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Jesse HassengerPolygon |
Mainstream animation from the U.S. and Japan may be far apart in sensibility, style, and intended audience, but cartoons from both countries do share...
“I know what I believe,” says Rebecca Smallbone (Kirrilee Berger), a teenager defending her ability to write and sing pop songs, about halfway...
When four siblings conspire to surreptitiously dispose of a dead body, tweenage Melissa (Ayaamii Sledge) raises an important point about their caution...
After 15 years, a beloved Saturday Night Live sketch has finally made it to the big screen. Now, technically speaking, Arthur the King, in theaters...
No fan of the early-2000s Star Wars prequels could resist the career arc of Dave Filoni. A veteran of Nickelodeon’s beloved Avatar: The Last...
Death and Other Details is a long-form murder mystery with voiceover narration directly encouraging its audience to stay on its toes, keep on guard,...
From the Stephen King school of what-object-can-we-haunt comes Night Swim, this year’s annual first-weekend-in-January horror movie. Yes, it really...
Jon Cryer’s TV-star superpower is his willingness to keep at it. He weathered a litany of one-season shows in the ’90s before landing his...
“Hеre is the child that you left behind. Here is the kid with the curious mind. Here is the wonder we used to feel, back when the magic was...
What does Illumination, one of the past decade’s most financially lucrative producers of big-studio animation, do when left to its own devices? The...
You have to hand it to the folks in charge of cranking out movies and TV shows based on DC Comics characters: They may oversaturate the market with...
Though the current iteration of Saturday Night Live is not the sketch-to-movie factory it once threatened to become, it’s still remarkable that...
Feel that chill in the air, followed by a feeling of alienation from the trappings of modern society? That’s a sign of Hot Girl Summer being...
You have to hand it to R.L. Stine: In his years as the reigning creator of spooky stories for young people, the man has produced such a flood of...