further you…

Uncharted 4: A Thief's End is the best ending I could have asked for to a series I'd devoted so many hours and so much care to. It doesn't pack the biggest and craziest setpieces, and people who went in expecting wild balls-out gameplay that topped all of its predecessors were by and large disappointed. But for…

There's projecting, and then there's this.

That'd be Apocalypse. Revelations was the newest shit one where Wesker was a good guy and it ended in the White House.

Other than respectively belonging to the post-apocalypse and space opera genres, those games couldn't be more dissimilar to those movies in terms of aesthetics, story, themes, character work, etc. Star Trek is really a more apt comparison to Mass Effect, and even then it's pushing it.

The Nice Guys, 10 Cloverfield Lane, and Nocturnal Animals would be high up on my list, but I still don't know what my favorite film of the year would be. I also really, really enjoyed Deadpool, whatever its flaws.

Nothing is "killing the medium," slowly or otherwise. There have always been passable films since the very inception of cinema, and many of them have made far more money than the classics we hold up from whatever decades they came out. As is often the case with thinkpieces that predicts the imminent collapse of…

It would be a noted snub if it were 2015. Fargo didn't have a season this year.

I felt it was the first role in a long time where he wasn't just phoning it in. He often used the same tone, but he knew how to use subtleties in his speech and expression to chilling effect. His monologues at the end of the ninth and tenth episodes are some of my favorite moments from the show.

The Bay - One of my favorite modern horror films in general, and one of the most thoroughly soul-crushing films I've voluntarily sat through repeatedly because it's just so good.
Chronicle
The Blair Witch Project
Europa Report
Cloverfield
The Tunnel (2011)

Calling her a hero is an aggressive misinterpretation. You're not "supposed" to feel any one thing or root for a particular side to prevail over the other. It's a moral grey area where both sides are doing awful things to each other while remaining sympathetic on their own, and the show leaves it to the viewer to…

Everyone's mentioning Suicide Squad, obviously (I flip-flop on whether it was worse overall than BVS, but there's no denying how badly it failed at everything it set out to do and then some things it didn't), so I'll go with a surprise pick: Blair Witch.

HTML slip-up. Edited it as soon as I saw it. How embarrassing.

Mr. Robot - Rami Malek. His ability to work so much power and meaning out of what sound like monotone line readings to the outsider consistently amazes me, and that's just in his narration. In this season especially, he's channeled everything from hyperventilating panic to bug-eyed, frothing fury and a little bit of…

I thought it was pretty superb for what it was, at least for the early goings. Flawed, but still compelling (and gorgeously presented). It was just the last three episodes that dropped the ball harder than almost anything else I've ever seen.

This year's season of Mr. Robot was one of the most consistently brilliant, unpredictable seasons of television I've watched in a long time, and it's done things few other shows would even think to do — along with continuing to let Rami Malek and Christian Slater shine, and pumping stellar new performances out of…

This looks delightful. I was sold on it from the first time I saw Tom Holland's Spider-Man, but it looks better than I could have imagined.

Your lack of self-awareness in making this statement is nothing short of astonishing.

Don't Breathe really hit its peak tension for me with the duo's first separate glimpses of escape, when Rocky is trying to crawl through the vents and the other guy (Josh?) is suspended just above the Blind Man on a cracking skylight, unable to move. I literally could not get a breath out. Some of the best tension in…