GameSpot Entertainment Reviews

Magicians have a word for the final, most difficult part of an illusion. It's a term that went mainstream when Christopher Nolan used it as the title of his 2006 drama about dueling illusionists, The Prestige. Executing their final flourish, the prestige is the moment a performer truly wows their audience, leaving them wide-eyed and unsure how the magician pulled it off. The Last of Us Part II delivers its prestige in the latter half of its 25-hour journey, making it a flourish the seven-episode Season 2 of the TV series doesn't get to perform in its adaptation. But the...

Ever since it first debuted on PS2 in 2001, Devil May Cry at its best has been a mix of over-the-top action, coolness, and surprisingly hard-hitting moments of raw emotion. Replicating that recipe for TV is a tall order but, thankfully, Netflix's adaptation of the cult-classic Capcom series comes out swinging. By fully embracing the devil-may-care appeal of the video games, amping up the series' irreverent tone, and making meaningful contributions to the lore of the franchise, Dante's latest adventure makes one hell of a first impression.The Netflix anime doesn't waste any time in establishing its foundation, as carefree demon-hunter...

Ten years ago, the idea of a movie based on Minecraft, starring Jack Black and Jason Momoa, would have sounded like a setup for a joke about the current state of video game films. In 2025, though, it's not only reality but the right choice for the franchise's expansion to the big screen.A Minecraft Movie is exactly what you think it is based on its trailers. It's a big, cartoony live-action movie, filled with silly jokes, Minecraft references, and an oddly surreal Minecraft world, complete with the game's various creatures and our human heroes. And while this might not be...

The Remarkable Life of Ibelin isn't the first Warcraft film, but it is definitely the best one. Duncan Jones's big-budget Warcraft from 2016 focused on the "main" characters of developer Blizzard's long-running sword-and-sorcery universe. This new Netflix documentary from director Benjamin Ree, released a month prior to World of Warcraft's 20th anniversary, instead puts its focus on WoW's actual protagonists: the players who call Azeroth home. Specifically, it tells the story of Mats "Ibelin" Steen, and in the process paints an incredible portrait of a digital life, one that drives home a core message of how online friends and relationships...

Among all of Junji Ito's vast body of horror manga work, Uzumaki manages to be the most unsettling. Many of his stories concern elements of building dread, encroaching madness, and beautifully off-putting body horror, but few combine all three to the same effect as Uzumaki, where the concept of a spiral pattern infects and mutates the inhabitants of a small town in myriad awful ways.Adult Swim's anime adaptation of Uzumaki focuses on that unsettling feeling in its premiere episode, which was provided for review by Adult Swim. This introduction, for the most part, succeeds in bringing what makes Uzumaki so...

In early 2021, the Marvel Cinematic Universe kicked off its post-Endgame era with WandaVision, a series that started out amusing and became less so as it descended into incoherence the way almost every MCU show has since. And now the main baddie from WandaVision, the witch Agatha Harkness (Kathryn Hahn), is back with her own little quest--and so far, through the four episodes that were screened for critics, it's one of the more entertaining and well-told stories in recent MCU memory.Agatha All Along begins with Agatha still trapped in some sort of residual illusion in Westview--she's a police detective who's...

When it was first announced that Colin Farrell would reprise his role as Oswald Cobblepot from 2022's The Batman in a streaming series, it was a scary proposition. After all, we've seen what happens when a popular superhero movie franchise continues its story on TV. We all saw how Marvel's Agents of SHIELD was not in any way a proper extension of the MCU. And don't even get us started about Inhumans. HBO's The Penguin, though, is almost an exact opposite of those shows, with a stellar cast and story that feel as though they were ripped directly from the...

The Terminator franchise has become synonymous with mediocrity. Outside of a few notable exceptions, it's composed of multiple bad films and an unfinished television show. Even Terminator: Dark Fate, though decent enough, failed to match the grimy, cyberpunk vibe of the original or the action-packed moments of T2: Judgment Day. So, it should come to no surprise that our expectations for Netflix's Terminator Zero--another potentially lackluster iteration of a once-popular franchise--weren't exactly high. As it turns out, this solid animated series not only respects the franchise's legacy but also offers up a unique take on its established lore.Despite being set...

"Get away from her--you bitch," a character stutters in a relative monotone, turning an iconic moment from Aliens into a somewhat more halting, slightly funnier one in Alien: Romulus.What compelled director Fede Álvarez to include this moment in Romulus is anyone's guess. It's a line that makes no real sense in context, it's out of character for the person who says it, and there's no particular reason to use that particular word on this particular alien monster. In Aliens, when Sigourney Weaver's Ripley first originated the line, it was shouted in rage, full of emotion, as Ripley stepped out in...