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Life is Strange Reunion key art. It shows Max with her hand outstretched and Chloe next to her, a hand on her shoulder. Behind them is a college campus, awash with orange and red colors.
Life Is Strange: Reunion is a new low for Life Is Strange

If only we could turn back time

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A packed box sits on the floor in Fishbowl.
I dare you to play this game that confronts your everyday life

Fishbowl mines heartfelt life lessons out of the social isolation era

Meat Boy leaps through the air in Super Meat Boy 3D.
Super Meat Boy 3D isn't the Mario 64 moment the series needs

The precise platforming series is sloppier in 3D

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I threw a baby around while blasting demons with a shotgun in this hellishly fun new shooter

Don’t worry, no babies were actually harmed in Damon and Baby

Alpha (Mélissa Boros), a French teenager, lies on her back in profile, in a party scene from the film Alpha (2025).
Gen Alpha's first body horror film is here

Alpha is the perfect title for a movie about a contemporary teenager haunted by a mysterious virus

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Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice
Hulu's new time-travel movie Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice is Looper for the dumbed-down streaming era

And maybe that's OK?

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The Bowser siblings fly toward toad in Super Mario Bros Wonder DLC
Mario Bros. Wonder’s new multiplayer is a riot, but the challenge levels are its secret weapon

The brilliant platformer’s Switch 2 Edition is an inessential but irresistible upgrade

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daredevil born again season 2
Daredevil: Born Again season 2 is Marvel’s most political show ever

The story's political overtones are impossible to ignore — and impossible to understand

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Anni, a lanky woman wearing a bright red skirt, white blouse, and glasses, dances in front of an open window in the animated movie Bubble Bath
You've never seen anything like this one-off movie from a forgotten animation pioneer

Stream it free on Tubi or Kanopy — it's a wild, startling experience

Johnny Joestar looks determined during the race in Steel Ball Run
JoJo: Steel Ball Run is the perfect starting point for one of anime's wildest stories

The new Netflix series sets a solid foundation for a bizarre adventure

The main character in Monster Hunter Stories 3 looking at some eggs
Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflections is a PS2 game in the best way

The throwback I didn't know I needed

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A child looks straight ahead as a brilliant golden light envelops her in Witch Hat Atelier
Witch Hat Atelier is the perfect fantasy anime to get over your Frieren blues

The first two episodes highlight the double-edged truth about self-discovery

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Invincible season 4 finally gets to the good stuff

Amazon's superhero show still packs a punch, but in season 4, the series appears to be going through growing pains

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Grace (Samara Weaving), a woman wearing a bloodstained wedding dress and a suit jacket, holds a shotgun while hiding in a hotel kitchen in Ready or Not 2
Ready or Not 2 is bigger but not better

This overstuffed sequel has the same problems as Knives Out 2

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SAM (Kerrice Brooks), Genesis Lythe (Bella Shepard), Caleb Mir (Sandro Rosta), Jay-Den Kraag (Karim Diané), Tarima Sadal (Zoë Steiner) and Darem Reymi (George Hawkins) sit at desks in a classroom in Starfleet Academy
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy failed most of its students

While the series started strong, its character arcs largely fizzled out

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Astronaut Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) floats sideways in zero gravity in a spaceship in Project Hail Mary
Project Hail Mary is every bit the emotional epic you hoped it would be

The latest Andy Weir adaptation is a worthy companion to The Martian

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Mio and Mayu fall amid lives in Fatal Frame 2 remake
The Fatal Frame 2 remake is what happens when you try too hard to modernize a classic

Bringing every mechanic up to 2026 conventions mean leaving some soul behind

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81 (Alan Ritchson), an Army sergeant in grimy fatigues, covered with mud and blood, stands in front of a wrecked army vehicle in War Machine
Netflix's military sci-fi thriller War Machine strips Aliens and Predator back to basics

Reacher star Alan Ritchson faces an alien invasion in this full-bore action movie, built around practical stunts and location shooting

Ida/The Bride (Jessie Buckley), a dead woman in a split-open orange dress with a gold covering over her breasts and six silver tubes leading into it, lies on her back on a lab table, surrounded by wires, in The Bride!
The Bride! takes the Frankenstein story on a messy, manic, monstrous ride

Christian Bale and Jessie Buckley star in a Bride of Frankenstein riff designed to outdo Yorgos Lanthimos' Poor Things

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Planet of Lana 2 Lana approaching a Wemari Deer in a forest
An under-the-radar sequel so good it doesn’t matter if you've played the original

Planet of Lana 2 is one of the best games of 2026

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