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Balatro cast a magic spell that made me like math

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Tenet is back in theaters — and it’s secretly a vibes-only Christopher Nolan masterpiece

Dune 2 is every bit as great as the first movie promised it would be

How to Have Sex should be required viewing for teenagers — and former teenagers

Lisa Frankenstein is the perfect bloody Valentine

Skywalkers: A Love Story might be BS, but I’m buying it

The ambitious science fiction romance Love Me finds the darker, sadder side of WALL-E

The Greatest Night in Pop has more star power per second than any other 2024 movie

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The best action movie of the new year came early

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God of War Ragnar?k’s roguelite DLC is an excellent ode to Hades

The Zone of Interest breaks dangerous new ground in exploring the Holocaust

The Iron Claw has Zac Efron doing Greek tragedy in spandex

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Warhammer’s excellent new smol-scale wargame exposes a big weakness

Movie delay be damned, Dune: Imperium - Uprising brings the battle for Arrakis home

Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes gives the dystopia fad the ending it deserved

The Steam Deck OLED improves much more than its screen

Blue Eye Samurai is the best thing Netflix has done in years

Godzilla Minus One is the throwback Godzilla fans have been waiting for

Alan Wake 2 is worth every minute of the 13-year wait

Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon aims a righteous fury at American history

Super Mario Bros. Wonder is a perfect end for the Switch

Spider-Man 2 toys with Marvel history to be as much fun as possible

The Beast is the purest science fiction experience a movie can offer

Counter-Strike 2 pulls off a monumental task

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The puzzle game Cocoon is impossibly good

Ticket to Ride Legacy tosses American history in the trash, and it’s better for it

No One Will Save You unleashes a terrifying alien twist on the home invasion thriller

Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty almost corrects the past

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